Wars of the Roses

two poems are easily visible when reading side by side. Both poems illustrate the internal bias towards a food stemming from necessity or desperation, yet Wilbur vehemently rejects the positive bias towards the potato while Neruda happily dons his rose-colored glasses. This divergence in attitude towards what are essentially equivalent root vegetables is quite telling of each poet’s psyche.…

right after World War One ended. In World War One many soldiers were killed throughout the war. Many Americans were brought home from the battlefields of Europe. Some could not be returned because there remains could not be identified. Determined by all the allies that unknown soldiers should be honored as a symbol of all brave soldiers who died during the time of the war (ashabranner 51). The American’s decided to choose an American Unknown to be buried in Arlington from World War One. Since…

the second world war. The Treaty of Versailles influenced the second world war by making Germany pay reparations after WWI for the damages. Adolf Hitler began militarizing and claiming what was his own, leading to the invasion of Poland and other European nations. The Great Depression impacted the entire world because of war reparations, the stock market crash, and mass unemployment around the world. The Treaty of Versailles, Hitler’s actions and the Great Depression started World War II because…

are often linked to each other or are results of each other. World War One and World War Two are two examples of this. The end of World War One directly led to the start of World War Two because the Allied Powers made decisions that would later affect themselves and other countries. Not only did they blame the entire war on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, forcing Germany to pay for all the damages, but they also outlawed war, practice appeasement, and forced democracy on all the defeated…

military leader during the Civil War and that he was the 8th president of the United States. However, many people don’t know that Ulysses S. Grant’s path to leadership and success was marked by many challenges and failures. Four important things to know about Grant is that he was not a very good student in school, he believed that the Mexican-America war was fought for the wrong reasons, he was a failure as a military officer and a private citizen, and the Civil War sparked his patriotism and…

Discuss the impact of World War I (1914 - 1918) upon the US economy in the years after the War had started but we were not yet involved. The state of the US economy in the period leading up to direct intervention in WWI can be well characterized as a dramatic plot twist. In sharp contrast to the the limited economic role that the United States played in the global economy prior in the early days of WWI, America’s progression towards direct involvement in the war catapulted it into a major…

Fear, screams, and nightmares are what haunt military members after war. It’s called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eight percent of Americans have it, which results in twenty-four and a half million people. The Warriors is a play about PTSD by William P. Bradford and was performed at Trinity high school. The production was a reflection on PTSD combined with a plot line to make an interesting twist on a play. Coupled with the controversial topic is a spectacular set, amazing actors, and…

character in the book is Sula; she is about adventure, curiosity, and even is hated by the black community. In the story, Sula had a birthmark over her eyes and it is seen differently by different characters. For instance, Nel sees it as a stemmed rose, Jude sees it as a snake, while Shadrack sees it as a tadpole. Each character is trying to find their own identity in the story, and the way…

World war ll is the most over mediatized and talked about war in recent history. Anyone cannot go five feet without running into some time of American war hero where the hero goes to foil the evil and malicious germans plan ( like Captain America, Superman, or any old propaganda poster), or in today's media, for where ever someone tries to convey how someone is horrible that person tends to compare them to the man who most of the world identifies him as bad. World War 2 was a turning point for…

“The Reed” and Post War Germany Anna Seghers’ “The Reed” is a story of a young woman, Marta Emrich, living in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany during and after the Second World War. She is a quiet, simple woman, who spends her days tending to her family’s house and property. However, in a mere 10 pages, Marta undergoes a transition that mirrors that of Germany’s people from the end of WWII to the 1950s. As unfortunate events continue to transpire, Marta holds onto silent hope that things…