Abstract
This paper summarizes "Night" by Elie Wiesel and explains how the book is about Wiesel's gradual loss of faith as a result of his experiences in the camps.

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"Night by Elie Wiesel was first published in English in 1960 and gave the most chilling and most faithful account of his experiences during the Holocaust. We have heard a lot about concentration camps and how Jews were made to suffer simply because of their religion, however this book gives us something deeper to think about. The book studies the Holocaust experience in the light of Jewish beliefs and the author narrates the gradual loss of his faith in God. The novel begins with a normal description of life in Elie Wiesel's house. This is done to show how devout a Jew he was and how firmly he believed in God before all was taken away by the Holocaust. "I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." (p.13) He was a strong believer in the powers of God and saw Him as an absolutely fair and just Creator. The book opens in the year 1943 when Elie's family and others in his Hungarian town of Sighet had not yet heard of concentration camps or Nazi atrocities. A pious Jew man who had been imparting religious knowledge to Elie tells everyone of his experience during a brief journey when all his fellow Jews were brutally killed by Nazi forces. It is not easy for the villagers to trust his stories but eventually Nazi forces enter their village too and this is when the real journey of faith or should we say, loss of faith begins."

Tags:starvation, disease, furnaces, prayers, cold, starvation, pipel, oberkapo, adversity, tragedy

Abstract
This paper examines Shanghai's modernist literary movement popularly associated with the interval of 1917 to 1937. A second topic is introduced of how Ja Bin's novel of 1947, "Cold Night", describes the plight of the individual in relation to his or her connection to the state during the Sino-Japanese War, which inflicted such widespread and extreme suffering and destruction in China.

Outline:
Introduction
Lee, Shih and What Happened in Shanghai
"Cold Nights"
Concluding Discussion

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"Literary modernism in Shanghai, as a 'movement' evolving between 1917 and 1937, continues to fascinate scholars of literature as much as those of modern Chinese history. Indeed, pre-World War II Shanghai continues to intrigue a variety of Westerners in particular as shown by a strong tourism industry of the present, visitors wishing to see what survives of "old" Shanghai, meaning the world of China's westernized elite, Chiang Kai Shek, or where the Soong Sisters liked to take cocktails in the evenings on visits, there. What some Chinese have regarded as run down, pre-War hotels and other structures of the past hold a powerful romantic or nostalgia appeal to visitors that may or may not have much to do with what Shanghai's literary scene was like through the 1920s and 1930s."
Mao, Nathan. "Pa Chin's Journey in Sentiment from Hope to Despair." Journal of the Chinese
Language Teachers' Association. 11. (1976): 131-137.

Shih, Shu-meih. The Lure of the Modern - Writing Modernism in Semi-Colonial China, 1917-
1937. Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies of China Series No. 1. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

Tang, Xiaobing. "The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature - on Ba Jin's Cold
Nights," in Chinese Modernism - the Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000, 131-160.

& course materials, University of Toronto, 2006-2007.

Tags:Shanghai, communism, Chiang, Kai, Shek

Abstract
During the Cold War, the world existed under the threat of a possible devastating confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States for decades. Additionally, for over seven decades the United Soviet Socialist Republic was ruled by a heavy-handed Communist regime that provided very little opportunities and freedoms to its people. Both of these conditions led to the rise of a creative new kind of leader in the Soviet Republic, and eventually to the downfall of Communism and its tyrannical reign when the portentous hammer and sickle flag of the United Soviet Socialist Republic was lowered in 1991 on Christmas Day at 7:30 at night never to fly again. This flag was quickly replaced by the Russian white, red, and blue tricolor flag.

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The Fall of the Soviet Union Introduction During the Cold War, the world existed under the threat of a possible devastating confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States for decades. Additionally, for over seven decades the United Soviet Socialist Republic was ruled by a heavy-handed Communist regime that provided very little opportunities and freedoms to its people. Both of these conditions led to the rise of a creative new kind of leader in the Soviet Republic, and eventually to the downfall of Communism and its tyrannical reign when the portentous hammer and sickle flag of the United

Tags:fall, soviet, union

Abstract
This paper discusses Shakespeare's play; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and analyzes how it satisfies the functions of literature, raising a heightened sensitivity of the complexities of life. The paper also discusses plot devices.

