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    The artist name is Judith Goldstein‚ a child Holocaust survivor‚ and she was born in Vilna‚ Poland. The name of her work of art is Joys and Sorrow. In 1941‚ the Nazis sent most of Vilna’s Jews to the Ghetto where Judith and her family spent the next two years. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943‚ Judith and her mother spent the next two years in concentration camps in Latvia and Poland. Somehow‚ Judith‚ her mother‚ and her brother survived and were sent to a banished person’s camp in

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    In Capote’s novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ he strived to create a non-fiction setting that would leave readers unable to set the book down. Some readers seem hesitant to label this peice of literature as non-fiction because of Capote’s choice to contruct it with literary devices that are often found in fiction novels. Those who have read In Cold Blood began to question and challenge Capote’s credibility as a writer. They felt that he should reconstruct the brutal murders of the Clutter family while remaining

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    Katerina Siroruka Liberal thinkers are suspicious of state power and argue that the state needs to be limited. John Stuart Mill and Judith Shklar understand state power differently‚ to the extent in which may be harmful in the method and purpose of limitation. Mill believed that rulers are potential tyrants and that the citizens should be protected against a tyranny government. Shklar believed that the state should be protected against the abusive‚ cruel and evil powers that can be

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    The Cold War The cold War began after World War II. It started in 1947 and ended in 1991. The cold war basically was an argument between US‚ Soviet Union‚ Germany‚ china‚ and Afghanistan. The Cold War was a contest between the USA and the Soviet Union. It led to thousands of nuclear weapons‚ two universal ideologies in conflict‚ and two different self-images‚ the United States championing a world made safe for democracy. Its opponent‚ the Soviet Union advocated world Communism. The United States

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    Cold Mountain Cold Mountain‚ a novel wrote by Charles Frazier‚ is a Civil War story‚ a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely‚ dangerous journey to find the way back home‚ and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at‚ and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying

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    APEnglish In Cold Blood Few authors have the skill to express their view of a setting without straightforwardly telling the audience. In this small passage from In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote very eloquently does just that‚ describing the look and feel of Holcomb‚ Kansas through words. With Capote’s use of many elements like figurative language‚ imagery‚ and detain‚ he reveals his original but mysterious views on the scenery of Holcomb. All while describing this content town‚ Capote builds up for

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     This created a rivalry between these two nations that became known as the Cold War. While the Cold War affected United States foreign policy‚ it also had a great effect on United States domestic policy and on American society. . Task:   Using information from the documents and your knowledge of United States history‚ answer the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will help you write the Part B essay in which you will be asked to: ·  Discuss how the Cold War affected United States domestic policy and

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    Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ was a breakthrough in literacy in that it was accredited as the first non-fiction novel. There was a lot of controversy when the book was first published because of the incredibility of the work. This could be expected in that time‚ because people where not familiar with the concept of non-fiction novels yet‚ but this is where the beauty of this style of writing lies‚ the recreation of the truth. It would have been impossible for Capote to have documented

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    In the non-fiction novel In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote (1965) gives his own narrative of the Holcomb tragedy in which a family of four living out on a secluded farm were slaughtered with a shotgun by the collaboration of two individuals for a seemingly few dollars. In this novel‚ Capote gives a thorough character description of the two murderers‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith‚ as he recreates their experience (much as he sees it as it would be from their eyes). He gives accounts preceding the event

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    In Cold Blood; a wonderful mystery novel written by Truman Capote that incorporates mind-boggling suspense and brutal detailing‚ I believe he did achieve his goal to be both objective and sympathetic. Capote gave not only the detailed account of Perry Smith ’s and Dick Hickock ’s childhoods but also the murder of the Clutter family. Smith ’s childhood was very problematic and scarred by years of abuse‚ making us feel as if he committed the murder because of his sorrow past. “Perry had on several

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