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- 1221: Longfellows Optimism In Writin
- ... the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart. This is a saying Longfellow read in Germany where his wife died. The words gave him hope for the future. It inspired him to want to write a series of psalms. The first one, A Psalm of Life written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
- 1222: Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
- ... begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden, Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135,000 to 250,000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the ...
- 1223: Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... and Anne died. Otto Frank was the only one of the 8 people from the secret annex to survive. Van Pels died in the Auschwitz gas chambers and Pfeffer died at the Neuengamme camp in Germany. As starvation, cold and disease spread in the camp. Margot and Anne developed typhus and died. Anne died on April 1945, to the disease. She died a few weeks before the camp was free by ...
- 1224: Only Yesterday
- ... America celebrated her triumphant defeat over the dreaded Kaiser. Soon the excitement of the signing died down and people began to face the realities that followed a post war nation. Troops were still marching into Germany and there was still a casualty list that added new names each day. America faced other problems. Workers began to form Unions in order to gain more wages and benefits. One of the most notable ...
- 1225: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... The Wester Front. Fawcett Crest; New York. 1958 Glaser, Rollin O. All Quiet On The Western Front Notes. Cliffs Notes, Inc.; Lincoln, Nebraska. 1990 Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrόck, Westphalia, Germany on June 22, 1898. Being that his father was a book binder by trade, Erich was brought up in a fairly poor household. That did not stop him from receiving a wonderful education at his ...
- 1226: Baroque And Classical Music
- ... to his repertoire was Vivaldi. London's Royal Academy of Music was not a music school. The purpose of the society was to firmly establish Italian opera in London. II Like Bach and Telemann in Germany, Vivaldi was in charge of music at a church school. Vivaldi's school was called the Pio Ospedale della Pieta. He wrote concertos for so many different instruments because of the variety of talents represented ...
- 1227: Black Like Me
- ... the reader into the Deep South before the Civil Rights Movements took hold and shows what it was like to be black. In the Preface, the author states "I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same." The details he mentioned were he being black and ...
- 1228: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... French. The rest of Canada was considered another country, one they knew nothing about. "We were terribly ignorant of English Canada" Bouchard remarked to Jeffrey Simpson.(Simpson, 1993). The students learned the history of France, Germany, the United States, Greece but not their own. "What happened in the rest of confederation, we didn't know." The teachers impressed upon their students that Great Britain was a land to be despised whereas ...
- 1229: ANIMAL FARM IN COMPARISON TO T
- ... major battles of the revolution, The Battle of the Cowshed, and The Battle of the Windmill, both in which the farmers were defeated. Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood represents England, and Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield represents Germany. The Battle of the Cowshed represents the invasion of the new Soviet Russia by the West, and the Battle of the Windmill represents the German invasion of Russia during World War II. After the windmill ...
- 1230: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... The Wester Front. Fawcett Crest; New York. 1958 Glaser, Rollin O. All Quiet On The Western Front Notes. Cliffs Notes, Inc.; Lincoln, Nebraska. 1990 Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrόck, Westphalia, Germany on June 22, 1898. Being that his father was a book binder by trade, Erich was brought up in a fairly poor household. That did not stop him from receiving a wonderful education at his ...
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