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This paper argues that the phenomenon of "total war", the total mobilization of the human, economic, and material resources of belligerent nations for the total destruction of the enemy, was born on the Western Front in World War I with the convergence of science, technology, and ambitious war plans. Discusses the war plans of the Germans, British, and French, the industrial mobilization in the combative nations, and the different forms of warfare developed and implemented.

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"No single event shaped the 20th century as The Great War. The blazing guns of August in 1914 created a new world order and a new standard by which modern wars were fought, phrased by German General Erich Ludendorff in 1935 as der totale kreig, or total war. This phenomenon was the unlimited warfare waged as a result of the total mobilization of the human, economic and material resources of belligerent nations. In many ways the totality of WWI was born as synthesis of the independent developments in technology and industry, military organization and planning, and the breakdown of diplomacy that had evolved over time and wars, aligning themselves by 1914 to produce a war of attrition that would leave its mark on the remainder of the new century."

Tags:attrition, great, ludendorff, plan, schlieffen, trench, warfare

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The following paper is an analytical review of the text, Suicide: A Study in Sociology. The review highlights the ambitiousness of Durkheim's monograph and how he was breaking new ground by applying statistics to the study of suicide commission in late-nineteenth century Europe. However, the text suffers because Durkheim is unable to draw any meaningful or rock-solid conclusions from the data he collects because he simply lacks the statistical sophistication to do so.

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Analytical Review of the Book, Suicide: A Study in Sociology The following paper is an analytical review of the text, Suicide: A Study in Sociology. The review highlights the ambitiousness of Durkheim's monograph and how he was breaking new ground by applying statistics to the study of suicide commission in late-nineteenth century Europe. However, the text suffers because Durkheim is unable to draw any meaningful or rock-solid conclusions from the data he collects because he simply lacks the statistical sophistication to do so; the book puts forward plenty of interesting possibilities but they are never explored because Durkheim is unable to quantitatively measure the relative impact of different factors

Tags:analytical, review, suicide

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Paul Robeson's 1936 film, Song of Freedom, is not often hailed today as one of the great films in American cinematic history; indeed, it has largely been forgotten outside of academic circles. Yet, the film has a powerful message: The African-American can achieve great things in life, can even become a king among men, and he can do so without sacrificing his African heritage or his cultural authenticity; in effect, he can stop being a comic figure (as the white establishment would like him to be) and start being a person of substance and consequence - even if some of his own resent him for striving so ambitiously to be great. The next few pages will elaborate upon this thesis.

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What is the Message in Paul Robeson's Song of Freedom? Paul Robeson's 1936 film, Song of Freedom, is not often hailed today as one of the great films in American cinematic history; indeed, it has largely been forgotten outside of academic circles. Yet, the film has a powerful message: The African-American can achieve great things in life, can even become a king among men, and he can do so without sacrificing his African heritage or his cultural authenticity; in effect, he can stop being a comic figure (as the white establishment would like him to be) and start being a person of substance and consequence - even if some of his own resent him for striving so ambitiously to be great. The next few pages

Tags:paul, robeson, freedom

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In "The Organic Machine," Richard White ambitiously redefines the natural world in terms of energy transfer. His is one of many contemporary views intended to counter classical conceptions of the natural world, conceptions that are still popularly held by many today. This paper shows that White's version is based on a startling and unique perspective, but one must ask whether it is satisfying and whether it is realistic.

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"Perhaps White is correct in stressing the fundamental unity of all action. Perhaps a handmade wooden fish wheel is essentially no different from a massive steel turbine, and perhaps all movement that occurs on the earth's surface can be condensed into simple exchanges of energy. Yet one cannot help think that this simplification somehow removes a vital facet of reality. Are Shakespeare's writings, which Emerson continually praises, mere dashes of ink on a page, fundamentally no different from any other piece of written word? Is a Beethoven Sonata really just a string of 1's and 0's on a compact disc?"

Tags:kipling, thoreau

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This paper explains that "A Hope in the Unseen" by Ron Suskind is the story of Cedric Jennings, a student at an inner-city factory Ballou Senior High in Washington, D.C., and his ambitious move from Ballou to the Ivy League. The author makes it quite clear that academic success among inner city kids is so rare that, when it happens, the others resent it, which makes teens like Cedric true outsiders, as if somehow he is betraying the rest of his peers. This paper states that what needs to be answered is whether Cedric is truly exceptional, whether his story is one in a million or whether, given the chance, there are many more like him, anxious to prove themselves not by the color of their skin but by their persistence and determination to pull themselves up and make a life for themselves.

