For a student attending high school today, peer pressure is a battle which is faced daily. ... Each person has to make the decision regarding what values they are going to embrace and incorporate into their life. ... Sometimes the community does not allow a person to express growth in their life. The story directs the reader to reflect on situations in their life where they are being forced to fit into a standard mold. ... They are so wrapped up in their daily ideas of how life should be that they are ignorant to the mental stability that the returning veteran is displaying. ...

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Huge parts of the population deserted the country side to find jobs in the city, living conditions in urban centers became more and more inadequate daily. ... These were the London Daily Telegraph's comments on the 1891 English Premiere of what is described as "Ibsen's positively abominable play entitled Ghosts." ... Naturalism attempts to portray all actions on stage exactly as it would occur in real life. ... Under his theory drama was to depict a "slice of life," actors were expected to live the drama on stage. ... Absurdists find the searching of meaning and purpose in human life...

• Word Count: 1652
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• Grade Level: High School

It tells the story from each of their points of view, from the daily lives of each character, and how this relates to the story, to the moment the bomb drops until months later, and then even 40 years later. ... How this tragedy continues to be a massive part of their lives, affecting them in daily life, both positively and negatively, and even so, how their attitude remains positive. 2) The story mentions how the US never previously mentioned anything about this attack to the people of Hiroshima, and this leads me to ask, why did the US do this? ... She holds no resentment towards the Ameri...

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Vonnegut uses his stories to explain his life and innermost thoughts and ideas. ... Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings, and there gained early writing experience writing for the high school's daily paper. ... He did, however, enjoy a position working for the Cornell Daily Sun. ... Billy Pilgrim experienced exactly what Vonnegut did in his own life. ... Vonnegut has had a very full and adventurous life. ...

• Word Count: 1839
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... My father has stated that for him, Friday, November 22, 1963, was until September 1...

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With every man that they kill they loose respect for human life. ... Paul's further participation in war separates him from the life which he cherished so greatly. ... The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. ... Life is short." ... Without true leaders like we have our daily lives could have possibly been very different than they are today. ...

• Word Count: 1266
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• Grade Level: High School

Through her eyes we see the way of life of the then Rarh region. In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. With the passage of time she gets married and enters into life of marriage. ... Scarcity of daily commodities, clothes pushed the common people of this region towards the endless miseries. ... Common people couldn't afford to buy their daily necessaries. ...

• Word Count: 2420
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pants became daily fashion for women in the late sixties, and blue jeans revolutionized women's fashion for years to come. ... Good taste is death, vulgarity is life. ... Denim jeans in women's fashion was not a recycling of an old trend, but rather a revolution towards a whole new fashion and a way of life. ... Women's Wear Daily. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Perils of Mass Culture that emerged in 1950's and are still with us to this day created the American stereotype The Veterans who are returning home from World War II felt the need to get married and have kids to pass down their name and life lessons. This created the baby boom generation; in 1959 the population of kids under the age of fourteen was over fifty million and that significantly impacts society in many area of life. ... Cars were a necessity part of life for new families; they must commute to their job which was most likely in the city. ... These massive social changes tha...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These factors were used to show women that performing industrial tasks and using machines was as easy as daily housework: Instead of cutting the lines of a dress, this woman cuts the pattern of aircraft parts. ... It really opened up another viewpoint on life in general, and changed women's views on their roles in societies. ... Rosie the Riveter represents a change in life during World War II. ...

• Word Count: 1403
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although my grandma's family was not significantly affected by the Great Depression, my grandma's life was personally and negatively affected by World War II. ... My grandma told me that while my grandpa was away she was in daily torment. ... It makes me proud of my past to know about my uncle and his Purple Heart and to know my grandpa risked his life for our country. ...

• Word Count: 1260
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• Grade Level: High School

By being confronted daily with death, the war has not hardened Yossarian to fear; instead it has made him much more aware of the value and fragility of life: One of the things (Yossarian) wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and almost everyone else who lived long enough to die. ... In All Quiet on the Western Front the main character accepts the life of war and begins to feel at peace even in death. ...

• Word Count: 1371
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• Grade Level: High School

These types of leisure allow the people an "escape- from everyday life. ... Life was more task than time-oriented, upon the completion of tasks rather than the hand of the clock. ... It became the great repository of national ideals, an icon of all that was good in American life. ... It was as though baseball had touched and captured every walk of American life. ... These include the building of impressive new ballparks, the emergence of sports pages in daily urban newspapers, and the enormous popularity of radio broadcasts of baseball games. ...

