He sounds like the typical perception of an American hippie - big deal. ... Through his poetry, Cummings rebels against the common perceptions of traditional American ideology in hopes to bring spiritual freedom to the rigidity of America. ... Instead, we see his teachings spanning other topics, as thus, Cummings uses the subtlety of parenthesis to show how our culture ignores a symbol as powerful as Jesus if he conflicts with tradition social perceptions, like war. ... In every phrase with "etcetera," except for the last three lines ("dreaming, etcetera-) 4, describes the typical feeling...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

At the very beginning of Act One, we are introduced to Keller through the stage directions, which state that 'When he reads, when he speaks, when he listens, it is with the terrible concentration of the uneducated man for whom there is still wonder in many commonly known things, a man whose judgements must be dredged out of experience and a peasant-like common sense. ...

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Booth suffers from limbic epilepsy, which affects the part of his brain that deals with intuition and perception and causes him to experience visions and hallucinations, which is no wonder why his artworks are distorted and somewhat odd. ... A sense of movement is present within Painting 1977, with the use of swirled lines giving the effect of smoke and darkness drifting aimlessly throughout the disrupted city. ... Individuals are continuously trying to fit in with society, following what society thinks is acceptable and in turn losing their sense of identity and individuality. ... Because of ...

• Word Count: 3306
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fact the kid is asking the first question is reinforcing the sense of duty. ... I "The British stereotype of the Hun came to personify a particular perception of the quintessential immorality of Prussian mitiliarism and provided Allied propagandists with the essential focus they required to launch their moral offensive against the enemy at home and abroad, and amongst their own troops." ... There is no sense of glorification. ...

• Word Count: 2585
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Not only did his work attack religion and morality, but it also presented the idea of a "ubermensch," or the "superman:" I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the out of the dark cloud man. ... Although these ideas were rather extreme, they did foster a sense of nationalism based on the idea of the superiority of a race. ... In this sense, Serbian nationalism became a direct threat to Austro-Hungarian national integrity. ...

• Word Count: 5871
• Approx Pages: 23
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It may have taken root as a way of giving Americans the sense of their place in the sun, after the struggle for freedom."14 There is an enormous sense of pride surrounding the constitution, and it is clear to see why. ... They state that narrow focus on the constitution "has distorted our understanding of American constitutionalism and inflated our sense of America's difference."18 However what is important for this essay is the proof that both this inflated sense of uniqueness (which leads to exceptionalism) exists and also that it extends from the constitution. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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

Also on this first page he demanded that "one blood demands on Reich" even if it were harmful from an economic point of view.(2) To Hitler the anschluss was necessary, even if it caused economic problems in the short term, because only when all Germans were united and sensed their lack of space, would natural expansion of the Reich occur. ...

• Word Count: 8102
• Approx Pages: 32
• Grade Level: High School