... , decided to keep the Aztecs usefully at hand. The Colhua offered the Aztecs refuge at a nearby place called Tizapan, a bare patch of volcanic rock infested with snakes. To their surprise the Aztecs not only survived but also thrived. As one chronicle describes it, they "rejoiced as soon as they saw the snakes, and they roasted and cooked them all and ate them ... , casting down idols from the temples in their ruthless attack. Motecuhzoma long dreaded the arrival of powerful men from the east. Legend foretold the return of Quetzalcoatl. Generations before, Quetzalcoatl had departed Mexico...

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... ). Communism is the doctrine that seeks to liberate the proletariat from all forms of human misery and oppression. "The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor -- hence, on the ... changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century" (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM ... ...

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... - Kurt Vonnegut The most influential force in society, the media has for years been a chronicle of the zeitgeist, typifying public opinion on everything imaginable. For the outspoken the media is an invaluable tool with which to evangelise unspoken truths. During the latter half of the 20th Century, three ambassadors of American counter-culture - Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Joseph Heller - used ... up an animal for our own consumption, but how soullessly and unceremoniously we discard humans. Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that o...

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