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World War One Literature, 2005.
An analysis of the extent to which "The Hero" by Siegfried Sassoon, "Journey's End" by R.C.Sherriff and "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain are typical of texts about World War One literature.
2,545 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper analyses three texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. By incorporating a wide range of other World War One texts it looks at how the texts are typical of World War One literature and the influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writers.
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"?Journey?s End? written by R.C.Sherriff continues to be one of the most enduringly popular plays written about the First World War. The play, set in a dug out in the trenches, explores the tensions between a group of officers waiting for an enemy attack. In this extract Osborne and Stanhope discuss the new arrival, the young officer Raleigh, who is the brother of the girl Stanhope is in love with. ?Journey?s End? is a particularly useful text when looking at what is typical of a World War One text as it focuses on one of the most common themes; the polarity between the home and fighting fronts in terms of attitudes towards the war. In this play we see how young men are still enthusiastic to ?join up?, even as late as March 1918 after the atrocities of the Somme, Verdun and at Passchendaele, while being completely ignorant of the genuine conditions of a truly mechanical war."
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World War One Literature, 2004.
An investigation into the extent of which four different extracts are typical of texts about World War One literature.
2,982 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper examines how the four texts ?Journey?s End? by R.C.Sherriff, ?Attack? by Siegfried Sassoon, ?Missing, Presumed Killed? by Pamela Holmes and Vera Brittain?s ?Letters from a Lost Generation? are typical of World War One literature. It analyses the four texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writers is also discussed.
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"?Journey?s End? written by R.C.Sheriff continues to be one of the most enduringly popular plays written about the First World War. The play, set in a dug out in the trenches, explores the tensions between a group of officers waiting for an enemy attack. In this extract Sherriff describes a situation where the commanding officer, Stanhope, gives his orders regarding the imminent enemy attack to the sergeant-major. To a certain extent, ?Journey?s End? supports the traditionalist view of the war, of brave soldiers sent to their deaths while the incompetent high command dine in their chateaux behind the lines, and it is this idea which is often enforced through First World War literature."
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World War II Literature, 2006.
This paper analyzes literature written during World War II as well as the use and impact of the traumatic narratives within these works of writing.
2,090 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper focuses on World War II literature, particularly literature produced during the war itself, as well as the the immediate post-war period. The writer of this paper examines how the traumatic narratives used in these particular works of writing are circulated and perceived throughout culture. The writer contends and explains the manner in which these traumatic narratives share theoretical space with memory. This paper also examines the correlation between the reality of events that actually occurred to those associated with trauma and memory. This paper analyzes the studies that situate literature within the network of its then contemporaneous political field that tended to avoid exploring the mechanisms responsible for the appearance of historical events in texts written during this period.
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"There are many questions raised by such a description of trauma. First, since trauma is precisely the absence of the event, or the haunting of the present by a displaced experience that was never experienced nor understood at the "proper" time, it seems paradoxical that I would favor it as a method for foregrounding individual experience. But if it is true that memory is itself subject to many of the same epistemological problems raised by the study of trauma, then ultimately trauma is perhaps the best method for foregrounding individual experience. However, the subject of suffering does pose a larger problem for this notion of trauma; Scarry observes in The Body in Pain that pain is unsymbolizable, hence one can never adequately communicate what she or he is experiencing. This posits an interior space unavailable to the signifying field, revealing a limitation of the method I am outlining here."
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World War I Literature, 2004.
An analysis of how three different literary extracts are typical of texts in literature about World War I.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper examines how the four texts, "A Dead Boche" by Robert Graves, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brook, and Vera Brittain's "Letters from a Lost Generation," are typical of World War I literature. It analyses the three texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writer is also discussed.
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"Graves employs various literary techniques in A Dead Boche to emphasise the brutal reality of the First World War. By addressing the poem to the reader in the first stanza, ?To you? the reader becomes instantly involved with the poem and is forced to reconsider their attitude to war and to confront the real atrocities of a truly total war. By 1916 many soldiers were disillusioned by the war and particularly by the continuing demand for patriotic poetry which talked of ?valour?, ?honour? and ?sacrifice? and which in the style of the Victorian poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, glorified death with chivalric language. Graves speaks directly to those who think of war with ideas of ?blood and fame? and to those who, for a long time succeeded in ignoring the horrible reality of the war in their wilful ignorance and hypocrisy."
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World War One Literature, 2003.
A consideration of literary techniques used by the authors of four different World War One texts and their attitudes to war and contemporary society.
2,099 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper analyses four texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings.The four pieces are ?The Hero? by Siegfried Sassoon, ?Goodbye to All That? by Robert Graves, ?Journey?s End? by R.C.Sherriff and ?Black Adder? by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. It looks at how the texts are typical of World War One literature and the influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writers.
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"More than in any other previous conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes to write about their experiences in a way that was totally new to previous war literature. The new manner in which the First World War was conducted dramatically changed the way war was viewed, which is naturally reflected in the literature written. Before 1914 wars were largely fought abroad, which therefore meant that people wrote about war with a somewhat detached view as they were completely removed from the immediate situation. At this time war was considered, by most, to be a cleansing, almost health giving experience and the literature written, for example Alfred Lord Tennyson?s poem ?The Charge of the Light Brigade?, celebrated Victorian values of devotion to duty, patriotic loyalty and sacrifice."
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World War I Literature, 2007.
A comparison of three books on World War I: "A History of the American People" by Paul Johnson, "America: A Narrative History" by George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi and "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.
1,801 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses the history of World War I. It compares three books on the subject and discusses their use, details and easiness to understand. The paper compares "A History of the American People" by Paul Johnson, "America: A Narrative History" by George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi and "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.
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"Zinn, however, did not go as deeply into the some of the incidents leading up to the war that were mentioned in Johnson's and Tindall's books. It is necessary to read more than Zinn's book to understand the WWI era. The best of all worlds would be a book that covers the war in an objective manner, presenting both sides, in a less formal way as Zinn does. If the Tindall/Shi book was edited down and made more reader friendly and included some of the "narratives" in Zinn's book, this would be the right approach. World War I is a difficult time to understand with all the underlying personal agendas and the ramifications that resulted from the treaties. For the layperson, it has to be clear and user friendly, as well as well-rounded."
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World War One Literature, 2004.
A discussion to the extent to which the BBC's "Blackadder Comes Forth" and Pat Barker?s "The Ghost Road" are typical of texts written about the First World War.
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This paper considers a wide range of texts written about the First World War, focusing on "Blackadder Comes Forth" written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton and Pat Barker's "The Ghost Road". It analyses the texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writers is also discussed.
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"More than in any other previous conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes to write about their experiences in a way that was totally new to previous war literature. The new manner in which the First World War was conducted dramatically changed the way war was viewed, which is naturally reflected in the literature written. Before 1914 wars were largely fought abroad, which therefore meant that people wrote about war with a somewhat detached view as they were completely removed from the immediate situation. At this time war was considered, by most, to be a cleansing, almost health giving experience and the literature written, for example Alfred Lord Tennyson?s poem ?The Charge of the Light Brigade?, celebrated Victorian values of devotion to duty, patriotic loyalty and sacrifice."
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First World War Literature, 2005.
A comparative analysis of "The Cenotaph" by Charlotte Mew, "The Return of the Soldier" by Rebecca West and an extract from "Siegfried's Journey" by Siegfried Sassoon.
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The essay compares the poetic and narrative devices used by the authors to create a typical or atypical piece of the great canon of First World War literature. The pieces are discussed in terms of thematic and poetic contents and their relation to other pieces written about or during WWI.
