However, the interest of the reader in the contents of a book is sometimes affected by the realism with which the plot is introduced. ... The use of realistic characters allows the reader to believe in whatever outcome realism will cause. ... The references to real military hardware allowed the reader to experience the action by imagining existing machines doing all the action and adding to the realism...

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Although the film is only loosely based on a true incident, it's hard not to accept these characters and events as real and this is one very important aspect when looking at the representation of war in Saving Private Ryan, tghe realism of the representation of war. ... The results convey a gritty realism. ...

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Great pieces of literature are influenced by their author's life and the times in which they were written. These two factors combine to make literature that is both entertaining and meaningful to readers. Joseph Heller's outrageously funny and very affecting novel Catch-22 is a perfect example. H...

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Introduction Scholars of international politics routinely debated on two kinds of global structures that best describe the actual world, that is, multipolar and unipolar. The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a n...

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A. Nuclear Weapons History. In 1914 H.G. Wells wrote in his book, The World Set Free, that atomic bombs were used in a war between the alliance of England, France and the U.S. against an alliance of Germany and Austria. All of the major cities of the world were destroyed by atomic bombs in this ch...

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New German Cinema "Although some maintain that the end of New German Cinema did not occur until after the cold war, many of the filmmakers associated with the movement felt, after Das Boot, that it was finally all right to make it in Hollywood--a sentiment that was to be the death knell of a wholly independent German cinema tradition." (Rentschler "How American Is It?" 279-80) Das Boot begins with a message that resonates and evokes feelings of ambivalence for both American and German viewers alike: "40,000 German sailors served on U-Boats during WWII. 30,000 never returned." ...

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