... the army. It tricks them into thinking the war is great and everything the war really is not. The several themes in this book are relevant to what the other was trying to show all of his readers. Some of the new technology that they got were tanks, machine guns, chemical gas, and trench warfare. ... from all of the horrible things they saw and faced. It showed how a soldier would pack up and move to a strange land they had never been before and have to cope to their surrounding and live there for a while. Paul, the narrator of the book, went to the war alongside of some of his friends ...

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... of 1942 (World War II) and America is at war. The plot is about a sixteen year old boy, Gene Forrester, the narrator of the book, returns to the Devon School, were he had graduated fifteen years ago. He walks to a tree near a river, and there, he once more becomes a student at the school, sixteen years earlier, in 1942. He has a best friend, called ... preparation of the war, not through actual war experiences." He means loosing his best friend Phineas witch was great pain to Gene, because loosing your best friend at 17 years old is very hard to put up with. In the beginning of the book...

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... want to fight, did not want to fight against the people who are as inculpable as they are. Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war. The theme of the whole book is the horror and violence of the war, and how the ... superior leaders using young soldiers as their tools to against each other in the war. The author expressed this theme through Paul and his friends' thoughts and ... even worse. They got totally lost on the battle field. The most impressive event for me in this book was the in one of the battles which is in chapter 9:...

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... a weakling, not some one who you would think to fight in a war. Billy was an optometrist. Billy has no fear of dying. After each death in the story he says, "So it goes". The conflict in this book is that no one believes Billy about the Trafalmadores and how he was captured and taken through time. Every one ... thinks he is insane. They blame it on when he hit his head in the plane crash. The conflict is between Billy and everyone else. The conflict is not resolved because Billy was shot before he has a chance to ... convince others of his captivity on Trafalmadore or his ability to tim...

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... that the factors will lead to a crisis set in motion until anyone perceives the potential problem, further delay until the problem is widely perceived, and still further delay until corrective action is taken." (Bodley p. 9) One of the objectives of the book is to look at the problems of ... the world through an anthropological perspective in order to get a good look at what is happening to our society. Bodley believes that the holistic approach of anthropology, through the study of ... world crises by carefully comparing our own situation with related aspects of primitive culture." (Bo...

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... able to get her peace back, to find herself and to lose he shame she is forced to go back to Manzanar and remember the effect it had on her and her family. I liked the book and I think it is an interesting story. I learned many things. One of them is the difficult situation people can go through with the absence of a father. Also, how we have to be ... careful & wise and before making a decision. Think about if the decision we are going to ... make is going to benefit us or is going to damage our lives. And ... ...

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... at the University of Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. In 1950, he became a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He later went on to work as advertising copywriter for Time magazine (1952-1956) and Look (1956-1958) as well as a promotion manager for McCall's (1958-1961). ... challenged by Dallas, Texas, Independent School District high school libraries in 1974 and in Snoqualmie, Washington in 1979. These states claimed that the book was "dangerous" because of the objectionable language, sexual situations or scenes, and the crude, black humor that is displayed throughout ...

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IB History Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey 1) This story relates to America dropping the A-bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. It tells the story, of six different inhabitants of Hiroshima, 2 doctors, 2 women, and 2 religious men. It tells the story from each of their points of view, from the daily lives of each character, and how this relates to the story, to the moment the bomb drops ... grudges (except for Ms. Sasaki) or bitterness towards the people who caused this tragedy. Even Ms. Sasaki forms strong ties with Americans years later. Hersey mentions how one of the characters (Mr. Tanimoto) ...

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This extraordinary novel tells about a Japanese family that struggles to remain a family while living in an internment camp. The only thing that gave them the endurance and heart to go on was their national anthem. "May thy peaceful reign last long. May it last for thousands of years, Until this tiny stone will grow into a massive rock, and the moss will cover it deep and thick." This family goes through many hardships while living in Manzanar, some of them being having to live in barracks, living with a drunken father, and not eating their traditional foods. In my opinion, "Farewell to Manzan...

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The book "Montana 1948" shows us how people can be very dishonest and shows us that certain people will choose what they want to see and what they want to forget about. It shows us that trust is a powerful tool. Should you trust people though? If you lived in Montana the answer would be no. Frank, Wesley, Gloria, David and ... Wesley when he asked Frank to come over to diagnose Marie Little Soldier, who was the house-keeper and babysitter of David Hayden. Marie was frightened that he was coming as she knew about Frank's past. She did not trust him at all. Wesley's suspicion of Frank grows gr...

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... were not just the Jews but the other ethnics as well. A book can remind us to the life in World War II and also The Holocaust. The book has been rewarded by numerous awards, "The Book Thief". "The Book Thief" has been written by Markus Zusak, an Australian author. This book tells us about the life of a nine years-old girl living ... there was a moment when her classmates were making fun of her because she could not read when the teacher asked her to read. Even everyone laughing at her, she still has a desire to learn how to read and write. She learned how to read with the first book tha...

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... of a Great War, into a Great Depression, and onto a great recovery. Our country was at its worst times then ever. What measures were needed to bring our nation back to economic success that was it was burgeoning into? In the book "The FDR Years" by William E. Leuchtenburg, Roosevelt as portrayed as a man of great inspiration and ambition, but his social dreams that helped the ... or of a crisis met with more imagination."-(Leuchtenburg 279). Leuchtenburg's book explains many different views of the Depression era. It gives you a good understanding of the conditions and hardships of the U...

