On the pretense that his knights have been rowdy and disruptive, Goneril manages to make herself look like a victim as she throws her father to the cold. ... Her strength in scheming is highlighted when she learns of an impending war against her youngest sister and the King of France. ... She heroically interjects throughout the play to send helpful messages, and finally asks knights to rescue her beloved father, protecting him from a war to gain her rightful kingdom. ...

• Word Count: 1537
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sam took great interest in anything about Israel and was deeply moved at the stunning victory that Israel achieved during the Six Day War in 1967. ... This was the height of the Cold War and the United States was undergoing a witch hunt that looked for Communists in entertainment, government, the Army, education, et al. ... My father has been a witness to what has happened in Israel from the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue, the first and second Lebanese Wars, the Gulf War (which I even remember being dressed in a protective yellow hood type gas mask, and being terrified by the siren), his...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6

He strikes his son "on the side of the head but without heat", like he had struck the two mules and at times he also speaks "without heat" These images of cold violence and indifference to inflicted pain convey the child's sense of his father emotional frigidity. Mr Snopes' s cold violence is not an expression of hatred or anger: violence is a tool, used upon his son (as upon the mules) to make him to do his bidding. ... He thinks that his father fought bravely in the Civil war, but we are told that Mr Snopes had gone to that war "a private, admitting the authority of no man...for bo...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Leo spent his teenage years running for his life and trying to survive the Second World War. He told a great story of his personal experiences and how he, a victim of the War, became a survivor. ... In order to make it where they had lived he had to swim across a cold river. ... In today's society many families are split up through divorce, career opportunities, and last being sent to war. ... Family bonding is a theme in war and peacetime. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Cruelty and coldness consumed the family, but, as she had learned, blood is thicker than water; her blood relatives rate higher in her life than anyone else. ... When a group of friends have experienced extremely tough times with each other- whether it was comforting someone who was suffering from their poor home life or the group went to war with each other- they become closer than they are with friends who are not a part of the group. ...

• Word Count: 1268
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Setting Wang Lung's farmland is in the northern area of the province of Anhwei, which is a cold and dry country. ... His house has three tiny rooms, a thatched roof, and walls made of earthen bricks, with small window holes covered over with paper to keep out the winter cold. ... The lack of domestic tranquility is reflected in the wars and civil strife that surround the personal story of Wang Lung. ...

• Word Count: 2063
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

On one hand, Reuven grows up in a Jewish family during World War II. ... David was a teacher at a local college and became a very vocal leader in the Zionist movement following World War II. ... Not even his father could help him; "I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them in cold despair. ... He spent most of his nights doing homework and studying the Talmud while listening to the radio about the war. ...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During my childhood I remember that during Christmas, the only toys that I always found under the tree were war trucks, planes, toy soldiers, plastic guns that seemed real. ... It was a cold winter morning in 1998; I enlisted in the US Navy where I would spend twelve exciting years of my life. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Months later a strange man came to our door , it took me a while to realize it was father , returned form the war. ... Part 2- The Ghetto One cold autumn morning my parents told me to gather all of my belongings in my brown suitcase, we were leaving our Warsaw for good. ...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School