At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ... Tension mounts with the Colonel when Olaf screams to his platoon "I will not kiss your fucki...

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• Grade Level: High School

Years later, at the height of his power, he still spoke with a pronounced Georgian accent but boasted that he had forgotten the language. ... His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the young boy to Tiflis to work alongs side him in a shoe factory. ... Stalin loved reading adventure novels and he had a passion for the outdoors. ... Stalin was later arrested by police at a demonstration and was sent to the village of Novaya Uda in Siberia. ...

• Word Count: 2506
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. ... Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native Americans and how they were slaughtered along with reading about battles between the Germans and Russians. ... Two nights later, the old courthouse, the Reichstag, began burning. ... Italy and Japan joined the Axis and Germany then went and defeated Poland and five days later planned an attack on France (Shirer 827). ...

• Word Count: 3236
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Late some nights, the narrator gets drunk and begins to call up old friends on the telephone. ... This characteristic is brought even more to the forefront later in the novel. ... A month later, Billy wrote a letter to Ilium's newspaper describing the aliens. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. ...

• Word Count: 3362
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• Grade Level: High School

(the several passages that follow are from related readings- All Quiet on the Western Front) " Still blinded at the train carried him eastward, Hitler was in a state bordering collapse. Like the other victim his eyes were swollen, his face puffed up.....This wounded and shaken corporal would fifteen years later be the leader of the Reich not yet aware of the magnitude of Germany's defeat. "The article would later go on to say in an account of Hitler... A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Culturally too, increasing access to literacy, and to education in general, led to profound changes in the reading public. ... Late Hardy Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. ...

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"Jewish women and men experienced unrelieved suffering during the Holocaust" and we can understand it better by reading the books that survivors of that horror wrote, sharing with us all they went through (Ringelheim 26). ... By the late 1930's there were hundreds of camps scattered throughout Germany; and camps were quickly being established throughout much more of Europe. ... When reading Night the pain that the people went through is sad enough to make anybody want to take back the actions of the Nazi's. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendous technological advances as well as, drastic social changes throughout the world and especially within the United States. The rivalry for global dominance immediately became, perhaps, the single most important factor determining the American, as well as, the global human experience and would remain...

• Word Count: 3509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). The poster compels the reader to joint up for the US army, probably after the USA declared war on Germany, on the 7th April 1917, proving this to be a later source, produced after the war has raged unabated for three years, thus having dispelled the no...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Over the last the forty years, far more Americans have reached their comprehension of the Vietnam War from watching noble-grunt films, such as The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, First Blood, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Born on the Fourth of July, rather than reading historical books. ... Later in the film, this idea will be evident in the Viet Cong's barbaric torture as the capturers pervert the image into horrific games of Russian roulette. ...

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

If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the day after his inauguration said "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."" After making the decision to end World War II by dropping to atomic bombs on Japan, Truman entered a period of time that he would not even out last. ...

• Word Count: 4238
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School