• Word Count: 1929
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The amount of immense information was just simple enough to take in the main points that happened during the Holocaust, but also went into great depth about the scenarios that they had to live by daily as a Jew or person who did not meet the expectations as an individual and was executed during the time of Hitler's control over Germany. ... Bergen in depth explains the life of Hitler and of his brief biography that supports her take on what he did to cause WWII. ... On the bottom of his ranking were the Jews and Gypsies, which he said that they were "unworthy of life." ... Life for the Je...

• Word Count: 1769
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eisenhower wanted to end the war because too many American lives were lost daily and there was no end to the conflict in sight. ... Eisenhower later said that his "efforts in ending the Korean War were one of his proudest moments in his life.... " Eisenhower, who spent most of his life in the military, did not condone the use of atomic warfare. ... "I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. ... "To the making of these fateful decisions, ...

• Word Count: 1453
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• Grade Level: High School

"Within the past two decades, giant corporations have been increasingly dictating the kind of science and scientific research that gets done, mostly to fatten themselves at our expense, so they can all better exploit us for further gain" ("The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex Engineering Life & Mind"). ... These poisons, in time, end up in the water we drink and shower in daily ("Contaminating the Environment"). ...

• Word Count: 1273
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This matter remains controversial to this day in many other aspects of life besides media. ... In contrary, Children of Hiroshima builds up the emotion gradually from before the bomb was dropped with everyone getting involved in their daily routines until after the happening, where we can see naked woman being torn over the pains, collapsed buildings, people dying, roses fading. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Katherine Clifton, wife of Jeffery Clifton, a cartographer, was the woman that he loved most in his life. ... Therefore, this reaction for his love of the desert is deep and nothing can compare to it, or that appeals to him in his life. ... He is a sapper; "he works as a snapper, defusing bombs, in daily and imminent danger of going up in flames (Scobie, p.94). ... Hana lives a life in which "People fall in love with her" (p.301) and Kip lives with his family in India finally without being destroyed by the war. ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas opens a window into one man's world, letting the reader get a glimpse of a hunchback's daily life living chained in a park. ... Throughout the poem, Thomas never passes on the opportunity to immerse the reader in the hunchback's pain, as each stanza's language dramatically describes the hunchback's tragic life. ... Each time the sun rises, so do the bars of the hunchback's jail - this message leaves the reader's head swirling as if Thomas is condemning the hunchback to this dreadful life. ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

No matter what happens in life or in death, love is a hard thing to let go. ... The water symbolizes the new, clean life that he is going to live from now on. ... Initially Henry is lustful, immature, and confused when it comes to life. ... As Henry becomes more involved with Catherine he finds his role, and a meaning to life. When Catherine visits Henry daily at the hospital as a nurse and tells him about the war, he tells her, "he does not want to read the paper- (Baker 70). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century, which is characterized by industrialization and urbanization, brought the rise of the women's movements for rights, winning the vote, taking the higher positions in society by women, and the transformation in the daily life of females, in general. ... Technical developments (the telephone, electric lights) in the 1900's that were affecting everyday life introduced a more practical style of dress, even if slowly at first. ...

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These factors were used to show women that performing industrial tasks and using machines was as easy as daily housework: Instead of cutting the lines of a dress, this woman cuts the pattern of aircraft parts. ... It really opened up another viewpoint on life in general, and changed women's views on their roles in societies. ... Rosie the Riveter represents a change in life during World War II. ...

• Word Count: 1406
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Photographers have been a part of wars for decades however the Vietnam War was the first war that was shot and actually shown to the people at home on a daily basis. ... He arrived in Vietnam in 1962 at the age of 36 and he had been a professional photographer for Life magazine for almost a decade. ... On his hip was a revolver; on his back, a typewriter and in his hand, a camera to capture the crude, startling truth of life on the front line (Hasham, 2011). ...

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The key of attachment parenting is to constantly join in the child's life. ... Too much concern would prevent the child to face challenges and autonomy in life, which helps children to grow as an independent individual. ... In addition, homeschooling provides an opportunity for parents to pass on their beliefs into the daily lives of children.  ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. ... Holocaust survivors differ in many ways, from their post war appearance, their experiences in the camps, and how they adjusted to life after the war. ... She decided to keep silence about her experiences like many made vows so they could start a new life. ... Although going through 6 months of therapy can help you live your life mor...

• Word Count: 2375
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