... . Valmouth (1919) and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926) are perhaps the best examples of Firbank's innovative use of language, imagery, and style. GENRE FICTION Escapist literature goes hand in hand with serious concerns all through the twentieth century: the comedy of Wodehouse lasts through the Jazz age of the 1920s; the threat of Fascism, the fascination with Communism, and the ... mysteries, with the establishing of true identities and valid relationships in a flawed world. The bowl in James's novel is as much a symbol of human frailty as is the treasure of sil...

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... , in an attempt to calm Europe down somewhat, payed Turkey a sizable cash settlement which achieved it's desired effects. The Serbs, on the other hand, did not follow suit with the rest of Europe - they wanted the provinces for their own Serbian empire. Shortly thereafter, a secret society named ... (meaning "Union" or "Death") was founded and based out of Belgrade. This group, which would come to be known as the "Black Hand," immediately assumed the role of anti-Austrian propaganda within Serbia. This included sabotage and espionage of Austrian interests in the region, as well as politi...

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... workers-social groups that did not think the working-class movement supported their interests-found themselves alienated by business elites on the one hand and by apparently revolutionary radicals on the other. The threat from the left provoked a strong surge to the right. Fascism appeared in ... France, where fascism never achieved power, than it was in Germany or Italy. The 18th-century inheritance is nevertheless complex. On the one hand, fascism owed something to the Enlightenment idea that society need not be determined by tradition, but could be organized according to a blueprint ...

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... . The Englishmen decided that the Americans had no right to protest high taxes because of their low social position. The Americans, on the other hand, felt that they had rights and they did not particularly care for the ranks and hierarchies from their native England (Conroy). However, the predominant ... states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected t...

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... , Hitler quickly began to internally consolidate Germany and prepare it for war. He instituted a rearmament program that was desired on the one hand to overcome the lasting economic crisis and on the other so that the aims of political revision or military expansion could be kept in ... in 1925. Gaining territory in the East would always be easy because of the racial inferiority of the indigenous population. France on the other hand, was continental hegemon and possessed a relatively stronger race. Hitler would need to destroy France before action in the east was possible, which was ... ...

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... -. The narrator for the story is in Milan for rehabilitation where he meets an Italian Soldier, a champion fencer, whose hand has been wounded while at war that is also in rehabilitation. The recovering of his hand does not seem to have the slimmest effect on him at all. That does not seem to be right thought the ... narrator, for a champion fencer to lose his hand and not care. The narrator works at his rehabilitation while the soldier believes it will never work. One day while the narrator is working at his ... apologizes to the narrator for yelling and tells him that he has just lost...

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... the necessity of a change. Naturally, the opposing forces had also been strengthened by the upheavals caused by the First World War. On the other hand, quite unpredicted forces were turned free. Thus the twenties were full of contrasts, both fruitful and destructive. The move from abundance to poverty, ... esthetic goals were not easy to combine with the new human being. The result was sometimes a Puritanism that emphasized orthagonal qualities. On the othe! r hand, smooth, tensely stretched or softly flowing forms could be combined with brilliant, pure colors. After the mid 1920s a cert...

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... . The Englishmen decided that the Americans had no right to protest high taxes because of their low social position. The Americans, on the other hand, felt that they had rights and they did not particularly care for the ranks and hierarchies from their native England (Conroy). However, the predominant ... states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected t...

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... role the individual plays. Anarchism thrives on the individual's capability to be free consciously and physically: Free of religion, free of property, and free of the State. On the other hand, socialism and fascism seek collective action and cooperation with all individuals within a society. Fascism cannot work without cooperation between all individuals and all these individuals must have the same idea ... equally important, each has been fighting for supremacy. The main focus of anarchism is for the individual to seek conscious freedom and to understand that the individual and society...

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... represents the general prevailing opinion in Germany, but it also foreshadows Germany's desire to pursue its goals at almost any cost "even war. France's nationalist interest, on the other hand, involved both reclaiming what were perceived to be expatriated French lands and embarrassing memories over earlier military defeats. Both of these factors directly involved Germany. After the humiliating defeat of ... status in the Balkans, and also to maintain the appearance of strength for their ally, Germany. Germany, whether intentionally or not, seemed to have the effect of forcing Austria-...

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... could have the money to be able to sit back and write, which was also his love, and not worry about how the bills were paid. Roosevelt, on the other hand, considered intellectual political writers such as Wilson "mugwumps", yet respected Wilson On several occasions, they wrote back and forth to each other asking for each others views on specific political ... these two men was this. Roosevelt would always be about himself, using rhetoric claiming this macho posturing was what all English speaking men should be like. Wilson, on the other hand, was only about giving people the life they d...

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... for a savior. This came in the form of fascism, an ideology in which the individual is dominated by an all-powerful state under the control of one supreme leader. The hand to lead the people of Germany out of all the problems and deceptions of these terrible times was Adolf Hitler, fascist dominator. These difficulties gave Hitler and the Nazi party ... granting him the support he needed to come into power. With the careful employment of propaganda that the Nazi Party was so well known for, Hitler was portrayed as the 'hand to lift the people of Germany out of the Great Depression'. Wit...

