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    Miley has been viewed as a perfect child with no compulsion to do anything bad. Now she has embraced her crazy way of life and hides nothing. Slaughter House Five 1. What is the author’s purpose in delivering this literary piece to the public? Vonnegut states at the very beginning of the book that he is writing an anti- war novel to the public. 2. With what tone does s/he deliver it? Record

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    life‚ he is judged to be insane‚ especially by his daughter‚ who blames his crazy stories on his head injury received in a plane crash. I believe the Ethical dilemma in this novel is the inhumanity of war‚ as seen in the destruction of Dresden. Vonnegut is clearly pointing out in the novel that voluntary violence of any sort‚ particularly which perpetrated by a war‚ is completely unjustifiable and senseless. This leads to a lot of meaningless death. For Instance Billy Pilgrim is killed by an assassin

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    COBAIN Kurt Cobain - February 20‚ 1967 – April 5‚ 1994. American musician‚ painter‚ and best known as lead singer‚ guitarist and lyricist of band Nirvana. C HILD HOOD  Had perfectly happy childhood till 7 years.  Divorce of his parents at the age of 7.  Remarriage of both his parents.  Initial liking and later resenting his stepmother.  Witness of domestic violence at his mother. “I’d rather be hated for who I am‚ than loved for who I am not.” C HILD HOOD  Kurt Cobain

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    Dominique English 102 Professor Gallo March 7 2013 Daft 1 Total Equality In the short story “Harrison Bergeron “ the author Vonnegut’s lets the readers get a good look on American society in 2081. The government wants the world to be equal to everybody in every aspects of their life. The author also shows us the danger of trying to achieve total equality‚ which affects the country‚ and their citizens. He shows us theme of forced equality by altering beauty

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    society of “Harrison Bergeron” is born with a fixed mindset‚ where they think there is no room for growth and everyone is okay with settling for average. A truly equal society is something that sounds great‚ but will become a disaster in the long run. Vonnegut uses characterization‚ word choice‚ and several forms of technology to warn his readers about the potential drawbacks of a truly equal society‚ and this can relate substantially to issues in our modern society. The author uses many forms of characterization

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    October 14th‚2014  Eng 122  A Marxist Approach to “2BR02B”  Kurt Vonnegurt JR’s story “2BR02B” critiques how America os  at the point of being over populated and the only possible  solution to it is population control. The author implies that a  human being is just an object that can be bought by another  human being.  Patiently waiting in Chicago Lying­in Hospital‚ Mr. Edward  Wheling‚ was awaiting the arrival of his triplets. As the doctor  and the hostess of the gas chamber were having a conversation

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    Vonnegut starts off by writing a novel about his experiences with the war and the bombing of Dresden. After he completed the novel about war‚ he then starts writing a novel about Billy Pilgrim. Billy was born and raised in Ilium‚ New York. He becomes an optometrist and gets drafted. After the war‚ he enrolls in optometry school again and gets engaged to Valencia during his senior year. Billy experiences a mild nervous collapse and gets admitted to a veteran’s hospital near Lake Placid. He gets discharged

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    who often give up their personal lives to enter a future of uncertainties. Veterans are individuals who possess characteristics including: heroism‚ strength‚ courage‚ and loyalty. All Quiet on The Western Front by Remarque‚ Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut‚ The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman are true literature testaments that exemplify the characteristics of a veteran. Courage is defined as the quality state of mind or spirit that enables a person to face

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    Pilgrims “The mythic origin of ‘the country we now know as the United States’ is at Plymouth Rock‚ and the year is 1620.” James W. Loewen stresses this origin as mythic due to the fact that for thousands of years humans had inhabited the land now known as America. Loewen goes on to describe the horrors the native peoples of America went through due to the diseases and other such terrible things the white “settlers” brought to the “New World.” However‚ it is barely mentioned in Loewen’s book‚ The

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    The stories‚ “Harrison Bergeron” and “All Summer in a Day”‚ both portray humanity’s reactions to people’s differences as being negative and being disliked. In “Harrison Bergeron” humans with differences greater than that of the average human is‚ as a result of attempted equality‚ controlled by the government using handicaps. The story “All Summer in a Day” however‚ takes place on the planet of Venus where the rain only stops once every seven years. As a result‚ all of the children do not have any

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