A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, histor...

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The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... Of course, the women had to be able to do what was expected of them but mothers, school, society, and peers all helped prepare them for being a housewife. ... Both looked to the United States to provide the commodities they needed in order to rebuild and the U.S. was more than willing to help. ... The government hel...

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His mother worked hard to help him afford the tuition. ... Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic novels of Victor Hugo to the works of Charles Jean Marie Letourneau who was a Frenchman who attempted to analyze all of the world's history through the lens of his own radical political ideas. ... Stalin used the observatory to hold secret meetings and as a hide away for the forbiden marxist literature. ...

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There is little consensus in the literature on definitions of sovereignty. ... Among the great nations, the norm of non-intervention in intra-great nation affairs and relations helped to maintain stability. ... While classical international law restricts the rights of states to act within the territory of other states, and although during the Cold War the norms prohibiting intervention helped to prevent direct conflict between the Superpowers. ...

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There is little consensus in the literature on definitions of sovereignty. ... Among the great nations, the norm of non-intervention in intra-great nation affairs and relations helped to maintain stability. ... While classical international law restricts the rights of states to act within the territory of other states, and although during the Cold War the norms prohibiting intervention helped to prevent direct conflict between the Superpowers. ...

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The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany i...

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The story started with the author's plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from help, he encountered an extraordinary little prince, who was a lonely person who lived on a little planet, B612. ... Finally, he went back to his planet with the help of a snake. ... Symbolism means the use of symbols, especially in literature, film, art, etc in 19th century France. 2 A symbol is anything which signifies anything, in this sense, all words are symbols, but used in criticism, however, 'symbol', is applied only to a word or a phrase signifying an object which itself has...

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(Herman 12, 28) Victims were psychologically inclined to mask and forget their awful experiences, and society at large preferred not to contemplate the subject of atrocity if it could be helped. ... (Fussell 74) Gurney's poetry wasn't the only literature influenced by shell shock. ... The medical specialty of psychiatry was brought into the public eye mainly because of the extreme need of people to help these victims. ... (Herman 21) Needless to say, this hardly ever helped a patient's condition and quite often made it worse. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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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 tremendou...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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This is not about making new propositions on the development of international refugee regime but rather to use the existing literatures on the topic to proffer answers to the questions posed. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make it to these two countries ran to Asia minor ( what is today known as Turkey) China and North America. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to...

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