The story takes place during the Vietnam War in the late 1860's (O'Brien 637). ... The challenging terrain of the Vietnam War is just one of the many difficulties they face. ... Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or ground sheet or makeshift tent (O'Brien 638). ... At one point, Cross even says he is a kid at war, in love (O'Brien 643). ... This just comes to show that if the war were not affecting him, mentally, then he would not need drugs to get him through the difficultie...

• Word Count: 1337
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the end of the war, they are suffering, but still alive. ... Unlike Madox, Almasy is greatly involved in World War II. ... "Throughout the war, with all of her worst patients, she survived by keeping a coldness hidden in her role as a nurse (p.48). ... She is in a sort of shell shock despite her efforts to be "cold". ... Love and war can result in tragedy, as it is for Almasy and Katherine, or the opposite, as it was for Hana and Kip, overcoming the tragedies of war. ...

• Word Count: 1594
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There is no finish to war . . . War is not won by victory . . . ... This love story plays out in war-torn Italy during World War One, where Italy is battling Austria. ... Henry feels detached from life and is on a quest for identification in which he gives a particular Mirabelli 2 insight about how he feels about women: "clear, cold, and dry- (38). ... Catherine suffers during this war before she meets Henry because she loses her fiancé during the war. ...

• Word Count: 2198
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

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

Sacks was a young, curious boy who grew up just before the Second World War. ... The next description of Sack's house in the middle of the war, during the occasional holiday breaks at the much-despised Braefield School. "The windows were all hung with heavy blackout curtains; the inner front door with the colored glass I had loved to look through, had been blown out by a bomb blast...the garden...was changed almost beyond recognition; the old gardening shed had been replaced by an Anderson shelter...the house seemed lonely and cold." (Pg. 22,28) This description of the house i...

• Word Count: 1347
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This choice of lighting helps to set a mood that fits for a story that is taking place during a war. ... Rick seems to have a somewhat harsh and cold exterior which this type of lighting enhances. ... This in turn helps to express the intense emotions such as loss and depression that Rick feels, as well as create an atmosphere that is fitting for a story that is taking place during a war. ...

• Word Count: 1624
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The fear and misery of the Danes is so great that it is told in stories: His (Hrothgar's) misery leaped the seas, was told and sung in all men's ears: How Grendel's hatred began, how the monster relished his savage war on the Danes, keeping the bloody feud alive, seeking no peace, offering no truce, accepting no settlement, no price in gold or land, and paying the living for one crime only with another. ... This brings him misery and cold-heartedness. ...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Smith writes that "the intrusion of a pernicious fox into the farm life of two land girls of the post-war period is Lawrence's dramatic device for defining the masculine and feminine principles-. ... Sagar suggests that "this kind of submission in the woman to the cold, consuming fire of the man's willed passion is offered as the only salvation from her null freedom-. ... However since the war "she was no longer a fashionable little aristocrat-, and she admits that "it was like the beginning of the end to her- that the respect she believed she ought to receive became shallower. ...

• Word Count: 2188
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Claudio is not a popular character with critics often described ascallous, brash and cold?. ... Their merry war is in complete contrast to the conventional affair between Claudio and Hero. ... At the very beginning Beatrice sarcastically asks of BenedickI pray you, is Signoir Montanto returned from the wars or no?? ...

• Word Count: 2151
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Look at our history it is full of death, depression, rape, wars and diseases. ... I really wouldn't know how to answer this question because my cold black heart has never and never will experience true love. ...

• Word Count: 1376
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Death and God Death is perhaps the greatest mystery of life. It is one of the few things we can offer no concrete answer. We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. Modern man seeks truths based on facts and proof. We do not have any proof or eyewi...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Crime", by George Lippard is full of many intriguing characters. Lippard introduces many of these characters under negative circumstances, but then, throughout the story, he reveals different sides of each character and the reader is given the chance to see a more sensitive or affectionate side to ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sitting through long hot and cold games a mental sometimes wet bench. ... Some little things that you learn on the practice field are how to be discipline and to respect one another because those players that are next to you are the only players that are going to go through war with you on the football field. ...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School