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base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

important at all. The theme is war itself, the suffering, the realities that many simply ignore. And, perhaps most importantly, in...

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

but sometimes works in unpredictable ways. Harford also uses Starbucks to explain why location is so important in real estate and...

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

has been solicited by the government in return for security. The US has seen a fear that associated with Islam, it has suited the ...

They rarely feel that they are contributing much to the overall success of the company; and the unfortunate result is that the com...

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

is clearly separated from the white world or the modern world. In Cocoas remarks she is illustrating that the "whole story...