The traditional role of women in the family was forever changed as a result of the war; returning men suffered the effects of the war both mentally, and physically; and children's lives were forever changed, as families struggled to rebuild. ... When the war ended families were elated to be reunited with their loved ones. ... Families were not prepared to deal with the emotional trauma their loved ones (veterans) were experiencing. ... Families needed to learn a new set of skills as their loved ones continued to have flash backs and memories of their time spent over seas. ... These emot...

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He had a tremendous impact on everyone in the family and his acquaintances. ... From the way my father describes him; I guess he was loved by everyone in the family without any reservation. ... Sam's brother Shalom's wife died of influenza during the terrible pandemic, and the family moved to Montreal to help care of his children. ... Sam and his brother learned how to drive a truck and would smuggle whiskey over the border for the famous Bronfman family. ... Letters from family in Europe spoke of concerns regarding Hitler's threats, but unfortunately nobody seemed to be to...

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Through the influence of family, intimacy of touch and the effects of war, it is evident that geographical boundaries are more significant then the boundaries of love. The Great War broke apart families all over the globe. ... Kips family is from India, which was under English control at the time. His family has a custom for the first Child to enter the military. ... With the months that followed hate transcended love. ...

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She also feels that "Everyone she loves dies - her love consumes"(Fred Mensch, Barbara Nixon, Greg Nixon, p.2-3). ... Kip, born in a family of tradition and values, also had two brothers. The family customs dictated that the first son to join the army, while the second would become a doctor and the third, a businessman. ... An old tradition in his family"(p.201). ... Hana lives a life in which "People fall in love with her" (p.301) and Kip lives with his family in India finally without being destroyed by the war. ...

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The looming threat of the Reds left many people to cling even closer to their families and loved ones. ... "Women should be the tenders of the hearth, keepers of the home, rearers of children, and the moral, spiritual members of the family. ... More and more women sought employment, most to provide additional income for their families, but not without the influence of Mystique. ... Airplane, for example, first appeared nationally, and caught the wave of activism and "free- love during the summer of 1967. Their lyrics of the hit song "Somebody to Love- reflect this attitude: When the truth is...

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Generally the first thought of war is believed that the soldiers are the ones suffering, it is forgotten that their families at home are struggling greatly as well. ... In Ivor Gurney's The Target, he chooses to portray the soldiers time away from his family in a different way, "My mother, she cant sleep for fear of what might be a-happening here to me. ... With the possibilities that your loved one might come back as a completely different person, physically harmed or not come back at all, the pursuit of falling in love becomes awfully challenging. ... Juliet believed that what she...

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Shortly after, he was sentenced to 10 years in Gulag without a fair trial or possibility to communicate with his family. ... Prisoners are sent to camps for no reason without receiving any information about the state of their loved ones. ... Being stuck in a camp, the prisoners cannot fulfill their moral and practical obligations to their families and thus they lose their sense of self worth and become deeply depressed. ... The key aspect of the comparison between behavior of the prisoners in Solzhenitsyn's book and the state of mind of normal citizens outside of the Gulag is the importan...

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The Baseball gloves worn by all the boys illuminate the love for baseball, which demonstrates that most children share common interests. ... In he painting Freedom from Want, Rockwell cleverly creates an image of a family sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner to show the relief from hunger and loneliness. ... Rockwell places the people close together so one can imagine the closeness of the family something which many desire because their loved ones were either recruited to fight in the war or have left home to find a decent job to help support the family. ... People all around the world love th...

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Family is important that we support and care for each other in every trouble and conflict (Whitbourne). ... The parents' sincere care and love form trust. ... This Tiger parenting described in the book is a stereotype of Asian families. ... Finding solution through communication would create a loving family environment. ... The relationship is bound with unconditional love and care. ...

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The family spend summers in Michigan, were Ernest became a great lover of the outdoors. This love of the nature remained with him all his life. ... While in the hospital, Ernest fell in love with a nurse, but their love affair came to an immediate end, when she walked out on him, for an Italian officer. ... The family survived on money Ernest made writing short stories and working as a foreign reporter for the Toronto Star. ... Ernest was not lucky in love. ...

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Ironically, Hemingway uses the terms "alliances" and "feuds," words better suited to conflicts between nations and families, to describe the girls' complicated world. ... The brother-sister relationship remains a simple form of love in "Soldier's Home. The young sister's love for her brother is a mixture of respect and innocent affection. Her regard and love have a healing effect on Krebs. ... Krebs simply accepts her invitation, and goes to the schoolyard to see her pitch, as proof of their mutual love. ...

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In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. ... That was a large family and that kind of family structure was a common sight at that time. After her marriage she finds herself in a large joint family which is full of bounty. ... Under the situation of Partition her family takes decision to migrate to the then East Pakistan. Hearing the decision from her husband, she becomes furious for the first time with her husband whom she adores and...

