Butler, Edmond Vermeil and William Shirer have also written essays on how Wagner featured.... prominently among a kind of antipantheon of German racists, militarists and totalitarian philosophers who allegedly made Hitler possible'#. In this essay I shall attempt to shed light on this misconception, showing how Wagner compiled his vast varying legacy and how this legacy was abused by his disciples for their own work. I shall then show how his work made its way into Nazi ideology through these disciples and how Wagner's music and the Bayreuth Festival became part of Nazi propagand...

• Word Count: 2346
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Songs of Innocence and Experience are a series of poems on how we see the world at different stages of our lives. ... Each collection shows comparative images of children, babies, religion and the general world in which we live, and how we see things differently when we are first in a state of innocence and when we reach maturity. ... Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... He then tells how they sold him to be a chimney sweep but still refuses to accept that they have done hi...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And these books were used in classroom to instruct children on how to identify and isolate their Jewish and Gypsies friends and neighbors. ... The victims of the racism persecution are not only the people who died in the gas chamber, but also the people whose mind are consumed by this hatred. ... We need to remember the history, because only then we can understand the lesson history taught us - perhaps there shouldn't be hatred and boundaries between races. If we understand each other and treat each other with proper respect, one day we will be able to overcome racism....

• Word Count: 1319
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This selection is a very cynical comment on how Europeans performed in the Congo surrounded by disease, natives, and the jealous ambitions of their fellow Anglo-males. ... For example, The sea-journey to the mouth of the Congo originally began I left in a French steamer and beginning with Dakar she called in every blamed port they have out there' and ended we passed various places: Gran' Bassam, Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce'. ... Kurtz is a victim of one of the debates on imperialism; and Kurtz's history shows how damaging that debate is...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest years - learned to talk, he began pleading with people he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. ... He said he was afraid he would have difficulty re-learning how to channel his thinking in a noisy world. ... As a reward for his heroism, the grateful father taught Tom how to use Morse code and the telegraph. ...

• Word Count: 3349
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate