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    deal with‚ especially if it is someone you love. The protagonists from Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ along with Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and others in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried are all forced to deal with death during wartime. The effects of death among these soldiers vary from emotional numbness‚ self-sacrifice‚ to guilt. Death in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a small but important part of the novel. The deaths of Catherine Barkley and her

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    Paper Assignment #1 February 27‚ 2012 On January 11‚ 1989 President Ronald Reagan gave his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office in The White House. The speech was broadcast live on nationwide radio and television. He had served our country for 8 years and now it was time for George Bush to take office. He used his 34th and final speech as president to not only bid the nation farewell but also to give thanks to the American people. He shares with America his experience as the U

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    Hemingway‚ who wrote A Farewell to Arms take the readers on a whole new journey set in the tragic time of war filled with stories of love and pain and loyalty which all of these feelings play an important role in the characters’ lives. The English Patient is the story of four mentally and physically injured characters living in an Italian monastery as World War II was coming to an end at the time. One by one‚ Ondaatje reveals the stories of their past and how they came to be. A Farewell to Arms is a heartbreaking

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    Main Themes in A Farewell to Arms Written in 1929 by Ernest Hemingway‚ A Farewell to Arms has always been considered a classic piece of literature. A major source of the novel’s success is how its themes tied into real life experiences during the First World War. While soldiers of the war fought for their country‚ they searched for love to escape total chaos and destruction. The two main themes in A Farewell to Arms are the gruesome reality of war and the relationship between love and pain.

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    in the New World. One of these pilgrims‚ named George Washington‚ helped lead the settled pilgrims to freedom from Great Britain in 1776. In the years that followed this separation from Great Britain‚ many things changed for the pilgrims‚ including the development of a government controlled by the people with a new constitution that gave inalienable rights for the people of this new nation. In addition to this‚ the pilgrims learned how to cultivate peace and harmony with the Foreign World without risking

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    amount of imagery in his War World I novel‚ A Farewell to Arms. In the five books that the novel is composed of‚ the mind is a witness to the senses of sight‚ touch‚ smell‚ hearing‚ and taste. All of the these senses in a way connects to the themes that run through the novel. We get to view Hemingway’s writing style in a greater depth and almost feel‚ or mentally view World War I and the affects it generates through Lieutenant Henry’s eyes. In Book One of A Farewell to Arms‚ we get to read of the

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    A FAREWELL TO ARMS ERNEST HEMINGWAY A Farewell to Arms In the novel A Farewell to Arms‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ the audience is granted a historical and geographical background of World War I. Throughout the novel‚ references are made to the people‚ places and the government that Hemingway assumes his audience will recognize. The novel is broken down into five books: exposing us to warfare and the turmoil left in its’ wake‚ love‚ hatred‚ betrayal and murder. Being a veteran of

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    In “children Need to Play‚ Not compete‚” Jessica Statsky highlights her concerns regarding the destructive effects competitive sports have on children. This issue needs to be resolved and the parents need to understand the consequences of making these kinds of sports part of their children lives. These sports are not suitable for young children as they are based on the age and strength of adults. Jessica talks about the damaging effects these competitive sports have on a child’s brain and bodies

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    A Feminist Criticism of A Farewell to Arms       After finishing A Farewell to Arms‚ I found it difficult to reconcile Judith Fetterley ’s feminist attack of the novel with my own personal opinions. I agree that Hemingway does kick women to the curb in his portrayal of Catherine‚ but my reasons for pinning this crime on Hemingway are different from hers ’. Although she means well‚ Fetterley makes the ridiculous claim that by portraying Catherine as an angelic‚ selflessly loving "woman to end

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    and death in order to turn this story in a modern tragedy for the world to see. Some older writers of literature believe a true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status. As centuries past‚ the modern writer’s belief that tragedy may also depict ordinary people in domestic surrounding came to life in stories such as Henrik Ibsen "A Dolls House." With the emergency of the modern tragedy‚ Hemingway released A Farewell to Arms. Through out this short story filled with five short narratives

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