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"Extract A is a poem by Charlotte Mew; 'The Cenotaph' was written in 1919, a year after the war and explores a female perspective on both public and private mourning. In the extract, she describes the monument, the cenotaph, which was built as a lasting reminder of the Great War, some see it as a glorification, perhaps Mew's perspective and others as a reminder of the human cost of war. The chosen form of the poem marks this poem as a more typical piece of war literature in its style as the poem is the style most often associated with War literature perhaps due to the well known poems by Sassoon and Owen (e.g. 'Dulce et decorum est' Owen). "
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Post War Effects of World War Two, 2002.
A discussion of the affects of World War II on American culture,focusing on popular music, visual arts, literature and our worldview for the years between the 1940s and 1950s.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper explores the great social and cultural changes that took place in America following the Second World War. It examines music, art and literature to show the changes in cultural trends. It looks at the shift in the job market and new opportunities for women in specific labor fields. The paper also discusses the baby boom era where many women returned to the home and focused on child rearing and homemaking. Changes in healthcare are also mentioned which came with progress in medical practices.
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"World War II changed the way we lived in America, and how we looked at the world. It also changed the way the world looked at us. We were a world power, who had won the war, and had a devastating weapon at our disposal. Our economy was booming, and life was good in the United States."
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Vietnam War Literature, 2007.
This paper discuses references to American religious culture in Vietnam War literature using examples from Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Vietnam War literature positions American religion as being a God-fearing culture that seeks to be moral. The author points out works by Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly that refer to this everyday American religion and culture and to myths of American power, politicians and industrialists as being insane and immoral and as changing forever how Americans saw their country. The paper relates that these works project the Vietnam conflict as something in which Americans should never have been involved including describing its soldiers as victims or as people responsible for terrible crimes of war. The author stresses that Vietnam was a working-class war rejected by the American bourgeoisie, who did not need to go to combat. The paper concludes that the literature discussed in the paper is the work of Americans with the option not to go to Vietnam and that it needs to be examined along with other literature produced in the next decades, too.
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Introduction
Damning Literature
Tim O'Brien's "In the Field"
Norman Mailer
Robert Bly Poem: "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"
Last Remarks
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"Norman Mailer's "The Army of the Night" was published in 1968 and is an allegorical description of the March on the Pentagon. The reader is shown the extreme contrast between rather decadent hippies of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the thousands who then fought in Vietnam, ordinary Americans who dealt with every terrible aspect of jungle warfare. The last pages of "A Confrontation by the River" tell of a clash of American popular myths and moral beliefs about America and a "true religious war of Christ against the Communist" in relation to Vietnam towards a "whole crisis of Christianity in America... ""
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World War II, 2005.
This paper is a literature review discussing racism in World War II.
2,305 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper explains that racism played a pivotal role in the Pacific and Asian theaters of World War II: The Nazi regime wanted to eliminate "inferior races" in Europe, mainly the Jews and Americans learned to hate the Japanese even more than the Germans. The author points out that institutional racism in the U.S. kept black and Indian military personnel restricted to lower-ranking, menial positions; however, in some cases, they were permitted to fight in WWII along with white soldiers although most frequently they were in separate units. The paper relates that, in the Russo-German War, not only Hitler was playing out the Aryan "master race" strategy to conquer the vast Soviet empire, but also he wanted to seize the Soviet's enormous resources especially the Oral Mountain region.
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Introduction
Main Body of the Paper
Racism in America during WWII
Racism Vis-a-Vis WWII
The Rape of Nanking
The Russo-German War
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"While the Japanese slaughter of upwards of 300,000 Chinese in Nanking, China, in 1937 was as atrocious, savage and bloody as practically any event leading up to and during WWII, according to author Iris Chang, racism did not necessarily play a major role.
The real reason for the Japanese occupation of China, and slaughter of so many hundreds of thousands of Chinese, can be at least partially explained by the years of hate propaganda taught to Japanese children leading up to 1937. In the early 1930s, Chang explains on page 30, "...Teachers instilled in boys hatred and contempt for the Chinese people, preparing them psychologically for a future invasion of the Chinese mainland.""
