Artworks by these artists have been carefully selected to enable young audiences to explore the deeper meanings behind them. ... Painting 1977 shows a pale man with red eyes walking down a path in a harsh environment, the mountains and buildings in the background smothered in scorching red and orange flames. The mysterious man is surrounded by darkness, and the town is shrouded by shadows and smoke. The man walks alone, isolated from society and attempting to retreat from the destruction of the earth caused by his own kind. ... Being isolated from society has become a major issue for many teen...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin soon realizes that the only way to protect his family and freedom is to fight for a young nation's liberty (The Patriot). ... The whole system of ruling them was flawed because one man made the decisions. ... On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. ...

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The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene or moment; a development paralleled in the 'Impressionist' painting of artists like S...

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