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- 2601: A Farewell To Arms 3
- ... indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the two main characters, and several others in the book, is a way to escape the realization of human mortality which is unveiled by war. Stubbs thinks that Hemingway utilized role-playing as a way to "explore the strengths and weaknesses of his two characters." Stubbs says that by placing Henry's ordered life in opposition to Catherine's topsy ... playing the "game" for different reasons but eventually move to play it as a team. Henry is role-playing to regain the sense of order he has lost when he realizes the futility of the war and his lack of place in it. Catherine is role-playing to deal with the loss of her fiance and to try to find order in the arena of the war. When they are able to role-play together, "the promise of mutual support" is what becomes so important to them as they try to cope with their individual human vulnerability. He also analyzes the ...
- 2602: A Farewell To Arms
- A Farewell to Arms The novel "A Farewell to Arms" should be classified as a historical romance. Many people in reading this book could interpret this to be a war novel, when in fact it was one of the great romance novels written in its time. When reading this book you notice how every important event of the war is overshadowed by the strong love story behind it. The love story is circled around two people, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Frederic is a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I. He meets Catherine, a beautiful English nurse, near the front of Italy and Austria. At first Frederic s relationship with Catherine consists of a game based on his attempts to seduce her. He ...
- 2603: Anne Frank
- ... 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the world’s most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood, and on her 13th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went by. It is through this diary that much about World War II and Anne’s life has been learned. In 1933, her and her family left Frankfurt, a large Jewish community, and settled in Amsterdam. Her father foresaw that Hitler’s power boded disaster for the ... thousands of Jews were arrested. This signaled the Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible. Many found refuge in other countries, but a similar number were unable to escape. When World War II began in 1939, the German army occupied the western half of Poland, bringing almost 2 million more Jews under Germany's control. Polish Jews were forced to move in to ghettos surrounded by ...
- 2604: Josef Stalin
- ... many others died in the massive collectivization. By the mid '30s he launched a major campaign of political terror and deportations to labor camps which touched virtually every family. The USSR suffered greatly in World War II and Stalin personally directed the war against Nazi Germany, despite the fact that in 1938 he signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. This bought the Soviet Union two years respite from involvement in World War II. But after the German invasion (1941), the USSR became a member of the Grand Alliance, and Stalin, as the war general, assumed the title of generalissimo. He turned against the Germans, notably at ...
- 2605: A Farewell To Arms
- ... indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the two main characters, and several others in the book, is a way to escape the realization of human mortality which is unveiled by war. Stubbs thinks that Hemingway utilized role-playing as a way to "explore the strengths and weaknesses of his two characters." Stubbs says that by placing Henry's ordered life in opposition to Catherine's topsy ... playing the "game" for different reasons but eventually move to play it as a team. Henry is role-playing to regain the sense of order he has lost when he realizes the futility of the war and his lack of place in it. Catherine is role-playing to deal with the loss of her fiance and to try to find order in the arena of the war. When they are able to role-play together, "the promise of mutual support" is what becomes so important to them as they try to cope with their individual human vulnerability. He also analyzes the ...
- 2606: Patrick Henry's Speech
- ... states, “Sir we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming” (90). Patrick Henry and the rest of the congress have no other choice but to argue or war. Patrick Henry says, “Shall we try argument”(90)? Henry addresses the congress with the choice of argument with the British; the congress does not refuse because they are tired themselves of dealing with the British ... it, sir, we must fight”(90). Patrick Henry is not willing to let the British ministry get by so easily. Patrick Henry has made many reasonable requests to change the mind setting of having a war but the British just do not want to change. Patrick Henry knows that if there is a war he will not have a good chance in beating it, but he still is self confident that he can win the war with the British ministry. Henry says, “The war is inevitable—and let ...
- 2607: Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
- ... official on Thursday defended his government's right to develop long-range missiles after US reports said China was building a new missile base targeting the island of Taiwan. During the period of the Opium War, a British fleet tried to occupy Keelung harbor in north Taiwan but eventually failed. This was the first aggressive move on Taiwan by imperialist powers. In October 1856, the "Arrow" incident which occurred in Canton induced a Second Opium War, and as a result four Tientsin treaties were concluded during June, 1858. Based on the Tientsin treaties, Tamsui, Keelung, Anping and Takao were opened to the West, and western missionaries were allowed to propagate Christianity ... Democratic Republic had already collapsed, the resistance of the Taiwanese people kept on. By November however, the Japanese had control of the entire island. Skipping forward in time, in 1945 Japan is defeated in World War II In spite of the fact that there was no international agreement regarding change of status on Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek had swiftly renamed Taiwan as "Taiwan Province" of China. On September 5, 1945, ...
- 2608: Adolf HItler
- ... mail: tj_119@hotmail.com Adolf Hitler (1889-1956) The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber ... favor of influential institutions, so he could draw the greatest possible advantages for his own movement from such old-established sources of power." Hitler later applied this technique in Germany. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he gave up his Austrian citizenship to enlist in the 16th Bavarian infantry regiment. He would not fight for Austria, "but I was ready to die at any time for my ...
- 2609: Civilization Cure Or Disease
- ... themselves to be the most civilized societies in the world. Industrial powers view less developed nations as backwards which is a synonym for barbarous. But are the societies of industrially advanced nations truly the most civil? This is the question Montaigne raised over 400 years ago in his paper entitled “Of Cannibals.” Throughout history it seems that the most technologically advanced societies are the most powerful. And the most powerful nations ... our culture and society is the standard to judge all others by is preposterous. How can western society, which has killed millions of people in the name of “progress,” believe that we live the most civil lives? Western society has produced most of the problems currently affecting the human experience. Montaigne opened the doors of critical self-judgement. Through this doorway we can see that we too have flaws. While it ... The native people of Brazil in 1557 had a greater sense of civility than western society has probably ever possessed. Western society believes that we must continue to “progress” in order to realize a truly civil society. The assumption is that at some point in the future we will possess enough technology and knowledge that a truly civil society will emerge. With all the advances made in the 20th century ...
- 2610: Use Of Symbolism In The Lord O
- ... are symbols of important people. They show how the real world is made up of people. Ralph is a good leader who cannot control bad people like Jack. Ralph is like Franklin Roosevelt before World War II who could not stop the war from breaking out. He also represents democracy, and is responsible. The boys wanted to do what they wanted, but Ralph couldn't stop them. Piggy represents educated people who give advice but nobody listens to ... rest of the world. The setting of The Lord of the Flies is backdrop that makes it easy to see the boys' wickedness compared to the wickedness of the world and people in general. World War II is going on while the story happens. The parachuter, that the boys think is the beast, shows that they cannot get away from war, and they have war themselves later. Parts of the ...
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