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    Imagine yourself almost naked in a place you don’t know where with other almost naked people you don’t know. You were a prisoner that was worked to death and unlikely survived. This is what it was like to be a victim of the holocaust where more than 6 million people died. There are people that survived the holocaust and it taught them important lessons that they now teach to people who weren’t even born by then. These important lessons can help make sure a genocide like the holocaust never happens

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    to the Lacks family. Another theme is informed consent. Before they did surgery on Henrietta’s tumor they made her sign a consent form, allowing the doctors to “perform any operative procedures … that they may deem necessary” (p.31). After her death, her husband signs an autopsy permission form, having been told that the doctors will run tests that may one day help his children. Neither Henrietta nor her husband had any idea of what they were agreeing to or what the consequences would

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    Cemetery, Winter of 1941”, portrays the dreary and dire effects of war. As one of the most destructive and longest sieges of history had just begun, the countless bodies scarred the citizens of Leningrad. In order to convey horror, hopelessness, and death, Olds utilizes simile extensively, corrupting images with typically hopeful connotation. As corpses permeate the graveyard, the ability sustain life itself comes into question; Olds warps the significance of the tree to argue that life is no longer

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    certain Hollywood flicks, in which the character unwillingly becomes the enemy of the state. He knows the impending death. He knows his name will be omitted

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    Before Paul Cezanne death, he painted his last masterpiece called The Large Bather. It is a painting of naked people, something seen in the classical period, inside curtains made out of trees giving an impression of privacy. In this painting, Cezanne utilized light blue and green colors to create the landscape. He placed the warmer colors in the middle to bring people's attention towards it. Besides the colors, Cezanne also used a large triangle in the center of his painting to bring people's eyes

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    greedy man that only cares about his reputation. “But if you trafficked with the spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.” (Miller 1.9). When he says this his daughter is laying in bed in a death like state, and all he cares about is if the townspeople will use his daughter being sick to overthrow him. The first reason that makes him responsible is that he is an instigator. He is always trying to make people look bad, especially John Proctor

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    Helen of Troy

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    As the fog lifts, Agamemnon 's cheating is exposed. Hector challenges Agamemnon to a duel that will end the war—this time, to the death. Achilles takes up the challenge, fighting for Agamemnon, but agrees to fight not for Helen but for his own honor. Achilles easily succeeds in killing Hector. That night Helen, fearing for Paris 's safety, goes to the seer Cassandra and asks to know

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    describes a fatal day in the life of a nineteen year old girl. The theme of death runs for the whole course of the novella, Fräulein Else. This theme is very prominent and shown obviously because of the internal monologue. The reader becomes immediately aware of all the intimate feelings and thoughts of Else, and especially those regarding death. One sees throughout the text how Else ebbs towards death, and how the theme of death is particularly noticeable in her fears. Since the internal voice follows

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    Italian art helped to develop and spread an ideal childhood representation. The gothic period produced yet another type of childhood representation. This period saw the representation of a naked child. The previous representation seldom represented a naked child, except in cases of innocence and death. The allegory of death and soul introduced child nudity in the medieval period. Nonetheless, the concept of Holy Childhood continued to develop in both variety and scope from the thirteenth century onwards

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    “Howl” by Ginsberg and “Song of Myself” by Whitman, have different and similar variances on the take of the world. “Howl” is more technical and gets straight to the point of the world whereas “Song of Myself” starts off with a happier side of the world. Whitman describes world as heaven and Ginsberg describes live as dark and evil. Where Whitman is less harsh and Ginsberg is very harsh. Also, Ginsberg uses a raw language to describe the world in a deeper perspective. In “Song of Myself”, Whitman

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