... the proscenium arch stage of the romantics was modified to accommodate scenery constructed in box sets, with walls and real bookcases, windows, fireplaces, swinging doors, and so on built into the walls exactly as they are inside a house. There was very little abstract or symbolism in Realist plays. Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was one of the greatest pioneers of realism. Today he is ... sometimes called "the father of modern drama." He was born a Norwegian. His most famous plays are: "A Dolls House"" and "Ghosts." These plays were extremely controversial all across Europe ... for their d...

• Word Count: 1652
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• Grade Level: High School

... commonly known as the "Pearl Harbor speech". Roosevelt gave the speech in a joint gathering with both houses of the United States congress (senate and the house of representatives). In the speech, Roosevelt described Pearl Harbor and the threatening messages the US had received before the surprise attack ... of World War 2, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities located in the two Japanese islands Honshu and Kyushu. The two bombings caused at least 129,000 people their deaths and is the only use for nuclear weapons for war in history. 90,000-166,000 people were...

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... incoming war in addition to that, in page 9, which unmistakably shows Tintin fearing the abominable consequences that can be caused due to the intensity of the war. In other words, the author might have been stating his own true sentiments through Tintin and is attempting to tell the readers imperceptibly how gruesome a war can be, since he himself have been through it ... first-hand. For example, Tintin says at one point, "War... it's horrible... I can't get it out of my mind". This might have been revealing the author's own mindset at that point. Nonetheless, it is also quite possible...

• Word Count: 1962
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... been good at it, too. Not the brainy part – not the sermons and all – but I'd be okay with the people part." (O'Brien 115) The author brings out the religious duties of a man in the society by stating that the Kiowa inherited the Bible from his father, who was a Sunday school teacher and better at the "brainy" part ... goes to visit his friend, Tim O'Brien whom he confesses to that he will never forgive himself for the demise of Lavender in the war (O'Brien 19). Ideally, the author seeks to maintain that as much as returning home was a relief, the memories of the war still haunt sur...

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... "person." The novel is narrated from the point of view of Sayuri Nitta, a retired geisha, whom the author had interviewed. Furthermore, as for the purpose of this book, the author states that, "There may well be no better record of the strange life of a geisha than the one Sayuri offers" (2). The setting of the novel was in a popular geisha district of Gion in Kyoto, and we are given in ... , she was no longer considered a geisha, and that was where the "freedom" comes in. Overall, the book does a good job at informing the reader about what the life of a geisha was like. The author obvio...

• Word Count: 1570
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... . During the fifties, women's fashion was fairly conservative. Women wore simple dresses around the house. During this decade, the average family was a nuclear family with the wife at home taking care of the house and the children. Since the sixties, the youth culture has dominated fashion. When the Capri ... a male dominated style. When the nineties came, grunge and an exploration in clothing structure became a new fashion crave. Mostly, there was a separating of fashion trends. Everybody wants to be cool, so fashions are recycled and revived. Changing fashions throughout history was ju...

• Word Count: 2024
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• Grade Level: High School

... Japanese soldiers inflicted on the Chinese. Many ultranationalistic Japanese believe they entered the war with China out of necessity for their survival. This is not the same view the author has. The war between China and Japan was unavoidable in the author's view because of Japanese willingness and persistence to make war with China. China was the key to Japan's ever growing ultranationalistic view ... it took them a lot more than three months to conquer one city in China (Shanghai). With the knowledge that an easy victory was not to be had, the author states that the moral of the sold...

• Word Count: 1855
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• Grade Level: High School

... the country could develop an atomic device (Walker 26). So more than 100,000 scientists had been working on the bomb's development, and most of those scientists were prizewinning physicists that it made the Manhattan Project the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken (Walker 27). On 16 July 1945, ... the battle of Okinawa 41, 700 but the casualty rate of civilians and soldiers for America was 418,500. August 9, 1945 was when another atomic bomb, "Fat Man", was dropped on Nagasaki because Japan failed to surrender after the first atomic bomb and it was estimated that 39,000 ...

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... government and influenced by the Beveridge Report had anything prior been done to alleviate poverty. This Act offered comprehensive cover for everyone in the event of sickness, unemployment and maternity. The National Assistance Act (1948) effectively ended the Poor Law. This provided a safety net for those whose circumstances ... "better off" workers and still did not solve the problems of social housing in the aftermath of World War I (Malpass 2005, pp 38,39). There was an attempt to tackle the problem of slum housing, but due to the disruption and destruction of both World Wars, it se...

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... with fiction, using it to represent truth or reality (Meeter 208-209). Glenn Meeter adds that Billy alone is a separate version of the role of fiction in the novel by describing his space adventures and time warps (210-211). Billy's character is satirical in itself, for ... of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot he's shot by a firing squad (4-5). Meeter writes, "Billy Pilgrim's mother gave him a crucifix but no religion because, "like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things found...

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... 000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British ... Calais. The concentration of Allied troops was so great, that an invasion of France seemed inevitable. Bombing attacks, sabotage by the French Resistance a...

• Word Count: 1264
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• Grade Level: High School

... could not penetrate. The mission was abandoned and the Turtle never saw action again. Bushnell's failure set the stage for the submarine as a warship for the future. With the development of periscopes and self-propelled torpedoes, submarines would become a formidable factor in naval warfare. Their effectiveness as a deadly weapon was first shown in World War I. German U-boats were used ... British cruisers: the Cressy, Hogue and the Aboukir. These were some of the oldest cruisers in the British fleet; however, there was a substantial lose of life (Horton 39; Cross 61). This incident shoc...

