"You have to be pretty good with masks, makeup, or false mustaches to fool anyone looking right at you, and most of us aren't (Poe 39). ... No matter how many times you look at something, say your credit card, you probably do not remember ever number and its order, but it takes only once to match a voice to a face. ... "You can't see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, or touch it. All you can do is remember it " (Poe 52). ... Her story goes that faster is better because then you could escape being chased by a ware wolf, therefore you wont be bitten by one, and then you wont turn into o...

• Word Count: 2913
• Approx Pages: 12

But there are expected cultural differences, simple things like, taking shoes off in homes and restaurants where you sit on the floor, placing chopsticks at the side of the dish or resting across the top of a bowl when not using them, not blowing your nose in public, and not littering. ... Generally, bowing is done by the person of lesser age, you do not bow to someone who is significantly younger than you. ... Rice is served with every meal unless its at an international restaurant or franchise like Pizza Hut. ... You can expect to spend around $20-30 dollars per day. ... As you take a ri...

• Word Count: 2751
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have personal regard for, and in this novel the two characters that experience the bond of friendship are Gene and Finny. ... Like wise, then Lepper and Finny become the causalities of war. ... Like wise, then Lepper and Finny become the causalities of war. ... Like wise, then Lepper and Finny become the causalities of war. ... One major theme that Knowles uses is friendship, a friend is someone that you have...

• Word Count: 65255
• Approx Pages: 261
• Grade Level: High School

He sounds like the typical perception of an American hippie - big deal. ... Then, the next like "him," answers its own question: to whom is Plato speaking? ... Instead, we see his teachings spanning other topics, as thus, Cummings uses the subtlety of parenthesis to show how our culture ignores a symbol as powerful as Jesus if he conflicts with tradition social perceptions, like war. ... After the story ends, Cummings begins a narrative that praises Olaf's actions: "Chris(of His mercy infinite) i pray to see;and Olaf,too Preponderatingly because Unless statistics lie he was M...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

In my day, either you were a lawyer, or a doctor, or a doctor, or you worked in a shop" (Miller 7). ... He tells his son "Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance and I did it for you. ... It makes me look like a bum" (Miller 45). ... Keller tries to seem like an understanding man, sympathizing with his old partner, even though there is a more bitter irony in his words. ... That's important you know....

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Conrad's, like Golding's, work was deeply shaped by his own personal experiences with the darkness of man's soul. ... He asks reader about their vision of Kurtz "Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation - Conrad's goal is to make the reader see' Kurtz. ...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The Germans were usually described as ape like "sub human" to be able to do such a thing. ... The written message is raising the question where would you rather be? ... They concluded that the use of slogans such as the latter created too much of a "you" and "us" feel. ... She will use her good looks and womanly wiles to draw information from you. ...

• Word Count: 2585
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It has long since been proven that to keep the people happy you need to keep the people busy and employed. ... When the government seems weak and unwilling to help any human will turn to his or her human instincts, and human instinct is to follow the trail of logic to getting help wherever you can. ... It is a situation like this that will foster, nurture, and raise a new leader among a crowd of blank faces. ... Not everyone will jump off the bridge if you tell them it's safe. ... Just like the communists, Mussolini used organized violence to spread oppression. ...

• Word Count: 8195
• Approx Pages: 33

You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!"... Yossarian thinks to himself, "You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something I ought to be ashamed of. ... This is much like the situation with Yossarian using a mask with his colleagues. ... Yossarian is a very ironic character because he drops bombs on people but he does not like war. ... This shows how Hitler did not like anyone who did not see things in his perspective. ...

• Word Count: 2803
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The question is because of the territorial disputes China has had with nations like Japan and the Philippines in the past two years, should the United States Navy take military action because of good relations it has with Japan, and ignore the debt it has with China, estimated at $1.2 trillion? ... China should not be dealt with like it is a small child to be punished. ... There seems to be a recurring theme here- it does not matter what country you are, what part of the ocean that you lay claim to. If China lays claim to that same territory, then you are going to lose it. ... China has just g...

• Word Count: 3515
• Approx Pages: 14

Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the day after his inauguration said "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."" ... Since the Truman Doctrine was carried out and regardless of what side you take on its importance, it is apparent that the new foreign policy at the very least fueled the Cold War. ... This would turn into the Berlin Crisis, Truman played a crucial role in this crisis no matter which side you take. ... Regardless once again to what side you agree with regarding the actions of Truman during the first years of the Cold War, it ...

• Word Count: 4238
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. ... It reads, If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle (Tzu 18). ...