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Diaspora Trilogy is the story of Tillers" family's history; Diaspora is the introduction to it. ... Men will love nothing but money and self, they will be arrogant, boastful and abusive. ... The details of the family events that happened in and after the war, the personal and emotional experiences are the essence of the trilogy. ... Tillers uses other artists" voices to tell his family history due to the fact of his personal issues, and the impact of his parents" trauma had on him. ... This demonstrates the existence of other family members, not just Tillers in the painting, and that hi...

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And the men, especially those who were young with no families to care for, rushed to enlist. ... The main character Paul Baumer is a compassionate and sensitive young man; before the war he loved his family, his books, and he even wrote poetry. ... Overcome by the sense of isolation Paul is unable to turn to even his family for help. During his stay at home Paul is confronted by many civilians including his family. ... "we are not youth any longer. we don't want to take the world by storm. we are fleeing, we fly from ourselves, from our life. we were 18 and had begun to love life and t...

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" Bob Dylan "The Things They Carried" is a story of love during the wartime. ... Lieutenant Cross is a symbol of a man's role to love a woman in the society. ... Through this relationship the writer depicts the role of man in formulation of families and intimate relationships between sexes. ... As a result, Cross is forced to live in faith, hoping that Martha returns love to him; even though he does not believe in words "love Martha" that is at the end of the letters from her. ... The war breaks up men from their loved ones as well as their professions. ...

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Shows like Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best portrayed the stereotypical American families. Even though everyone knows that there is no such thing as a perfect family, people still enjoyed watching these types of shows. Commercials, or shows like I Love Lucy, showing the stereotypical woman or housewife in the kitchen were another way of showing things off. ... However, the show I Love Lucy, mainly showed how much freedom a woman had when her husband wasn't home. ...

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Zweig was born in a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, in 1881. ... Zweig attributed his natural love to freedom to the personality of his father, moderate courtesy and entirely ungreedy. ... His personality affected by his family, his gift in language and literature and his thoughts influenced by his friends made him oppose the war and became a pacifist. "I never loved that old earth more than in those last years before the First World War, never hoped more ardently for European unity, never had more faith in its future than then, when we thought we saw a new dawning. ...

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The book talked about the escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. Annemarie Johansen the protagonist of the story, helps her friend Ellen Rosen and her family, who were Jewish, to escape the war being held against the Jewish community. ... Firstly, Annemarie Johansen is the protagonist, or the main character of the novel and lives in Denmark, Copenhagen with her family during World War 2. ... She tries to help rescue Ellen and her family from the war that broke out against the Jewish ethnic community. ... In Number the Stars, the necklace represents love and finding your...

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He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). ... He wrote articles under a fake name to the local newspaper and people all around the small town loved his work. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ... He could tie in a family drama with current, relevant, real world problems and made it so most could relate to his stories (Williams). ... Steinbeck had a lot of influences from his family, for example how and where he grew up. ...

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The combination of a forty-hour workweek, vacations, early retirement and paid holidays provided Americans with leisure time for their families and for personal endeavors. ... Disney's passion for trains gave him the idea to create an amusement park where a train could take families to different lands. ... Women were forced to replace dining styles and food types as the family meals now centered around the television. ... Society still equated food and home cooking with happiness, home and love, but a fear of failure and lack of time caused women to utilize new time saving devices and foo...

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Francis Bacon already having three older siblings, and one younger than him was considered the weakling of the family. ... As a young boy Francis was the weakling of the family. ... Francis's paintings are telling the story of this young, ugly boy who was not loved by any of his relatives. ... Francis was also a huge movie fan and loved horror movies. ...

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Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. ... Initially, Sonia had lost her partner in her early 60s, and that is when her family started to see strange survival behaviors. ... According to Eva Fogelman, a psychologist who treats Holocaust Survivors and their children, many survivors instantly focused on starting a new life and family after liberation, often marrying people they did not intimately love. ... Separation was seen as betrayal or abandoning your family. ... Another positive quality shown was stro...

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This caused the family to move around , so she wasn't able to get settled into a specific town or school. ... "In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for a chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. ... She always knew she loved kids and considered being a teacher when applying for college. ... Her most autobiographical work to date, it will use her family members' names, and photos from that era. "I specifically want to do this book, one as a sort of memory piece of honoring that year for my family, a...

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This paper will discuss how soldiers in WWI and WWII changed the way English was formed with particular focus on the letters they wrote letters to their families back home. Through the wide use of letters as the key form of communicating with family and friends and the communication they had between themselves in the trenches, a myriad of words and phrases came into common use. ... However, even though the soldiers may have come up with the term to save their loved ones back home from the stigma of death, the term is commonly used in present-day English to mean die especially in the military ...

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He realizes how pretentious his life is, and he decides to rebel against the values of his community by falling in love with the baby sitter. ... Francis experiences disconnection with members of his family. ... Family members and acquaintances that were left at home have conformed to their own ideas of what society should be. ...

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