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A Description of Leadership Lessons For War and Peace (1208 words, 2 pages)

Saving Private Ryan Leadership Lessons for War and Peace The movie Saving Pvt. Ryan hits you with shocking realism. From the beginning to the end, you feel as if you are there. The knots twist in your stomach waiting for the landing craft gate to drop. Cold water fills your ... Read More

A Discussion on the Victory of Peace (365 words, 1 pages)

Milton wrote in a letter to Cromwell peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. The line indeed carries a world of wisdom and truth. Victories of peace are won over disease, pain and suffering, over illiteracy, ignorance and superstition and over poverty, oppression and tyranny. Victories of peace ... Read More

The Goal of Creating a Culture of Peace (1002 words, 2 pages)

Creating A Culture of Peace Peace. That has been the main goal of many different cultures throughout the history of time. Whether or not they have attained that main goal of peace is very debatable. It all depends on whose definition of peace you are looking at, and how someone ... Read More

An Analysis of the Good Friday Peace Agreement of the Scottish National Party on the Topic of Ireland (238 words, 1 pages)

Good Friday Peace Agreement The Scottish National Party supports Ireland's choice concerning the Good Friday Peace Agreement. We have congratulated the leaders of Northern Ireland's two largest parties on the extraordinary 72 support in the referendum on the Good Friday Peace Agreement. It is a great achievement for Ireland to ... Read More

A Biography of Flora Brovina the Kosovian Peace Activist (994 words, 2 pages)

Flora Brovina is one of the most famous Kosovian peace activists of her time. Born in 1949 in the town of Sknderaj in the Drenica valley of Kosovo, Brovina was moved to Prishtina where she was raised with excellent schooling. She studied medicine heavily in Middle School and High School, ... Read More

An Analysis of A Separated Peace by John Knowles (2243 words, 2 pages)

EnemyDealing with enemies has been a problem ever since the beginning of time. In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student in Devon during World War 2 dealing with few human enemies, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Phineas in the Novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (485 words, 1 pages)

In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowels, Phineas is depicted as a propitious and understanding individual. First of all, he is Gene's best friend. Finny includes Gene in any activity that he creates, or participates in. (Phineas is also referred to as Finny.)From the Super Suicide Society of ... Read More

A Summary of the Book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (3164 words, 7 pages)

A Separate Peace In his book A Separate Peace John Knowles communicates what war really is. He uses a number of complex characters in a very complicated plot in order to convey the harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war. The Characters Gene and Finny are used as opposing forces ... Read More

The Quotes in the Book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (2054 words, 3 pages)

Quote 1 "This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are...shrunken by age....for the old giants have ... Read More

A Comparison of the Novels, A Separate Peace and The Wave (333 words, 1 pages)

Essay A Separate Peace and The Wave Everyone has a yearning to be part of something. Joining a group can be especially meaningful when a person is in search of a positive experience. However, when conflicts arise, difficult decisions must be made. Both A Separate Peace and The Wave have ... Read More

The Journey of Gene Forrester in the Novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (778 words, 3 pages)

A Separate Peace - Gene's Journey Gene Forrester's difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Gene's journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he visits the tree fifteen ... Read More

A Report on the Novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (439 words, 1 pages)

A Separate Peace Sean McClusky Action, Adventure, Guilt, some of the characteristics of the book A Separate Peace. A tragic story about the events of a boys life named Finny. Finny and his best friend, or his arch rival, horse around and play games until things get crazy and someone ... Read More

A Decade of Uneasy Peace (2095 words, 3 pages)

A Decade of Uneasy Peace World War II was the worst war that was fought in the 20th Century, and perhaps the worst war in the history of man. The loss of lives in World War II was a staggering 50-60 million dead (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbolism in A Separate Peace, a Novel by John Knowles (574 words, 2 pages)

Symbols are often used throughout the novel A Separate Peace, to help the reader distinguish between who or what is moral and immoral. One of the main symbols would be the Devon and Naguamsett Rivers. The second main symbol would be the Winter Carnival, which represented the peace and freedom ... Read More

A Description of a Peace Hero on the United States Marines (1134 words, 2 pages)

UNITED STATES MARINES What is a Peace Hero? Webster describes a hero as, A man noted for courageous acts or nobility of purpose. One who has risked or sacrificed his life. Peace is described as, The absence of war or other hostilities. Isnt that the life of a Marine? Every ... Read More

An Analysis of the Separate Peace in John Knowles’ Novel (599 words, 1 pages)

