YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Stories of Edith Wharton
Essays 151 - 180
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...
is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
period of three or four years after each of these short wars, despite the fact that millions of women were unemployed after World ...
We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...
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fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...
that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...
2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...
The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...
There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...
This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...