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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of, Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., a successful architect, and Edith Sophia Vonnegut. He had two older siblings, a brother Bernard, and a sister Alice.
Fourth-generation Germans, the Vonnegut children were raised with little, if any, knowledge about their German heritage - a legacy, Kurt believed, of the anti-German feelings vented during World War I. With America\'s entr ... mehr
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Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children\'s Crusade, A Duty Dance With Death is surely the best achievement of Kurt Vonnegut and even one of the most acclaimed works in modern American literature. It is a very personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut\'s own experience in World War Two. Vonnegut manages to tell the reader many things and it is hard to decide, what exactly is the main theme. It is a novel about war, abo ... mehr
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Mother Night is Vonnegut\'s third novel and centers on an American playwright, Howard Campbell, who finds himself in Germany when WWII erupts. Rather than return to the States he is convinced by an American secret agent to remain in Germany as a spy while posing as a Nazi propagandist.He does this job all too well and is considered by many to be one of the most powerful war criminals. After the war he returns home and plods along in obscurity, ... mehr
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This 127 chapter novel is the story of Hoenikker family and the ultimate destruction
of the world. Felix Hoenikker is the man responsible for creating the doomsday device known as \"Ice-9.\" The Ice-9 is unique in that it freezes water at a much higher temperature. After his death, the children go their seperate ways only to wind up on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo when Frank Hoenikker gives Ice-9 to San Lorenzo\'s dictator, Papa Monzano ... mehr
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General:
Las Vegas, the capital the US State of the Hoover dam and the Lake Mead recreation area are situated. A historical museum documents history Nevadas of 12000 v. chr. Until approximately 1950, and a natural history museum shows over Nevada, is the commercial centre of the surrounded desert region. Famous it particularly is as tourist and entertainment centre with luxury hotels and play casinos. The city is seat of higher educational f ... mehr
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What means the word LASER ? LASER is the abbreviation for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Laser emission results from a special type of interaction of light with atoms. The difference to normal light is that laser light is a monochromatic coherent light. That means all light waves are in step with each other. Another difference is that all rays of the laser light are parallel and of the same wavelength.
The first la ... mehr
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0.1 How to write a Business Letter
There are different kinds of business letters. But before I talk about the different kinds of letters, I´ll tell you how a business letter should look like.
0.2 Different kinds of business letters
0.3 Different kinds of business letters
There are four different kinds of business letters: inquiries and offers, orders and delays & complaints.
0.4 The inquiry
Business tractions frequently start wit ... mehr
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HOLIDAYS
Nearly all British people in full-time jobs have at least a four-week-holiday a year, often in two or three separate periods. The normal working week is 35-40 hours, Monday to Friday. People who have to work in shifts with \'unsocial\' hours are paid extra for the inconvenience. More overtime is done (at extra pay) than in most other Western European countries, but there is relatively little \'moonlighting\'- that is, independe ... mehr
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Leo Tolstoy was a man of many parts--soldier, sensualist,
country nobleman, writer, teacher and social critic, and, not
least, benevolent patriarch. Photographs taken of him in his
later years show a fearsome-looking man with long hair and a
flowing beard, dressed in peasant\'s clothes, surrounded by his
wife and children. In writing his panoramic novels of Russian
life, Tolstoy drew heavily on his varied experiences. Indeed,
he gav ... mehr
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Anna Karenina has two parallel plots rather than one story
line. Tolstoy builds his book on the personal quests of Anna
and Levin, his two principal characters. For much of the book,
their paths are separate; in fact, they don\'t meet until the end
of the book, when the differences between them are especially
glaring.
The book begins with a domestic crisis. Stiva, Anna\'s
brother, has been caught again cheating on his wife. An ... mehr
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Rarely in literature is a character so utterly ruined as Anna
Karenina. Beautiful and unaffected, she becomes deceptive,
jealous, and spiteful. The change in her will probably horrify
you, yet even when Anna is destructive she arouses your
compassion. In conflict with her mixed-up society, she has no
resources against the turmoil within her.
