... --the Bible, the Koran, the sayings of the Buddha and Confucius, the Constitution of the United States, the great poetry, drama, fiction and essays of the world--our stories and our histories. In spite of attempts by despots and terrorists to destroy civilization, the words survive and continue to inspire us. And those who use words for hateful purposes cannot drown out the chorus of words of hope and love and freedom. Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, about the ... put into words, what America and her allies needed to hear; to convey confidence without overweening pride; to re...

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... Bladeren betrayed their hiding place. She was one of the cleaning women working in the office in front of the annex. All of those who lived there were arrested by the Nazis and deported to concentration camps. As the Gestapo men searched the annex for valuables Anne's diary was opened and there were papers scattered on the floor. Miep Gies and BepVoskuijl had known of Anne's feelings about these papers and gathered ... though something as horrible as that. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to read and even if they didn't I would recommend it. One of her last entries reall...

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The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend's family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also ... is a nine year old girl living with her parents. Ellen appears in the story at the beginning also. Ellen a jew, who is Annemarie's friend is forced to hide with Annemaries family. My book takes...

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The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend's family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also ... is a nine year old girl living with her parents. Ellen appears in the story at the beginning also. Ellen a jew, who is Annemarie's friend is forced to hide with Annemaries family. My book takes...

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The book I read was a great book. It was about how world war two was effecting the zoo's because when Japan bombed the city they were afraid that the elephants cages would break open and the elephants would escape harming the town. They tried everything they could to kill the elephants without rudely harming them. They tried to give them a shot but the ... skin was to tough. They then finally without and other resort they had to starve them to death. They chose this instead of shooting them because it took 10-20 days for the elephants to starve. So if the war was over they would save the elep...

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A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry The setting of this book takes place in Chicago's Southside, sometime between World War II and the present. The main characters are Ruth Younger, Walter Lee Younger, Beneatha Younger, and Lena Younger. Lena Younger is the mother of Beneatha and Walter. Ruth Younger is Walter's wife. Walter wants to have a liquor shop and wants the money that Lena Younger is suppose to get ... left and she gives it all to Walter to share with Beneatha. Walter gives all the money to a friend for the liquor shop and his friend runs away with the money. Walter loses all ...

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... to be seen as having enduring value. T.S. ELIOT These fragments I have shored against my ruins (What the Thunder Said, from The Waste Land) The ruins created across Europe as a result of the First World War enter the world of T.S. Eliot's poetry indirectly. Eliot's major poem, The Waste Land, published in 1922, is not a land literally laid waste by war, ... Welsh is the most widely spoken of the Celtic languages, and Welsh culture has flourished since the time of the ballads. The name of Taliesin, a bard supposed to have lived in the sixth century, is associated with the fourteenth-cen...

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... , and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet majors at the Base. And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel. Reading the Roll of Honor. 'Poor young chap,' I'd say- 'I used to know his father well; Yes we've lost heavily in this last scrap' And when the war is done ... child. Again, in the phrase "toddle safely home" (10), the reference would fit a child. Meanwhile, the soldiers are described as "glum heroes" (3), which have the suggestion of serious but tolerant sadness because of the situation they find the...

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... an excellent King with qualities that they have never seen him display before. Canterbury tells the Bishop of Ely that Henry has become extremely pious. "Hear him but reason in divinity, You would desire the King were made a prelate- He has become an expert in foreign policy, "Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all in all his study."" and he ... . "Familiar as his garter, that, when he speaks The air, a chartered libertine, is still,"" These qualities which the ArchBishop of Canterbury talk of are all shown in the next scene where we meet Henry for the fi...

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... what inspired me the most. The significance of this picture is mainly that it goes against what majority thinks. It inspires courage not by just being a "radical" but by also taking action and by not giving up easily. In the picture, the radical not only avoids what he does not want to hear but also fights back with what he believes to be the true picture. For ... example, he believes the Red ... Scare is propaganda and the Soviet doctrines have influenced the U.S to enter the war. So, these are the kinds of things he hammers against the stroking sunlight. This image clearly captures t...

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... no room for human compassion, international understanding or the development of a romance. The theme of this book is well hidden, but with further thought, it appears to be to end discrimination and hatred. Although the novel was well written and most points were easily understood, there were many questions left to the reader by the end of the book; a few loose ends left for the reader to wonder about. Many questions are ... raised to explain why there is such a deep animosity toward Patty from her parents. At no point anywhere in the novel does the Greene take the time to explain why h...

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... Annie. Annie had placed the book on the grandmother's mother lace cap. This was upsetting because it was the only reminder that the grandmother had of her mother. The Oostervelds is warned that the Germans are going to do a search of all homes. The Oostervelds hide the girls. The girls have to spend the night standing up in their hiding place. The Germans did not come. The girls are concerned that the lack of exercise will make their ... the girls are excited with the crumbling of Hitler's power. Mussolini one of Hitler's best army fighter is put into jail. The girls get to visit with a...

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... to face more misery. (This cycle calls to mind the myth of Sisyphus, a story of a man condemned to eternally roll a large stone up a mountain, only to have it fall back over him and roll to the bottom each time.) Throughout the poem, Thomas never passes on the opportunity to immerse the reader in the hunchback's pain, as each stanza's language dramatically describes the hunchback's tragic life. For instance, Thomas writes, "A woman figure ... 's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, bu...

