Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", is a short story about a soldier, Harold Krebs, who comes back from World War 1 as a whole new person. After returning home, he feels as if he is rejected from his community's values and doesn't feel at home. ... In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", Harold Krebs is traumatized by his return and in exchange, he is transformed completely through patterns of emotional feelings. ... When Krebs comes back home, his apathy begins. ... To escape from reality, he decides to go to Kansas City where he can be fre...

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"Soldier's Home" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway where a young man called Krebs is displayed as the protagonist. ... The events that took place in those two years has shown the worst side of it to Krebs, due to which he can no longer feel happiness and love, and has also become a person who is indifferent to whatever goes on in his surroundings (enotes). ... In conclusion it can be realized that, war is something that affects everyone no matter what. ...

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When Paul is given leave and returns home, he no longer feels at home in his own house. "I breathe deeply and say over to myself:- "you are at home, you are at home." But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can not feel at home amongst these things. ... Uncertain about everything, the young men can not answer any questions about life after the war. ... None of them can answer questions about post war plans because they have no conception of themselves apart from the war. ...

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We as Americans have been shown that the place we need the most defense is right here at home. ... The moneys saved on fewer defenses out of the country can be used to survey immigrants and watch over areas of target here at home. ... Bringing some Americans home to help protect the lands seems like a logical idea considering what has happened. ... There can be some effects on society from this change though. ... Crime could go up causing people to start their own personal defense systems to protect themselves at home. ...

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Rejection and exploitation of the Vietnam Veteran by the US caused the veterans to fight a different war, PTSD when they returned home. ... Therefore the war became a rather solitary war, where one soldier was sent alone, and then proceeded to return back home alone. ... Confusion as to what would happen next tore at the joy that he felt in being alive and going away from the war, back to his home where he belonged. ... When someone finally did leave and go back home his buddies would be left behind in the field without his skills and he would return home with mixed feelings of joy and gui...

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There is so much violence in the world today how can there be peace? ... We are seeing now that our own children are fighting and even killing other children, because that is all these kid see on T.V., at home and even in their schools. ... Then their boys were coming home insane because all the violence and gruesome things that they saw in the war. ... How can people think, say, and believe that we won when we have killed so many? ... If violence is all the kids see like in their homes, at their schools, with all their friends, and even in their own church then what are they suppose to do i...

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Home front 3. ... Realize the way our generation can never live up The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw What's with kids these days?!? ... They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted...They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before! ... I think that the soldiers that never made it home would be proud of the way they have been represented in American culture. ... I hope that more resect is yet to come to the members of the greatest gener...

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This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. Women then became willing to follow the leanings of society and remain at home. ... This dissatisfaction at work, unhappiness at home, and separation between husband and wife led to men joining clubs and lodges and also led to the proliferation of prostitution as men looked elsewhere for the companionship they were not finding at home (Demos 71). ... The majority of women of course did not result to this procedure but the fact that many did is an astounding implication on...

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It was not yet common for married women to work outside the home (Gluck 22). ... As far back as history can tell, women have been limited in mobility and set in particular spaces by society. ... (Evans 222) This all helped women feel more at ease with working outside the home, and even attractive. ... The caption above her picture reads, "We can do it", or "Do the job he left behind". ... Women were expected to stay home, clean the house, tend to the children, and basically be a homemaker. ...

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An image of them being back at home in winter begins to form in their minds. ... This shows that even as ghosts they are locked out their home. This could also be to show that they feel like they are unable to communicate with people at home. ... It is very sad for them as their imaginations won't let them go back to their homes to dying happily. ... Firstly, when Owen is describing the fire they see at their homes. ...

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At least one television is found in every American home. ... Later his parents are found dead in his home. ... I could go on and on with these little stories but I think we can all see what my point is. ... I am not blaming the parents; I am just concerned with what is going on in American homes. ... With new technology, parent can actually program their televisions to block certain shows. ...

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He is the only one of the students who survives the war, his lag is amputated and then he is sent home. ... Baumer is soon granted a leave to go home, even though he feels guilty and doesn't want to leave. When he makes it home, he realizes he has changed. ... The people who lived on the home front often had nothing to eat. ... Sometimes the book is objective rather than subjective, because Paul is telling the story, which can sometimes interfere with comprehension. ...

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It was not yet common for married women to work outside the home (Gluck 22). ... As far back as history can tell, women have been limited in mobility and set in particular spaces by society. ... (Evans 222) This all helped women feel more at ease with working outside the home, and even attractive. ... The caption above her picture reads, "We can do it", or "Do the job he left behind". ... Women were expected to stay home, clean the house, tend to the children, and basically be a homemaker. ...

