Throughout the poem, Cummings uses the word "etcetera," for many different usages, and parts of speech. ... Because he switches around this word in many ways, Cummings mocks the American way of associating military service with courage, honor, privilege, and all the other pithy sayings society loves to drill into its citizens" minds. ... Through the word "etcetera," Cummings implies that the inflated image of war Americans hold is so basic, so predictable, and so pithy that he replaces these same fallacies with "and so on." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Symbolism means the use of symbols, especially in literature, film, art, etc in 19th century France. 2 A symbol is anything which signifies anything, in this sense, all words are symbols, but used in criticism, however, 'symbol', is applied only to a word or a phrase signifying an object which itself has significance, that is, the object referred to has a range of meaning beyond itself. In symbolism symbols can be categorized according to use and origin. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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, a...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ...

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