However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. Then later in a military hospital he edited and collected these notes into the poetry of Wifred Owen. ... This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. ... The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is co...

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Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavement. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... Significa...

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Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... This message was known as the "Zimmerman note" ("World War I", www.aolsvc. worldbook.aol.com). The note revealed the Germans were planning to make an alliance with Mexico. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ...

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