This quote explains a lot about Steinbeck's life and his perspective on the time period in which he lived. ... In his later life, Steinbeck married three times. ... During his life, Steinbeck lived through many historical events in both the world and the United States. ... It was a direct book from his life. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ...

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In reality, life within the camp was not so different from the life outside and the readers can clearly see the parallel demonstrated by the author. ... Life in the Soviet Union was always terrorizing. ... This holds true to life in the USSR outside prison walls. ... When prisoners like Shukhov realized that they would be spending 10 or sometimes 25 years of their lives behind bars, where every waking moment is hell, they lose their will to live. ... After the death of Stalin in 1953, Soviet citizens changed their views on their own life and didn't live in such permanent terror of the gov...

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He lived in Berlin with an uncle for a couple years. ... His work was exhibited internationally throughout the later years of his life. ... Right before his death Francis retreated from his social life and focused on his work and relationship with Edwards. ...

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HE SPENT AN HR TRYING TO SEE WHETHER HE COULD FREE THE LIFE RAFT BUT IT WOULD TAKE 3 MEN TO DO SO. HIS MIND TENDED TO WANDER & HE THOUGHT OF HIS WIFE IN ENGLAND & WOT SHE WOULD BE DOING & THEN STARTED TO THINK BOUT HIS LIFE & SOMETIMES HE WAS FASCINATED BY THE LITTLE THINGS HE HAD DONE, LIKE WHEN HE WAS LITTLE HE TOOK COLD BATHS CAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD TOUGHEN HIM UP. ... HE HAD PLANNED & LIVED FOR THIS MOMENT FOR THE LAST 4 DAYS. ...

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What was life like in the Third Reich? ... I am going to include facts on his impact on education, youth movements, life for women, propaganda and people at work. ... When the boys learnt how to use weapons live ammunition was used and a lot of them died from this. ... Life for Women Women didn't really have much choice of what to do. ...

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This ties into humanities true hypocritical nature towards the society they live in. ... Life, once again, can be regarded as a race track where everyone intends to reach the first place. Individuals also live in a state of continuous fear. ... Life is a race track with various racers, each one having advantages and disadvantages, and the goal is to arrive first. ... Individuals live in a continuous state of fear and perpetual war from a subconcious viewpoint. ...

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Anthony Burgess lived through a time period that consisted of a major war. ... Throughout Burgess's life, he held a couple of different occupations. ... Doctors diagnosed him as having a cerebral tumor with only a year to live. ... Anthony Burgess lived a very broken childhood. ... He was given only a year to live when they improperly diagnosed him. ...

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But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. ... The way I choose how to live my life is my decision and nobody else's. ... I don't know about the rest of America but I would like to live my life while I can. ... You have total power to live where you want and what type of career you want to pursue. ... But overall McCarthyism was terrible and my life is better without it....

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It is nourished to be strong and healthy, to be conceived normally and to live a life of values and morals. ... The world is young and all it wants is to live and rise. Humans live life to achieve dreams and aspirations. ... Humans live life to the fullest of their ability. ... Germany, never forgetting their past, live their lives with vigilance and righteousness. ...

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The Greatest Years in America's History There are many periods in history that would be nice to have lived in. ... Those were the glory days, where life went from poor to rich in a period of thirty years. ... To live in the time between 1920 to 1950 would be my dream, to see war and flourishing of the forties through the fifties. During the 1920's just about everyone was having the time of their life. ... The time period of 1920 to 1950 would have been great to have lived in. ...

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The Greatest Years in America's History There are many periods in history that would be nice to have lived in. ... Those were the glory days, where life went from poor to rich in a period of thirty years. ... To live in the time between 1920 to 1950 would be my dream, to see war and flourishing of the forties through the fifties. During the 1920's just about everyone was having the time of their life. ... The time period of 1920 to 1950 would have been great to have lived in. ...

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In life we meet many people who touch our lives. ... In looking closer at the time she lived you see that she lived during World War I and II. ... She knows that for a short time there was a rich warmth in her life "I only know that summer sang in me" and now that it is gone. ... That it is a terrible sorrow to not have someone special in your life of all the countless ones that you have loved....

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Leap Into Darkness is a real life story written by Leo Bretholz. Leo spent his teenage years running for his life and trying to survive the Second World War. ... Not only was Leo hunted but he had now put his friend's life in jeopardy. ... This book allows a person to see the book as real life and not just of an event being taught. ... It allows you to see real history told by someone who lived it. ...

