Briar Rose Book Review Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... The story beings with Gitl, or Gemma (as she is referred to by her granddaughters), in a nursing home. ... Throughout Briar Rose Yolen depicts Becca's struggles to uncover the truth about her Gemma's connection to Sleeping Beauty. ... It was very well told, and Yolen used a very inter...

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Many women had trouble sleeping because the noise continued to throb throughout their bodies, even when they were at home. ... The women were very busy, and hardly had time for sleep. ... When they got home they had to make breakfast for their children before they went off to school. While the children where at school the women would sleep until around 11:30 A.M. or until the children came home for lunch. ... While still being the major domestic worker, they also contributed to the workforce outside the home. ...

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At least one television is found in every American home. ... Later his parents are found dead in his home. ... According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. ... I am not blaming the parents; I am just concerned with what is going on in American...

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After the war, the narrator went home, married, and had kids, all of whom are grown now. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ...

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Others destroyed their homes hoping to prevent fires from spreading if a bomb were to be dropped. ... Every night she would do the same thing, but on August 6 she decided to let her tired kids sleep at home. ... Their days became night, their homes became stacks of debris, and their family left dead. ...

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Once he returned home, he was sent back to Vietnam, but this time he was a consultant for the Chicago Tribune. ... I gotta get a little sleep Screw it and screw you, Harris. I gotta get a little sleep myself Like I said Harris, you ain't got the balls to do it. ... Caputo experiences all three: he went into the Marines wanting to experience war, but halfway through he kind of wants to be at home. ... These mines crippled a few men so terribly that they were sent home. ...

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After three weeks of being away from home he decided to go back. ... They would spend their nights sleeping at the Aldwych Underground Station, and during the day they would take long walks a have picnics in the parks that were still intact. ... After about a week Bill got home sick and wanted to go back to the firmilier side of London. ... Julie stayed home and cleaned their new home as Bill would find a job. ... It took him almost all day to find some when he did he couldn't wait to get home and give it to Dixie. ...

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Paul was given a fourteen day leave so he could visit his ill mother at home. ... They where bandaged up and sent on a train back home. ... After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... As he tells the story, insight into the sacrifice the soldiers gave defending their country is seen as well as the difficulties of loosing friends, killing another man, and going day after day without much, if any, sleep. ... While he was safe, sitting at home with a pen, they were witnessing death and destruction all around them. ...

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"These nineteen-and-twenty-year-old enlisted men, free from the restraints of home and culture, thrown together in an all-male society, coming from all over America" joined Easy Company for the honor, thrill, and a little bit of extra money. ... On September 15, they docked in Liverpool, England, and rode the train south to their new homes. ... They sleep in and take valuable items from the homes of the high ranking Nazi officers. ...

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In an article printed in the New York Times on October 1st a headline read, "Chamberlain is Confident - The settlement of the Czechoslovak problem, which has now been achieved, is only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. " As many people gathered outside his home in London he and his wife came to the door where he said to the public cheerfully, "I think you can all go home and sleep quietly tonight, it will be alright now. " At the time those would have been comforting words, hiding the true irony that can only be appreciated some years later. ... Chamberl...

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As I sit in the comfort of my home with the freedom to do as I please, it is very easy for me to criticize the victims of the Holocaust for not rebelling against their captors. ... All things that we as human beings take for granted, such as water, food, a flat surface to sleep on, and even a semi-private place to relieve ourselves was taken from these people. ... Imagine finally arriving at a camp, after being stripped of everything that we have that makes us "cultured" individuals, being separated from our mother and sister, as Wiesel was, and our first experience of our new "home", is see...

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Peasant women and girls took to sleeping outdoors in fields and forests rather than their homes where bandits might find and ravage them (263). ... After the Warsaw uprising, the Polish military leadership in the United Kingdom once again begged with the allied commanders to allow airborne Polish forces to aid the Home Army, but to no avail. ...

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The film begins with a short sequence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the sea of white crosses that marks the memorial to those who died liberating the country. From there, the film slips more than five decades back in time, to the second world war and June th...

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He goes on leave and comes home to visit his mother. ... "We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. ...

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Introduction World War 1 was originally a European war. It eventually escalated to a global conflict involving 32 nations. The enthusiasm with which the European people greeted the outbreak of hostilities during World War 1 quickly turned to horror as casualty lists lengthened and reality set...

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Food is a very real experience for children, and learning about the monotonous, meagre diet of the diggers really brings home the tough conditions of war. ... Consequently the corpses in the dioramas often have more dignified, peaceful poses, almost as they are sleeping. ...

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A reflection of how deeply this traumatic experience has affected Owen can be seen through is use of an enjambment to describe the boy's death: " the blood, Come gargling- This is used not only to develop the images Owen sees in his nightmare, but also to emphasize a powerful burst of emotions that cannot be contained within one line; an emotion of anger and bitterness towards those who lied to the people, to those who do not see the dream he does every time he goes to sleep and thus do not suffer as he does. ... From this, we too are shocked as the effect of the war on soldiers is finall...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ...

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The compulsion was enough to awaken her from her sleep. ... Her military resources had dwindled too, but then her people had learnt to be efficient, Simple home-gadgets manufacturing companies began manufacturing firearms. ...

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To feed a growing population and acquire the cheap and plentiful raw materials that were not present at home but were essential for sustained success, expansion overseas was vital. ... As Admiral Yamamoto, of the Japanese Combined Fleet, accurately predicted, "We have awakened a sleeping giant, and have instilled in him a terrible resolve." ...

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Propaganda in Nazi Germany Pegah Ghassemi English 1 12/11/00 Propaganda in Nazi Germany In the period of time around the Second World War, the German people's heads were infiltered with Nazi Propaganda.. Little by little the German population was stripped away of their judgement and moralit...

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In Charles Todd's, A Test of Wills, the protagonist, Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard in 1914 to fight in the Great War. In 1919, Rutledge is back, burdened with a heavy secret. He is still suffering from "shell-shock", haunted by an internal voice that belittles him and exace...

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His childhood was ended working twelve-hour days and sleeping on the factory floor. ... Then upon contracting typhus he returned home for convalescence and it wasn't until late 1918 that he returned to military service with what was now named the Red Army. ...

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In the end of the poem, the character dreams of "your Etectera" while he lies in mud, wishing he could be back home. ... Also, the meaning of "etcetera," is "and so on," such as, "I need to eat, sleep, etcetera." ...

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But there are expected cultural differences, simple things like, taking shoes off in homes and restaurants where you sit on the floor, placing chopsticks at the side of the dish or resting across the top of a bowl when not using them, not blowing your nose in public, and not littering. ...

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