Today I"m going to make you open your eyes to the possible future of our planet if there isn't anything done about it. ... He lives in an underground town set up by a crazy control-freak who thought that the world would die soon so he gathered lots of people and paid them lots of money to come and start a new life down there. ... The life of both characters is a very simple one, chores have to be done like gather the eggs or sweep the rooms and there wasn't much time for play especially in Hectors world but Diana has a bit better. ... Which eventually well make its way to local...

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In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and temperamental, with little evidence to back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. ... The play The ...

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Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of God. ... It was as if I had gone right down into Hell and through the worst of the fire, and come on a clear, pure pool where I could wash and be clean...they turned me loose the next morning...

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Also eliminated would be smarmy heart-to-heart "Elect because I"m like you even though my senate job has me set until I"m a hundred" political campaigns that play off of the Social Security scare. ... This annexation of the Middle East would increase the size of our country by over 30%. ... It is not only our duty to them, but it is our eminent right: we didn't fight a revolutionary war for nothing. ... He created an elaborate, structurally sound wall that stretched for miles around the small Colorado town. ... The annexation of the Middle East is the next logical step for our country. ...

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This is where the United States foreign policy comes into play. ... The United States have a couple of choices concerning their position; they could play the part of world leader or the part of world loner. ... I believe that the United States should definitely play the part of world protector whenever and wherever possible. ... Granted some look at this as sticking our nose in other countries business, but I don't look at it that way. ... Now that I have proposed my opinion, it is important that we see what our national leader and our government say about foreign policy. ...

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But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude - as individuals and as a Nation - for our attitude is as essential as theirs. ... The team playing the defending champions wants to come out hyped up and with their "A-game" every time they are competing with them. ... In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the aliens act like the communists in that they possess similar goals, which are to "take over the town's military, government, and other types of authority." ...

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As Allied forces race to Hitler's Eagles Nest, American soldiers loot the towns. ... After the task is complete, the men spend time traveling, skiing, hunting, playing sports, drinking, and befriending the local women. ... The book is important because it is part of our United States history. ... While reading this book, I felt honored to have these men step up and fight for our country. I have a better sense of respect and honor towards our veterans and all veterans worldwide. ...

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In The Beginning or the End, politicians, governors, army officers are those who mainly drive the story while ordinary citizens barely stage the play. ... On the other hand, Children of Hiroshima's story is driven by an ordinary kindergarten teacher, named Takako, through a trip back to her home town which sheds light on the distressing aftermath of the atomic bomb. ... Contrary to our expectation of two films about a same topic to be similar, or at least not so different from each other, the dramatic licenses that American and Japanese filmmakers took into their movie went into two oppos...

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The earlier sources provoke Victorian attitudes towards duty, leading to the enrolling of over two million volunteer troops into the British armed services from 1914 - 1916, while source C plays on the moral decency of the reader, calling for a halt to the foul deeds committed by the ape (representing Germany) that has caused the desolation of massive amounts of territory, together with the atrocities committed by soldiers under the direct control of Germany. ... Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what was a predominantly team-based society, a suggestion could...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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Recently some of these mass graves have been uncovered at the site of a former gulag just outside a small town in northern Russia called Vinista (Triumph 323). ... His reign of terror played out on the world stage in the context of a world war. We and our allies (including Stalin's Russia) went to war to prevent Hitler from domi...

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Introduction Scholars of international politics routinely debated on two kinds of global structures that best describe the actual world, that is, multipolar and unipolar. The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a n...

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The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons of the sea, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or village, or devastation not justified by military necessity" (Nuremberg Principles). ... Someone who played an important role as the chair...

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The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by ...

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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. ...

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