The theme that Barthelme has written about is that nuclear warfare is childish and stupid. ... The fact that the narrator is going crazy is because of this war that is going on. Barthelme is showing his readers that nuclear war is hard on the mind and is a silly and stupid thing to be involved in. ... He writes about this in the game, his theme is of how childish society acts by getting involved into nuclear warfare. Elements of Literature. ...

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In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... Even the possession of US nuclear weapons could significantly affect the balance of forces in the area. ... Dollars - about 40% of the total budget of 36 billion. dollars, which is more than 10 times higher than the costs in 1938. ... Markedly increased and the size of the armed forces themselves, who number in the July 1, 1947 was supposed...

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Russell was also famous for his many anti-war and anti-nuclear protests. In 1916 he was convicted and fined for his protests and anti-war activities. ... In 1957, he was a prime organizer of the first Pugwash Conference, an organization made up of scientist concerned about the spread of nuclear war. He became the founding president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 and was once again imprisoned, this time because of an anti-nuclear protests in 1961. ... He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and was named "the champion of humanity and freedom of thought." ...

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Literature can, at times, have a fascinating connection with film. ... In again both film and literature power is a very important factor in most good story lines. ... In films and literature, however, it is rarely seen that the mother is to blame. ... The audience knows that there is a nuclear war going on and that there is a shortage of babies and that all the women are being shipped to different places to perform different tasks. ... The author does indeed ultimately shape the reader or viewers thoughts about the film or book, but it is clear that the reader or viewer ultimately decides...

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"Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology" - Isaac Asimov When looking at Science Fiction I believe as a genre, it most certainly has changed over time. ... The prospect of nuclear war continued to haunt America as the Cold War continued to drag on into the 1970s. ... The film depicted a post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear planet earth, which is revealed in the film's startling conclusion by a destroyed Statue of Liberty. The film highlighted the fear of a nuclear war, which haunted most American's of...

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The Cold War was an extremely nervous period in history for the United States. It was said that a nuclear showdown with the former communist Soviet Union was inevitable. ... Another crisis is currently present, the nuclear showdown with another communist nation, North Korea. Many wonder how the ideology of communism came about. ... In the Marxist view, literature produces false consciousness because all literature produced in a capitalist society could only reflect the capitalist ideologies. ...

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It shows us the values, what to not worry so much about, and what to keep with us forever. ... The Seventh Seal is about a knight, Antonius Block, who first encounters Death on a deserted area upon the water. ... The last allegorical figure I would like to talk about is the black plague taking place in the movie. While it hides in the background, it strongly represents the nuclear war. ... They show us the allegories literature can contain in a meaningful way full of lessons and things to learn. ...

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The rest of the world rejoiced as the most destructive war in the history of mankind came to an end. Over the course of the next forty years, these two bombings, and the nuclear arms race that followed them would, come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this earth, including the people in the United States. ... After the war, the first real piece of literature about the bombings came in 1946. ... That is was an act of war to end the war as quickly and as easily as possible, and to save more lives in the long run. ...

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All this puts the reader in a comfort zone where you don't have to be afraid of possible evil technology and nuclear weapons. ... In a quarter-of-a-century we have watched and enjoyed movies such as Star Wars, Star Trek, the Matrix and Independence Day. ... New books about mystical times were written by the likes of George R. ... Around the millennium the fans were in ecstasy when the movies about their heroes were released in the cinemas. ... Compared to stories about Star Wars, we can relate so much more to the medieval times, which we know a lot about. ...

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He also received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. During the 1950s and1960s, Russell and inspiration to large numbers of idealistic youth and a result of his continued anti-war and anti-nuclear protests. In 1958 he was imprisoned for his connection with anti-nuclear protests. ... He speaks about how we must first free our minds from what are wrongly called "practical" men. ... A good point that we all should value, because of the practical man only recognizing material things, we would be better off without worrying about living in poverty or catching a disease. ...

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That is why Robert Torry professor of American literature chose that time period to write his famous article about 1950s science-fiction films. ... His purpose was to contextualize the historically apocalyptic visions in especially three films from early fifties: "When World Collide ", The Day the Earth Stood Still " and "War of World ". ... Devastation of worlds by a runaway star, invading planet is depicted as the global nuclear conflict between USA and Soviet Union. "The film's transformation of an invading planet into an invading star augments the specificity of its allegory "(Robert ...

