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    Elie Wiesel's Night

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    Night Essay January 30, 1933 the Holocaust began,This was the birth of one of the worst horrors in war history, The Holocaust was the transportation of many people of all races, to the ghettos, then being transported to a concentration camp to where nearly 11 million people died in the span of 12 years . Many stories have been displayed of the apathetic, brutality of living in conditions of the concentration camps, but one particular story stands on how exactly it was to live in. Night by Elie

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    pushes through to the side of the road, out of the way. I can finally rest, he thought to himself. Just when all seemed calm, he hears a loud sound on his right. Turning, he sees that there is a huge machine passing on a bridge near him. I think it’s called a train , he wonders. The massive machine speeds across the city with a thundering noise. What a monstrous yet beautiful invention. How could anyone even think of something of such complexity… His thoughts are suddenly interrupted by another

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    “Aye, that I can,” Tim affirms, “Follow me, boy.” Tim brings Cole around to the machine Bryce mentioned. “This here’s the spinning jenny. It’s what we use to spin our cloth, and this one’s the best on the market. Thank James Hargreave for it. But, let’s move on, we don’t have time to waste. Your work won’t involve it anyways,” he explains before moving forward around 25 meters and stopping in front of another large machine. “This one here is…” “Oh, I know this one!” Cole exclaims, “This one’s called

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    Among the Greek tragedies, there can probably be found something deeper and more elaborate, than “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles, but there is not a single one, in which the philosophical depth and tragic strength would be combined with such incomparable sophistication, noble grace and structural perfection. The image of a monstrous Sphinx with the face of a woman, wings, sharp claws, the body of a lion and mysteriously dangerous speech penetrates the whole tragedy as an incorporation of destiny

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    known for her eccentric writing. She explores themes of incest, sexuality, and femininity in her novels and short stories. Some of her well-known works other than The Bloody Chamber include Shadow Dance (1966), The Magic Toyshop (1967), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), and many others (Gordon, 2016). Angela Carters’ writings are a magical twist on fairy tales, novels, and non-fiction works. She tries to give her readers the possibility to become explorers and find a solution to

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    The future of society is an often unpredictable and unpleasant topic due to the many variables which effect it. In “The Lost Island” and in “The City of the End of Things”, the future is depicted as something detrimental to the society each story represents. In Pauline Johnson's short story, “The Lost Island”, this concept is expressed in the visions given by the Medicine Man, who foretells the oppression of his people by the arrival of the colonizers. In Archibald Lampman's poem, “The City of the

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    of Darkness, Conrad uses Marlow to represent this idea in depth during the ending of his text to where Kurtz is dying and his intended is distressed. Through the use of listing of work tools which act as metaphor of his struggles “ I lived in and infernal mess of rust, fillings, nuts … things I abominate, because I don’t get on with them”, demonstrates how Marlow has been touched by the darkness the further he was exposed to it. Conrad additionally represents this idea when Marlow lies to Kurtz intended

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    The future of society is an often unpredictable topic due to its many variables. In “The Lost Island” and in “The City of the End of Things”, the future is depicted as something detrimental to the society each story represents. In Pauline Johnson's short story, “The Lost Island”, this concept is manifested in the visions given by the Medicine Man, who foretells the oppression of his people by the arrival of the colonizers. In Archibald Lampman's poem, “The City of the End of Things”, this concept

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    According to many more details by Douglass, those slaves lived in a life in which they not only needed to keep worrying about what to eat and when to take a break, but also needed to never stop thinking about how they should behave like an infallible machine in order to escape from their masters’s bloody cowskins. In a word, slaves were deprived of the right to work hard to earn a living, and became the livestocks which were forced by human to do whatever they needed them to do, which also meant they

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    Introduction In 1904, millions of people visited the Philippine Exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair, observing the displays of native Filipinos and leaving with an impression of savagery. However, this impression was hardly incidental. To what extent was the 1904 World’s Fair an attempt by the United States government to justify its imperialist involvement in the Philippines? This fair was carefully engineered by the United States government to impart an uncivilized impression of Filipinos onto

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