• Word Count: 1988
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• Grade Level: High School

Widely known author, Suzanne Collins, was born August 10, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. She spent most of her childhood in the eastern United States. She attended and graduated from Carver High school in Alabama, and continued on to receive a degree in Theatre Arts from the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She also proceeded onto Indiana University, and graduated with a double major in Drama ... Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. She was also the head writer for Clifford's Puppy Days. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination for co-writing the Christmas special, Santa,Baby! After meeting c...

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... to deal with the disagreement between psychiatrists and military leaders in Washington. Psychiatrists advised military officials how to "manage the homosexual dynamics of military life without eliminating homosexuals" (66) but military officials were still set on homosexuals not being mentally or physically able to ... ; and feel like "men among men" (200). Allan Bérubé supports his thesis by providing evidence of years of research. He not does not only rely on personal letters from homosexuals in the armed forces but he also supports his arguments ... . His research included professi...

• Word Count: 1395
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... book to be factual, objectivity is crucial. The whole world depends on records of the past, so we hope that these accounts are reliable. In this case, the personal point of view of the author of my history book might have gotten in the way of that necessary objectivity. When giving accounts of events during wars, emotions such as patriotism and nationalism cloud perception. People tend to ... confusion, one should compare as many sources as possible in order to discover common links. Then the information which had been influenced by the author's emotions can be detected. It is difficult...

• Word Count: 1472
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... the period of the Second World War. Though the book is an autobiography, it mainly focuses on the course of an age, a generation of his age, not a portrait of his own life. Zweig described himself an Austrian, a Jew, an author, a humanist, and a pacifist. He was forced to be a witness of the peace ... in Europe, the outbreak and the end of the First World War(1914-1918), and the beginning of the ... Second World War(1939-1945). I will demonstrate the author's perspective of the war history and how ... mill in Northern Bohemia in his thirties and developing it into a considerable enter...

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... jobs afterwards, and how this lead to poverty. These and many other examples just help feed the outstanding shock I feel, and the disbelief I have of how and why they did this. The author also mentions how most of the people mentioned in the story affected do not feel enraged by everything that has happened, they hold no grudges (except for Ms. Sasaki) or ... book. I appreciated the way that Hersey told the story through these 6 characters, it created a sort of view from the inside, first-hand, of everything that was happening, from various different points of view, different stories, l...

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... and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since ... its varied applicability to the though and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability' with allegory'; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but ... the ways in w...

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... broke another record by electing 18 women under the age of 40. In 2013, over 85 percent of Canadians were governed by a female premier ("The fact about women in politics", n.d.). While moving forth to today, women account for 25.2% of the seats in Lower/Single house and 38.6% of the seats in the Upper House/Senate compared to in 1997 when women accounted for ... 20.6% of the seats in Lower/Single house and 23.1% of the seats in the Upper House/Senate ("Women in National Parliament", 2015). Canada's first and only female ... prime minister suggested that views of leadership can change w...

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... was just the beginning to what would eventually lead to women eventually being able to leave the house and find work and be able to work for wages equivalent or almost equivalent to that of a man's. This slump in the employment of women and the variety of jobs they could get continued on through the Great Depression on until World War II started. Once ... was over. Even though women outnumbered the men in the labor force three to one they still had problems with the new idea of women as wage laborers. The war had allowed women to get "out of hand" or "out of house". The liberated woman ...

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... legacy. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California (Webster 1338). He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was a county treasurer, and his mother, Olive Hamilton, was a ... teacher (Harmon). Steinbeck had three sisters; Esther, Mary, and Elizabeth (Harmon). In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. He wrote articles under a fake name to the local newspaper and people all around the small town loved his ... move back to California...

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... made in women's lives is that the whole idea of the campaign helped women realize that they could enter the workforce. Before this campaign women would never think of entering the workforce, in those times it just wasn't proper. Women were expected to stay home, clean the house, tend to the children, and basically be a ... homemaker. Due to the war going on, and the Rosie campaign, this made the idea of women working more acceptable to people. Women realized that by working they were gaining their ... it helped change women's roles in society. After the war women were expected to give ...

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... 133 vote in the House and a 77-23 vote in the Senate, but of the 81 sound bites used by the media covering the event 59 percent opposed the use of force, even though just 29 percent of the legislators actually did. (Noyes, 2002, p.1) Part of this media shift over ... used for Marine training exercises. The television correspondent gave a non-commissioned officer his Zippo lighter with the suggestion to set it fire. The reality of the cutting of the ears from a Viet Cong corpse was a cameraman offering the soldiers his knife and dared them to do it. (Dudley & Bender, ... are told and sho...

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... development for a country that prized the concepts of personal liberty and freedom of political organization. Yet it was only one of many questionable activities that occurred during the period of anticommunist hysteria known as the Red Scare (Red Scare). In 1938, HUAC or the House Un-American Activities Committee was formed in the House of Representatives and was one of the first efforts in investigating communistic activities in ... the United States. HUAC mainly forced on exposing communist that worked inside the federal government or even in the Hollywood film industry. The committe...

• Word Count: 1902
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... by most consumers. Every day products such as toothpaste, potato chips, beer, and other items contain some type of sugar to enhance the taste for users. Author Sidney W. Mintz examines the infatuation of the Western world with sugar and its great impact on the history of labor as well as its impact on economic history. The infatuation with sugar is understood at even the ... holidays and celebrations around the food and drink that is going to be consumed at these events. He also spends some time talking about how the variety of food based on culture is a defining aspect of those individ...

• Word Count: 1292
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate