American General Dwight Eisenhower once said‚ ¨Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained‚ well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely‚” in order to prepare his soldiers for a difficult but necessary war-time measure. The task Eisenhower described was an Allied military effort in Italy during World War II. American‚ Canadian‚ British‚ and French soldiers pushed through 20 months of fighting to reach Northern Italy. Heavy casualties happened‚ but they were able to
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also had failures. in 1923‚ they couldn’t pay the reparations. So they ended up having to print more money to pay them. This caused hyperinflation. Their money became so useless people made fire with the stacks of money. The same year‚ a man named Gustav Stresemann became Germany’s new chancellor. With him he brang new ideas on how to solve hyperinflation. He borrowed money from the United States to pay off the debt. People now had jobs and the infrastructure increased. The jubilee in germany continued
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DEATH IN VENICE Thomas Mann Context One of the most important figures of early 20th-century literature‚ Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is famous both for his fiction and for his critical essays. Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck‚ Germany‚ to a distinguished merchant family that had a literary lineage‚ as well; Mann’s older brother‚ Heinrich‚ also became a famous novelist and playwright. Mann took a keen interest in the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche‚ and their theories
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Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language‚ closely following the several authors of the Bible. Out of Shakespeare’s thirty seven plays‚ one of his most famous is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ who come from feuding families‚ display just how strong the strength of true love is by dying to each other. In Romeo and Juliet‚ the two lovers show their undying affection for each other by using metaphors and religious phrases. Romeo and
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For my IOC commentary I have been given the extract from Act 1 scene 5 from the play Romeo and Juliet. This is one of the most famous and important scenes in this play as this is the first time Romeo and Juliet‚ the two main characters meet. Prior to this scene the audience are made aware that Romeo has no interest in going to the Capulet’s party but he only agrees to show to mercutio that there is no one as beautiful as Rosaline‚ the girl whom Romeo was in love with before he met Juliet. The main
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SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT- Hey‚ hey‚ hey‚ hey Hey‚ hey‚ hey‚ hey Hey‚ hey‚ hey‚ hey Hey‚ hey‚ hey‚ hey Simmer down‚ simmer down They say we’re too young now to amount to anything else But look around We work too damn hard for this just to give it up now If you don’t swim‚ you’ll drown But don’t move‚ honey You look so perfect standing there In my American Apparel underwear And I know now‚ that I’m so down Your lipstick stain is a work of art I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart And I know now
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The Little Mermaid : Old vs. New Story The Little Mermaid is a well known story about the mermaid who was yearning for the life out of the sea. She wanted to be part of the human world and explore all of the wonderful things of living below the stars. The original Little Mermaid story was written in 1836 by a man named Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid was created into a Disney movie in 1989‚ many of the aspects of the stories followed the path of one of Vladimir Propp’s spheres he
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indication that the friends‚ Sephy and Callum‚ have feelings for each other comes straight away when Callum says‚ “ Can I kiss you?” Sephy does not really like this idea at first and thinks “Yuck” and wrinkles up her nose. However‚ she eventually agrees though says‚ “Make it fast!” They kiss very awkwardly and Callum says‚ “If you can’t kiss your friends then who can you kiss!” This shows that they still feel too young to have a relationship but at this stage there is no real worries for either
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soul that is moving around his body in a pleasant and warming way. His beautiful souls starts feeling his way around him wanting to give his body this biggest kiss to himself ever imaginable. His soul goes to his waist and his hips and then simply and gracefully moves around to his tailbone‚ then goes up to his heart finishing this soulful kiss that arises
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Katharyn Howd Machan’s poem‚ “Hazel Tells Laverne”‚ humorously ridicules fairytales. The narrator‚ Hazel‚ recounts the night of her encounter with a talking frog when cleaning the Howard Johnson’s Hotel’s bathroom. The frog bargains that a kiss to his nose can turn Hazel into a princess. Hazel reacts to the offer by repeating “me a princess” throughout the poem to emphasize how ridiculous and unrealistic she finds the idea to be. Besides‚ frogs don’t talk. Hazel blatantly declines‚ and flushes the
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