... first Guggenheim Fellowship. Six additional fellowships and assorted scholarships, including a second Guggenheim (1968), followed, and in 1969 the Trinidad and Tobago government awarded him the Humming Bird Medal for literature. Selvon married Draupadi Persaud in 1947, was later divorced, and married Althea Nesta Daroux in 1963. He has one child from his first marriage and three from his second. ... , 1960), Lamming allied himself, a Negro, with Selvon, an Indian, in emblematic partnership. He contradistinguished them both, as grounded in "the peasant sensibility" from V. S. Naipaul, who...

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... international stature. These pacts often revolve around economics, a shared cultural identity, or a strategic advantage. In the Neach Literature Review, we see how alliances work between hegemonic powers and smaller states. It is said that the alliance help smaller states achieve their foreign policies; consequently, hegemonic states would want access to elements that would spread their sphere of ... influence. In this era, smaller states seem to be the primary benefactors of this asymmetric alliance, leaving the hegemonic state with no significant economic or military advantages. The l...

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During the Fascist Regime of 1922-1943, Fascism was widely represented in Italian literature. Authors such as Ignazio Silone used literature as a tool to promote the anti-fascist movement and his first novel Fontamara, for which he is still best known, is no exception. Silone's novels had the purpose of arousing ... Jewish family and so he belonged to that generation of Italian writers who emerged from the fascist era and the Second World War determined to change the course of Italian Literature. Bassani's novel Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini is set in 1938-9 in his own native Ferrara, one of...

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... first meeting. He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms ... 1941, Stalin revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort. In 1928, the Central Committee established the right of the party to exercise ...

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... to enjoy tremendous literary success. In 1948 King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on him and that was the same year Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His final work, The Elder Statesmen published in 1958 was the last thing he wrote before dying seven years later in 1965. Elliot moved to Great Britain after a trip to ... by the outbreak of World War I. Following the War, during the 1920s he spent most of his time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris. With the help of Ezra Pound, the publication of his first poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred P...

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... first meeting. He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms ... 1941, Stalin revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort. In 1928, the Central Committee established the right of the party to exercise ...

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... difficult for the USA government where the Americans viewed that Soviet Union was more interested to spread communism in the Eastern Europe. 4. Comment on the Target Audience of the Document Literature suggests there are various target audiences in this document like the British, the Greek, the Polish, the Yugoslavians, and the Czechoslovakians. For instance, according to The Churchill Centre UK (2015 ... . Due to the 'percentages agreement', Stalin kept his promises regarding Greece, and the British supported the Greek government forces during the Greek Civil War and the Soviets di...

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... Jews the world over. The renascent Jewish community in the state of Israel, itself largely a byproduct of the Holocaust, now serves as a focal point for much of this energy. A vast literature consisting of histories, diaries, memoirs, poetry, novels, and prayers has emerged in an effort to understand the Holocaust in terms of its religious and secular implications. The secular materials attempt ... comfort and the willingness to give it. The concert is not only memorable for its musical qualities; it can also be seen as one of the many living documents that help keep the memory of the H...

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... Russia, Stalin did little to prepare for invasion. Indeed, from the beginning of the Nazi-Soviet pact, the Soviet dictator behaved curiously "he went out of his way to help his new ally, purifying his propaganda of all anti- Fascist rhetoric, eagerly supplying the Germans with raw materials, and even going so far as to return German Communists who had ... subversive ideas; there was a new purge of the military, in which even the great Zhukov was reduced a minor provincial command; and a new cultural offensive was launched against newspapers and other literature considered threatening to...

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... the 1930s and 1940s, Dylan Thomas tended to present tragic situations in his poems, often giving way to more disjoint and uncertainty. As major figures in the progressive modernization of literature, both Auden and Thomas moved away from apparent objectivity, a theme once standardized by previous literary figures, and toward subjectivity. While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form ... pattern that is recurrent in European art and thought and represents human desire to exceed its limitations. Successful art, indeed, often exists to address an aspect of human existence a...

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... published explaining the results and findings of the Franco-German War, for example, with suggestion to the "vitality" of the Germanic commoners by comparison to the "exhausted"Latinos. Pan-Slavic literature celebrated the youthful drive of that race, of whom Russia was perceived as the natural leader. A belief in the natural understanding and dominance of Nordic peoples continued Joseph Chamberlain's belief ... set up some humanitarian agreements in the case of war. The International Red Cross was one of these agreements, as was the establishment of a World Court, in The Netherlands, t...

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GCSE English Literature: War Poems Compare two poems from the selection which make you feel sympathy for the people involved in war. Which do you find more effective? "Do they matter? -those dreams ... . This makes the reader feel great sorrow for the man as, due to him taking part in the war, in order to survive, he must now depend on others to help him. The euphemistic description "sewn short" is then used to indirectly describe the victim as almost half the man he used to be, a complete contrast to Rupert Brooke's poem "Peace ... ...

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... legal findings. Brennan writes: "sex and obscenity are not synonymous Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. The portrayal of sex, e.g., in art, literature and scientific works, is not itself sufficient reason to deny material the constitutional protection of freedom of speech and press."# Although, here, the court does give some leeway in the ... radio, where information may be received by "merely turning a dial" the government has no right to take regulation so far. Furthermore, the opinion states that "Systems have been developed...

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