Maine is different in this sense. ... Scofield notes this rapidly growing dilemma is greatly due to development among the coastal areas. ... With little to agree upon, America was losing its great sense of patriotism that it had established at the conclusion of the second world war. ... This perspective is unquestionably compromised with bias due to the influence of the common American's beliefs of the era. ...

• Word Count: 1240
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This particular poem emphasizes a common gruesome experience, which, Gurney implies can only be understood by those who participate in the Great War. ... "The Silent One" is more vivid and deploys a powerful sense of realism of the dilemmas faced in the frontline. ... But it's important to note that even before his participation in the war, Gurney was already suffering from an eccentric personality; supported by his mental outbreak in 1913, alluding to his already unfit mind to serve in the war. ... "To His Love" employs a vivid sense of emotion that is transcended fro...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is all too common for modern literary works from the 1930s and 1940s to exude human suffering, and Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" is no different. ... By explaining how the rest of the world barely took note of Icarus's splash, Auden is toying with the idea of human suffering - in a sense making light of the situation. ... Upon final analysis, perhaps one thing is certain: the poems simultaneously conflict while still remaining examples of what art can be in the modern world - somewhat of a juxtaposition, but wouldn't that just make sense....

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He introduces neoclassical monumentalism as a commonality among the systems. ... Schivelbusch expresses that both the revolutionary states of Bolshevism and fascism as well as the reformist ones of the capitalist democracies, needed an architecture that would tower on behalf of, but also above, the people like a temple, inspiring trust, respect, and a quasi-religious sense of deeper meaning and community while at the same time showing the rest of the world who it was dealing with. ... The construction of neoclassical monuments were essential for the stimulation of the population into a renewed...

• Word Count: 2776
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... While the soldiers in this unit in a sense were ordinary men, historians cannot ignore their cultural and societal heritage. While people are united by many common traits shared by all humans, they are also a product of their societies. ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate