The aim of this essay is to look at whether the theories expounded by Douhet and Mitchell had been validated during the Gulf War and the Kosovo Conflict. ... Having achieved command of the air, the pilots would then use their battle plane fleet to destroy the enemy's will and capacity to resist by conducting aerial bombing on his cities, industrial centres and, primarily by targeting the civilian population. ... As such, rather than concentrating air attacks on population centres (Douhet's theory) or the main army, airplanes should be used as strategic weapons to strike deep into the...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Oth...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, had been widowed at eighteen, and two years after his birth she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. ... In the first of the poem's three stanzas, Poe compares Helen's beauty to the ships of Nicea, a city near the Sea of Marmara. ... He stated his age as twenty-two, although he was just eighteen. In his two years in the Army, he rose to be regimental sergeant major. ... For the next two years he turned to free-lance writing. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books and was completely absorbed in tales depicting savages, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer. ... He also published three short stories in 1905, "Birds of Prey," "A Tale of a Whale," and "The Man Who Was King." ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... The marriage was not successful, in part because of Vivienne's health issues: the two s...

• Word Count: 4134
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• Grade Level: High School

Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... Setting place of the poem is Troy (a city in what is now northwestern Turkey) and its imme...

• Word Count: 8864
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams - sometimes even to murder. ... When Patrick came to Toronto he tried to forget about his past, and tried to make a new beginning: "Now, in the city, he was new even to himself, the past locked away." ... Discuss this statement and show how your critical understanding of the text has been strengthened by at least two different readings. ... Two such interpretations are the Post-Modern and Post-Colonial readings of In the Skin of a Lion. These two ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

But if that is the case, then Lear cannot be in a tragic situation as Hegel defines it, that is, he is not caught in the clash of two legitimate principles, a situation from which there is no simple escape, no matter how much he learns. ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In another essay on "King Lear," I have tried to extend Jaffa's analysis, analyzing the process of education the king undergoes when he loses power. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He also produced two works, One Hand Clapping and Inside Mr. ... He supplemented the income from his novels with literary reviews and essays for numerous newspapers and magazines. ... From 1969 to 1973 Burgess held a series of visiting instructor positions at the University of North Carolina, Columbia, Princeton, and City College in New York" (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.bio.html). ... As part two begins, Alex is being sentenced to fourten years in state prison. ... After two years pass, Alex and his cellmates get a new cellmate. ...

• Word Count: 2894
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout this essay I will be dwelling into the various ways that Orwell depicts these concepts within his book 1984. 1984 is one of Orwell's best made novels, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society. ... "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that...

• Word Count: 3080
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Annie Hall In this essay, I am going to discuss a certain way of viewing Annie Hall to you. ... Mediaeval stories, written before the advent of the novel, could be either epics - usually based in some kind of historical fact - or romances, tales of chivalry based on legend and adventure, or the supernatural. ... So, in modernity, we have the "shock of the new" - everything in the city is constantly changing and new. ... The view of a Manhattan street is as important as one of the two major characters. ... Any romance of the city is drowned in the everyday, wearying business of living in a ...

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The Roman historian Livy was more of a teller of tales, and he invoked the intervention of the gods to explain cause and effect. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Augustine's City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and continued by such lesser men as Isidore of Seville. ... The two forms were not infrequently mixed. ... But by far the greatest medieval Arabic historian was Ibn Khaldun, who created an early version of sociological history to account for the rise and decline of cities and civilizations. ...

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Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... As Freud suggests in his 1919 essay, the "uncanny- arouses an experience of "dread and horror,"" partially because the familiar (heimlich) evokes the unfamiliar (unheimlich), rendering the comfortable and "homey- uncomfortable and alien (224). ... As its name implies, the middle class falls between the upper and working classes as an unstable site of mediation between the two. The instability of...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate