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“All this happened, more or less” Kurt Vonnegut begins his classic work, Slaughterhouse Five. Since the story involves the character Billy Pilgrim traveling through space and time this seems almost unimaginable. For certain, Vonnegut felt the same during his time sheltering during the bombing raid in Schlachthof 5 (Slaugherhouse Five). Vonnegut uses a science fiction…
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Why even study or history? What have we learn to from the past? This is a question many historian has asked through the ages. Personally, I can’t help but be obsessed or perhaps afflicted with a thirst for knowledge of the past. It is so satisfying in some way to understand how things became the…