America was all too comfortable with a naive sense "nothing can touch us and noting can hurt us." ... For example, World War II was thought of as the war "over there", "over seas", but the events that occurred on December 7,1941 at Pearl Harbor, noting at that point could compare to the awakening and the realization that America could be struck and struck hard. ... As long as we keep America strong, free and proud. ...

• Word Count: 1563
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." ... He begins as an innocent youth, "not withdrawn exactly but impenetrably private," who is able to finally "free himself from Ashley's support," letting go of the real world and approaching death. ...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

ut their free democratic consent. ... This was because, as events turned out, Stalin failed to keep his promise that free elections would be held in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. ...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But perhaps the most important effect was the chaos in the banking system, as banks tried to collect on loans made to stock market investors whose holding were now worth little or noting at all. ... The information on transaction prices were unavailable, furthermore speculators had a perverse incentive to stay away from the market in order to benefit from the distress sale and free fall in prices. ...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... With free reign over the "prisoners," many of the guards became tyrants, arbitrarily using their power and enjoying the control they had over others. ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gene was jealous of Finny's confidency, openness, modesty, superb athletic abilities, his natural leadership skills, his ability to deal with stress easily, his care free attitude, his people skills and, of course, his good looks. ... The next morning he wakes up and returns to his room to find a note on the door asking him to bring Finny's clothes and toilet articles to the infirmary, so he packs them and brings them to Finny. ...

• Word Count: 2480
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Right off the bat the book Citizens of the Empire is provocative in nature, but Robert Jensen forces the reader to reevaluate everything they thought they knew about American foreign policy after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Radical Jensen sets out on a mission to display how the illegitimate auth...

• Word Count: 2263
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. Yes, ho...

• Word Count: 2300
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gene was jealous of Finny's confidency, openness, modesty, superb athletic abilities, his natural leadership skills, his ability to deal with stress easily, his care free attitude, his people skills and, of course, his good looks. ... The next morning he wakes up and returns to his room to find a note on the door asking him to bring Finny's clothes and toilet articles to the infirmary, so he packs them and brings them to Finny. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This freed seven billion dollars worth of allowance for Britain to use for the war effort. ... Even though the band was interrupted in their song by Japanese planes, the crews did not move until the last note was sung. ...

• Word Count: 2389
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School