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War in Text and Literature, 2002.
A paper which compares how the concept of war is expressed in three different works of literature by Bao Ninh, Nazim Hikmet and Kaldor.
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The paper discusses how Bao Ninh's "The Sorrow of War" and Nazim Hikmet's "Human Landscapes from My Country" both speak succinctly and powerfully to the problem of war. They illustrate the common justifications of war, and juxtapose these with some of the real horrors and paradoxes of war. It shows how, in contrast, Kaldor?s "New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era" does not speak much to the human cost of war. Instead, she tries to outline the changing nature of war, and gives recommendations on how to best deal with the new war by establishing cosmopolitan law enforcement
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"It is in these words that Ninh reveals the horrifying paradox of war. Wars are justified by saying that they have resulted in the victory of the just. The death of fallen comrades is justified because their death has resulted in so many others being allowed to survive and prosper. Says Ninh, "Justice may have won, but cruelty, death, and inhuman violence have also won. Just look and think: It is the truth". This is the incredible paradox of war. We fight so that we may remain free, and that others may live in peace and justice. However, the very act of war changes us; it makes us more brutal, less human and kind, and forever shifts the perceptions and realities of those who have lived through it."
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War in Literature, 2008.
A comparison of the style and perspectives on war that are portrayed in Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried" and Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, "Facing It."
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses the ways that war is portrayed in literature. It specifically discusses and compares two literary pieces that reflect the heavy weight of war - Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried" and Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, "Facing It." The paper looks at the different perspectives of the writer's and discusses how they convey the emotional strain of war through powerful imagery, tone, theme and point of view.
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"In "Facing It," the poet's point of view is serious and nervous with a somber tone. He does not want to cry and tells himself he is made of stone like the wall. When he sees objects reflected in the wall, he is temporarily taken aback and must take a moment to gather himself. For example, when he sees the woman "trying to erase names" (30), he understands that he is catching a reflection of a woman brushing a boys hair. The images blur, representing the blur between the past and the present. In "The Things They Carried," the point of view is from a disillusioned soldier. We read that the soldiers "had no sense of strategy or mission. They searched the villages without knowing what to look for, not caring . . . (15). Here we see that the men feel lost even though they may know exactly where they are. They have no sense of belonging because war has removed any sense of security from them."
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War in Literature and Reality, 2005.
This paper reviews E.M. Remarque's "All Quite on the Western Front" and discusses the U.S.A., its wars and the war on terrorism.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that E.M. Remarque's "All Quite on the Western Front", about young German boys in the trenches of WWI just after completing school, argues strongly against war. The author points out that United States of America entered the twentieth century as a potential super power and its participation in WWI proved its ambitions for domination in world politics; the U.S.A. was saved from the Great Depression by WWII but, in the Korean War, there was no real change of borders. The paper stresses that the ideology of terrorism and religious fundamentalism has nothing to do with political ideologies and economical basis of aggression.
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The Book: E.M. Remarque's "All Quite on the Western Front"
The United States of America and War
The War on Terrorism
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"The horrors of the war as well as the death of his close friends had shown Paul the immorality and injustice of warfare: he participated in pointless military operations, stood one step away from death, he saw innocent people dying and shot English and French soldiers he bathed with during peace time. The main problem of Paul, his comrades and of all fighting soldiers from both sides was disillusion as they had no idea what they were fighting for. Their personal interests were not represented in the war, as they were not defending their motherland from invaders; they were not struggling for freedom but just were fighting for the private interests of their imperial governments."
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War in Literature, 2002.
A literature review of three different viewpoints on war.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss three points of view on war. The first of the three topics will be Michael Waltzer's book "Just and Unjust Wars"; Second will be Glenn Snyder and Paul Diesing's book " Conflict Among Nations" and finally Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory." Differing observations will discussed in this paper on the topic of war.
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