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... gathered enough information for his novel. For a later book, he reminisced on his awful days at the Saint Cyprian's School, which has been described as repressive, strict, and dreadful. These times haunted his imagination throughout his life and lead to the creation of Such Such Were Joys. He once commented on these moments saying, "This was the great lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was ... to endure. (Encyclopaedia Britannica [online]). This work of fiction was very different from the documentaries, essays, and novels that he wrote in the 1930s. He was aware that t...

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Sisters in the Resistance In June of 1940, the unthinkable happened to the citizens of beautiful Paris, German tanks began to roll through her streets. The impenetrable Maginot Line had simply been bypassed thus leading to the fall of France. However, the French will would not be beaten so easily. A massive underground resistance was formed and put into action. Among the hundreds of men that took part in the resistance were also valiant women ... who chose to stand with them. This paper will seek to describe the reasons ... ...

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... to rejoice. Bloch is forced to realize that war does not come without a cost. "During the morning I went to visit the field hospital, where one of the wounded had asked for me. There I saw injuries and faces in agony. The men did not cry out, as they ahd done the day before on the battlefield-(94). Yet, Bloch's reaction to this experience is rather startling. He feels no sadness ... shell, in particular, vibrates generally while tumbling through the air, only to stop abruptly at the end of its fall. How many of those murderous melodies did I hear on that day! I hunched my head between m...

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... The Catcher in the Rye's" Relevance in the Twenty-First Century I disagree with the author's criticisms about Salinger's classic novel. The novel The Catcher in the Rye embraces the post war times of the 1950's. The author, J.D. Salinger broadens the reader's horizons for different historical time frames. Salinger puts the reader into Holden's shoes as Holden puts fourth his criticisms towards post-war society in the ... United States. Adolescents can relate to many criticisms Holden comprises throughout the novel. Holden expresses many feelings towards the fearfulness of growing up, his...

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... the beauty of smoke and fire in her photo book, The Burn. She opened the different side of fire and how it symbolizes the stages of life and what makes life. The book encompasses the cycle of life and the spectrum of emotions a person possess. Incidentally, the photo book tells more about German history and its culture than expected of a book of life. The book is divided into three parts by poems the photographer wrote. The first section is "Smoke" - the beginning of the book and the beginning of ... life. The photos are of forests covered ... ...

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... an issue; Joe was able to use it as a motivator for him to succeed. Another example from the book of how discrimination against a minority living in a majority culture is how Theresa was fired form her domestic housework for the wealthy Anglos. Theresa stole a can of tuna from the Anglos, who were going to use it to feed their cat. After Theresa was caught, she was so ... made rude remarks about me. I understood them, maybe not completely, but I knew the intent of their messages. My English improved as time progressed, thanks to watching television and talking to friends. Similar to Joe...

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... the opening of the book, Arthur Miller tries to have a good atmosphere. In the beginning he starts to introduce the characters. The characters that are being introduced are Joe Keller, Jim Bailey the doctor and neighbour and Frank Lubey the neighbour also. In the opening of this book, the atmosphere seems to be very calm and very positive. There is only Joe Keller and Jim Bailey. They are outside in the ... garden; they start a very usual and everyday conversation about the weather and the ... more tension. Since Frank's entry, the conversation takes a different switch. They still talk ...

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... When his novel was first published, it was not an immediate success. Many various magazines, including The Atlantic and The New Yorker, dismissed the book and did not even put it on their best-seller lists. The book was even banned and challenged in some places in the United States. The book was banned in Strongsville, Ohio in 1972, but this decision was later overturned in 1976. It was ... is displayed throughout the novel. None of these bans or challenges has made the novel less popular and it is still a success today. I believe that the bans and the challenges of the book might have ...

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... This quote by Steven Grellet is framed in a plaque on the wall of my late grandfather's bedroom. These words represented importance to my grandfather, Marcus Balll, because this was the way he lived his life. The values and goals of my life have been greatly influenced by a good man who was in many ways, my hero. "Poppaw" displayed a strong sense of tradition and family. Even after his family members had passed ... " had cooked. He loved having company and talking about the old times. I will never forget an old story that "poppaw" always told about his first job, which was digging graves ...

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... was Operation Starlite, which inflicted a 12:1 kill ratio on the Vietcong. Westmoreland's strategy demanded troops because the number of American soldiers in Vietnam stretched into the hundreds of thousands The years preceding 1969 saw a shift in US military policy, including the implementation of bombing campaigns such as Rolling Thunder and Arc Light strikes. The tonnage of bombs dropped in Vietnam actually outstripped the tonnage of bombs dropped in World War II. Nonetheless, target selection ... an all time high after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The My Lye m...

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... where many people did not accept any migrants. The main, theme of this play shows Bianchi family moved to Australia from Italy and how the issues raised regarding to lifestyles in Australia. The racial discrimination was one of the major issues Bianchi family faced since they moved to Australia. For example, Mr. Wilson who works at the s"hop, thinks it is amusing to call ... a multicultural society, which is entirely populated by migration. In the past, people from all other continents migrated to Australia in response to economic opportunity and the need for labour or left in times of ...

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... Evan Morse Whenever one reads or hears about World War I or World War II, you hear of the struggles and triumphs of the British, Americans or any of the other Allies. And they always speak of the evil and menacing German army. However, All Quiet on the Western Front gives the reader some insight and a look at a group of young German friends who are fighting in World War I. "This story is neither an ... heroic because they did not hate the French or the British. Therefore they lacked zeal to fight the war and did not fit the title of hero, they clung on to their life at all times. An exa...

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