Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... 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 th...

• Word Count: 2765
• Approx Pages: 11

(The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." ... Yet another man's fits of jerking and twitching were so bad that it seemed some wild demon had possessed his mind. ...

• Word Count: 3502
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... They drove ambulances, served as nurses and doctors, and distributed food to the soldiers, "undeterred by discomfort and hardship.""14 Furthermore, a number of women "responded with enthusiasm to the call for drafts-15 and by their help, they contributed directly to the victory of the allied forces in the First World War. ...

• Word Count: 2634
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Late some nights, the narrator gets drunk and begins to call up old friends on the telephone. ... The narrator promised that it won't be that kind of book, and that he'd call it The Children's Crusade. ... He calls attention to the moment when Lot's wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

The reclamation of the Pontine marshes was imperative to the fascist party in Italy because one of the central symbols of the regime was to convert wild nature into productive nature. ... The New Dealers, as Garraty calls them in New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. ...

• Word Count: 2776
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42