During a break at work, Elton tells Bobby about the joys of a family and reveals that Rayette might be pregnant. Angered by the news and theidea of being tied down, Bobby swears off his friendship with Elton and tells his boss he is quitting his job. ... Palm goes on about how filthy everything and everybody is. ... When Bobby tries to order toast, the waitress tells him that he cannot have toast with his order because they don't allow substitutions. ... When he still cannot get his toast, he violently clears the table in frustration and tells the woman that she cannot hold the chicken sa...

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Is War Necessary? ... This movie tells the story of a reluctant hero, Benjamin Martin, who enters the war after his family, becomes endangered by the British. ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... Based on an inspiring true story, The Lost Battalion recreates the life and death action of the first Great War, however seems to focus on death and negativity. ...

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Ross is portrayed as an adamant woman in the beginning of The Wars, yet as the story progresses, her firmness is broken by various tragedies. ... Well I'm here to tell you, Robert no on belongs to anyone. ... Her words, you can go to hell, in reality, show her true love and care for Robert, yet in a vulgar way. ... Robert constantly wrote to his parents to tell them how things were going. ... Timothy Findley could be trying to show the reader how the war not only ruined the lives of the men that fought in the war but how it also destroyed families as well. ...

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It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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He went to war. ... He dreams of his younger days when he was capable of fulfilling and remaining true to his talent. ... This is similar to how he ignores his wife's cheating habits instead of confronting her. ... You may not always know one's true background and what is really happening in their life. ... The narrator for the story is in Milan for rehabilitation where he meets an Italian Soldier, a champion fencer, whose hand has been wounded while at war that is also in rehabilitation. ...

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He begins with the claim that most of what follows is true, particularly the parts about war. ... He is very proud of the outline of the story that he draws in crayon on the back of a roll of wallpaper. The wallpaper outline represents each character in a different color of crayon, with a line for each progressing through the story's chronology. ... He is glowing with the expectation that his letter will console many people by explaining the true nature of time. ... The colonel likes to go by "Wild Bob," and he tells Billy, "If you're ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob!" ...

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Children have been victims of war all around the globe. As a result of war, I will be giving my own experience on how war has impacted my brother and me as children. ... Like I said before, let's take a look on how many children were affected during the resent war in Iraq. ... Community leaders will give in their times and teach them how to use wheel chairs, playing basket and other different sport. ... There are more effects of war on children, without holding back; lets get to the next effect of war on children. ...

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Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. ... They also help build up his identity and true self. ... It reveals Patrick's true character. In the beginning of the story, it does not mention how he felt about the society he is living in. ... As the story progresses, his true character divulges and the readers learn more about him. ...

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Anderson's life and how he hates it. ... Morpheus says that he would like to meet and tells Neo to go to the Adams St. ... The Matrix is, no matter how you look at it, a very interesting interpretation of the story of Jesus. ... It is true that Neo and Jesus both had virgin births. However, it is also true that Jesus" birth wasn't unique. ...

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The gun fire is never ending; the battle has raged on for what seems like an eternity. I can't remember a time I was more scared. All I can do is hunker down below a small stone wall along Guntown Road. My heart is pounding so hard it is louder then the gun fire surrounding me. "Joe! Joe! Where a...

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Time allowed for various stories to be told. ... All cultures have a creation story and some are fairly complex to tell. ... For example, Egyptians use the story of Osiris and eternal life to explain how they are able to use mummification. ... (One on each side) It also uses three registrations, or strips of work, to tell the story of each scene. ... If that's true, which side was facing front? ...

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In addition, there are two other superstates with which Oceania is constantly at war. ... Winston and Julia think of joining the Brotherhood, but do not know how to go about it. They meet with O'Brien at his flat, where he tells them about the Brotherhood. ... Here, Winston meets O'Brien, who reveals his true identity. ... Another recurring mood in the story is that of nostalgia. ...

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One day, when going home on the bus, he recognizes an old Nazi war criminal named Kurt Dussander, a.k.a. ... Todd goes to the old man's house and tells him that he will not report him in exchange for stories about the old man's duties in the concentration camps. ... To do this it is necessary to look at the entire story, beginning to end. ... There is a scene about fifty minutes into the movie that shows how strong his obsession is becoming. ... At one point in the story Dussander tells Todd: And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. ...

