In this chapter he talks about the true love he had for this girl named Linda, and after their first date he tells us how she was sick and passed away from a brain tumor. ... This showed how he understands that Linda is gone, but all the dreams he made up stick in his mind even when Tim is in war. After spending more time at war and having more experiences O'Brien understands how the soldiers handle their losses with jokes, but he never gets used to it. ... Kiowa goes on to tell O'Brien how he did what was right by explaining what the other soldiers did was not decent. ... In the ...

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The Indians also distributed there land in a very different way than how it was in the old world. ... Now the story turns when the Europeans started to flock in. ... Their interpretation was that freedom also meant turning to Christianity, the religion most Europeans practiced and believed was the one true religion. ... Possibly this could tell us as empires grow there becomes a sense of power. ... "An organism at war with itself is doomed....

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Thoreau begins his quest staying at Walden Pond to find the true meaning of life. He wants to experience things for himself when he says, "I wanted...to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion" (Thoreau). ... Emerson tells how modern generations live life vicariously through the stories and traditions foretold. ... He also tells of the soul's "boundless resources" (Emerson). ... In Brute Neighbors, he sees the ants fighting, reminding him of a battle in the Revolutionary War. ...

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She opened the different side of fire and how it symbolizes the stages of life and what makes life. ... Incidentally, the photo book tells more about German history and its culture than expected of a book of life. ... This is the fire of World War II and the Holocaust. ... Germany is enlightened by the possibility of true progress and change. ... Though this time, the fire does not bring any destruction as they know how to control the burning flames. ...

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Growing up in the many diverse homes as children do, many of which grow, filled with different beliefs on how they should look at life. ... Indoctrination is similar to psychologically grooming a person to believe something which may or may not be true with little to no evidence, which can be simply known as brain washing. ... "Revealing my pain to them increased my humiliation, serving to tell them I had been defeated, just as they'd hoped I would be.... Silence, apart from those shared stories, became my only escape". ... It is also shown in the novel that Emiko at a young ...

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During the time of World War II, two airplane runways were built at Groom Lake, Nevada. ... After the end of World War II, the lanes were not kept up and soon disappeared (Wallace 1997). ... Many experts believe that the Roswell incident is true, and that they government is hiding alien spaceships inside Area 51. ... The statement along with the story were soon printed in all the major newspapers across the country (Smith 1998). ... Believing the government, the public soon forgot about the story (Arnu 2002). ...

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She then asks how you are doing. ... My grandmother then asks me well, how, I can help. I said well tell me about grandma Easter which is her mother who is deceased. ... But according my mother and grandmother's information and reading the history on how the Willis family arrived in American it could all match up and be true. ... He plays a big role in the latter part of my life story. ...

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I read a story about the legendary Greek soldier Alexander. ... The monk's answer may be very strange but it is true. ... No body knows what will happen after death, and no body returns from there to tell people how it is like being dead. ... For what they did and how it affected them and other people. ... Yet history of human civilization is filled with wars and destructions which did not bring any long lasting peace and prosperity. ...

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When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. ... He tells Rieux of being in several places where plague was all around. ... Tarrou tells Rieux that there are three types of people in regards to the plague. ... This is also true of life's absurdity. ... In the story this is seen in the townspeople in a variety of their actions. ...

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