A cold breeze, warm sunshine and the sound of tweeting bird, a comfort the sniper had missed greatly. ... How could he possibly tell his mother that he had killed his brother in cold blood? ... The war had not changed her...not yet. ... He spoke of the war, the heat, the sound, the terror; his mother listened anxiously on the edge of her seat. ... His mother broke down into tears she had lost a great deal due to the war but this, this was inconceivable. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Benjamin Martin knew the horrors of war and was a great warrior in the French and Indian war. ... He realized the pointlessness of war and though he wanted independence, the loss of his family was not worth it. ... Gabriel searched for adventure and fought with passion as did other young colonists, not even the cold winters and lack of supplies would break his fervor for independence. This is why the colonists made it through and won the war. The other theme that Benjamin Martin brought up about the war for independence was one of apprehensiveness. ...

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On the pretense that his knights have been rowdy and disruptive, Goneril manages to make herself look like a victim as she throws her father to the cold. ... Her strength in scheming is highlighted when she learns of an impending war against her youngest sister and the King of France. ... She heroically interjects throughout the play to send helpful messages, and finally asks knights to rescue her beloved father, protecting him from a war to gain her rightful kingdom. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He tells his son that "You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain't going to have any blood to stick to you" yet at the same time, he seems to treat his family coldly and harshly. ... Colonel's seemingly conflicting feelings for his father are somewhat rooted in what he has heard of his father's past and his experiences during the war and the fire he insisted on each night was "some deep mainspring of his father's being as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity" and described his father's movements, as an "absolutely undeviating course". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He strikes his son "on the side of the head but without heat", like he had struck the two mules and at times he also speaks "without heat" These images of cold violence and indifference to inflicted pain convey the child's sense of his father emotional frigidity. Mr Snopes' s cold violence is not an expression of hatred or anger: violence is a tool, used upon his son (as upon the mules) to make him to do his bidding. ... He thinks that his father fought bravely in the Civil war, but we are told that Mr Snopes had gone to that war "a private, admitting the authority of no man...for bo...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Sandbox Short Summary Mommy and Daddy decide to bring Granny to a beach for vacation. Granny was slowly dying. Mommy is a very disrespectful character and she does not care about Granny. As the story unfolds, it was shown that Daddy has no control over the relationship. This is proven by several...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leo spent his teenage years running for his life and trying to survive the Second World War. He told a great story of his personal experiences and how he, a victim of the War, became a survivor. ... In order to make it where they had lived he had to swim across a cold river. ... In today's society many families are split up through divorce, career opportunities, and last being sent to war. ... Family bonding is a theme in war and peacetime. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author's childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. ... And, Kazuko's family cold not rent out a cabin because they were Japanese. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Every year my family members usually come home together to have new year dinner. Especially last year, we celebrated for one family member (my brother) who just came to US from VN. Normally, after my father's statement, everybody started eating, talking and giving to each other all the best wishes f...

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Americans are just recovering from the affects of the great depression and the Second World War. ... Perhaps the most interesting character in "All My Sons" is that of Joe Keller, the self-made patriarch with a desperation to pass on his business to his son, but also a colder, more hardened ability to shirk blame and gladly hand it to somebody else. ... Of course, the war is a strong undercurrent in this play, and the effect that it has had on its characters is of great interest. When Keller defends his actions, he argues that everything and everyone has been dirtied by the war, asking his son...

• Word Count: 2731
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

My maternal grandfather on my mother's side (Papa) was a war veteran, and my grandmother a nurse. ... There was this distance, or coldness about her, which I understood only when I became older and learned of her own upbringing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hero Standing on a blood-soaked carpet we look on. We look on to hope, victory and peace. And we see it shining in the distant end of a rainbow. All around us are bleak but we are strong. Our country needed us and we have not failed them. We have eradicated future terror. Today they will ...

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Cruelty and coldness consumed the family, but, as she had learned, blood is thicker than water; her blood relatives rate higher in her life than anyone else. ... When a group of friends have experienced extremely tough times with each other- whether it was comforting someone who was suffering from their poor home life or the group went to war with each other- they become closer than they are with friends who are not a part of the group. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Setting Wang Lung's farmland is in the northern area of the province of Anhwei, which is a cold and dry country. ... His house has three tiny rooms, a thatched roof, and walls made of earthen bricks, with small window holes covered over with paper to keep out the winter cold. ... The lack of domestic tranquility is reflected in the wars and civil strife that surround the personal story of Wang Lung. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On one hand, Reuven grows up in a Jewish family during World War II. ... David was a teacher at a local college and became a very vocal leader in the Zionist movement following World War II. ... Not even his father could help him; "I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them in cold despair. ... He spent most of his nights doing homework and studying the Talmud while listening to the radio about the war. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During my childhood I remember that during Christmas, the only toys that I always found under the tree were war trucks, planes, toy soldiers, plastic guns that seemed real. ... It was a cold winter morning in 1998; I enlisted in the US Navy where I would spend twelve exciting years of my life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...

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Months later a strange man came to our door , it took me a while to realize it was father , returned form the war. ... Part 2- The Ghetto One cold autumn morning my parents told me to gather all of my belongings in my brown suitcase, we were leaving our Warsaw for good. ...

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Lear is not only a father but also a king, and when he gives away his kingdom and his authority to the unworthy Goneril and Regan, he does not only put himself and his family in trouble, but he also causes the instability of the whole kingdom because of the British civil war which has been provoked by the heirs. ... When France invades Britain he talks to Edmund about taking Lear's side in the war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South...

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The biggest factor in our marriage problems is my father in law, Mr. David Robinson, and to some extent Dennis her brother. Dad never worked or did anything for his wife and family. All his life he was addicted to drugs and admitted several times to rehab. After a break became alcoholic and attracted to gambling, and fighting on streets in Saddar. ...

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A visitor to America wrote: "Domestic life in America has the appearance of being cold and formal."5 It may be useful to mention that the political, economic and social developments which accompanied the growth of the American family affected the changes in the family relations and values. ... As far as themes are concerned, "the dramatists dared to explore such untraditional subjects as (1) the complexities of human experience, (2) the moral and social values of American life, and (3) the economic and political problems created by technological changes and a great World War....

• Word Count: 9352
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School