Visit Crown Hill Cemetary
My place of choice to complete my mapping of public memory was Crown Hill Cemetery. If you do not live here the cemetery is in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the land covers approximately 555 acres of land and 25 miles of road. Crown Hill Cemetery was founded on September 25, 1863, to meet the needs of the growing city and the demands wrought by the Civil War (Organizational History. Crown Hill Cemetery is the third-largest private cemetery in the country (Schofield).…...
Kurt Vonnegut
If We Had Been Taller
Students will be required to complete an essay in which they explain how the author’s life experiences and the literary period in which they wrote affected their style and purpose using the works the student identifies as evidence. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan Illinois and he died July 5, 2012, in Los Angeles CA. His most popular novel is Fahrenheit 451. Ray was originally a lineman, but he was very familiar with technological advancements. From…...
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five: Themes and Symbolism
Slaughterhouse-Five's durability as a satiric masterwork is explained by two factors. First, the 1960s appear increasingly as a definitive era as we move further away from them. This is true for the reason that in that decade, with the help of television, domestic violence and martial violence merged for the first time in the cultural imagination. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, student riots, racial battles, political assassinations, as well as our usual glut of homicides, rapes, and assaults turned out…...
Kurt Vonnegut
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