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... 's childhood he remained unhappy. He was only compatible on the surface between his parents. His mother nudged him toward music, preferably church music. His father put a fishing rod in his hand at the age of three and a rifle at ten. In Hemingway's first novel In Our Time, shows of Hemingway's own struggle with his parents through the eyes of Nick Adams ... be right subtlety without any fanfare. Jake has lived with disappointment and frustration all his life, yet he overcomes it and uses the lesson to his advantage. On the other hand, Robert Cohn, who has had the easy life is the perpet...

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... of women of taking advantage of wartime in order to make a profit: "Attractively dressed young women found that they had nothing to do but parade the streets, collecting-box in hand, and live gloriously off the profits" (P. 17.) He sees pretty girls as stupid when he refers to the women who entertained the troops: "If the brainless bevy of pretty girls ... out of "their domestic cages" (P. 45.) When the first act is introduced a table is said to be "the only article in the room that suggests (not at all convincingly) a woman's hand in the furnishing" (P. 50.) Shaw implies a woman should...

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... are inadvertently promoting the public good. The mechanism, which intervenes between the motives of the individual and `ends' of society as a whole, is what Smith referred to as `an invisible hand'. Although Smith believed that the natural harmony between individual and state did not extend to a harmony between states (Wyatt?Walter 1996: 28) this is precisely what was emphasized by liberal ... the fatal flaw in the liberal internationalist association of interdependence with peace. From the turn of the century, the contradictions within European civilization, of progress and exemplarism...

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... to note that in 1914 a year before this poster was made an Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded The Order of the White Feather. This organisation encouraged women to go out and hand white feathers to able men who were not fighting for their country. "One young woman remembers her Father, Robert Smith being given a feather on his way home from work: That ... smaller picture both are holding the same weapon in the hands. The victory campaign is evident here by the planes and the allies are pushing the ape into the right hand corner away from them. The British world war one poster is a disti...

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... comparing the poem to the prose, the poem seems to convey the patriotic side of the war very effectively by using emotive references to England. The prose on the other hand just shows the reader how certain people involved in the war must use patriotism to get through the experience. Both techniques are efficient but the poem does seem to convey ... point across. In conclusion, all four poets: Brooke, Sassoon, Owen and Rosenberg, convey the changing response of men to war in different but equally effective ways. Faulks on the other hand, uses different characters in different time perio...

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... the heart of militarization. Roosevelt's quote allows transition to another piece of militarization, the need for an all power military component to society. The last two parts of militarization go hand in hand with one another. It called for American citizens to act a certain way, to be role models, and to support the "new" patriotic ways. Serving your nation militarily (either by ... ...

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... and new methods of warfare that were developed during World War I dramatically affected the nature of the conflict. The technological advances in warfare favoured defense over offence. The improved rifles, hand grenades, machine guns, trench mortars and artillery shells, along with mines and barbed wire increased the priced of victory.26 All sides experimented with gas warfare, tanks, submarines, and airplanes ... war".30 This was the first fully mechanized war. The method in which World War I was fought was different from the previous wars because of the types of weapons used. Hand gre...

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... in response to another poem by Jessie Pope that he read in the Daily Mail. Jessie Pope's poem is propaganda to persuade the men of Britain to "give (their) country a hand" and fight in the war. It refers to the war as "fun" to persuade people to join in the war effort. People were becoming misguided by all the pro-war ... is shown in the poems by the use of similes, alliteration, rhyme and great metric variety. Owen's compassion against the war coupled with the grim realism due to Owen's first hand experience of the war makes for sensational poems that carry a grim and gory message. ...

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... of women of taking advantage of wartime in order to make a profit: "Attractively dressed young women found that they had nothing to do but parade the streets, collecting-box in hand, and live gloriously off the profits" (P. 17.) He sees pretty girls as stupid when he refers to the women who entertained the troops: "If the brainless bevy of pretty girls ... out of "their domestic cages" (P. 45.) When the first act is introduced a table is said to be "the only article in the room that suggests (not at all convincingly) a woman's hand in the furnishing" (P. 50.) Shaw implies a woman should...

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... whipped; yet the only remorse from the attackers is that he got away with a bed sheet. Haie Westhus is a described as a larger man who can "hold a ration-loaf in his hand and say: Guess what I've got in my fist". He is what Paul calls a "peat digger". Haie collects the parachutes from the French star shells. Because they are made of ... good leg. The orderly tells him Kat is dead. In disbelief Paul tells the orderly that he must have passed out. When he brushes Kat's hair back, he finds his hand covered in blood. A small fragment entered Kat's skull and killed him. Although his hands we...

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... 's death was still a time of grievance for those in the Tuhoe Tribe. Many of them waited three days for Rua to be resurrected, but this never happened. On the other hand, the rest of New Zealand, in particular the government, were rather relieved that Rua had died, as this meant the Tuhoe would no longer rebel against Pakeha sovereignty. Nevertheless, for ... ...

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... of his time, depicts the heroism of the soldiers in the frontline by describing the dilemmas that those who bravely served, faced. "The Silent One," on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt ... ...

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... business was slow, the country lacked the necessary tools, workforce, consumer population and food in order for the diner business to grow or really maintain at all. On the other hand, post-war saw a complete turnaround in style, approach and framework for diners alike. Unlike before the war, diners were now faced with a new challenge. Diners would need to start accommodating ... ...

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