She fights a magnificently tough but losing battle. As you
will note, there are numero ... mehr
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Levin is the hero of Anna Karenina. In fact, some readers
believe Anna was created by Tolstoy primarily to point up
Levin\'s superiority. Where Anna maneuvers hysterically to
achieve the perfect romance, Levin strives to find coherence in
life and death, love and work. Anna is a portrait of
alienation; Levin finds harmony with those around him. In Anna,
you see the moral collapse of urban society; in Levin, you see
Tolstoy\'s hopes ... mehr
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Vronsky is described (by Kitty\'s father) as \"a perfect
specimen of Saint Petersburg gilded youth.\" He is an aristocrat,
a soldier, a horseman, and a womanizer. He has charm to burn,
polish to spare, and looks that comrades envy. In his time and
place, he is far from unusual. As Kitty\'s father puts it, men
like Vronsky \"are a dime a dozen.\"
But Vronsky\'s affair with Anna Karenina sets him apart from
his peers. Many reade ... mehr
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\"Everything was upset in the Oblonskys\' house,\" Tolstoy
writes at the beginning of Anna Karenina--and it\'s all because
of Stiva, Anna\'s brother. Dolly, Stiva\'s wife, has learned of
yet another of his love affairs, and this time she\'s threatening
divorce.
Stiva is charming and sentimental. He loves good food, good
wine, lively conversation, music, the theater, parties--and
women. Everyone likes Stiva, he is so much fun to ... mehr
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Kitty finds her deepest happiness in being a wife and mother,
a role for women that Tolstoy favored. Absolutely clear about
her place, she brings harmony to her home and peace of mind to
her husband. She has an instinctive appreciation for the human
cycle--birth, life, death--and does not fear it. Though not
well-read, Kitty is very intelligent and extremely practical.
She has abiding faith and trust in the goodness of God.
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Dolly is Kitty\'s sister, Stiva\'s wife, and Anna\'s
sister-in-law. She represents the long-suffering betrayed wife
and devoted mother. In many ways, Dolly is heroic. She makes
do with little money, she raises good children, she is, in
general, clear--though unhappy--about her lot in life. Her
husband\'s infidelities have robbed her of dignity, financial and
emotional security, and a sense of herself as an attractive
woman. Yet sh ... mehr
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Karenin is obsessed with appearances, with doing what is
\"correct,\" with order. He is very rational, and has hardly any
imagination. He\'s ponderous rather than passionate and is
frightened of strong emotions. By the end, Karenin is
pathetic.
He and Anna have a proper marriage. Their ways are regular
and their household is prosperous, but the sexual charge between
them is essentially dead. This is fine with Karenin--he does ... mehr
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The setting of Anna Karenina shifts back and forth between
the city and the countryside. Tolstoy believed that the land
was Russia\'s most precious asset and that country life was the
truly Russian way of life. His use of setting in the novel is
closely tied to this theme.
In the city, Tolstoy shows you a shallow, hypocritical
drawing-room society made up mostly of idle aristocrats,
bureaucrats, and \"professional social gadflie ... mehr
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\"I will write a novel about a woman who commits adultery,\"
Tolstoy reportedly said to his wife as he began Anna Karenina.
But his concerns were broader than that, and in telling Anna\'s
story, he touches on a number of important themes.
1. MARRIAGE
Many readers think Anna Karenina is the greatest novel about
marriage ever written. Tolstoy draws portraits of three
marriages: Dolly and Stiva\'s, Anna and Karenin\'s, Kitty ... mehr
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Henry James (whose novels are models of structural clarity
and symmetry) once referred to Tolstoy\'s War and Peace as a
\"loose and baggy monster.\" He might have said the same about
Anna Karenina, which, like War and Peace, is an epic, a sweeping
story on a grand scale. On the other hand, Anna Karenina is
more compact than War and Peace, and might be said to be a
psychological rather than a historical epic. It\'s easy to
imagine Tol ... mehr
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