The Ghost in Hamlet In the Shakespearean time period people believed in ghosts and reported them, so it makes sense that Shakespeare would write about a ghost appearing in the play. ... In the first act the ghost appears to two soldiers Marcellus, and Barnardo, as well as to Hamlet's friend Horatio, who is a very credible and intelligent person. ... This fact proves the reality of the ghost. ... The ghost may not want Gertrude to know about the plan to kill Claudius The evidence in the play shows the fact that the ghost was real. The ghost was not a figment of people's imagination....

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They thought ghost dance would save them. ... The Ghost Dance was not an attack or revolt. ... Because Sitting Bull was associated with the Ghost Dance, the white people thought the Ghost Dance was a revolt(La Barre,233). ... The Indian police called for the assistance of soldiers, which resulted in the deaths of 14 people, 6 being policemen. ... The Ghost Dance Society was dead. ...

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The Ghost dance offered them hope. ... The soldiers we told to pursue and apprehend the Indians. ... The soldiers surrounded the Indians and set up four Hotchkiss guns, while the tribe set up camp. ... When the battle was over there were 153 Indians killed and only 24 soldiers dead. (Brown, 444) When the soldiers went out to bury the Indians, they found that many of them were wearing the ghost shirts that were supposed to be able to with stand a bullet. ...

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What The Seventh Cavalry attacked the Sioux for performing the Ghost Dance. The aftermath of the attack was forty soldiers and two hundred Indians were killed. ... The Ghost Dance Religion caught on in Sioux Indian Reservations. ... The Ghost Dance Religion was started by a Paiute Indian named Wovoca. ... The Sioux were attacked by the Seventh Cavalry because of the Ghost Dance. ...

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Once the battle is over and the day breaks there are wounded British soldiers and Benjamin's family helps them. ... He tries to push the British soldiers away that are holding Gabriel and the lieutenant shoots Thomas, and kills him. ... Cornwallis and his men learn about this and start to call Benjamin "the ghost." ... One of the times Benjamin and his men won a battle against some British soldiers marching with carts. ... Cornwallis learns about Benjamin and his men but does not know that he is "the ghost." ...

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These skeletons are the ghosts of Vilnius, the burial ground for more than 3000 infantrymen, cavalrymen, officers and hussars of the once mighty French Grande Armee. ... Soldiers became weak due to poor diet. ... Starving soldier's faces were reported to be coloured with the dried blood of devoured horseflesh. ... The once great army was a ghost of its former self, the changing conditions required more time and energy, something they no longer had. ... These are the Ghosts of Vilnius, the men buried en masse on the hillside at Siaures Mistells. ...

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The Sioux were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... The "Ghost Shirts" would protect them from the American soldiers. ... As the smoke cleared up and the shooting had stopped the soldiers carefully counted the dead bodies. ... Twenty-five soldiers died and thirty-nine were wounded, most by their own shrapnel# and bullets. ... They were left outside the wagons in the bitter cold while the soldiers were looking for houses for them. ...

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The short story "Soldier's Home,"" by Ernest Hemingway, is about a soldier named Krebs who reveals the shock of re-entry into life after war. ... Ernest Hemingway's theme in "Soldier's Home " is that it is important to have faith so you can overcome difficult situations in life. ... He was like a ghost. ... She could understand that wars can change a young soldier's mind and she could see the reality that it can be cruel. ...

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From the soldiers' point of view (as told my Robert Utley years after the occurrence), white men began to feel threatened by this new "Ghost Dance"" the Native Americans had recently started practicing. ... To try to put a stop to the dances, they were sent to arrest Sitting Bull, a leader involved of the Ghost Dances. ... With the Indians surrounded, the soldiers collected the guns from Bigfoot's people, angering them. ... In the Native American's eyes, the Ghost Dance was a harmless ritual practiced to ensure safety, but the American soldiers felt threatened and took action to...

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Was the battle of Wounded Knee Creek a cruel massacre amongst the Indian race or was this yet another triumph for our brave soldiers? ... The Ghost Dance chants, their "bulletproof" white ghost shirts and Yellow Bird's speech was not enough to protect the hundreds of Indian men, women and children that were injured or killed that night. There, on the snowy banks of Wounded Knee Creek, one hundred forty-six Indians were massacred in a highly charged, violent encounter with U.S. soldiers. ... Scattered fighting continued, but the massacre at Wounded Knee effectively stifled the Ghost Da...

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In the first stanza, he describes the way the soldiers are feeling and their thoughts. ... But also it talks about the weather and the mental tricks it played on the soldiers. ... Stating that the soldiers need to hide from the cold rather than the bullets. ... He writes, "Slowly our ghosts drag home", I think this line means that he is seeing himself killed and dead. This one of the many emotional traumas that soldiers suffered, seeing their own deaths and their own ghosts. ...

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With Fortinbras being a soldier he is more active than Hamlet in seeking his revenge immediately, but has respect for Hamlet and shows his by giving him a soldiers funeral. "Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage". ... The audience can see that Hamlet is not naturally a soldier and finds the act of revenge a difficult task. ... "I"ll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound." ... Hamlet immediately asks the ghost whether he has come to scold him for not fulfilling the ghost's request. ...