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This change was brought about by the total national readjustment and the mobilization of the home front. ... We do not know what will come forth: still we can reasonably fear it.""9 The storm in this case was the war which left people in such a shock that they looked upon the future with great apprehension and uneasiness. ... They are depicted as strong, proud, reliable, and hard workers who can indeed "do it- all.13 Dressed in her work uniform, Rosie the Riveter characterizes all the women who assisted in the war effort through their contribution on the home front. ... In order for countr...

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Any act of promotion can be propaganda only if, and when it becomes part of A deliberate campaign to induce action through influencing attitudes. ... The duty of the father is to protect this from happening to their kids and the only way this can happen is for the man to fight. ... "One young woman remembers her Father, Robert Smith being given a feather on his way home from work: That night he came home and cried his heart out. ... Conscription was still in place, so atrocity and home front propaganda became more important. ... In Jan 1940 the Home Intelligence Division was set...

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This touching novel tells the stark truth about all war, that it is senseless and a waste of so many lives, not only the ones fighting the war, but those left behind at home. ... Kat and Detering and Haie can go back to their jobs because they had them already. ... But, when Paul goes back home on leave, he soon feels out of place, and has none of the same interests as before the war. ... Now the only thing he feels comfortable doing back at home is sitting in the garden. Paul only feels at home now on the front with his fellow soldiers, his friends who one by one die. ...

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His words were always helpful and brought hope into the homes of his followers. ... This can be seen in the film "Le Grande Illusion", which tells the story about a group of French officers captured during World War I. ... At home, they valued security, nourishment, and shelter, but they took it for granted, never thinking that it would be stripped away. ... Near the begginning of the book, right before the Jews were shipped away from their homes, a small flea market had taken place. ... If there is one thing we can learn from this, though, it is that we need to reevaluate what is truly import...

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Agunpakhi shows us how millions of people-Hindus and Muslims - lost their home and were bound to leave their home losing their identity for good only for the cause of religion and how trust and sympathy were replaced by distrust and religious hollowness between the warring communities. ... But with the willingness of her husband the young lady gets a little education and her husband becomes her home tutor. ... The scarcity of clothes was such that many women of village were confined to their home and could not go out as they had no clothing to wear as the narrator tells us: "the grand-da...

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The media has come to sensationalize everything it can. ... The Vietnam War had very little support on the home front from the American public. ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 76-77) News stories that entered the Vietnam era homes, included those of American soldiers burning villages and cutting ears off dead Viet Cong. ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 80) "In both the first and second World Wars the government took measures to insure that home front morale remained high. ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 79) Overall, it can be said that the defeat of South Vietnam can be largely blamed on the b...

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Logos can be understood through the archival footage and newsreels shown throughout the film. ... All the soldiers can do is pour water on their melting flesh. ... When the Vietnam War was finally over, American soldiers were rudely welcomed home. ... One woman that Davis interviewed said, "Certainly a matured person can say they made a mistake, why can't the government?... What can another victory do? ...

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This uprise of the younger generation can be held accountable for their part in the conflicts of the 20's. ... It cannot be said that the overspending and sudden interest in the stock market by this carefree generation completely caused the stock market to crash; however, one can assume that this did play a huge part in not only this situation but in the great depression as well. ... The Freudian doctrine brought the word sex into many homes of the younger generation. ... While the movie and cartoon show only a small portion of the generational struggle, viewers can still g...

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Paul is given 17 days of leave from the Army to go home and visit his family. He returns home to find his mom is dying of cancer. ... They bribe the surgeon with cigars so that they can be place in a hospital for care. ...

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Therefore the doplhins, just like us, are charged by testerone.Take a look at your own country, the home of the brave, the United States of so called America. ... It is still very ironic though that you can find some of the same aggressive traits in dolphins as weel as in humans. ... Therefore the doplhins, just like us, are charged by testerone.Take a look at your own country, the home of the brave, the United States of so called America. ... It is still very ironic though that you can find some of the same aggressive traits in dolphins as weel as in humans. ... It is still very ironic though...

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She would can the vegetables and fruit to eat during the winter. ... She remembered that if they did not change from their school to play clothes right as soon as they got home from school or they would get in big trouble. ... One significant sign of hard times for my grandma was she remembered one of her brothers having to come home from college because her parents could not afford the expense after the Great Depression hit. ... He was sent home from Europe after twenty months due to the shrapnel and mental depression. ... Amazingly all three brothers made it home in one piece. ...

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Evidence of Hemingway's brilliance and American ideals can also be evidenced by his incredible book sales and celebrity status, especially in America. ... The doldrums he was stuck in since his return to America was expressed exquisitely by Hemingway in his short story "A Soldier Home", through Nick, the main character and ex-soldier. ... "A man can be destroyed, but not defeated... He grew up in America and infinitely more importantly, when he was old and dying, he made the choice to return home to the mothercountry for good. ...

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