This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... An overview of The Sun Also Rises describes Barnes as having "a calculated view of the events in the story and is sure to relate, minutia, such as how much things cost, who owes whom, how to bait the hook, and what is in the packed lunch" (Literature Resource Center 5). ... "A Farewell to Arms" and "for whom the bell tolls" show that Hemingway's "stories cannot be taken face value," There are hidden deeper meanings"(Sa...

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I find it sad that until recently the majority of my knowledge of Spain's Civil War came from Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." ... "For Whom the Bells Tolls" is about one of the Americans who fought for the Republic and this novel is where I learned that Americans were fighting for the Republic of Spain. ...

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Lost Generation A group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; are called the "Lost Generation Writers". The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves "lost" because their inh...

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They apparently had two sons, "little Lewis", to whom Chaucer addressed "A Treatise on the Astrolabe (1391), and Thomas, who was later highly successful in public service. ... This meant that the country was not run by the king but by individual lords, or barons, who administered their own estates; made their own money; ran their own justice system; and charges taxes and tolls. ... Some churches had instruments such as organs and bells. ...

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Of Gargantua, Rabelais wrote: He was always rolling around in the mud, dirtying his nose scratching his face, and treading down his shoes; and often he gaped after flies,or ran joyfully after the butterflies of whom his father was the ruler. ...

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While the students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education, they were also motivated by the high minority death toll in the Vietnam War and the ongoing civil rights campaigns of the Chicano Movement.  ... ""In the morning as I walked into school as the bell rang, out they went.  ... "Teachers, a majority of whom were Anglo, often discriminated against their Mexican-American students, calling them dirty Mexicans and encouraging them to join the workforce rather than attend college....

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Ernest Miller Hemingway is a well-known American author who wrote in the twentieth century. He has written several novels such as, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. The Sun Also Rises was finished on April 1, 1926 and was published in October of 1926 (Se...

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