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The Ghosts of Vilnius In December 2001, Lithuanian workers made a strange discovery. ... Soldiers became weak due to poor diet. ... The once great army was a ghost of its former self, the elements required precious time and energy, something they no longer had. ... These are the Ghosts of Vilnius, the men buried on mass on the hillside at Siaures Mistells. ... I no longer found the soldiers' old gaiety. ...

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With the coming of the soldiers they found their freedom gone and the buffalo gone. ... To bring this change about in a shorter amount of time the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... They believed the Ghost Shirts would protect them from the soldier's bullets. ... Accounts of the death toll varies, it is thought the soldiers killed approximately 300 Souix men. Thirty-one U.S. soldiers were killed in the battle, and some of them were shot by their own troops. ...

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The story consequently brings an adoration story and a ghost story together, yet above all it is satirical. The plot is engaging in regular feelings, yet the story makes fun of groups that are sleepy in the point that they need ghosts and ghost stories to keep individuals involved. ... Were it not for the people, with their stories of ghosts and their apprehensions of apparitions, there would be no ghosts. ... Other than the droves of Loyalist officers and British light infantry, Hessian soldier, famous sharpshooters and horsemen, were among the looters that regularly skirmished with patriot m...

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Octavius says they should keep him, to be a soldier and a person to run errends. ... Event-Brutus encounters Caesar's ghost. The ghost tells him that Brutus will see him at Phillipi. Then, Brutus wakes up Lucius, Varro, & Claudius to ask them if they saw the ghost, but they didn't. ...

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The rhyme scheme represents the decay of a soldier's state of mind and the unremitting repetition of the monotony suffered every day. Owen does not keep to the same scheme throughout and this also emphasizes chaos of war, and furthermore the breakdown of the soldier's. ... Wilfred Owen stresses the fact that the soldiers are bored with the same activities each day. ... In later lines he begins to recall his hometown "Slowly our ghosts drag home", he uses the word drag because they can't walk because they are so cold and are dying. ... The line "Slowly our ghosts drag home" can ...

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Battle At Wounded Knee On December 15, 1890 authorities feared that the Sioux's new Ghost Dance3 religion might inspire an uprising. Sitting Bull permitted Grand River people to join the antiwhite Ghost Dance cult and was therefore arrested by troops. ... The soldiers tore off his blanket, roughly twirling him around. ... He was wearing a "ghost shirt" embolized with an eagle, buffalo, and morning-star insignia. They believed that these symbols of powerful spirits would protect them from the soldier's bullets. ...

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The appearance of the dagger (2.1.33) and Banquo's ghost at the feast (3.4.88) also play a role in Macbeth's guilt. ... The ghost of Banquo appears during a feast and causes Macbeth to make outbursts, alarming the guests (3.4.38). ... As the ghost is present, Macbeth exclaims, "If trembling I inhabit then, protest me / The baby of a girl. ... The third apparition is also indirectly true, because Malcolm's soldiers use the branches from the trees of Birnam Wood as camouflage as they march to Dunsinane, "Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear't before him. ... The ...

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Hamlet is unsure of the ghost. ... Hamlet has to be sure that the ghost is really telling the truth about Claudius. ... Hamlet now believes that what the ghost has said is true, "I"ll take the ghost's word for/ A thousand pound" (III iii.291-292). ... To honor and give thanks to Hamlet, Fortinbras tells his men to give Hamlet a soldiers funeral, " Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage" (IV.ii.398). ... He first delays because of doubts of the intentions of the ghost, whether they are good or evil. ...

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Barely surviving, the people were desperate for any type of nourishment, and along came the Ghost Dance. ... The Ghost Dance was a desperate attempt to return to their days of glory. ... "To bring this event, the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... The white people were frightened by the Ghost Dance so they had to make a law that forbids the Native American culture from performing the Ghost Dance. ... When the soldiers tried to disarm the band, a rifle went off, starting a so called battle. ...

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Barely surviving, the people were desperate for any type of nourishment, and along came the Ghost Dance. ... The Ghost Dance was a desperate attempt to return to their days of glory. ... "To bring this event, the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... The white people were frightened by the Ghost Dance so they had to make a law that forbids the Native American culture from performing the Ghost Dance. ... When the soldiers tried to disarm the band, a rifle went off, starting a so called battle. ...

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"Even while bullets buzzed overhead, [Sitting Bull] sat down in plain view of the soldiers, lit his Cannupa (his pipe), and enjoyed a smoke as the soldiers continued to fire. ... In his vision, he saw soldiers falling into the Sioux camp like grasshoppers falling from the sky. ... As in the vision, many soldiers were killed within the Sioux camp. The U.S. soldiers under Lieutenant Colonel Custer made a last stand on a near by ridge, where they were destroyed. ... Soldiers chasing him found a note that read "You scare all the buffalo away. ...

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His father as a ghost caused Hamlet to change as a person in the play and this is very noticeable after the first appearance of the ghost. ... People don't know what to make of the ghost at first and what it really is. They think that it is ghost that is why they throw a spear at. ... The ghost told hamlet, -Mark me- (1.5.2), which meant to hamlet that he should listen to him and make sure that he looks him in the eye when he is talking to his father the Ghost. ... The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, Sword, ...

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