If you have ever read the novel Slaughterhouse Five, you might be left asking yourself, who really is Pilgrim? Although he is the main character from the novel, there are comparisons in the novel that describe him as being another person. The most interesting comparison may be that of a character out of Kilgore Trout's novels. There are several of his stories that are described that are extremely similar to pits and pieces of Billy's life. This leads to the question of, is Billy Pilgrim just a character from a Kilgore Trout novel? ...

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Katchiko buys the geisha house Hatsuko works at and convinces her that the only way her and Totori can ever be together was in the after life. ... Emerald guardsmen who were realxing at scorpion controlled tea houses were now dying at the hands of Katchiko's ninja-ko geisha. ... Shoju sends out messangers hoping clans would join them if they knew their reasoning, but they were all slaughtered upon arrival. ... Dairu is ordered to stay back, but when he goes to defend his protector, he is slaughtered by his biological father. ... Daimyo-pg1 paragraph2 leader of a great house or clan...

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However, the French minister Sarraut makes decolonization difficult, due to his belief of only Europeans being able to rule land, "Since only Europeans could count as competent users of God's nature, only they could own it" (Prashad, 5). ... It became a racist rat hunt, ratonnades, for the French to slaughter many Algerians that demanded equal rights for Muslim population. Eventually, the ambivalent acts of France gave rise to the "the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), which emerged in a spectacular assault on French positions in Algeria on All Saints' Day" (Prashad, 5). ... The h...

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He helped to incite and provoke the ethnicity based violence, promoting Hutu extremism until it eventually escalated into the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, where 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered between April and July that year. ... It is bicameral with the lower house the Chamber of Deputies, and the upper house the Senate. ... The legislature is formed by the Chamber of Deputies, which contains 90 members who serve 5-year terms. ... Felonies, with a punishment more than 5 years are heard in the High Court with one court of appeal as the Supreme Court, cases of these would be Genocide speeches, m...

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However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bodies, villages being destroyed, farms being burned by bombs. ... They saw in their eyes US soldiers burning houses, killing innocent people, kids being scalded by napalm bombs, the US embassy being attacked at the center of Saigon, US soldiers dragging the bodies of comrades They were wondering how those violent acts could be allowed to happen, what US soldiers had been sacrificing for and how Americans would bring democracy to Vietnam. ... By Monday noon Monday (5/4), tension culminated when soldiers opened fir...

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In book 5, Odysseus turns down a life of immortality in order to return home to his wife. ... But if your mind were to divine the trials That fate will have you meet before you reach Your country, you would choose to stay, to keep This house with me - and live immortally. ... Upon returning home and discovering many suitors living in his house, Odysseus decides to do his wife justice by punishing all of them. With the help of Athena, his godly ally, and his son, Odysseus slaughters all of the suitors in a massive fight and rescues his wife from the harassment of these men. ... (...

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These bacteria can be traced back to the slaughter-houses where these bacteria spread effortlessly from infected animal tissues to meat processing equipment. ... Salmonella contamination alone is found in almost 40 percent of all poultry, 12 percent of pork, and 5 percent of beef. ...

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No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. ... All animals are equal." (21) These laws are amended throughout the story, for example, the 6th commandment is secretly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without reason" during the first slaughtering of those animals in secret league with Snowball, and the 5th commandment finding its way to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess" when the pigs stumble across a large supply of alcohol in the house. ... This rule is evident in reality, particularly when the animals peered through a window of the barn house: "No question now, what had hap...

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Another group of Indians called the Pueblo Indians are Indians who live in stone or adobe, dried clay, houses. ... The houses were built with frames of large trees. ... The inside of the house also had carved posts if the family was an important one. ... The Iroquois Indians were actually a "nation" of Indians made up of 5 tribes. ... A normal Cherokee town had about 30 - 60 houses and a large meeting building. ...

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That is live in a house, sleep in bed, were clothes, drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, touch money, or engage in trade. ... They also wrote on a wall were the Seven Commandments, which are 1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3) No animal shall wear clothes. 4) No animal shall sleep in bed. 5) No animal shall drink alcohol. 6) No animal shall kill any other animal. 7) All animals are equal. ... Benjamin read the side of the van and it said horse slaughter. ...

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Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... He ordered the murders of many Germans who did not agree with his ways, and had others carted to concentration camps where they were slaughtered. ... Many of them were beaten, half starved, given houses not fit for cattle to live in, and forced to work morning and night. ...

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• Circe- a beautiful sorceress • Anticlea- mother of Odysseus • King Alcinous- king of the Phaeacians; ruled with his wife, Queen Acretes • Eurycleia- Odysseus" maid since childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysse...

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