In “Slaughterhouse Five”, Vonnegut writes a whole novel based on World War Two and the bombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim, the main character has been drafted into the army during World War two, where he trains to be a chaplain’s assistant, which causes him to be disliked by many of his peers. Billy is thrown into the Battle of the Bulge where he is immediately taken prisoner by the Germans, put into a slaughterhouse prison and assigned to work for the city of Dresden. Due to the war Billy was diagnosed
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Thus Far in Slaughterhouse Five, the readers were bombarded with many different pieces of new information. Billy Pilgrim was aboard with the creatures of Tralfamadore heading to their home. On the way, Billy asked to read a book to kill the time. Although they had many books on microfilm, they could not project them so he was stuck with one option, and the book was called Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann. They did not only have books in english, but they had books written in their form of
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The ideas of Martin Luther changed many French civilian’s outlook on religion, giving civilians a choice in their future. The work of Martin Luther and his help in the creation of the Protestant Reformation, lead to the divide and conflict in religion and the need for absolutism, which eventually to the enlightenment and the need for a revolution for the country of France. Martin Luther was an essential part in the creation of the Protestant Reformation that eventually lead to the division in religions
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The Protestant Reformation was one of the most dramatic changes in the religious era that occurred in the Catholic Church. The Reformation showed the decline of the Catholic Church and the rise of questioning authority, leading to the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution showed a rise in observations, resulting in models that represented the universe and the decline of the authority of the Catholic Church. This all would soon lead into a new era of obtaining knowledge known as the Enlightment
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Night and Slaughterhouse-Five For thousands of years mankind has been killing each other for what, to gain more land, to gain superiority over another, or to show how strong we are. For whatever reason we are always at war with each other the 1900 were no exception with two world wars and plenty of smaller wars. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy”like J.F.K. said war will end us if we keep it up war helps no one it just bring destruction and chaos.
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It started when Martin Luther issued a document to the world, the 95 Theses. His document outline and exposed the abuses of the Catholic church, but it helped people open their eyes. Or was he doing this to establish his own religion? It seems that although he helped people open their eyes about the abuses of the church, it seemed like a perfect plan to branch out his religion. Martin was able to spread his documents and his teachings with the power of the printing press to give their ideas a wide
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article titled The Luther Legacy by Derek Wilson was about the life, mission and impact Martin Luther made throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. Luther was a German monk who left the priesthood and publicly challenged the church with his Ninety-Five Theses. Luther also translated the Bible, the Old and the New Testament into German, which made it more accessible. He wrote letters to the cities throughout Germany to establish schools and to let girls attend. Luther had a great impact on political
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2.3.3 Luther’s theology on the indulgence controversy (Checked till here) The reason for Luther’s writing of the ninety-five theses was the sale of Indulgences in the Church papal, which was instituted to raise money for St. Peter’s Church. The idea of Indulgence in the sixteenth century was that “remission of temporal punishment for sin can be gained through penitence and contrition” (Catholics, protestant discuss Indulgences, Christian century 8). Gregg R. Allison argues that the practice of Indulgences
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After Muslim took over Constantinople in 1453, the Christianity was getting weaker and weaker. In this situation, Protestant Reformation broke the Roman Catholic unity. To reach this goal, the courage of the Martin Luther and the creativity of Johan Gutenberg paid huge contribution. Martin Luther was a German monk who felt dissatisfied with the Catholic Church. He wrote 95 Theses and nailed them on the door of Wittenberg church. At that time, a Church was considered as the holiest place, to nail
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eyewitness account of the Dresden massacre can provide this historical event with any objective meaning, but have to be content with a resigned “So it goes”. According to my point of view quoting historical events and repeating them within Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut managed to explain the readers how human have never ceased to repeat the same cruelties from the medieval Crusades through the destruction of Dresden to the war in Vietnam. At all times, wars have cruelly deprived children of their childhood
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