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- 2521: Touch Wood By Renée Roth-Hano
- ... a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renée and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then one day, a war with Germany is announced on the radio. The Germans wanted to annex Alsace and forced the Jews to leave. France was split into two zones- the Free Zone and the German occupied zone. Renée¹s ... they have to hide from the police. Renée¹s parents decide to take action. They have friends who know Mother Superior. They send Renée and her sisters to a Catholic residence in Normandy until the war is over. Their father emphasizes for them not to tell anyone that they are Jewish. When they arrive in Normandy, they find a cozy bedroom, appetizing meals, and friendly people. Renée has to deal with ... Catholicism to perfect their disguise. Their parents have given permission for Renée and her sisters to be baptized and to take their first communion. They decide to pray to the Catholic god to make the war end soon, to help the French and their Allies win the war, and to protect the Jews. Renée becomes worried when she hears about the bombing of Paris, but she was relieved to hear ...
- 2522: George Orwells 1984
- ... may question his very existence. Oceania's government is divided into four ministries: the Ministry of Truth, which concerns itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts; the Ministry of Peace, which deals with war; the Ministry of Love, which maintains law and order; and the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. (Orwell, p. 6) Winston is an Outer Party member who works in the Records Department ... no chance of a revolution occurring, since any possibility of a revolt lies with the proles, who are too uneducated and simple to understand the state that the world is in. Oceania is currently at war with Eurasia and allies with Eastasia. Although in reality, this changes every few years, records are destroyed to show that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. (Orwell) The Book's Interpretation of the Historical Period As this novel was written in 1949 about the year 1984, it is not an accurate portrayal of the period. George Orwell wrote ...
- 2523: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... cultures new to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human's evil ... Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews are the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas chambers and mass shootings. This gruesome ... every human is this horrible, evil side. Francis Coppola's movie, Apocalypse Now, is based loosely upon Conrad's book. Captain Willard is a Marlow who is on a mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam war to find and kill an insane Colonel Kurtz. Coppola's Kurtz, as he experienced his epiphany of horror, was an officer and a sane, successful, brilliant leader. Like Conrad's Kurtz, Coppola shows us ...
- 2524: Corruption In Famous Last Word
- War is a horrific experience made worse by those who try to control it for their own advantage. In Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley creates a world of intrigue as he describes the tales of conspiracy and corruption for world domination. That made World War II far worse than it otherwise would have been. This is shown through the relationships of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Benito Mussolini. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are ... and people want to know what he plans to do next. Thus, the Duke of Windsor was very manipulative and created an alliance where many secrets were kept and where the only benefit of the war and alliance was all his own. Joachim von Ribbentrop is one of Hitler s workers and whom Hitler has much trust in. He creates his own alliance to ensure that he will dominate the ...
- 2525: Newfoundland
- ... having. Two examples are that of Lady Constance Maria Harris and Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce. Lady Harris was the wife of Governor Sir Alexander Harris, who served in Newfoundland from 1917 to 1922. During World War I she directed the Women's Patriotic Association (WPA), whose headquarters were at Government House. The WPA enlisted and organized the support of women island-wide to knit and sew garments for the soldiers abroad ... attention at home. Margaret was also a great entertainer, and was enrolled in the London Academy of Drama and Education in London when she was ordered to return home because of the outbreak of World War 1. A career on the stage was unthinkable for a woman of her class in St. John's but she became quite adept at entertaining a drawing room with yams, poetry and recitations. Her niece ... to Valour (1941). Her last book, The Caribou Hut (1949) was a history of the Newfoundland hostel at the King George V Institute during WW II. The Medical Realm Like the Goodyear brothers, the Great War swept up the women of Newfoundland. Unlike the men of Newfoundland their contribution to the war effort more of a medical persuasion. A couple examples of this are that of Ethel Gertrude Dickinson and ...
- 2526: The Musee De Beaux Arts
- ... everyone knew that massive amounts of people would die but they just turned their heads. This poem contains an approach to its subject different from many other poems. The subjects of many other poems -love, war, etc.- are recognized and commented on by the poets. This is not the case here, for Auden shows art's importance by his initial comment that "About suffering, they were never wrong, the old masters ... WWII. For Auden if no one is paying any attention to important things such as death what do they need art for. It is just like A Farewell to Arms all the people outside of war don't feel the suffering so they don't care. The world is terrible because everyone is so wrapped up in their on ideas they can't help the fellow man. When the army had ... Auden is basically doing whatever he can to draw attention to the poem because if he doesn't then people will destroy themselves. He wrote proper sonnets and ballads trying to warn people that another war was in the making but no one listened and as a result 55 million people died. This time Auden chooses to be crude in order to grab the attention of people. Auden may be ...
- 2527: Use Of Fairy Tales In Germany Pale Mother
- ... Germany Pale Mother (1979) is the nearly twenty minute long telling of The Robber Bridegroom. The structual purpose of the sequence is a bridge between the marriage of Lene and Hans, who battles at the war’s front, and the decline of the marriage during the post-war period. Symbolically the fairy tale, called the “mad monstrosity in the middle of the film,” by Sanders Brahms (Kaes, 149), offers a diagetic forum for with which to deal with the crimes of Nazi Germany ... is followed by aerial shots of a decimated Berlin and of Hitler’s burning bunker. The diagetic silence of these shots leaves the viewer with a deeply embedied feeling of the death and destruction the war caused. However, the fairy tale does end with a manifestation of denazifcation. The murderers are caught, and sentenced for their crimes. Ironically, in the fairy tale they are brought to justice by their own ...
- 2528: Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
- ... the nuclear weapon. The first atomic weapon was detonated on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The bombs designed during the project would later be used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, thus ending World War II. Uranium was used in weapons for many years after World War II. After World War II the U.S., Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China conducted many more nuclear weapons test and experiments. These countries also used uranium for many other military purposes. Such examples of this ...
- 2529: Significant Presidential Decisions
- ... s decision to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the 1960's. As you can already tell Lyndon B. Johnson was the decision maker regarding this issue. Johnson faced the problem of the Vietnamese war. As a matter of fact this is one of the reasons why Johnson decided to increase U.S. involvement with Vietnam. The Vietnamese war was basically a war between the North and South sides of Vietnam. The North side of Vitenam became allies with the Soviet Union and China, both communist countries at the time. However the Soviet Union and China only ...
- 2530: Comparison Of The Illiads Achi
- Two of the main characters in Homer s The Iliad, Achilles and Hector, compare very differently in many ways. Although they were both war heroes, they came from different sides of the battle and fought each other under different beliefs. These two brave warriors fought to the death in Book 22, where Hector eventually lost to Achilles. Even though Hector lost the fight, the war still raged on, even less merciful than before. These two warriors were similar in a few ways, but mostly very different. These two warriors were similar in some ways. The most obvious were that they were both fighting in the same war and that they were both male warriors. They were also very renowned fighters for their troops, and are both very strong. They both had very high confidence in themselves at the beginning of the ...
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