Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

George Johnston portrays this time in his novel "My Brother Jack", through the eyes of Davy Meredith, a young boy, (who in turn is portrayed unmistakably as a young Johnston), who develops into a young man. The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. ... The Depression in Australia, as described by Davy, came slowly at first, but then hit with all the ferocity of a "slide of earth". " It was like a great river flooding or changing its course, the way the depression came-the insidious creeping movement of dark, strong...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line, "Your country is up to her neck in a fight" Pope compares the country to a helpless woman. ... The young boy sits in the park watching children play - reminding him of his youth, that wasn't that long ago. ... Evening time blossomed with enjoyment "when glow lamps budded" this is a contrast from stanza one as evening now means "waiting for dark" As all young men, women are very important to them, "girls glanced lovelier " shows sadness as this young man would have looked forward to a normal relation ship with a women but now, "He w...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Often pictures of boy scouts helping out in the war were used, which was an attempt to involve the whole population in the war. ... The young boy on the floor is suggesting the correct male attitude to war. ... A lot of this propaganda was proved to be false or "black". ... After all the criticism of black propaganda in the first world war Britain was reluctant to be seen using any form of propaganda again, and it waited until 1939, when the outbreak of war was once again upon them. ...

• Word Count: 2585
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway witnessed a man and a boy in a small boat being dragged by a fish that the man had hooked. ... Hemingway watched the struggle for half the day, finally pulling his own boat close enough to throw some provisions into the boat of the embattled fisherman and boy. ...

• Word Count: 3440
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. ... The Serbs responsible for it were members of Black Hand, a Serb terrorist orga...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

• Word Count: 4679
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

• Word Count: 4612
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School