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Heroic tradition in literature Heroism cannot be discussed detached from a hero. ... It is in the early Greek literature that we find the earliest heroic epic. ... Long after the splendor of Greek culture, the earliest heroic tradition in English literature evolved from the pagan tradition. ... However, there are also Christian elements in the early English literature as well. ... One of the earliest heroic epics in English Literature is Beowulf. ...

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Is War Necessary? ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. ...

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Is War Necessary? ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. ...

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During this time he produced a large about of theoretical physics publications, even though he did not have contact with scientific literature or colleagues. ... This was in fact the creation of the atom bomb which was used to put an end to World War 2 and saved many lives that would have been lost in the war. ... His contribution to the Manhattan project saved many lives and furthered our knowledge on nuclear physics. ... He moved from his home country to help create a weapon that would help to stop the war that his country started. ...

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Only a few decades after the first telescope was invented, a whole literature of space travel had emerged, mixing fiction with newly acquired astronomical knowledge (Man and Space 9-10). ... New technologies such as nuclear propulsion will make it easier to access other planets. ... Such events will be more severe than the nuclear winter that became such an issue during the Cold War (The Threat 1-4). The sun has been shining for about 4.5 billion years and has enough hydrogen fuel to burn for about ten billion years longer (How the Sun 1). ... About ninety nine percent of all stars end up ...

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She is expected to teach the children such things as responsibility and morality while the husband has only to worry about providing the funds to support the family. ... The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... Some claimed that this type of marriage built around the nuclear family was the cornerstone of society (Coontz 48). ... We have looked at the parti...

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DuBois graduated at age 16 as class valedictorian in 1885, and gave a speech about Wendell Phillips, which was praised in the local paper. ... Fisk introduced DuBois to the land of the south, a region he had only read about. ... DuBois spent two summers teaching at a county school in the south while attending Fisk in order to learn more about the South and his people. ... In addition to that, DuBois edited two short-lived magazines that covered a wide variety of topics such as current events of world race relations, art, politics, education, and literature (Hynes). ... After World War II, ...

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He was concerned about how to reconcile traditional Christian views of the immorality of violence with the necessity of defending the Roman Empire from invading forces. ... But is war really bad? ... But what are we to do like in today's situation when Saddam Hussein of Iraq continues to contain in his possession nuclear warheads along with other weapons of mass destruction, when he also continues to take the lives of innocent women and children. ... Sometimes a war fought to prevent wrong from happening may be considered a just war. In modern times wars defend the innocent are increa...

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He was concerned about how to reconcile traditional Christian views of the immorality of violence with the necessity of defending the Roman Empire from invading forces. ... But is war really bad? ... But what are we to do like in today's situation when Saddam Hussein of Iraq continues to contain in his possession nuclear warheads along with other weapons of mass destruction, when he also continues to take the lives of innocent women and children. ... Sometimes a war fought to prevent wrong from happening may be considered a just war. In modern times wars defend the innocent are increa...

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Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels." ... "In his early childhood Wells developed love for literature." ... Wells also began writing non-fiction books about politics, technology and the future. ... Wells was appalled by the outbreak of the Second World War and wrote extensively about the need to make sure that we used the conflict to establish a new, rational world order. Herbert George Wells died on 13th August, 1946, while working on a project that dealt with the dangers of nuclear war. ...

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(Literature: The British Edition p.8) Of these above-mentioned branches of the Indo-European family, two are of vital importance in the development of the English language, the Germanic and the Romance. ... This group began as a common language in the Elbe river region about 3,000 years ago. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) The history of the English language can be traced back to the arrival of three West Germanic tribes to the British Isles during the 5th and 6th Century AD. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) Christian missionaries later brought over the Latin alphabet to...

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The goal of this literature review is to explain the thoughts of researchers in regards to their debate. ... Likewise, Wesley Widmaier states two democracies; the United States and India were about to go to war (431). ... The public can have a big impact on the countries say about foreign affairs. ... Goldsmith is more elaborate on his works about democracies being more effective at war, while Hayes only focuses on democracies fighting better. ... Parties tend to care more about the economic growth of a market for its nation than the democratic peace that is said to exist for decades. ...

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