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- 411: Perfect Day For A Bananafish
- The images of war remain imbedded in an individual's mind, making it difficult for anyone who has faced the horrors of war to reassimilate themselves within society. People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war ...
- 412: All Quiet On The Western Front
- Erich Maria Remarque s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course ...
- 413: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- By: Joe Cerniglia Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph’s occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that ... concise manner, was born. The inverted pyramid system, born of necessity, was absorbed into newswriting over the proceeding century, and exists today as the standard style for reporting news. At the beginning of the civil war, the protracted narrative style still predominated the newswriting of the period. For the most part, stories were verbose almost to the point of obsequy and read more like an intellectual discourse on the topic, rather ... pyramid model, there is certainly evidence of its coming, especially among the smaller news stories toward the beginning of the news hole in the Times of 1861. By 1917 and the beginning of the Great War, the use of the telegraph, along with other forms of electric communication, had become almost universal. The telegraph was by then an intercontinental communication tool, allowing the next-day coverage of events happening in ...
- 414: All Quiet On The Western Front
- Erich Maria Remarque s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course ...
- 415: The Effect of Militancy In the British Suffragette Movement
- ... to campaign for women's rights and, especially, women's voting rights. Although these extreme measures in the short term delayed the implementation of women's suffrage, combined with the increased respect women received during World War I, the passionate protests actually helped ensure the granting of suffrage to women in Great Britain in January of 1918. The struggle for women's equality in Great Britain started long before the turn of ... movement both severely increased its militancy (they issued a statement declaring that "as the Prime Minister will not give us the assurance that women shall be enfranchised next year, we revert to a state of war"22) and began to lose public support. The actions the WSPU now undertook were specifically done to ensure publicity. Both public and private property were destroyed, intending a call on the the insurance companies ...
- 416: Two Books By Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- ... the books Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night, the author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. presents the reader with two entirely different plots and story lines. The underlying theme for both books however, is the same; stop mindless war, stop mindless genocide of the human race, stop hatred for one another. These zealous antiwar sentiments stem from Vonnegut's personal experiences during World War II. An American ground soldier, Vonnegut was captured and held in the German city of Dresden. During his captivity, the Allied forces fire bombed Dresden, killing 135,000 inhabitants, destroying hospitals, schools, apartment buildings. ...
- 417: All Quiet On The Western Front
- Remarque s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, transpires in the trenches of the Nazi Western Front, which is protected by the young German soldiers World War I. Paul Bäumer, the narrator; enters the war under pressure to enlist; goes to the front and learns about the brutality of war. Paul witnesses the extreme violence that defines war during his time spent on the Western Front. Bäumer and his ...
- 418: Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg
- Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg When reading poetry on the subject of war, one's own feelings regarding the subject are evoked. This makes it easier to feel the words and what they say to you. Crane's selection, "War is Kind" presents a dilemma from the outset as it uses two words "war" and "kind" that are dissimilar. Crane then highlights acts of destruction and despair with the "kindness" of war. He notes ...
- 419: The First Battle of the Somme
- The First Battle of the Somme The First Battle of the Somme was a very unsuccessful and expensive Allied offensive on French land during World War I (“Somme”). Many soldiers were needlessly killed and many towns and villages destroyed. This battle was one of the largest land battles ever fought during a war. After the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria on on June 28, 1914, war began to break out among Western countries (“World“ 1). Germany declared war on Russia, then on France, and then ...
- 420: The Conflicts Between The United States and The Soviet Union
- ... were conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union, since they had differences in their ways in government beliefs, the two countries then fell apart, and turned into a struggle known as the Cold War. There were many views on why the United States assumes global responsibility for containing communism. Reasons being that since the United States did not want any more spreading of communism, because it would probably lead to more war, or threats from the Soviet Union. So in order for it not to get out of hand, the United States made sure to send out certain plans to make sure the spreading would be contained ... very wrong. What congress was doing was not exactly fair. Not being able to prove the communists' actions, and being jailed, does not exactly seem appropriate. There are various reasons to explain why the Cold War affected politics in Western European countries. It affected some countries in a good way. For example Germany, a country that was almost entirely destroyed, boosted right back up coming to be one of the ...
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