He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. ... Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... Santiago from "The Old Man and the Sea- is a hero because he was courageous and was not afraid of death. Santiago went out to sea, never gave up, and knew he could survive anything that happened. ... Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. ...

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He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name of Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. ... In the election of 1932, Hitler could not beat out the eighty-five year old President Hindenburg. ... Two nights later, the old courthouse, the Reichstag, began burning. ... Hitler knew that invadin...

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It is the night before they set out to sea. ... Eventually in the distance we approach a man, who approaches the car from the shore. The car has to swerve to avoid hitting the man. ... The car backs up, sheds the drunken man and continues on. ... vouch "It's not like the old gang. ...

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Suffocated in the sea of guilt and trauma, Laeddis, unconsciously or deliberately, refuses to accept this reality. ... In the decision of "[living] as a monster or die as a good man", he chooses to "die" (Shutter). ... The truth is too cruel and distressed to confront; in comparison, he prefers to drown in the sea of lies, as a good man. ... Like the old Chinese saying said, "the victor becomes the king whereas the loser becomes a bandit....

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It was faster than the old Hurricane, much more delicate... a perfect lady... and so fast!" ... He was characterized as a man of great mental energy, vivid imagination, and driving ambition. ... He felt that there had to be an expansion of the navy to compete with Germany's increase in sea power. ...

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The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. ... The conceited man wanted the little prince admitted that he was the most handsome, the most clever and the richest man in the world, but sarcastically he was the only one in the planet. ... The lamplighter is the man who the little prince liked to be friend with before he arrived earth. ... 'A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts',16 said the geographer. He was an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. ...

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Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. ...

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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 da...

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"2 His words were a far cry from a "Lincolnian" rhetoric depicting America as "the last best hope of man on earth.... Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. ... In George Washington's farewell address he said that the Constitution "has a just claim to [our] confidence and respect," because it is "the o...

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Such exposure to new democratic ideals during the war put the old European empires under constant tension that would eventually lead to their collapse in the 21st century. ... So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the government for help. ... He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Ital...

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He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Stalin used the name "Koba" until about 1913, when he regularly began signing articles and letters with the name "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel" or "steel one"). ...

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Not only did the colonists hate the unfair taxes, they hated being ruled by a tyrant far across the sea, where they could not be represented and effectively protest his unjustness. The whole system of ruling them was flawed because one man made the decisions. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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