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Although an expatriate, through his life and works he touched upon the feelings and needs of countless Americans that were lost in history. ... This experience and the consequent injury he would receive from a mortar would have a huge effect on his life, outlook and writing. ... They were a free-spirited bunch that liked to get "tight", (Used in context by Hemingway for "drunk".) and "Live life to the fullest". It seems very unrealistic for them to have lived in America in a time when the prohibition was still a prominent force in American society. ... This existentialist outlook seemed to...

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The new respect could bring more rights and a better life after the war for all Native Americans. ... Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. ... She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. ... Much like Jeanne, the bombing of Pearl Harbor changed Ira Hay's quiet life in Arizona. ... Jeanne and her family lived in squalor and made do with the few remaining possessions they had. ...

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Through A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki makes clear the life of each ethnic that makes up America from the period when the Viking settled to today. ... Takaki speaks of each ethnicity in America and gives voices to their oppression by the Europeans when they lived in America. ... One of the most talked about periods of America's history of discrimination lived in the story of Africans. ... In the 1840's more European's began to migrate to California ignoring the fact that Mexicans lived there before. ... The Irish fled to American in the common pursuit of a better life away f...

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This created the baby boom generation; in 1959 the population of kids under the age of fourteen was over fifty million and that significantly impacts society in many area of life. ... When kids were born, families would need a place to live like a house; Suburbs outside of cities were built for families to be raised in. ... Cars were a necessity part of life for new families; they must commute to their job which was most likely in the city. ... Everyone who had started a family lived in a similar suburban community and went to similar jobs with similar schedules creating a conformist state. .....

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It does not focus on the entire life of Billy Pilgrim, but instead focuses on certain moments of his life. When humans look at another's life, they do not focus on death but on how they lived their lives as a whole. Trafamadorians view life similarly. ... They are willing to "let live" and take no action. ... If the millions of Jews knew that they were going to be persecuted by the Nazis, would they have continued to live in Western Europe? ...

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It is about World War I and the constant nightmares that a former soldier lived during that time. ... Imagine having to go through life with the burden on your back of all the people you saw die. ... Sadness all around us, and we can't help but to live with it. ... Win or lose, live or die, it is all for your country. ... I don't think that is a world I would want to live in. ...

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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. ... Even after his family members had passed away, he valued preserving and rebuilding the old homes and farms where he had once lived. ... Even now that two years have passed, there isn't a day that goes by that I dont' think of the wonderful gifts and amazing acts my grandfather did that will help me along my journey through life. ...

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In Catch 22 we begin when Yossarian (main character) has already been in the war for some time but is still very much afraid and wants desperately to live and to go home. ... In All Quiet on the Western Front they refer to themselves as animals, partly because of the way they act in battle and partly because of the way in which they live. ... When he says "but what has it to do with us now - we live" in reference to his fallen friends it seems as if he doesn't care about the loss, almost as if he just shrugged of the death of his friends. ... By being confronted daily with death, the war ...

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Every page in the book can bring you to a different time or circumstance in Billy's life. ... Billy jumps through time, experiencing various events of his life completely out of order. ... At first this seems like a good thing, but to Billy Pilgrim, who cannot chose which aspects of his live to relive, brutal acts of war also live on forever. ... The best thing we can do is ignore the bad moments of our life, because we cannot change them. ... For a Tralfamadorian, it does not really matter how you live your live, as long as you have at least one happy moment to relive for eternity. ...

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I think freedom means trying to live the way that the millions of soldiers, militiamen, and draftees who have died would want us to: peacefully, harmoniously, but not without some of the hardships of life which make us who we are. ... To me freedom means the right to remember all of those who have given their lives for how we live now. ...

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May sees her two boys as being very successful in life. ... Both had been Sergeants, wounded in battle, who now lived in a brick duplex home with French wives. ... The piece of land the Greenleaf twins lived on was one that the government had helped them buy and construct, which Mrs. ...

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"This was fighting we lived in trenches, in dung-coloured mud into which dung and every filthiness had been trodden, in our dung-coloured uniforms; we were cold, badly fed, and lousy." ... Liesl encourages Dunstan to live his life the way he wants to and forget about his past which he feels responsibility and guilt for Mary and Paul Dempster, regarding the snowball incident when he was still a very young boy. Liesl transforms and change Dunstan by tempting him to do new things and a live a life which does not tie him to his past. ... No, it was glory come into my life. ... Joel changes his imm...

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