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... middle of the cold and windy desert. According to the United States government, this was being done for your own protection. You"ll have to leave your friends, farms, boats, cars and other personal property. This is what happened to the Wakatsuki family and many other Japanese-American citizens as told in the book Farewell to Manzanar. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made this happen ... by signing Executive Order 9066, which authorized the military to carry out the evacuation of thousands of innocent ... Japanese-American people to an unknown territory. They were also considered to be...

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... in the heat of the moment, and realize how wrong hose choices really were. Some decisions made in this war should have been better thought out. This book explains some of the decisions that were made. His main point is that the Nazis could have probably won the war if Hitler would of listened to his knowledgeable generals instead of just going ahead ... generals and other leaders through their strategies and miss calls. Although everyone knows the ending of the war, it is interesting to see how the battling arrived. It is also a bit frightening to see how easily it might have turned the...

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... 39, after a successful career in the Austrian civil service as a Senior Assistant Customs Inspector, changed his last name to Heidler through the encouragement of an uncle to carry on the family name. However, when the Heidler family name was written in an official name recording book, it was spelled as Hitler. And so in 1876, Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler. This is important ... to history because it would be very hard to imagine tens of thousands of Germans shouting "Heil Schicklgruber!" instead of "Heil Hitler!" ("The Rise of Hitler"). In 1885 ... memorizing architectural d...

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Book Review There are thousands of novels that have been and will be written in history, each of those novels is very unique. The reason for that is that each novel will try to convey something different to the reader. It could be a story, a biography, or something as simple as teaching one how to count. Whatever the purpose of it maybe the novel is an intricate ... getting asked out on dates. I think that the audience she is writing this to is the general public that would like to learn something about the Japanese during WWII. Second, I think that Jeanne covered a variety of topics in her b...

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... during this time period. It also helps to open our eyes to the mistakes, and how our government can question itself over some of the issues we were fighting for. The book tells the story from Jeanne Wakatsuki, the main character, and how she and her family struggled to make it through this time period in American history. The book is told from Jeanne's own experiences in ... her own town, and how her peers at school treated her. Also what it was like being ... throughout their town treated them after the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It helps to show how she is confused on why p...

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The book Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American Lieutenant ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War 1. The setting of the story is Goriza, a small town that had been captured by the Italian Army. The town looked across a river and in the plains to the mountains, in which fighting was ... Frederick. The peices from the bomb hit Fredrick in the leg and one of his knees was blown down around his shin. The army sent Frederick to an American hospital in Milan, there was a shortage of nurses at the fairly new establishment son one nurse that was transfer...

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... calls and perilous situations, each man always has the others backs. They always looked out for the man fighting next to them. This is how their relationships that lasted a lifetime were formed. These bonds are so strong, the men are willing to die for one another. The book is important because it is part of our United States history. Courageous men sacrificed their lives ... war against Hitler and his atrocious crimes could not have been won. They will understand how frightening life in the army can be and how trying the long challenging (both mental and physical) days can be away from...

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... life. In Chapter 1, Vonnegut tells us that after the war he and his wife lived in Schenectady, New York, which Billy Pilgrim's "Ilium" seems to be based on. Having grown up in Ilium, Billy settles there after fighting in World War II. He meets and marries his wife Valencia. Becomes an ... and Robert, in Ilium. It is here in Billy's hometown Ilium that he lives what seems a normal life. Germany is another important setting in the book, especially the city of Dresden. During the war Billy pilgrim is captured by the Germans and is held as a prisoner of war in Dresden. In Germany ... Billy ...

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... next. Henry feels detached from life and is on a quest for identification in which he gives a particular Mirabelli 2 insight about how he feels about women: "clear, cold, and dry- (38). Henry loves to play the role of a womanizer and is an American fighting a war in another country. Henry meets Catherine Barkley, near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. Catherine suffers during ... and the rain falling across the light of the window- (327). Hemingway uses rain as a warning that terrible events are soon to occur and to add to the dreadful situation. Another one of the symbols in...

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... many novels, the historical and social settings have an immense influence on the personality, beliefs, and actions of the characters in the book. In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms, set during World War 1 in Italy, this is clearly evident. Throughout the story, the war itself plays the greatest role ... who it was with you so exciting that you must resume again, unknowing and not caring."" Additionally, we see how people were able to drink anywhere and anytime they pleased. Frederick, lying wounded on his hospital bed, is visited by his doctor and casually invites the man ... have...

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... chemicals where dumped on forests to kill them quicker and easier. Pollution is the main problem in the book. Diana's parents keep on saying that chemicals poisoned the lake because it has a funny tinge to it and shouldn't be drinking or used to grow food. Although the book refers to how much the world has suffered ... so much, the main character always try to keep an optimistic mind, an example of this is where Diana believes that ... there is a city on the moon where people retreated to when the word started to die. She ... Although these are only two topics, this has only reached th...

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... separated and pulled apart whether it is for war, or that their relationship is prohibited in the army. Many times throughout the book when Catherine and Frederic have to separate, they embrace each other, which include your arms, and have given each of them strength since each are unaware if they ... not I agree with the statement that, with death everything ends. I have not experienced such a situation that I can even relate to how Frederic must have felt. However, I believe that death to a certain extent can end some things. For example, death will alter and may even end the way you l...

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... , and being defined by one event in life pervade many of the novel's stories. The two stories following "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands" and "Paper Pills," exemplify the themes of isolation and failure to communicate. The story of Wing Biddlebaum, an old Pennsylvanian schoolteacher, unfolds. Gaining his name from his hands that shake "like the beating of the wings of ... solitude, and lack of communication are a result of his unfounded molestation charges and consequent escape from Pennsylvania. Similarly, Tom Hard's daughter assumes the responsibility of gathering the strength to b...

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