Wilfred Owen\'s \"Greater Love\" and Remarque\'s \"All Quiet on the Western Front\" are two pieces of literature that examine the bond that men made with each other during World War I. The speaker in \"Greater Love\" tells of the sacrifices made during war to his lover, who he does not believe can u...

Show how poets you studied this year develop universal themes and images. Language is the greatest form of communication, separating humans from the other primates. Literature, the written form of spoken language offers an opportunity to express emotions and thoughts precisely. This highly develo...

In his book Nils Gilman speaks about the many theories that defined modernism and modernization during the twentieth century. Those theories refer mainly to the American pint of view and their concept of situations, compared to other countries that were, at that time, less developed. The theory of ...

1. Describe and explain how and why the economic, political, social and cultural development of the 1920's reflected an era of transition and tensions. The 1920's promoted radio, movies, advertising, and mass-circulation magazines. Sex clashed with the traditional values of hard work, ...

The history of United States of America starts relatively late when compared to other countries of West European civilization. However it inherited the background and experience of the "old world" and succeeded in becoming the world's superpower. Today, the United States dominates the world in polit...

The classic anti-war, anti-establishment, anti- (insert current debatable issue/action here) novel, Catch-22, follows the life of Yossarian, the main character, and his fellow Army Air Corps officers, stationed on an imaginary island off the coast of Italy, through a period during World War II. The...

IntroductionThe study of the role of propaganda in an international context has always been one wrought with controversy and conflict. Although its physical and psychological presence is evident to both the man on the street and the man in the study, when and how propaganda was created is indefinite...

Final Out of Class PaperI choose topic one for the final paper. I picked 15 poems from McClure's Magazine from the years of 1918 and 1920. Some quick generalizations about the published poems are that they are rather short compared to the literary work in the Norton Anthology. Another generalizat...

MOTHER COURAGE: A LEGACY OF SURVIVAL Mother Courage is an unbraidable knot of contradictions: both fearless and feckless, wise and uneducable, maternally caring and emotionally aloof. A camp-following trader, she picks the bones of a war-withered economy to feed her fatherless children. Yet her ...

The German economy lay in a state of despair after WWII, stemming from problems that occurred well before this. But a miracle happened; Germany was able to turn around their economic tragedy to one of substantial growth and wealth, lifting itself from the bottom to one of the top economies in Europe...

America, The Land of Opportunity Most people, nowadays, want to become wealthy and live in the lap of luxury. Everyone wants that million dollars, and to make it to the Promise Land. We use literature to spill our thoughts and tell stories about history. History and literature are linked in tha...