The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. The characters who are showcased in the this story are part of the Lost Generation, the generation who lived through the horrors of World War I, called the Great War in that time period. ... Jake Barnes, the story's narrator, fought in the war. ... But Robert thought more of the relationship, as opposed to Brett who was only in it for the sex. ... While visiting Spain, Brett started having sex with nineteen-year-old bullfighter, Pedro Romero. ...

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Kingsley shows his bravery more than once during the story. ... " (Page 139) Shannon shows lack for respect for women, he just uses them just for sex. ... Kingsley intentions in the story are mostly good, he helps many other characters like when he saved the soldiers in the trench raid, also when he saved Violet from Shannon. ...

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Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male protagonist who encountered a beautiful and seductive, but immoral, femme fatale. ... Additionally, he becomes ensnared in the sex appeal of the femme fatale that is Phyllis Dietrichson. ... Her sex appeal is too much for him to resist, which she uses to her advantage, and he ends up committing a murder for her, putting him into a situation of paranoia and fear of being caught by his boss and friend Barton Keyes, whose hunches are never wrong. Neff provides the viewer with the film's story in ...

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The overwhelming view of sex in this era, at least publicly, was that of a tool used for procreation not recreation. ... In light of this decision, the Supreme Court found it then necessary to define "obscenity" and to distinguish it from the portrayal of sex. ... Brennan writes: "sex and obscenity are not synonymous Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ... "# Although, here, the court does give some leeway in the interpretation of obscenity and sex, the decision nevertheless, reveals the sexually repressed views of the era. Perhap...

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YOU can join my military, receive benefits AND love the same sex!... The author barely included stories from the lesbians in the armed forces but before considering this a bias I understand the fact that "identifying lesbians was not an easy task" (32) and that you could not tell them apart from the other women most of the time. ... It would also be interesting to read about the military officials that ended up changing their minds towards their GI's after fighting with them in combat and seeing that their strength and patriotism was not hindered by them loving the same sex. ...

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The men could not think of any particularly good memories or stories, and the narrator noticed that Mary, Bernard's wife (to whom Slaughterhouse Five is dedicated), seemed very angry about something. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... He gives us the first line and the last, and the central story of the novel is ready to begin. ... In his own mind, Weary narrates the war stories he will one day tell. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the stor...

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In another popular anti-war poem, "I sing of Olaf glad and big," Cummings redefines the American stereotype of a war hero by telling a story of a soldier who wouldn't conform to the traditions of the military. ... After the story ends, Cummings begins a narrative that praises Olaf's actions: "Chris(of His mercy infinite) i pray to see;and Olaf,too Preponderatingly because Unless statistics lie he was More brave than me:more blond than you." 5 The words "i sing of Olaf," suggest Cummings" attempt to make this poem an anthem, or tribute to honor a rebellious soldier whose o...

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We can choose our child's sex, hair color, and eye color. ... This is just one of countless horror stories concerning racism in America and the lengths people go through to show their vehemence. ...

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Later he relates his dark, hopeless story to a group of friends. ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ... In this story, three boys, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, find themselves marooned on an island. ... The story is also heavily influenced by the impressionist movement. ... Do you see the story? ...

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The craze of Hollywood and theater also began during this time, and women took roles in writing award-winning plays, novels, poetry, and short stories. ... President Kennedy began to support women's cause and with that came the adding of "sex" to race, color, religion, and national origin in the Civil Rights Bill in Title VII. ...

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Because many people began experimenting with sex, drugs, and new types of music, such as rock and roll, anti-heroes gained popularity in order to adapt to the shifting norms. ... On the other hand, the anti-hero tends to have a back story that reveals why they act the way they do. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected the inevitable forthcoming of the sexual revolution in the later 1960's. ... Red may evoke a positive symbol involving passion, love, and sex, while the negative reaction could be violent, bloody, and corrupt. ...

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" Bob Dylan "The Things They Carried" is a story of love during the wartime. ... Through this relationship the writer depicts the role of man in formulation of families and intimate relationships between sexes. ...

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" One girl goes on to explain a complicated story as to why faster is better. Her story goes that faster is better because then you could escape being chased by a ware wolf, therefore you wont be bitten by one, and then you wont turn into one, and then you can escape one, and so on. ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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