A Separate Peace Essay In John Knowles' novel, a separate peace resembles an entity, a friendship or any other intimate or isolated microcosm in which the outside world seems more distant and more chaotic. The main things that brought this separate peace to Gene were the friendship that Gene had ... Read More

The Koran and the Islamic Law of Peace (853 words, 1 pages)

The Hatred Is In Their Hearts The Koran states, It was thanks to Gods mercy that you dealt so leniently with them. Had you been cruel or hard-hearted, they would have surely deserted you. Therefore pardon them and implore God to forgive them . . . put your trust in ... Read More

Analyzing the Many Symbols in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace (561 words, 1 pages)

The Garden of Eden and Devon The novel A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is a great book for it has plenty of symbols in it. Whether it is symbolizing what exactly the separate peace is or how oddly the seasons seem to symbolize things. Comparing Eden with Devon ... Read More

An Analysis of Leper’s Character in the Book A Separate Peace (712 words, 1 pages)

Leper In the book A Separate Peace there are many characters which are talked about and play a role in the story. The main characters Gene and Finny, short for Phineas, are what drive the whole story and are the center of the many themes and meanings derived from this ... Read More

A Personal Opinion on the Possibility of Achieving Peace in Our Society (326 words, 1 pages)

Peace?? Peace sells but whos buying it. This is a major question in todays society with all of the things going on in the Middle East, and in history. Peace always seems like the easy solution, but is that what people really want? Or is it really possible? In order ... Read More

An Analysis of A Separate Peace, a Novel by John Knowles (3169 words, 11 pages)

SETTING The novel A Separate Peace is set against the background of the Second World War. The book depicts a peaceful New England's boy's school by the name of Devon. There is a pastoral quality about the school, for it is surrounded by enormous playing fields, is filled with sunshine, ... Read More

An Analysis of Human Live at Peace (1389 words, 2 pages)

What is necessary for humans to live at peace with each other? As we reflect on history, we can find that people use different ways to live at peace achieve harmony with one another. The word peace is a small word with a big meaning. Peace is freedom from or ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Death in the Book The Separate Peace by John Knowless (489 words, 1 pages)

Death is never a joyous topic to talk about because it is full of grief and sorrow. In the book The Separate Peace the death of Phineas is devastating to both the readers and the main character Gene. In the novel the doctor states the cause of death as heart ... Read More

A Brief Summary of the Story of A Separate Peace (447 words, 1 pages)

Leper is portrayed as the dreamer and eccentric loner at Devon, his idiosyncratic ways often being cause for ridicule. Unlike the other boys who accept, and sometimes even embrace the war, Leper grapples with it silently. Finally he shocks his classmates and becomes the first to enlist in the war, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (639 words, 2 pages)

Analysis of A Separate Peace- The title of the novel A Separate Peace implies many insights which show how tranquillity existed at the Devon School that which occurred during a specific time period, or that of certain characters. The Summer Session of Devon served as a peaceful interval between the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Foundations of the African Concept of Harmony and Peace (521 words, 2 pages)

One of the foundations of the African concept of harmony and peace rests upon the basic African cultural world-view of the philosophy of participation and integration. There is no drastic distinction between man and nature. The theory of knowledge that the African cultural experience projects, is that the world is ... Read More

An Analysis of A Separate Peace, a Novel by John Knowles (1057 words, 2 pages)

A Separate Peace is told as a flashback by Gene Forrester. He returns to Devon, a private preparatory school that he had attended during World War II. He visits his old alma mater to specifically visit two spots on and near campus the First Building and a tree beside the ... Read More

An Analysis of A Separate Peace, a Novel by John Knowles (1141 words, 2 pages)

The novel A Separate Peace is a perfect example of literature that involves deep thinking and understanding. John Knowles does not use obvious hints in his writing that allow his readers to understand situations. Instead he uses lots of subtle ideas, and tends to use his characters quite a bit ... Read More

An Analysis of Gene’s Journey in A Separate Peace, a Novel by John Knowles (778 words, 3 pages)

A Separate Peace - Gene's Journey- Gene Forrester's difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Gene's journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he visits the tree fifteen ... Read More

An Analysis of the Rite of Passage in A Separate Peace by John Knowles (604 words, 1 pages)

A SEPARATE PEACE The theme "rite of passage" was used in the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. This moving from innocence to adulthood was contained within three sets of interconnected symbols summer and winter, the Devon and Naguamsett Rivers, and peace and war. These symbols served as a ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013