... Commissioner of South Africa, who is said to have contributed significantly to the war with the Boer republics. Since the time of the Boer war he has been generally held responsible for the outbreak of the conflict. Milner came to the conclusion that the situation in the Transvaal offered little prospect of peaceful reform from within, and that there was ... lived deep in the interior. Britain further alienated the Boers by giving black citizen rights and eventually abolished slavery. The Boers, wanting to rid themselves of British rule, initiated the Great Trek and moved into the inter...

• Word Count: 3503
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Golding uses Piggy to symbolize society's resistance to reason and order. His death represents the final collapse of the society into barbarianism. Jack is the personification of the human evil. He is portrayed as an extremely violent individual. "He snatched the knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy- Jack practically starts off in ... , simply and solely out of the nature of the brute -(Golding, William page 61). By giving the boys everything they need, he places sole responsibility for their failures upon them. The tone referring to ...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... Hitler, 48, and Klara Polzl, 24. Braunau Am Inn is located just across the border from the German Bavarian border ("The Rise of Hitler"). "Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern ... to him." ("The Rise of Hitler") Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and possibly Johann George Hiedler, a poor Jewish mill ... read and reread, as well as reinacted by Adolf. ...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... and capable soldiers. The one who is not, the antitank gunner, Roland Weary, is a cruel, insecure character that saves Billy's life repeatedly in acts that he thinks will make him a hero. Billy first time shifts as he leans against a tree in a Luxembourg forest. He has fallen behind the others and has ... little will to continue. He swings through the extremes of his life: the violet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. Then he is a small boy being thrown ... people have ditched him. He has imagined himself and the scouts as "The Three Musketeers," and he blames Billy for breaking...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School