." - 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. ... Hunter Thompson chronicles the "fear and loathing" he experiences in Las Vegas, but his themes are much farther reaching. ... Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a kind of "method writing" conducive t...

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As a matter of fact, their masters had the power of life and death over them. ... The death of their parents was felt as a great loss by children. ... The early codes of law considered acts against them punishable by slavery or death. ...

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