• Word Count: 2957
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

No words can better express this desperation than those of an anonymous RAF pilot on September 28th 1940: "Now the pilots, you could see that they had enough of it at times, as some started to stutter, and others got a twitch; it didn't matter if you were a damn good pilot, it was pure luck if you came through it at all." ... Niven, who flew both the Spitfire and the Hurricane, said," Flying the Spitfire was like driving a sports car. ...

• Word Count: 3345
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Never before could you drive yourself to go visit California and go see the ocean whenever you chose. ... However, like cars, diners came in all shapes, styles and fashions. ... His design for a barrel roof was like seen before, but added a central entry through the form of two sliding glass doors, which can be seen in figure 3. ... Brill's addition to the diner architecture was to introduce a glass eating counter that doubled as a refrigerated display of foods like fruit, salads, pies, pastries, and cold beverages that were all ready-to-eat. ...

• Word Count: 2601
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

The little prince brought the curiosity and sincerity in his heart to find the meaning of life, like a child explore this world. ... Dictators like Hitler and Mussolini were gaining power, and it appeared as if the Allies were powerless against their more brutal methods. ... The lamplighter is the man who the little prince liked to be friend with before he arrived earth. ... Do you understand what is the meaning of what are you doing now? ... They do not what is the meaning for they are doing in their life now, like a corpse, it is very dreadful. ...

• Word Count: 2875
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While this German colony submitted early to Allied pressure, other colonies held out much longer, like German South-East Africa holding out until the war ended four years later. ... While Algerians were he most heavily represented areas of Africa to see action in France, other nations mainly French Black Africa nations like Morocco and Senegal sent to France over 150,000 themselves . ... The reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were taking all over the Western Front not to mention as a result of battles like Verdun. .....

• Word Count: 2502
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... He says, See if you can spot him. ... They would get hot if you fired like the Germans. ... American military strategists, like the British, began to plan for the day when the Allies would invade Europe to destroy the powerful German army. ... They were glad to see that all the planes in the sky had painted stripes like Christmas candy- meaning that they belonged to the Allies, not to the Germans. ...

• Word Count: 3362
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

On December 29, 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech to the country that was like a "fireside chat- but was not. ... They then began to expand their individual empires, which kicked in the alliance system again because countries like Britain and France backed the invaded countries, thus starting a new World War. ... Like in any war when you are not the aggressor, but the defender, to enter the war you have to be provoked. ...

• Word Count: 2883
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... Donald Hodge, British WWI veteran, described it: "So many men who had been through these dangers and anxieties, their nerve broke and they were the victims of shell shock, you know. ... Like Janet and Freud, he found that helping his patients speak the "unspeakable" (Herman 2) alleviated some of t...

• Word Count: 3502
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... , the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please parents, friends and girls was to join up and head towards the fighting. ... However, the usage of female workers, due to necessity, not equality, together with the recruitment figures already mentioned above, help to prove more or less that source D, whatever its providence, (which is not at all clear) generally recruitment posters were fairly effective, the most famous being left out, Kitchner's fing...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite their virtual lack of outside support, the European Jews did not go like lambs to the slaughter as they are often portrayed. ... Imagine watching all those you loved or cared about killed. ... That is an accomplishment that we must not deny those twelve million martyrs, by teaching that they went like lambs to the slaughter. ...

• Word Count: 4456
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

However, after the war ended, the Soviet Union and the United States became bitter enemies again, much like they were before the war. ... In the questioning, Stevenson asks, "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium and intermediate range missiles and sites in Cuba? ... As Stevenson replied "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist and I want to know whether I have understood you correctly," it became apparent that Zorin was further lying to the Un...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography

Just like Frederick in the story he is seriously wounded and taken to get medical care. Henry was posted in northern Italy and, like Hemingway, received a wound from a mortar round. ... While Hemingway was recovering he fell in love like Henry. ... Therefore the theme is don't put off what you could have done today to do tomorrow. ... You may not always know one's true background and what is really happening in their life. ...

• Word Count: 3440
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Though at times, Coppola does create realistic historical scenes, like the helicopter and napalm assault on Viet Cong villages that resemble the massacre at My Lai, the film's central story line of an army captain named Willard trekking across Vietnam and into Cambodia to assassinate a Special Forces colonel named Kurtz is largely unbelievable. ... As you went further up the river, you went deeper into the origins of human nature." ...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because of this act, problems began to happen, working conditions like Kenyans wages and work placements. ... They introduce a kipande which was like an I.D that each working Kenyan or any Kenyan who's over 16 had to carry wherever they went. ... It was like discrimination because white settlers didn't need one. ... They even acted like savages just for independence. ... One example of discrimination is the Kipande, which was like an ID that every Kenyan and African had to carry. ...

• Word Count: 2624
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School