... like to end his suffering as a result of the pain from being burned beyond recognition in a plane crash. Before she leaves for her native Canada, Hana gives Almasy an overdose of morphine. Kirpal and Carravagio also return to their respective nations out of disillusionment from each other and the war. This desire to return to their own ethnic backgrounds reveals the characters" revelations in their own perceived self-identification ... . Through recognition of structures as a powerful force in the realization of identity, Ondaatje places emphasis on ethnicity in ... ...

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... of security and safety among the American population. Unfortunately, for the Japanese-Americans, this meant something completely and tragically different. "Imagine that one day you received notice that you and your whole family must be ready to move within 48 hours. You could take only the possessions you could carry and no one would tell you when you would be permitted to return ... home. Sound like a bad dream? " Well, this is exactly what happened to over 127,000 Japanese-Americans and their families during World War II. These people, two thirds of whom were born in the United States ...

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... design both for wartime use and for the furniture. The research consisted of temporary furniture design to cope with the destruction that would result from bombing and long-term furniture planning for peacetime when the supplies of plywood, cellulose, and steel would once again be available (Lynton, 34). The result was a line of plain, solid furniture constructed mainly from native oak. The presentation of utility furniture on a widespread public scale through ... (Pile, 210). He decided it was not and called for the return to handcrafts (Pile, 210). But he was wrong. The machine is cap...

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... three from his second. Sam Selvon died suddenly in his native Trinidad on 16 April 1994, in his seventy-first year. He had lived in Calgary, Alberta, since moving to Canada from London in 1978 and was about to return there when he was taken ill. His fellow Trinidadian, the critic and editor of Ariel, Victor Ramraj, described him in a graceful eulogy at a ... memorial service in Calgary as "the laughing philosopher, touched by the sad lot of humans but not overwhelmed by it." Ramraj's words capture an essential quality of both the man and the work, one that enables us to ... such its pri...

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... inhabitants. As troops returned to their native countries following the end of the war, many were greeted with thoughts of displacement and unemployment. The ideas of guaranteed provisions and employment were alluring, despite the strings that accompanied them. Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts ... was agreed that Poland would get East Prussia, the Baltic coast to Stettin, and that the Polish wester...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate