The artists' work reflected their Crisis of Belief, the pervasive sense of loss, disillusionment, and even despair in the wake of the Great War; and their subsequent reaction to it, the need to break with the structure that brought about it. ... Modernism challenged it as an alternative way of representing reality and the world, pushing towards the abstract and introspective to express the new sensibilities of the time. ... Response Modern distinguishes from contemporary in that the latter refers to time, while the former refers to sensibility and style. ... Subjectivity becomes the typic...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." Watching the noble-grunt films, the audience relates with misunderstood, confused, idealistic, and betrayed characters. ... In a sense, the film is undermined because its efforts to oversimplify a very complicated situation into what Leo Cawley describes as, "Americans are the good guys, the Viet Cong ar...

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I will work toward a well developed concept of the "criminological imagination " as a quality of mind that will be used to make sense of criminal behavior while analyzing the social realities when bridging these ideas with "American History X" to show that all aspects of society are interconnected when it comes to criminal behavior. ... But it is also, as we have seen, an expression of state power, a statement of collective morality, a vehicle for emotional expression, an economically conditioned social policy, an embodiment of current sensibilities, and a set of symbols which display a cul...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied h...

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