The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. ... The character, who is referred to as "him" by Cummings, is the soldier who is shot by the Japanese bullet. ... In the end of the poem, the character dreams of "your Etectera" while he lies in mud, wishing he could be back home. ... With the country and his family pressuring him to feel "etcetera", the character converts what should be his feelings of pride to feelings of love. ... The poem moves through different situation...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... It may be argued however, that recruitment posters really weren't needed, that men would join up anyway, from a variety of reasons from boredom, hope that conditions in the army were better than their current situation et cetera. ... It is impossible to prove a fact until we are 100% certain and in the...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This movie a positive insight to the war through the main character. ... Eventually, the hostility led to bloodshed in the Boston Massacre, an incident where a group of angry colonists began to throw snowballs at some British troops, who responded by firing on the colonists and killing five men in the crowd. ... Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men from Massachusetts fight for the freedom of their enslaved brothers in the South (Glory). ...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by ...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School