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In the book “On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century,” Timothy Snyder shows us how history doesn’t repeat itself, rather it is an instruction manual for how people should behave moving forward. The book is broken down into 20 chapters, each of which is a lesson from the twentieth century. The first few lessons of the book give insight into some of the ways dictators manipulate civilians and eventually get them to follow them. Snyder gives some tips on some of the signs of this and how to avoid them as civilians can be influenced pretty easily. The next few lessons exhibit how dictators sway people higher up in the government to leave behind their morals and commit war crimes to help the dictator achieve their goals. The middle of the book details how people can defend themselves and stand out for what they believe in and defend against the lies of the authoritarian regime. This involves believing in truth and doing the necessary research to find out what i...

The book that I chose for this time around was “On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder. As I looked through the list of options we had for Book 2, there were two words that caught my eye: Graphic Edition. I consider myself to be a visual learner so I knew that this book would probably be the best one for me to read from the list. However, this wasn’t the sole reason why I chose the book. This led me to do more research on the book to see what it was really about. As I looked at different reviews of the book, I realized that the book was about totalitarian regimes and what we can learn from their dominance in the 20th century to apply in the future. This resonated with me as my parents were in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in the 1970s. This was when the Shah of Iran was overthrown by Ayatollah Khomeini and a dictatorship was formed in Iran. My parents were forced to flee the country and ended up moving to Los Angeles and never look...

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