"One night, as we lay in bed after doing our two hours' sentry - we did two hours on and two hours off - my friend Jock said 'damn this, I cannot stand it any longer!' ... On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." ... They knew that many would not be alive tomorrow night, yet I never saw a sad face, nor heard a word of complaint- "Going along whistling I saw a group of men bending over a man lying in the bottom of a trench. ... At my feet lay his cap splashed with his brains. ... They loathed the old m...

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• Grade Level: High School

It takes place during World War I on the French Front. ... When it is dark, the men go to lay barbwire in front, but are attacked by the artillery. ... He returns home to find his mom is dying of cancer. ... The man dies a slow and painful death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I think he was very successful in winning the support of the people, otherwise how would he have been able to go to war without his people backing him. ... On 2nd of August 1943 Hindenburg died, Hitler is then president and gets Army to swear oath to him. ... Hitler got Robert Lay to set up various employment schemes between the years 1933 and 36, the idea was jobs for all. In 1933 Robert Lay also set up the "Beauty of Labour- to try and more people tow work. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Owen uses an extended metaphor - "Dim, through the misty pains and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." ... The description of the dying man also continues in this verse. ... The readers are asked to imagine what he has seen, as in the soldier laying on the cart. The poem shows only some of the horror seen in the trenches, I"m sure that much worse things could have been seen. ... I enjoyed reading the poem because it had lots of different poetic techniques included in it and it told me the truth about trench warfare. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

No one could foresee the horrors that lay in wait at the front; or, perhaps, simply no one wanted to. ... "I am very quiet. ... I am so alone, and so without hope - (Page 191). ... I had never seen a Frenchman before I came here, and it will be just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards us. ... Millions died, empires fell and new countries were born. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, "The Soldier" is one of these poems. ... In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. ... The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as...

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• Grade Level: High School

One major concern of the Americans during World War I was the communist influence. ... The article involved a British soldier that was badly flawed after World War I. ... Dalton expresses what the men were thinking by saying, "And all the guys who died all the five million or seven million or ten million who went out and died to make the world safe for democracy to make the world safe for words without meaning how did they feel about it just before they died? ... How did they feel as they lay crazed in hospitals and looked death straight in the face and saw him come and take them? ... While re...

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This essay will go into detail about the Canadian roles in World War I and World War 2. ... Canada's military effort in World War I put the country into the world stage. ... More than 60,000 Canadian soldiers died in World War I. ... As thick clouds of yellow-green chlorine drifted over their trenches the French defences crumbled, and the troops, unprotected, their lungs seared, died or broke and fled, leaving a gaping four-mile hole in the Allied line. ... Julien lay ahead. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout this paper, I will be discussing the German and Russian commands, their battle plans, the battle alone, and then conclude with the results of the battle. ... General von Moltke wrote a letter to Ludendorff stating, "You have before you a new and difficult task I know no other man in whom I have such absolute trust. ... "I was exalted at the thought of serving my Emperor, Army, and Fatherland, in a position of great responsibility at a most critical point," states Ludendorff. ... They quickly agreed that their only chance lay in a bold gamble. ....

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In doing so I would like to look at two facilitated programs as case studies What it Means to be Australian and The ANZAC Legend. However before I begin I would like to make two remarks about the nature of our facilitated programs. ... Secondly I would like to note that the inquiry method lays at the foundation of all our education programs. ... The reply is usually Because I like them, it's a way of saying something. ... In fact I have never seen anything like these wounded Australians in war before ... ...

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The document placed the blame of World War I on Germany. ... As a result of this anger, Hitler was determined to become the highest power and overrule any obstacles that lay ahead of Germany. ... Isolationism was the United States' policy after World War I, as they didn't want any risk of tangled alliances, the cause of the First World War, to harm their national sovereignty. Another such cause of World War II was the fact that United States lent money to Britain and France, because the U.S. felt bad for Europe after World War I. ... Many Americans died in the event of Pearl Harbor, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a suspense filled War novel that describes in detail the horrors of World War I in Germany. ... The novel is set at the beginning of World War I. ... Heavy fire is falling on usEach man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there (Remarque, 105). It is a constant struggle to live for these soldiers each and every day they are at war, and everyone knows that they could die at any time. ... World War I was a terrible experience for all that were involved within the battles. ...

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Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," 4 where he uses "etcetera," as an adjective, adverb, and a noun. ... Also, the meaning of "etcetera," is "and so on," such as, "I need to eat, sleep, etcetera." ... Shocked by his obstinacy, the Colonel throws him into jail, where Olaf later dies. ... "i sing of Olaf" is a perfect example of Cummings" message of his rebelliousness to find ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Rise of Mussolini "I am fascism," said Benito Mussolini, and indeed, the success of the Italian fascist movement depended heavily on his leadership. ... Nations that did not expand would eventually wither and die. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate