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The novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, was symbolic for the war that was going during Gene's time at Devon. John Knowles used the description of many natural elements to describe World War II and its effects on the youth at Devon. Prominently
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Category: /Literature
Poise
In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the protagonist Gene Forrester matures through three stages of his life at a New Hampshire prep school. At the beginning of the story, Gene is insecure and jealous of his charismatic friend
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Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
policies of 'peaceful co-existence' with the Capitalist countries. However, his measures taken in the uprisings in Eastern Europe, competition for control over Africa and Asia and the establishment of the Warsaw Pact, the propaganda war and the tension
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Category: /Literature/English
in the beautiful New England area, had to deal with problems at school, and faced a tragic end. The two characters had dreams in life that they were unable to accomplish. Although the book, A Separate Peace, and the movie, Dead Poets Society, were not modeled off one
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Category: /Social Sciences/Political Science
, the Cold War is a perfect case in point of the barbed-wire boundaries constructed around peace ... archival research finds that since 1945 the Soviets had no intentions of attacking the United States (Kegley, 258-61). The arms race was ... prolonged because
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Category: /History/North American History
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Woodrow Wilson wanted the world to be a safe place. He wanted to end the war in fair peace, not in revenge or further warfare. He came up with the 14 points for peace, several of which were Self-determination, disarmament, and League of Nations. First, Woodrow
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Category: /Literature/North American
<Tab/>One of the major themes in A Separate Peace is the coming of age. The theme of maturity can be viewed as a growing realization of the war in the school (in which the students realize that they have to enlist into the war "as men
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Category: /History
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The League of Nations were set up in the 1920s so that each country could feel protected after the war and it would be like a world parliament to keep the peace and sort out any problems. In the early 1930s there were two main tests for the league; The invasion
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Category: /Law & Government/International
to implement them, which cause disputes between the nation and some times it results in war.
The combination of these complex problems has resulted in failed peacekeeping missions. It is not easy to maintain peace in the world. The UN doesn't claim to be perfect
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Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
in other countries became more powerful and the democracies were either unwilling or unable to stop them. World War Two broke out when finally, in 1939 International peace efforts broke down. The main reasons for this were Hitlers actions and his main three
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