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The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
998 Words - 4 Pages.... authoritarian
ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors
of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson
was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack
Anderson, (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of
his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the
death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that involved
terrorists, Nazi collaborators, racists, assassins, anti-Jewish bigots, and
right- wing anti-communist American politicians. The one factor all had in
common was their involvement with the World Anti-Communist Leagu ....
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God V. Man In Antigone
1977 Words - 8 Pages.... relation to her actions, Kreon’s realization of the effects of his selfish pride, and the people of Thebes’ observations about Kreon’s decisions.
Antigone has the most direct struggles with human law and a higher law in the drama, for it is the application of this theme that decides her fate. Faced with the decision to defy the King and properly bury her brother, Polyneices, or leave his body unprepared for death as Kreon wished, she chose to obey the wishes of the gods and bury him. At the time of the drama, the Greeks believed that a decent burial was essential for the soul to be at rest. Kreon accused Polyneices of fighting against his own country and ....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power
886 Words - 4 Pages.... came all that changed. That made the nurse furious,
that was her way of keeping perfect control and power over the patients.
McMurphy had complete power over the patients from when he first came in.
Nobody like him had ever been in the ward before. He came in singing and
laughing, something that no one had heard in a long time. He walked around the
room shaking hands, introducing himself to everyone, even the chronics. He
taught the acutes how to play cards and he taught them to gamble. His very
first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week,
and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the
gambling goin ....
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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Fear
651 Words - 3 Pages.... on the
island. Stating, "‘I ought to be chief, because I am chapter chorister and
head boy. I can sing C sharp.'" (Golding 22), Jack simply tries to find any
kind of reason why power should be taken out of the deserving hands of
Ralph and given to his own. Jack demonstrates his dread towards losing
control and power. Ralph handles the situation very efficiently and in a
well-organized manner. Because of Jack's greed for power and his fear
of losing it, the small community of young boys are not able to effectively
and pragmatically plan ways to eventually be saved. When, having a
gathering of all the children, Jack urges everyone not to listen to Ralph's
reasoning bu ....
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Essay On Romanticism In Frankenstein
911 Words - 4 Pages.... differently than they had before. They saw nature as all beautiful,
powerful, and perfect. Previously, the inspiration for literature was law,
order, and religion; now, it is in the writers imagination and powerful
emotions. This change in the attitude of the people is called Romanticism.
The Romantic Movement is one of the most important literary periods in
history; affecting the literature, music, and art of the period. It
encouraged spontaneity, and acting with emotions, not common sense. In the
more classical style of writing, writers addressed their books to the upper
class, but now writers addressed the common man and his problems. Their was
a new feeling of spiritua ....
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Catcher In The Rye And Of Mice And Men: Go West Young Man
847 Words - 4 Pages.... of working for someone else, for their reasons, for their crops and their money. He wants to grow his own crops, work in his own fields, and make a better living. “Someday---we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and……… ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”(Steinbeck 14) What George wanted most of all was to not be lonely. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.”(Steinbeck 13) George has been saving up money to buy a piece of land for Lennie and him to live on. He finally has ....
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Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
2000 Words - 8 Pages.... on two tours of America to do Lectures. He later died of a heart attack, in Liverpool, in 1888.
Matthew Arnold lived during the Victorian period. For much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. In science and technology, the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means ....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
1072 Words - 4 Pages.... being able to provide the group with food or virtually
anything else; on this basis Paul and him grew quite close. Paul's unit
was assigned to lay barbed wire on the front line, and a sudden shelling
resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted
earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's
company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared
and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result ....
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