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"One aspect of Cedric's fear is made quite clear: he has never been around white kids a lot. When he tells his teacher, Mr. Taylor, that he is going to Brown, Taylor is less than enthusiastic. "I'm not sure I would have selected an Ivy League school...You're going to be up there with a lot of very smart white kids, and if you're not sure of who you are, you could get eaten up alive....It's not just at the Ivies. It can happen at any of the good colleges where a young black man who hasn't spent a lot of time with whites, suddenly finds himself among almost all whites. You can feel lost." One wonders whether his teacher is really preparing him for potential problems, or whether (as a Holy Cross graduate and not an Ivy Leaguer) he is slightly resentful of a possibility that he was not permitted to exercise."

Tags:inner-city, ivy-league, ambitious, peers, mother

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This paper explains that Theodore Dreiser's novel, "An American Tragedy," describes the life and eventual downfall of a young and ambitious Clyde Griffiths, as well as events in Dreiser's own life. The author points out that, throughout the novel, the reader learns of Clyde's unusual childhood, as well as the other events leading up to his misdeeds. The paper summarizes that Dreiser depicts a crime motivated by the pursuit of the American dream, which, in the end, reveals itself to be only an illusion.

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"Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Theodore Dreiser grew up poor in an extremely religious family, causing his fascination with the wealthy in his town. His adolescence was very similar to that of Clyde Griffiths, the novel's main character. Dreiser's father was "a fervent Catholic" who, like Asa and Elvira Griffiths, "never stopped preaching rectitude and self-control to his children, but his guidance was of little practical help." Escaping his rigid conservative family life, Dreiser moved to Chicago eventually landing his first job as a reporter for the Chicago Globe. He continued working as a reporter for varying newspapers, and published his first novel Sister Carrie."

Tags:ambitious, character, childhood, murder, society

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The paper examines the life of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator who was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. While today she is known almost entirely as that queen who committed suicide by allowing herself to be stung by an asp and for her great beauty, such a description does her little justice. The paper shows that she was far more than the 'femme fatale' into which she has been transmuted over the centuries by popular culture and misogyny but rather a proud and ambitious queen whose political failure in the end was in part due to her over-ambitiousness but also due in even greater measure to overwhelming historical forces.

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"Cleopatra was born into an age in which women had few powers other than the ones that they could gain through men. Her use of her body to attract men was simply a rational strategy on her part. Moreover, she (like other monarchs) was not simply interested in physical pleasure: She also was intent on giving birth to heirs that would help cement relations between Egypt and Rome and that would ensure her dynastic succession."

Tags:King, Ptolemy, XII, Ptolemy, Julius, Caesar, Mark, Antony, Macedonia, Re

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The paper analyzes the tragic play, "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. The paper explores several aspects of the play including: The images and symbols used in "Macbeth"; gender contradictions in Act V; interpretation of the phantasmagoric aspects; male anxiety about maternal issues and why "Macbeth" is more than just a story about a heartless, ambitious murderer.

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"Male anxiety about maternal issues is addressed in the play. Macbeth mentions maternity in some form in many of his speeches. An example is where he describes sleep saying, "the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled slave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labor's birth" (II,ii). This is relevant as a reference to the power of women, a maternal force that Macbeth does not have. It is relevant that the witches and Lady Macbeth both lead Macbeth into murder and then madness. These references to birth can be seen a reference to wanting to avoid the power of women, but being unable to. It is also relevant that Lady Macbeth and the witches both take on maternal roles with Macbeth. In many ways they treat him as a child, especially by uses his weaknesses to trick him."

Tags:Duncan, Lady, Banquo, MacDuff

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This essay explores the idea that ambition can be a fatal flaw. Mary Shelly's classic novel, "Frankenstein," is used to depict this concept. Both the monster and the creator are proven to be fatally ambitious to acquire knowledge.

Tags:frankenstein, robert, victor, walton

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A paper which focuses on the psychological aspects of dreams and psychoanalysis in order to make sense of Lady Macbeth's actions. The author of this paper examines how Lady Macbeth turns from a single-minded, ambitious, unforgiving murderer to a guilty, sleepwalking, absent-minded mess. The author delves into instances from the text that suggest what Lady Macbeth was going through at the time and shows how, psychologically, Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis would be suited best to find the reasoning behind Lady Macbeth's metamorphosis.

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"In order to make any headway into this subject, an overview of Freud's psychoanalytical theory is needed. Psychoanalysis is a theory that derives on the idea that the unconscious mind is driven by the sexual urges and primal instinct of man (Quigley 2). One of the most significant points in this theory is the idea that our inborn desires are governed by three separate entities designated as the Id, the Ego, and the Superego (Quigley 3). The Id is the part of the unconscious mind that contains the sexual, instinctive urges of man (Quigley 3). The Superego is the unconscious purveyor of the internalized rules of society; better known as the cautious part of the mind (Quigley 3). The Ego, on the other hand, is the medium between the Id and the Superego; the Ego takes the primal urge under advisement, brings the Superego into the equation, and comes to an eventual compromise between the two (Quigley 3)."

Tags:imagery, King, Duncan, sanity, hand, washing