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Some questions we must ask then are: "How do reporters go about reporting the details of the war responsibly?... In regards to the information which the government provides (such as reasons for going to war, Sadam's military capabilities, and developments during the war), the issues of "How do reporters determine if this information is credible?... Deciding on what to report and how to report it poses an ethical dilemma for journalists covering the war. ... "Back in 1962, Lyndon Johnson went on TV to tell the nation that North Vietnamese gunboats had launched unprovoked attacks on two l...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... In his own mind, Weary narrates the war stories he will one day tell. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ... His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ...

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Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. ... 38 This clearly illustrates how instinctive and deeply entrenched was this desire for the supernatural. ... Hale arrives, it is quickly determined that "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead,"40 and that more went on than simply dancing. ... Hale, who forces confessions out of her as if he wants them to be true. ... She is also another unnatural link to this story. ...

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Once the war ended, he left the army, returned to Russia and declared himself an anarchist. ... These years were considered as golden era for him in which he wrote some of his best known novels such as War and Peace. ... Makar asks Ivan for the for why he is sentenced, but Ivan does not utter a word, then the prisoner tells Makar all the story. Makar slaps his knee and happily tells Ivan that is wonderful he meets him there but tells Ivan that he has grown old. ... But Makar replies that the killer must be the one whose knife was in his bag, then Makkar tells Ivan how is possible that someon...

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Changes tells us a story of living in the "hood" and dealing with issues such as police brutality, poverty and racism. ... Changes is telling a story of unity and through this story Tupac puts together a platform for peace, unity and understanding. ... He states that although he was raised in a rough environment that nothing can compare to a mothers love and all he can do now is show her how much he appreciates all that she struggled for. ... By addressing the text and tying the two songs together we will show how the text has bared an imprint onto society. ... Although Tupac was labele...

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Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... "The Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ... The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans...

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"You know I have to tell you something, something I was sworn to secrecy" then Rythian asked "what is it Ezio." "I am your uncle you remember how your mother said that her brother died in the wars?" ... God the wars were fun with my Master Armor of the Dragon I was invincible until they brought in their Equilibrium Dragon I.." said Ezio. ... asked a surprised Rythian "yes my dear but when shall we tell Ezio" asked Jasmine. "Tell me what Jasmine," interrupted Ezio. ...

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These holy beings should be the examples on how to live good catholic lives. They are not expected to be perfect but people do see them as the standard and look to them as examples on how to live their lives in a Christian orderly fashion. ... The story The Canterbury Tales illustrates many examples of how the church was corrupt during the medieval times. ... A pertinence of this is when the Friar loses control of his temper when the Summoner makes his tale about the Friar and tells about his sneaky, scandalous ways. ... Here we easily see how boastful the Summoner's personality is saying...

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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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How effectively does Priestley present him? ... In terms of how he is used in the basic structure of the play, he is there to move the play along in that he encourages the characters to tell their stories. ... The war would have been an even sadder issue in 1947 when the play was first shown than it is now, and one which would have made people feel uneasy and would have provoked a lot of emotions and a lot of bad memories. ... This is an example of dramatic irony because the play was written in 1947 so the audience knew that there were two world wars about to happen, but the characters did ...

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A strange tale how he got his name. ... It soon became hard to tell where truth ended and fiction began. ... This is another example of how p rumors spread about Wild Bill. ... But not all of the stories about Wild Bill were false; he was a true, strong, brave, cowboy. A true story, without vary many or no other variations, was with a man named Phil Coe. ...

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While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during battle, and later carried his personal beliefs of freedom to protest against the glorified view of war that Americans embrace. ... Instead, we see his teachings spanning other topics, as thus, Cummings uses the subtlety of parenthesis to show how our culture ignores a symbol as powerful as Jesus if he conflicts with tradition social perceptions, like war. ... As war continued to rage through the world, Cummings" continued to write his concerns. In another anti-war protest poem, "my sweet old etect...

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