The first real casualty of war is innocence (Platoon 1986)." ... These soldiers had to lose their innocence in order to survive the chaotic world of battle. ... On the other hand, in Platoon the troops did lose their innocence, but at a much greater cost. ... An Admiral came with a message of congratulations to the Marines: "Your victory, which was assured almost from the first landing, will brighten the ages of American history. ... Even though innocence is lost, human life can go on to exist and learn to replenish itself. ...

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Czmerda Honors English 10 Poor Boys In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the French girl's remark, "the war- great sadness- poor boys" is true of the events described in the novel in many respects because of the future hopes and dreams the men lost, the youth and innocence that was taken away from them, and the families and friends that were removed from their lives for good. ... They were sent off to war at a young age wasting their youthful years. ... Second, her remark proves to be truthful in that the soldiers lost their youth and innocence during the war. ... Pau...

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Set in post World War II England, the short story centers on a gang of adolescents who decide to demolish an aged man's house. ... The other members of the gang also lose their innocence and become jealous as they value and perceive Trevor as their leader. ... Loss of innocence and selfishness endorses people to commit actions that are not morally acceptable....

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I believe that war is the perfect example to understand human behaviour, and how ideologies or interests may lead to fights, battles, and the constant look for evolution and change whereas terrible consequences can be suffered by anyone, no matter their innocence and age (like the boys did). ...

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Due to many reformers and activists, parliament granted all men over the age of 21 the right to vote. They also allowed women over the age of 30 to vote in 1918. ... "The Queen's Men" says: "Valour and innocence have latterly gone hence to certain death by certain shame attended. ...

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they cry, "The world changed that day" the media proclaims and "The world has lost its innocence!" ... So the middle aged female chemist fills her car with intricately homemade explosives and complex bombs and drives to the front of an embassy. ...

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Paul proclaims, "We agree that it's the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; for some more, and to others less. ... Their innocence is gone, and only a meaningless skeptism is left to fill the world. ...

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Later in this section, Cecilia, who has always believed in Robbie's innocence leaves the family home to be with him? ... In the final pages of the book, one is given the benefit of a very aged Briony. ... In particular, Cecelia depicts the changing age when she stands up to her parents and refuses to "make a good match". ...

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He started to write at age seven, but ended up studying science at Brasenose College, Oxford. ... "Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man's heart -. The boys fall from innocence represents the loss of innocence of all mankind that Golding saw during the war. ... Conrad lived during the Age of Colonization, in which the various European nations colonized large parts of the world, including huge chunks of Africa. ...

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In Warwickshire, Catherine Tarrant had drawn sketches of "a mother and child locked in each other's arms, fierce protectiveness in the mother's face, terror in the child's" and "a girl in a rose splashed gown circling in ecstasy under the spreading limbs of an aged oak. The lost of 1914, the innocence and brightness and abandonment to joy that was gone forever" (Pg. 140). ...

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This poem is about the child praying to his mother, God and society to make the world a better place for him to live in without the current hazards. The child represents society and so when he says "I fear the human race", he is showing that he is afraid of his own kind and of himself, "me", the mo...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... Indeed, the attacks on the Somme, and many other dismal affairs like it, Passchendaele for example, may well have not been possible, bar such unscrupulous recruitment practices, many of the enlisting Sergeants allowing underage enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five di...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial expansion in Asia not unlike that of Genghis Khan's Mongolia or Julius Caesar's Rome but the question remains whether Hirohito played an active role in that expansion. Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and ...

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