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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 20 views

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory
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  • The Zone is a place to which Jewish “evacuees” are brought by train to be used as forced labor or to be gassed straightaway, their remains deposited in the euphemistically named but foul-smelling Spring Meadow.
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      heatherann96 on 06 Oct 14
       
      This is terrible. I still find it unbelievable when I hear of the things that he Jews were put through during the holocaust. How could someone do such things to innocent people?
  • Somebody will one day come to the ghetto or the Lager and account for the near-farcical assiduity of the German hatred.
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      heatherann96 on 06 Oct 14
       
      i feel like they're saying that someday someone will pay for all the hatred given by the germans by in the holocaust.
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 25 views

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  • This“Atlanta Compromise” is by all odds the most notable thing in Mr. Washington’s career.
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      heatherann96 on 02 Oct 14
       
      "The Atlanta Compromise" affected thousands of people. That's why it was so notable.
  • It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
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      heatherann96 on 02 Oct 14
       
      I think this is saying that people need to be independent and self thinking to be powerful in a society.
  • "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creater with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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      heatherann96 on 02 Oct 14
       
      This is so important because during slavery, this statement was not fact. Blacks were treated poorly compared to whites.
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