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"A Midsummer Night's Dream: One of the functions of literature is to force the reader to question the things he has taken for granted; another is to heighten his sensitivity to the complexities of life and individuals. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" fulfills both functions masterfully. Shakespeare's play creates an intricate juxtaposition of plot and characters that reduces even the careful reader to a state of confusion."

Tags:A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare, literature

Abstract
In this paper, the author examines the questions raised in Elie Wiesel's novel, "Night." A brief background of Wiesel and this work is presented. The paper also focuses on this book being about the experiences of a victim and not an account of the reasons behind the Holocaust. The paper also considers some of the literary devices used by Wiesel to describe his experience. The author found Wiesel's story to be particularly compelling because it is from the point of view of a child who could not be expected to understand the political and social disruptions of the time.

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"The main figure in Elie Wiesel's Night is a surrogate for Wiesel himself. The story is true, and Wiesel distances himself from the story as he speaks of the young man, Eliezer, who was once himself as if he were observing another person, and one critic notes that the book uses "novelistic methods: it is retrospective, it is clearly the result of narrative choices and omissions, and its first-person narrator is at a distance from its character, whose name, Eliezer, is different from that of the author" (Vice 164). Perhaps this distance is necessary to allow Wiesel to probe into a time of great pain to himself and to others. However, the attitudes expressed and the views of Jewish life and the Jewish future are clearly those of Wiesel."

Tags:Holocaust, genocide, Eli, Weisel, Night

Abstract
This paper reviews the 2004 movie "Friday Night Lights" about high school sport in America. The author includes an introduction, analysis, justification for the movie, relationship of the movie to sport in American life, contribution to society and conclusion.

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""Friday Night Lights" starred Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black and Garrett Hedlund. "Friday Night Lights" is a movie that chronicles the true story of the Odessa Texas high school football team the Permian Panthers and ..."

Tags:Friday Night Lights, sports, obsession, movie review

Abstract
This review analyzes the different types of love that the characters of "Twelfth Night" undergo in their attempt to find love. The paper relates that the various characters in the story experience or show fabrications of love, lustful infatuations, and true conventional love.

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"There are various types of love experienced by the characters in Twelfth Night, along with the consequences that are created. The various individuals show fabrications of love, infatuation, as well as conventional love. At the end of the last act, Sebastian and Viola are reunited and their personalities in this scene allow all the puzzle pieces (i.e. mistaken identities) to fit together. The masks and disguises are ultimately removed and the characters can now follow their own identity, gender, and love interests."

Tags:twelfth, night, william, shakespeare, love, olivia, sebastian, malvolio, masks, disguises

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to understand what Shakespeare meant by the title "A Midsummer Night's Dream" following the clues in key speeches. It also looks at the theme of the title, midsummer madness and supernatural elements.

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"The themes embodied in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream recall the line that questions whether all that we see or seem is merely a dream within a dream. Unlike his other plays the title of Shakespeare's fantastic..."

Tags:Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Dreams

Abstract
The following paper discusses and critically analyzes the title of Blake's poem, "Mad Song", the sleep/day/night triad personification as well as the stanza structure and binary oppositions such as wild/tame and comfort/discomfort.

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"The first thing that one notices about the poem is its title, "Mad Song". There are seven other poems in Poetical Sketches entitled "Song", but this poem stands out because it is the "mad" song. The reader then wonders: is the poem about madness, written by a madman or both? To begin with, the first line of the poem, "the wild winds weep," connotes a sad wind which cries. It does not seem violent as would the howling wind of a storm, nor is it playful like a gentle breeze. The wind is mournfully crying with sadness even though it is "wild" which usually connotes a joyful freedom."

Tags:night, cold, reader, enfolds, embraces, comforts, writer, sleep, wraps, grief, day

Abstract
Cocaine is a word filled with symbolic and literal connotations of addiction, destruction and death. It was once considered to be a neutral drug - one that was non-addictive and safe to use in moderation. Cocaine was, for a while, particularly in the late 1970's and 1980's, the drug of the fast party set. It was the choice of late night partiers, students and the rich. However, as cocaine's actual effects began to be known, as its raw form, crack, started destroying our nations inner cities and the cocaine cartels in South America became governments in and of themselves, the true social impact of the drug appeared. Cocaine continues to be associated with the rich and famous as well as the poorest of the poor. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the effects of cocaine on the individual and upon society in terms of effects on biology, abuse, addiction, detox, withdrawal and treatment.