A Friend to the End All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel about the horrors and the atrophies of war. It takes place during World War I and involves the terrors of trench warfare. This tale follows the soldiers as they battle and live along the front, while watching their friends die beside th...

The Chosen The Chosen, a novel written by Chaim Potok, revolves mainly around the lives of four people. They include Reuven Malter, Mr. Malter, Reb Saunders and Danny Saunders. It mainly details the friendship between Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders and not as much around their fathers, Mr. Ma...

People become tragically alienated from societies for having strange opinions about life and for clenching on to their moral beliefs. In the tragedy "A Separate Peace" John Knowles explores this idea thoroughly through its modern tragic hero Phineas. Because of his personal belief of not h...

A Separate Peace, a novel written by John Knowles, has many great themes about competition, friendship, and growing up. The great symbol is a very tall tree by the Devon River. The tree symbolizes war, adulthood, and friendships. The tree is a great symbol to both Finny and Gene. Even though the tre...

A Separate Peace A Separate Peace by John Knowles describes what it is like for two young boys to go through a challenging time of battle, World War II, and how the war reflected on them. The two best friends, Gene and Phineas (Finny), attend Devon school together and strive to live at peace whil...

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...

Friends are the people who you spend most of your time to hang with. Friendship is the relationship between you and your friends. During a trip to a country park, I experienced how to trust friends. Seven years ago, I was living in Hong Kong, and it was a cloudy Summer Saturday morning. My sister an...

The Warsaw Pact of 1955 The Warsaw Pact of 1955 was an alliance of countries similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of 1949. These countries which were subjugated by the communist regime of the Soviet Union which included: People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria...

Snow in August is a good example about the prejudice and racism in the 1940's. Pete Hamill has truly done a marvelous job at depicting the effects of WWII on an anti Jewish town, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn was in the midst of religious and racial turmoil. Hamill describes how ripped apart thi...

"Fences" is set in an African-American section of Pittsburgh, PA during the 1950s and 1960s. The play gets its title from the fence that the main character, Troy, is building for his wife Rose at the beginning of the play while chatting with his friend Bono. Bono has bet his wife Lucille ...

Herring writes a broad and sweeping history of the Vietnam War, fitting it within its historical context. He recounts how two sisters, riding elephants, led a rebellion against China's dominance in the first century A.D. just as they resisted French imperialism in the 20th century. ...

Henry and the Priest Masculinity, heroism, and war are often themes in Ernest Hemingway's novels, and although evident in his A Farewell to Arms, these things are secondary. Set in Italy during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young man's self-realization. With the use...

"Cold war" is the term given to the competition, conducted through means short of direct military conflict, between the United States and the Soviet Union since World War II. Its roots go back to the 1890s when, after a century of friendship, Americans and Russians became rivals over the development...

The Cold War was the time period from 1945 to 1990 where there was constant tension and struggle between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. Actual military conflict never occurred, but there were great amounts of hostility and rivalry between the two sides, as wel...

The Movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" occurs during the two years just before the Armistice ended World War I in November 1918. By 1916 when the story begins, World War I had already been underway for two years. From the beginning, World War I was fought in two areas, named for thei...

During the late 1940's and early 1950's, the topic of Communism had initiated to develop as an everyday conversation for all Americans considering the end of World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War. In 1952, A man name Joseph McCarthy had been elected to Senator for the state of Wi...

The Cold War was the period from 1945 to 1990 where there was constant tension and struggle between the United States, its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies. Actual military conflict never occurred, but there were great amounts of hostility and rivalry between the two sides and intense cla...

The Cold War A balanced friendship between the United States and Russia had lasted for nearly 100 years. Even though Russia and the Americans had contrasting political beliefs they still managed to keep an alliance in the 1930's and early 40's to defeat the growing surge of fascism th...

A Separate Peace is the story of two young men, Gene and Phineas, taking their first steps into adulthood during the beginning of World War II. The two of them face many challenges, including watching a comrade go into war only to return with his mind useless, and also an incident where Phineas fal...

Character: One of the main characters was Phineas, or Finnny. Finny is a very outgoing person. He's a daredevil and athletic. Finny was also popular and handsome. He was one the boys followed, looked up to, and did anything he said or came up with. Even when Finny gets hurt he tries to play, ...

Night In Night by Elie Wiesel, the horror of war is displayed through a terrifying account of a Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his God. Night is similar to All Quiet on the Western Front in a number of w...

Night In Night by Elie Wiesel, the horror of war is displayed through a terrifying account of a Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his God. Night is similar to All Quiet on the Western Front in a numbe...

As with most novels, it is best to begin a discussion of thematics by examining the title. The phrase, "a separate peace," is mentioned once in the novel when, speaking of the Winter Carnival, Gene writes: "it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had con...

As with most novels, it is best to begin a discussion of thematic by examining the title. The phrase, "a separate peace," is mentioned once in the novel when, speaking of the Winter Carnival, Gene writes: "it was this liberation we had torn from the grey encroachments of 1943, the escape...

Since the beginning of history, human life has been afflicted with compromises. It is an agreement of differences in which each side makes mutual concessions and strive towards settlement. The contributors of an argument may not always attain a final compromise. This is because one side of the contr...