... next. Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York. Tall, thin, and weak, he made an unlikely soldier. He was going to night school in optometry when he got drafted to fight in World War II. His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. The Germans captured ... Billy's and Weary's feet as evidence of how poorly equipped the American troops are. They stage photos of Billy being captured. Billy then returns to 1967, driving to the Lion's club. At the Lion's club, a marine major talks about the need to continue the fight in Vietnam. He advocates bombing North Vietnam ......

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• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... the Hawker Hurricane, one of the toughest fighters of the day. As RAF fighter pilot H.G. Niven, who flew both the Spitfire and the Hurricane, said," Flying the Spitfire was like driving a sports car. It was faster than the old Hurricane, much more delicate... a perfect lady... and so fast!" At Goring's disposal were a wide variety of planes and their disparate variants such ... Minister, and active in British politics for sixty years he was also a soldier, an artist, a historian, and a journalist. He was characterized as a man of great mental energy, vivid imagination, and driving ambit...

• Word Count: 3345
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... total change. Many writers continued the traditions of the nineteenth century without making a radical departure from the main themes or from the main forms which sustained that tradition. THE KAILYARD SCHOOL In the 1890s there was a flowering of the Scottish provincial novel in a highly sentimental and romanticised form which came to be known as the Kailyard ... School. The kailyard was the cabbage patch at the back of a village house, and it designates the small-town preoccupations with which the novelists dealt. Barrie's A Window in Thrums (1889), based ... with genteel culture, th...

• Word Count: 10566
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... through his own life with no control over his departure or destination or chronology. Born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, Billy grows up a funny-looking weakling. He graduates high school and begins training as an optometrist before being drafted. After his military service in Germany, he suffers from a nervous collapse and is treated with shock therapy. Billy recovers, marries, has ... stream of POWs marching in the road outside. A German war photographer stages a capture scene of Billy emerging from a bush, surrendering to armed Germans. Billy slips back into 1967. He is driving on his w...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

... high public opinion and dispute settling it once and for all. He signed the Lateran Treaties with the pope in Rome, which said that Catholicism would be taught in every school in Italy if the Catholics recognized Mussolini and the fascists as the ruling government in Italy. Seeing as Italy is the homeland and birthplace of Catholicism, having himself, his political ... , I think the man just tried way too hard. No one likes an over-achiever and Mussolini tried to make himself look like super man. Mussolini had faked pictures of himself driving racecars, flying airplanes, playing musical ...

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• Approx Pages: 33

... WWI. From the very beginning, Gurney was eager to enlist in the war as he viewed such act as truly heroic and wanted to serve along side with his old school friend and poet, Will Harvey (Harvey 15). With the war proceeding to its fourth day, Gurney enlisted but was rejected due to poor eyesight (Thornton & Walter 20). However, this did ... . "To His Love," depicts the frustration Gurney began to experience, foreshadowing his fragmented mind that would torment him indefinitely: "Knew it, on Severn River/Under the blue/ Driving our small boat through," emphasizes two conflicting memories o...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate