The Abuse of Power Many people remember the year 1933 as the year that Hitler began his reign as dictator of Germany. ... With his uncontrollable power and great respect from the German people Hitler could literally do whatever he desired. ... He let the power which was given to him go to his head, convincing himself that he was the greatest person on the planet stating, "There are some truths which are so obvious that for this very reason they are not seen or at least not recognized by ordinary people,"(Hitler, 487), meaning that he knew everything that the res...

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During the post-war era in the 1920s, many people attempted to make sense of the world around them and find some kind of order. ... As people's view of the world around them began to broaden, their interest in the traditional hero declined as they were far too pure. Readers began to drop the heroic archetype in favor of the anti-hero due to their similarity with ordinary people. ... Furthermore, readers like to vicariously live through the anti-hero, who has the freedom to make choices that the ordinary person would never make; these characters have the guts to do and say things we want...

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Although the treat of atomic war has been real for decades, the first evidence is introduced by an ordinary , average man who want to escape inevitable war... People from all walks of life go to the planet for many different reasons. ... "They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands.... all the names of people and the things that people did" (102) The people are in such a rush to create a perfect life from themselves that they have forgotten why they have come to Mars in the first place. ...

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In depth study of people who lived during WWII B. ... Ordinary people 2. ... Famous people 8. ... It is not about the war, but the people that were in it. ... Most who served in the forces preformed daily tactics that would earn most people under 50 brag right for at least most of their lives. ...

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It focused on ordinary people and everyday settings. ... His stationary camera work and motionless stills was said to capture the "dignity and beauty on humble, ordinary people"(Baranski 223). ... Based on the idea of real people dealing with real issues, this time period was distinguished by classic films. ...

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The war bonds circulated in a 16 city tour seen by 1,222,000 people who purchased over $133,000,000 in bonds with the "Four Freedoms" design. ... Many of Rockwell's drawings reflected idealized views of American life and showed ordinary people doing ordinary things. ... His art brought the American people together as a whole to reminisce of the early stages of childhood innocents. ...

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This was something a little bigger then an ordinary bomb yet it could do so much more destruction. ... In Hiroshima this atomic bomb killed 100,000 people mostly civilians and in Nagasaki three days later it killed 40,000 people. ... The book takes on a tone of sympathy and survival that these people were lucky enough to survive the blast. Hersey focuses on the courage of these people. These people wonder why they were the people chosen to survive. ...

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Also, the people don't find interest in any of the returning soldiers as they fought a brutal war. ... To get the people's attention, he had to begin telling lies to get their full undivided attention. ... His loving mother wants Krebs to be like other ordinary men in the town. ... Clearly, he did not wish anyone to care for him and he did not want to love anyone, which is unusual because the majority of people want or need something or someone to love and concern. ... In the scene where his people were not interested in his stories, he quickly runs into his parents' house. ...

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If realism was the theory of depicting reality as ordinary men and women might see it, symbolism would explore, by means of symbols and metaphors, the inner realities that cannot be directly displayed. ... Realism, people decided, would never raise the level of art. It would only drag art down into the muck of the ordinary. ...

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In Siegfried Sassoon's "Base Details," the speaker, a young ordinary soldier, says that his life would be so much different if he was an older officer. ... The poem's message speaks to all eras and people who see the meaninglessness of war in general....

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For, among the other bad effects it causes, being disarmed makes you despised; this is one of those infamies a prince should guard himself against" (page 36) in which he pointed out that taking arms from a people can make a difference between a prince and a citizen. ... The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough." ...

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It still affects all the people who grew up in that generation, whether you were a veteran who actually fought or just an ordinary citizen. ... This was a method to get people to war. ... Many of these people either fled the country or just hid out. These people were known as draft dodgers. ... These people were referred to as "hippies."" ...

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With no money being earned, American people stopped spending. ... As these events are unraveling, Superman emerges into the lives of American people. ... As people of America learned more about science, superheroes became scientists. ... This idea pertains to the American people while also showing people that they can be extraordinary if they try. ... Superheroes are suited war, because "the image of a person who voluntarily gives up his ordinary life to don a uniform and battle bad guys resonates well with a nation war" (Strömberg, 42). ...

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In Truman, David McCullough asks, "Was Harry Truman an ordinary provincial American sadly miscast in the presidency? ... Due to the fact that Harry could relate to most people in Kansas CIty he turned out to be a good candidate. ... And not too long after making the decision to drop the atomic bomb, Harry was faced with union strikes from the American People. ... Harry showed his decisive leadership skills and it caused the American people to see him in a whole new light....

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Two people enquire as to whether or not he will be signing up to fight. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." The hypocrisy of human nature is displayed, using Connie as a representative, whereby she discourages the fighting between the people in her own town, yet encourages Jim to enlist, in order to fight in a war of which he is completely ignorant. ...

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In the book " A Separate Peace" it exemplifies true feelings and characteristics of ordinary people. ... Many people believed he didn't believe in war because he wasn't able to participate in it due to his injured leg. ...

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He brings the battle for France to life not only on the fields where most of the blood was shed, but also in the streets, homes and hearts of the people who lived through a time when a chaotic life was nothing out of the ordinary. ...

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Hitler's school days were to an extra ordinary degree days of decision for him. ... Germans were trying desperately to shore up the ruins of the society they knew or else conspiring to impore a new social system more in keeping with their various aspriations the social structure with their various aspiration Rohm began by injecting the party numerous ex officers upon whom. 626 he could rely at the same time he introduced Hitler to influential people ready to help with funds or in other way. ...

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Many people also chose not to vote: the initial enemy to the Liberal state, Catholicism, divided the country. ... The only way to keep the people happy and under control was by these methods, concluded governments. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... The people and the Government were aiming for both of these respectively as I will show. ... He tried to convince Nationalists by declaring, and winning, a war on Libya in 1911, but many ordinary Italians disagreed with the war. ...

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A moment in time; most people can pinpoint one or two times in their lives when the choices they made had long term repercussions. ... Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now, it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between the people, the ordinary people that she knew , and what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get over everything wrong, completely wrong. ... She still perceives people, life and events as they pertain to her. ... When she does, she has to come to understand the...

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Issues dealt with in the Vietnam War showed great impact on the American people, particularly the students. ... Television coverage enraged people by misleading facts and disturbing war images of troops killing women and children. ... Racism raced through the veins of many white Americans at this time, and blacks still felt discriminated against by the government and the people of America. ... Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. ... This is an incorrect statement, in fact, Vietnam veterans are less likely to be jailed and only .5% of them have been jailed for crimes. 85% of...

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Our government was looking for a way into the war that didn't anger the American people. FDR believed that an entrance to the fight against the Nazi's could be achieved, without angering the people, if war with the Japanese was started. ... They knew ordinary bombs would bounce off the battleships, so they used armor-piercing shells with wooden fins attached to make sure the bombs went right into the ships. ... In addition the people watching the radar did call to the planes asking for identification. ...

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This would a war in order to defeat Soviet Bolshevism. 3.To include all German-speaking people in his proposed "Third Reich", especially those living in Austria, the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia and Danzig. 4.To create a "racially pure" German state that would be the most dominant power in Europe. ... The Treaty of Versailles had humiliated the German people and caused deep routed resentment among them. ... Hitler was supported by public opinion and therefore the German people must take some of the blame for the outbreak of war. ... A.J.P Taylor rejects this idea and claims that ...

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The German people were in a desperate and degrading plight. ... This action by the allies united the people momentarily as they had not been united since 1914. ... For the ordinary German people this was a disaster. ... The people now had some one to blame for their plight. ... People came from all over Germany to listen to Hitler denounce the Treaty. ...

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Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ... He blamed these protests on the Jewish people. ... He added in his views on the Jewish people. ... The German people became very upset. ... Hitler convinced his people to boycott shops that were owned by Jewish people. ...

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