... of creative writing, especially in the poetry of Auden. One of the main European political events of the 1930s, which drew a response from writers was the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). They felt that its outcome would shape the future, particularly since a second world war seemed close. In 1937, Auden wrote a poem entitled Spain. In the poem, he sees the war as a battle between ... stato attentamente costruito da un punto di vista retorico. In a career which lasted over sixty years, Shaw continued to treat contemporary problems and issues in a total of over fifty plays. Pygmalion famousl...

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... known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses allegory as a literary device to advance the story's significance beyond just an adventure fable. The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. The story is composed of several different allegories ... the first act of mankind disrupting the earth on the island, a big mark is left by the boys' crashing plane, "All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle..." (7). The scar symbolizes how human nature can destr...

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... in general.15 By 1967, over half of the American people polled the Vietnam commitment a mistake.16 The Vietnam War had lost the support of the home front early into the war, and this had a large effect on the morale and motivation of the soldiers. The introduction of televised media fueled the public resentment towards the Vietnam War. By 1966, about ninety-three percent of homeowners owned a television. Prior to the television being the number one ... much public chaos and protest as did the Vietnam conflict. Today, the United States is involved in a similar situation.38 The war in the...

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... only a book for children? In my view, this is related to the ingenious uses of the simple symbolism to express difficult ideas which arouse us self-examine as an adult. Symbolism means the use of symbols, especially in literature, film, art, etc in 19th century France. 2 A symbol is anything which signifies anything, in this sense, all words are symbols, but used in criticism, however, 'symbol', ... signifying an object which itself has significance, that is, the object referred to has a range of meaning beyond itself. In symbolism symbols can be categorized according to use and or...

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... of creators of this war weapon, not just two or three scientists. The creation of the atomic bomb is one of the most important historical events in the field of weaponry. On the morning of August 6th, 1945, an American bomber flying over the Japanese city of Hiroshima dropped a bomb. According to author David Killingray (The Atom Bomb), "the bomb descended by parachute to a height of 600 meters, then exploded" (2). Three ... plane. These planes flew over Hiroshima occasionally, but Hiroshima had hardly been bombed. "The atomic bomb exploded with a brilliant flash over the northwest-cent...

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... the end of the "Old Order". It also marked the rise of communism and fascism. The historical end of the twentieth century was the collapse of the Soviet Union's communist system. Fascism having been defeated with the end of World War II, the end of Soviet communism marked the triumph of democracy. This period of time is historically significant as it spaned over the death of the "Old Order" and the ... following battle between fascism, communism, and democracy to be the new dominant social system. Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna was a congress of European leaders who were gathe...

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... time with naval bombardment as well as aircraft. Several kamikaze attacks caused significant damage, but since the British used armored flight decks on their aircraft carriers, they only experienced a brief interruption to their force's objective. Between April 6 and June 22, the Japanese flew 1,465 kamikaze aircraft in large-scale attacks from Kyushu, 185 individual kamikaze sorties from Kyushu, and 250 individual kamikaze sorties from ... battle for Okinawa was hard. Tenth Army was able to take over Okinawa, but they lost over 12,000 men and over 40,000 wounded. The Japanese lost over...

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... and Michael Collins flew the spacecraft Columbia (Command and Service Module) and Eagle (Lunar Module). On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Eagle at the relatively flat and unobstructed Tranquillity site on the moon, while Collins remained in the CSM. The LM spent 21 hours 36 minutes on the lunar surface, and the crew spent 2 hours 31 minutes outside the LM in a local area ... Different interests led to mutual suspicion and hostility in an escalating ideological rivalry. After a century of friendship, Americans and Russians quarreled over Asian questions in the 1890s, and ...

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... the society. He argued that, over time, the weaker constituents of society, without the help of the strong, will not be able to survive and, therefore, reproduce, thus preventing the continuation of their weak lineage: The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the ... statement demonstrates Germany's willingness to involve the continent in war over the conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Another important consi...

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... describing an encounter with a North Vietnam Soldier "One round in the head took it completely off "another in the right arm, took it completely off, too "one round hit him in the right side, causing a hole about five inches in diameter. " (Morgan 4). The small caliber bullet tumbling upon impact was the cause of this increased lethality. When the bullet flew through the air, it went in a straight streamlined flight pattern; but when it ... impacted a target, it would begin to tumble, increasing the damage done to the target. One such promotional pamphlet even stated, "On ... ...

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... October 1940 the RAF and the Luftwaffe clashed over Britain. The primary weapon of the RAF to combat the tremendous German threat was the Supermarine Spitfire, a new and flashy fighter that could compete on even terms with anything that the Luftwaffe could hurl at them. The British also made use of 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 ... other Conservatives pushed for a Tariff Reform, which he opposed. The next year the Conservative Party was defeated in the House of Commons an...

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... of the Italian immigrants comprising of nine hundred people were concentrated in Louisiana. After ten years a higher proportion of Italian immigrants were concentrated in California. However, it was not long before New York became the residence for millions of Italians. Deductively, immigration of Italian Americans into the United States changed over time. One of the most ... In other cases, stereotypes levied on Italians were centred on high disease rates amongst them and their clannishness. Despite the discrimination levied on them, the Italian Americans made significant progress in sta...

