" The levers are pulled and in seconds thousands of innocent people die. ... In an afternoon they could lay waste much of the earth and end human civilization. ... I see it as an ex gangster member once told me. ... Nothing gets resolved and so many die." ... I simply have hope that people's greed and arrogance can be set aside just for a second and a treaty is signed and abide by. ...

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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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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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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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(www.toy-soldier-gallery.com) Two of his siblings died from diphtheria when they were children, and one died shortly after birth. ... Adolf's mother died on December 21, 1907. ... It was two weeks later that someone had found their bodies laying next to each other in the garden. ... I don't think it was the right way to solve anything. ... I don" t think I would be able to do that to someone or even watch something like that. ...

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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

Bix's book lays out in detail Hirohito's support for the Japanese imperialism in China, Hirohito's taking Japan into war against the West and his leadership in pursuing that war. ... The United States was fighting not to conquer territory or to inflate the egos of American men -- men did not die in the Pacific for the sake of ego. ... I am sorry that the United States saw fit to hang Tojo and Yama*censored*a. ... In the year 2000 I favor punishing war criminals. ... I found Bix's book a good read. ...

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These victims were exposed to radiation and were slowing dying due to their radiation sickness. ... "During his recitation of the relevant facts, I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. ... Leahy, I Was There, 441). ... The reason for the atomic bombing lay in the desire for revenge that accompanies war. ...

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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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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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Hitler, during WWII, tried a revolutionary way to take over country by country, he called it the Blitzkrieg, in which many tanks would storm a front to lay down fire before any troops moved in to take over what might have been left standing. ... I gathered all that was left of my strength, so that I could break from the ranks and throw myself upon the barbed wire. In the depths of my heart, I bade farewell to my father, to the whole universe; and, in spite of myself, the words formed themselves and issued in a whisper from my lips: May His name be blessed and magnified My heart was bursting....

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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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Before I begin to show both sides of the debate, here is a little background of the events which took place. President Truman took over the office of the president on April 12, 1945 after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died suddenly. FDR had taken no steps to prepare his successor for the serious and difficult problems that lay ahead. ... The battles of Okinawa, Wake, and Guam showed the Japanese were willing to die even in the face of overwhelming odds. ... Lives are lives whether people die of air assaults, atomic weapons, or ground invasions. ...

• Word Count: 1941
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• Grade Level: High School

The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. ... After World War I, Hemingway returned to northern Michigan to read, write, fish, and later to work for the Toronto Star in Canada. ... He died July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and was buried in Ketchum. ... The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... He lays on his cot where he flashes back to scenes from his life that he has saved to write, taking pleasure in their recal...

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"I can only write about it [the past] by bringing it in some relation to my present-day thoughts and activities, and then this writing of history, as Goethe once said, brings some relief from the weight and burden of the past," (The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru). ... These communal riots were such infectious that it did not even spare calm and serene village, "where the sun and moon arise silently and set silently, where paddy, wheat grow silently, where fruits and figs ripe silently and fall silently, where our children are born silently, grow and die silently," (193). ... ...

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Joe's own son, Larry, a military pilot, dies en route to China in a related crash. ... You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away?... He tells his son "Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance and I did it for you. ... Here Keller attempts even to lay blame on his son's shoulders. ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is apparent to me that I have succumbed to the influence of propaganda that the government sets forth for me as well as all other uninformed Americans. ... I am now forced to question the legitimacy of political rhetoric I grew up believing in. ... As I previously stated, Jensen's book is very proactive. ... He lost his job in 1915, but continued to write, speak, and participate in activism until he died in 1983. ... I feel as if this is the point Jensen has in writing this book. ...

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However they both died in infancy. ... Alois Hitler died when Hitler was 13 and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. Klara died when Hitler was 19, and from then onwards, he had no relatives willing or able to support him.1909,Hitler left his home to seek his fortune in Vienna. ... Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." ... " That night I resolved that, if I r...

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Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. ... Sixteen Nazis and three policemen lay dead from this massacre. ... In August of 1934 President Hindenburg died. ... Speaking to his Generals in October 1939, Hitler said, "If it becomes clear that Britain and under its leadership France also, are not prepared to end the war I am determined to go on the offensive without delay." ... Speaking to the Reichstag in June, he said, "I can see no reason why the war need go on." ...

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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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As he lay awake in bed that night, the narrator looked at a history of Dresden published in 1908. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. ... While he was in the hospital, his wife died of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This group of enlisted men have one thing up their sleeves that their enemies cannot see or hear, but will know what is there when one of their men dies. ... In fact this type of camouflage works so well that one could walk within feet of a sniper laying in the prone position and have no idea they where there. ...

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But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions near the close of World War I. ...

• Word Count: 4263
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• Grade Level: High School