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Vonnegut
Title: Vonnegut
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 216 | Pages: 0.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Vonnegut
After graduating from Shortridge High in 1940 Kurt Vonnegut entered Cornell University. Vonnegut’s father and brother strongly urged him to pursue a degree in biochemistry, and during his studies he found he had no desire for the subject and was rewarded with poor grades. His only enjoyment was found in writing for the Cornell Daily Sun. At Vonnegut’s lowest point he was nearly expelled from school as a result of poor grades, but in 1942 …showed first 75 words of 216 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 216 total…bombing of Dresden (an incident that killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined). After the Soviets liberated him Vonnegut returned to the U.S. and married. He then entered a Masters program in anthropology at the University of Chicago and worked as a reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau. Following his stay in the Windy City Vonnegut moved to New York and took a public relations job for General Electric research laboratory.
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