... . Billy dozes off and drifts back to a moment in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him; Billy tells the Three Musketeers to go on without him. The plane crashes into Sugarbush mountain in Vermont, and Billy survives with a fractured skull. Austrian ski instructors wearing black ski masks arrive on the scene. As they check for signs of life, Billy whispers "Schlachthof-Funf ... " ("Slaughterhouse-Five" in German), a phrase he learned in Dresden in order to communicate the address of his prison if he got lost. The ski instructors transport Billy down the mountain on a toboggan. A famous neurosu...

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... considered Imagist, although he was not directly associated with the group. D.H. Lawrence was a prolific poet, especially of nature. His close-up descriptions of flowers (Bavarian Gentians) or animals (Snake, Kangaroo, Mountain Lion, Bat) penetrate deep into the essence of living things, and are among the most carefully observed depictions of nature in English poetry. He ranged from descriptive to love poetry ... ...

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On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the f...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... international tribunal to prosecute violations of universally accepted norms," (Cassel, 1180). The gathering of evidence to prosecute these men revealed to the world, as well as to the court, the mountain of evidence which the Nazis themselves provided to the Allies. There were ledgers of death tolls from the concentration camps, pictures of mass executions and emaciated corpses, newsreels of Nazi ... ...

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... near the western coast. The scenery is gorgeous and it has Buddhist temples, hot springs, waterfalls, and there is a cable car that takes you up to the summit of the mountain. The Alps Ski Resort is located nearby. It is not as big as some of the other ski resorts in Korea but it is one of the most popular. One ... ...

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... tot the continuing problems of Rwanda is exemplified by the fact that until the horrendous genocide of 1994, the media in the United states consistently showed more concern for the mountain gorillas of Rwanda (Which had been filmed in the popular movie Gorillas in the Mist) than for the people of that unfortunate country. A keyword search in June 1994 found 1123 ... ...

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... was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, grey and blue. It lighted every peak...of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that...the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately. Thirty seconds after the explosion came, first, the air blast pressing hard against ... ...

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... the three lead characters, Michael, Nick, and Steven, through their work in front of the blast furnace, their after hours at the neighborhood bar, and, especially, their hunting in the mountain peaks for bucks. In particular, Cimino went to great lengths to create the central, mythical image of the "one-shot kill," not to re-create historical reality, but to obtain ... ...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate