The television series Band of Brothers is the story of Easy Company of the US Army Airborne Paratrooper Division and their mission in WW II France during Operation Overload. ... Also, men in the 1940s were shorter, on average, than men today. ... It is arguable that realism has a lot to do with narrative - how one tells a story, or rather how one uses the medium of form in order to cause people to construct a story in their head. ... Story tellers don't want you to realise that they are telling a story, and really its just a collection of devices for making up the story, then it's a ...

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"The Fifty-First Dragon," a short story written by Heywood Broun, has a critical appraisal of the sense of paternalism, a policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities, towards the characters in the story. The characters articulate against the paternalistic practices, and how the usage of it in real life is as devastating as applications of it in stories. The protagonist of the story, Gawain le Coeur-Hardy, is a knight in training who lacks confidence and is very isolated from the r...

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The story of Monica Sone (or Kazuko as called by her parents), a Japanese girl who grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s, showed the readers another side of the life of immigrants in the United States. Her story reflected the gap between the Issei and Nisei – first and second generation, and the difficulties of being a Japanese American during this time period. ... The first thing to notice about Monica's story is the distinct gap between two generations. ... In short, Nisei are not one hundred percent complied with being Japanese, but they followed their parents' wor...

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The story of her life is the story of the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala to maintain a way of life, even just to survive against the realities of a modern world. ... It was only a few short years later that even the Altiplano was affected by development as land-owners claimed more and more territory for their estates. ...

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War has always provided opportunities for significant change as a quick reading of the history of our planet will demonstrate. Under the massive stress and pressure of wars like the various conflicts in the Middle East, the structures of society and the political groupings that have held the country...

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It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, episodic structures that evolve organically but however still had a clear cause and effect chain. Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. ... In conclusion, despite its short lifespan and less than prolific amount of films produced, Italian neo-realism cinema has great influenced cinema all the way up to contemporary film. ...

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It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, episodic structures that evolve organically but however still had a clear cause and effect chain. Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. ... In conclusion, despite its short lifespan and less than prolific amount of films produced, Italian neo-realism cinema has great influenced cinema all the way up to contemporary film. ...

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In this novel, the father, who has been already arrested and removed by the U.S. government at the start of the story, shows some relationship with the Emperor by giving the evidence of the connection to the Japan and his final confession after return four years later. ... The whole story ends with an angry plea from the father who actually asks readers to consider what he has done wrongly by distorted confession in short phrases and sentences. ...

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America, in short, had lost whatever delusions of innocence it had ever had. ... Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male protagonist who encountered a beautiful and seductive, but immoral, femme fatale. ... Neff provides the viewer with the film's story in the form of a confessional. ...

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These examples show that even though hard and soft powers can exist separately and have been proven to work for some duration, they are only short-lived. ... The Kremlin is often said to be an excellent manipulator of soft power – and this can explain why the annexation of the Crimea was implemented in such a short period. ... Almost all the news sources of major Russian television networks broadcast the exact same stories about the Crimean Crisis (Weir, 2014). Additionally, they exaggerate and twist the stories of the news in order to provide soft power both within Russia and to abroad...

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The need to be ready for war with nuclear weapons and peacekeeping with no weapons are both different ethical environmental issues that are closely associated with each other. They are hard to balance because of their contradicting characteristics. It is nuclear weapons and threatening hostilities...

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In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing press, the radio, the television, and now the Internet, all of these, able to reach millions of people. ... A new way of telling stories, a new outlook on the media world. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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Introduction Charlie Chaplin, the English comic actor, filmmaker and composer was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. In the ensuing decades he starred ...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very unsavory characters to promote such interests. The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas e...

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First the author explains that the French politicians were impressed by the idea of having some part of east in short-term (some land from a very developed agricultural society-Turkey-), the thought of capturing the Ottoman Empire's lands that include the middle-east which the French politicians can't wait to get a part from. ...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ...

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Rua Kenana's passive resistance against Maori enlistment and conscription during the First World War was an important event that affected New Zealanders, especially at the time. The most significant factor that contributed to this event was the government's confiscation of Tuhoe land along with the ...

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