"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ... Conrad's, like Golding's, work was deeply shaped by his own personal experiences with the darkness of man's soul. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each of my aunts and uncles are all married with at least one child, so during my visit I had plenty of tour guides to show me around. ... 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. ... I got a bit of a lecture about this from my uncle after he witnessed me throw a cigarette into the street. ... Rice is served with every meal unless its at an internat...

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• Grade Level: High School

Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. Again everything went black before my eyes and I tottered and groped my way back to the dormitory, threw myself on the bunk, and dug my burning head into ...

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At the end of the conference, a skeptical journalist, Beckworth, remains unconvinced and tells Colonel Kirby, "Your brainwashed sergeant didn't sell me," to which Colonel Kirby replies by asking if the journalist has ever been to Southeast Asia. ... 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 unbelie...

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

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 Sickert and Whistler. ... In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them literat...

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Never, it seemed to me, was it more thoroughly demonstrated that winning a satisfactory peace, even a temporary one, is more difficult than winning a war." ... The political demonstrations of a year before were organized by black associations and herded along by Korean MPs. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Never, it seemed to me, was it more thoroughly demonstrated that winning a satisfactory peace, even a temporary one, is more difficult than winning a war." ... The political demonstrations of a year before were organized by black associations and herded along by Korean MPs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The choices he made through this period illustrate his ability to impose his ideas on changing circumstances, and his preference for continental, not global expansion.(7) Hitler began his political view as a revisionist, much like the overwhelming majority of the German public after the Great War. ...

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• Grade Level: High School