The Thin Red Line The filmmaker Terence Malick has created a profound and complex war film. The Thin Red Line is in essence about a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during a fierce World War ...

The Life, Times, and Literary Genius of Stephen Vincent Benet Stephen Vincent Benet was brought up among and honest and wholesome upbringing. His father was an Army captain who would travel all across the U.S. Young Stephen was born on July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, approximately ...

Susan Griffin\'s project is that she carefully constructs and describes history, particularly World War II, through the lives of several different people. She does not just state the history, she ties each of her topics and shows how they directly effected the other by the actions someone would take...

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the annual Townsville Poetry Association meeting for 2005. I'm quite sure everyone here reads poetry and subconsciously analyses and deconstructs each line and verse. You may even test yourself to challenge the dominant reading and look at the poem in a differen...

Chapter One The main point in chapter one was to give us a history of the Japanese people, and to rationalize why the Japanese army went to such extremes in Nanking. She uses examples of training rituals used by the Japanese army like extreme teaching procedures and terrible school conditions...

"Sunset Song" was written by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'(1901-35) who was born and brought up in the area of Arbuthnolt where his father rented a croft(Bloomfield). Throughout the novel it provides a description of life in the first two decades of the century by the evocation of ...

Paul Baumer is a 19 year old German student who is convinced by peers and his schoolmaster to enlist in the German army during World War I. The story follows him and his fellow soldiers throughout their struggles in the war. The book is written through his eyes, which is also known as a first perso...

They sometimes say that people most fear what they don't understand! Past and present warfare conflicts have brought a sense of patriotism and American duty to the United States. But in World War II in brought a sense of fear home with it too. In Chapter 11 of "American Realities,"...

In this ambitious study, Uta G. Poiger attempts to trace the developments of Post-WWII popular culture in East and West Germany, paying close attention to reaction and politicization that framed each side's discussions. The picture that emerges seems to be extremely accurate, but it is at the s...

Graves' Use of Documents Robert Graves depicts the dramatic and somewhat gruesome memories of his days in World War I in his autobiography, Good-bye to All That. Without ever being involved in a war, it is hard to comprehend the horrific and dramatic events that take place. As with any st...

John Misto, playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women's story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this thro...

The Good and the Bad of Globalization Globalization has had a profound effect on many aspects on the current society, such as warfare and economy. Some experts believe that these influences are mostly positive, whereas critics of globalization believe that the affects are mostly negative. An exa...

War is not always a good thing. In fact, it is in no way good to anyone except for the people who are not fighting in it. War can completely ruin someone's sense of logical thinking and distort there concept of reality. When you are dead you cant think anymore. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a soldier ...

Man's Fate: Truth or Imagination Andre Malraux creatively combines his personal beliefs and experiences, history, and imaginative characters to inscribe Man's Fate. He adds his own elements to enhance the historical setting of this novel with a personal touch to give the reader an abili...

At 7:50 a.m., Naval Commander Donald DuBrul was about to complete his 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. watch on board the USS Argon. The ship was stationed in the Navy Yard towards the entrance to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. He began wondering if the next man would show up for his shift. In the distance, a band on...

On the Northern border of the Arlington National Cemetery stands a huge bronze monument representing probably the world's most famous war photograph: the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi during the invasion of Iwo Jima. The three-hundred page book, Flags of Our Fathers, is written by James Bradl...

Physical JourneyIt is said that 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step' or 'Explore when you have the time, then you'll have time when you explore', ' there are goals and meaning in our journey - but it is the road, that makes it worthwhile' and 'an end to a journey toward is good - but...

Looking back, one can now discern at least four phases in Salinger's career. His early stories generally portray characters that feel estranged and marooned because of World War II. The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's attempt in that book to deal with estrangement and isolation through a Zen-ins...

Catch-22 The name of the novel I read is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. This novel's uniqueness makes it hard to classify but I would classify it as an anti-war novel. The main theme of the novel is one of hope and freedom from the barbaric grasp of war. Heller uses World War II as an almost ...

World War 1: German Guilt. Introduction Few historical areas can have aroused as much debate as that of the origins and causes of WW1. The thousands of documents and eyewitness testimonies collated have allowed historians to construct exceedingly detailed illustrations of what happened in the days...

Women played an important role in helping the United States come home with a victory. World War II created a surplus of positions that the women needed to fill when their fathers, husbands, brothers, or sons left to serve their country. Maureen Honey, author of Creating Rosie the Riveter, discusse...