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... unaware. After all, Chris accuses his father of having "such a talent for ignoring things" (Miller 16). The character of Keller's son, Chris, is an interesting one. In his physical description he is likened to his father, but he just lacks the lying ability, or the self-serving nature. He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but ... Keller of all that transpired. He is ordered to leave by Chris so that the wedding plans are not jeopardized. Kate then unravels to Chris the liability of his father, Keller, on the death of Larry and he confronts his father...

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... across from Morocco in early weeks of war; he also sent troops but no more than 10,000. He also provided an increasing amount of superior equipment, which in large part allowed the successful nationalist advances of 1938/39. This may have been the result of the weaknesses of the League of Nations, as the league failed to enforce the non-intervention policy. The league initially called ... for the withdrawal of foreign participation, but did nothing to back up its demands ... are mixed opinions towards this policy, and the question why historians have debated appeasement continuously ove...

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... to accept traditional sex roles. However this was indeed the result of the war, as many women concluded in the survey that a women's place was at home. This is further augmented by the 39% of women who concluded in the survey that men should be given first priority for jobs. Therefore "The post war aspirations of the vast majority of women factory workers were focused on ... the war. Surveys conducted in the post war years suggest that the marriage bar was not reintroduced due to the shortage of labour in the years after the war. " Richard Titmuss has suggested that the decline in the bi...

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... to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. President Woodrow Wilson, and the United States, offered an alternative to communism. Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be ... the strongest superpower in the world. He knew in future disagreements; Russia would have little room to argue due to the overwhelming power of the US. "Stalin had become a popular figure in Europe and in t...

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... to wage a war to end all wars again. Mussolini and the Fascists Of all the popular movements in Europe's changing political mesh one figure stands out in one country in particular, Benito Mussolini. In 1918, thousands of Italian soldiers were returning from the front lines of World War One, Mussolini was among them. Only four year later, in 1924, Mussolini had risen to power to become Prime Minister ... could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? There are numerous reasons which of almost all lie with...

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... the ideology. One of the main reasons for the Cold War starting was the fear of the spread of communism into a defeated and weak Germany, whereby the left wing ideology would have an anchor to spread into the west. Therefore I feel it is important to look at how American exceptionalsim was used in West Germany, and whether or not it was successful at winning over the support of the ... German people. As John Lemza explains; 'The presence of the "Little Americas" would serve as a grass-roots vehicle to win the hearts and minds of the German people by conveying to them the tenets of d...

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... Gurney implies can only be understood by those who participate in the Great War. His writing, much like many poets 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 ... alluding to his already unfit mind to serve in the war. Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war experience began to have an effect on how Gurney thought, transforming the language in his later po...

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... Almost all of Eastern and South-Eastern was under the control of the Soviet Union, but the allies urgently sought to change this. One of the primary reasons the Western nations were so determined to wrestle Eastern and South-Eastern Europe back from the clutches of the Soviet Union was that it would strengthen the Western economy. Since the industrial revolution in England almost a century earlier, Eastern Europe had ... he had hoped. Stalin saw the powerful Red Army as the only viable counter to the atomic bomb. If the Americans dropped the bomb on the Soviet Union, the Red Army, alrea...

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... . Adolf Hitler joined the committee of the German Workers' Party in 1919 and by the summer of 1920 he had become their leader. He then changed the name from the German Worker's Party to the National Socialist German Worker"s Party or the NSDAP. From this name came the short name for its members "Nazis"(Forman 39). The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and ... immersed Hitler's body in gasoline and burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the German forces surrendered (Shirer 1457). "The army...

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... over the communist USSR, but the use of nuclear arsenals meant devastation to both countries. Cold War tensions intensified immensely as the U.S. used its nuclear superiority to keep the USSR "in check- (Chant 8). Keeping the Soviets "in check- was part of the U.S. policy of "containment,"" (Hunt 2). The threat of a "massive retaliation- was the first U.S. nuclear deterrence policy, created under Eisenhower's administration, which quickly became obsolete. In the 1960's, Kennedy was demanding that the U.S. have the ... ability to make quick responses, which could mean the difference betw...

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... "too liberal" and turn to Communism. Such a fear again brought the United States to support many brutal and unsavory dictators at the expense of nationalists and even democratically elected leaders. One such case occurred in Guatemala in 1954. Guatemala, long since run by leaders under the yoke of the United Fruit Corporation, elected President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in a fair and free election. Arbenz, who was elected on a wave ... a people cannot be maintained without the material elements to defend it. [...] I took over the presidency with great faith in the democratic system, in liber...

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... priority. Aggressive steps were also taken to reduce and recycle the raw materials used by the civil population, and food rations were established. The new weapons 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 ... all services, armies, air forces, and navies in one common effort, the use of amphibious (combined land-sea operations) warfare, and...

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... have a history rich with uncharted architecture and social obligations that have made them a significant role in the architectural world. However, when most people think of diners, other things such as the food, the business or the employees take precedent over its architecture. As Offitzer once said, "To some folks, a diner is one thing only: a stand-alone, prefabricated structure with counter service and cheap eats. But some ... define diners more comprehensively, describing diner architecture as something that changed significantly and dramatically – in style, function, and purpose...

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