British and American forces have now been stationed globally and on several occasions once again "spilled the same blood in the same mud". Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that was ever prevalent in the Cold War. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel appears to take place during winter, "the two houses at the end of the street have closed their shutters against the cold" (Mahfouz 3), and when Abbas left for the British army "the air was cold, and moist"(Mahfouz 111), which gives us a visual imagery of the lack of sun, which is a synonym of the lack of light, relating to the hopelessness of the alley. ... The word "mixing" (Mahfouz 281) is a visual imagery of Hamida's makeup mixing with the blood caused by the glass breaking on her face, symbolizing the mixture of both her old Arab roots, and her...

• Word Count: 1576
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They show the fraught life of Bertha Mason, the cold-hearted religion of St. ... For example, Jane waits ten years to become a 'rebel slave' and react to her treatment by Mrs Reed; Bertha is held for ten years in the attic before she 'breaks out, now in fire and now in blood'. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Synopsis For my essay I have chosen to write about the American Revolution where I will 'assess the causes that lead to the development of the American Revolution'. I have decided to use this question, as I believe it is an interesting topic due to its importance in American history. It is imp...

• Word Count: 2404
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancien...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate