His love for his family and the need to be prosperous makes him sacrifice his image and reputation. ... Keller's behavior and actions were never driven by love for his son (although one cannot comment on whether or not he does indeed feel love for his son), but instead he is driven by an obsession with an ideal, with the American Dream, and with a fear of how he will be perceived by others. ... There is even the ironic moment when Sue, a neighbor, says of the Keller family, "I resent living next door to the Holy Family. ... The irony being, of course, that the family is anything but...

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cummings isn't the only activist who protested against conflict and American hierarchy, and pushed to "make love and not war." ... The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. Everyone in the family contributes: his sister knits socks, shirts, and ear warmers. ... With the country and his family pressuring him to feel "etcetera", the character converts what should be his feelings of pride to feelings of love. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power ...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. ... Jeanne and her family had been in the Manzanar Internment camp for months. ... Inside the camp Jeanne's family began to self destruct. ... Her father reunited with the family and they headed back to Southern California. ... Wartime propaganda and resentment from people who lost loved ones in the Pacific attributed to the postwar anti-Japanese sensation. ...

• Word Count: 3609
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Two poems well known for evincing Gurney's attitude toward WW1 during the early 20th century are "Two His Love" & "The Silent One.... His early work underlines nature and Gurneys love for the English countryside, which he utilized to contrast his experiences during the war. While his first poems, such as "To His Love," do highlight Gurneys frustration of his memories on the frontline, it is not as vivid or fragmented as his later work. ... Though he created many brilliant poems in the late 1910's his mind is said to have perish to the point where his family ...

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

Diners would need to start accommodating families and come up with a new post-war look with the materials that were so heavily accessible from the usage in the war. In the 1950s, families were eating out more often and the need for larger diners changed the style of them. This threw a huge twist into the design of the diner because the look now had to appeal family-friendly without losing their costumer population they still had. ...

• Word Count: 2601
• Approx Pages: 10
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Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. ... Esther's family, the Rudomins, was wealthy and ran a business in Vilna, Poland. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. ... My heart goes out for all the people that died during the Holocaust, and to all of the families that lost a love one. ... To watch your family be ripped apart, and then be separated and killed according to importance is something unth...

• Word Count: 2685
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

As an ex-soldier in Second World War, Laeddis is like many post-war soldiers suffering from the typical post-war syndrome: "drank", "stayed away", and completely ignored his family (Shutter). ... Cawley breaks through Laeddis' heroic fantasy and enforces him to look straight at reality, his love, guilt, trauma and sin. ... Owing to his Jew family background and profound emotions in his music, Mahler's music is utterly banned in Nazi. ...

• Word Count: 2674
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries faded into the depths of communism, or to come along side and help its international friends put a stop to communism. The USA sent many soldiers to fight against the enemy, never quite realizing what it was truly sending them against. From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam ...

• Word Count: 4154
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The poster in figure 2 was concerned with exploiting male pride in the face of family expectations. ... My father was no coward, but had been reluctant to leave his family. ... It would seem to show a mother and her young daughter who is probably not that long married, both have sacrificed love the mother her husband, and the daughter her father and husband also. ...

• Word Count: 2585
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his film The Searchers, John Wayne portrays a father who returns home to find his family slaughtered by Native Americans. ... Her love decides that he will die in order to save his love from humiliation. ... Red may evoke a positive symbol involving passion, love, and sex, while the negative reaction could be violent, bloody, and corrupt. ...

• Word Count: 2765
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Alois was not a loving father, he had a bad alcoholic problem, often abused his family, and visited mistresses. ... He loved it there. ... Rumor of Hitler and Gelp first began when she and her family moved into his building in Munich to keep the house for him. ... Some people say she had been in love with him and he didn't feel the same about her. ...

• Word Count: 3687
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... Stalin loved reading adventure novels and he had a passion for the outdoors. ...

• Word Count: 2506
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In the show I love Lucy, we were able to analyze the stereotypes of what it means to be female or male, and what those roles portray. ... This image has been a subject of concern since the time of I Love Lucy. ... In I Love Lucy, the episode taught that females could not fulfill the roles of the man, and the men could not fulfill the roles of the women. ... These male and female tasks are the stereotypical gender roles of a family. ... Horrible speaks to his bloggers throughout the movie, being the aspired superhero while his arch nemesis captain hammer attempts to steal his true love penny. ...

• Word Count: 2913
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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

By using the atomic bombs, Truman "saved 'the lives of hundreds of thousands of Japanese boys and millions more of Japanese people" (Walker 4), not to mention all the lives of American men who had not seen their families since the first gunshot fired of the second world war. ... Along with the losses in battle, countless families would also be without their husbands, sons, or fathers. ...

• Word Count: 2722
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This is perhaps, no more clear, than in the strict roles followed within the American family. The "Nuclear Family", as it was known, consisted of a working father, a homemaking mother, and their 2.3 children, deviance from this structure was rare and when it did occur it was severely frowned upon. This picture of the ideal family resulted in strict gender roles for both men and women, as well as, a repressed American sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 3509
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the word "terrorism" took on a new meaning. Before the attacks, terrorism was certainly taken seriously but after the tragedy on 9/11, the term became synonymous with fear and anger. The word "terrorism" is reflected in the free world's attitude...

• Word Count: 3196
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

This movie tells the story of a reluctant hero, Benjamin Martin, who enters the war after his family, becomes endangered by the British. ... Martin soon realizes that the only way to protect his family and freedom is to fight for a young nation's liberty (The Patriot). ...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment f...

• Word Count: 2710
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School