In the case of nationalism; identity is usually generated the same way, tough countries are full of mountains and natural disasters and war whereas peaceful countries might be known more for food or culture. It is in these foods, cultures, wars and mountains that people forge a national identity for themselves. ... It does not get more Canadian than waking up on a icy cold winter morning, gathering your friends up and hitting the local outdoor rink for hours at a time. ... The combination of speed, violence, skill and toughness made for the perfect game to accompany Canadian weather and charac...

• Word Count: 2739
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the novel, Gladkov provides the reader with a window for understanding the emotions of Gleb and Dasha Chumalov, the main characters. ... Upon Gleb's return to his hometown, the narrator describes, "In Gleb's heart-swollen and throbbing-he heard the mountains and the quarries, the smoke stacks and the dwellings the factory Diesel engines the revolving cylinders in the furnace room" (Gladkov 3). ... Greeting him coldly, she exclaims, "What's wrong with you, Comrade Gleb? ... While the goal of communism remains present in the spirited character of Gleb, t...

• Word Count: 3036
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The first aspect we will examine are the characters that populate this Modern Western. Characters Prior to the introduction of the Modern Western, Classic Westerns consisted of two types of characters, the obviously good and the obviously bad. ... The character of Shane arrives on screen while a boy is hunting. ... Try as I might, I am unable to imagine a character like Frank in a John Ford Western. ... Men were men and women were women and any idea otherwise would be inconceivable, but with films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005) (which is not technically a Western, but the main character...

• Word Count: 2622
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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Year 12 TEE English "Beneath a surface of entertainment, texts can present powerful social commentaries." Intertextuality plays an integral role in the understanding and perception of a text. The attitudes that the viewer's hold on the social commentaries are formed in part by the context ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate