Both stories also include similar imagery in terms of the description of the city. The city is depicted as a negative and hectic place. In Crèvecœur's novel, Letters from an American Farmer, he writes "Here the horrors of slavery, the hardship of incessant toils, are unseen; and no one thinks with compassion of those showers of sweat and of tears which from the bodies of Africans, daily drop, and moisten the ground they till." (153) People in the city are portrayed as savages. ... Though the stories were not written by the same author or derived from the same plot, ...

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When Kumalo arrives at the city, he becomes the victim of a robbery. The city is full of crime for people have lost their moral values. ... The city creates a sense of fear and nothing can be done about it. ... He provides the emotionless atmosphere in the courthouse by using a shallow description of the trial. ... The showers end the drought in the land and bring hope and rejuvenation to the people. ...

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Auschwitz began in the suburbs of the city Oswiecim, Poland as a concentration camp built for the forced labor of Polish political prisoners (Dwork 181). ... Once those prisoners were selected they were showered and tattooed. ... Since the majority of Auschwitz was on damp and marshy ground, fresh water was rare and prisoners were rarely allowed to shower. If prisoners were given the chance to shower they were forced to take off their clothes in the barracks and run, often in the snow, the entire way to the shower block (Shuter 22). ... Soon gas chambers were built disguised as showe...

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Free fighters were more sought after than slaves, presumably because they shower greater enthusiasm in the arena. ... The number of days in each year given up to annual games and spectacles of one sort or another in the city was startlingly large, and increased continually. ... Descriptions of upcoming contests, appeared on walls and on the grave stones beside main roads. ...

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Description For my communications assignment I am going to describe the birth of my third and last son in 2004. ... About 12:45am on May 9th my water broke after I got up to go to the bathroom, we went to the hospital after I showered the water was clear and there were no signs of meconium. ...

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• Grade Level: High School