Tim O"Brien expressed his feelings in the novel The Things They Carried using a series of war stories. ... Joe thinks that men should be embarrassed for the way that things turned out in the war. ... Being in this situation, Joe learned to appreciate things that he had in life more than others may. He would become energized when he found out that he was able to realize certain things. ... Dalton with the help of O"Brien's ideas and procedures, made up a few things to get people to be able to realize that it was a true war story. ...

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There are also times when war was not necessary but carried out none the less. The United States has made decisions just like other countries, where they think they are helping their people, when in reality they are hurting themselves, and others. ... They can't just let people walk in and step all over them. Nations have to stand up against these things. ... Countries should have legitimate reasons on why they want to go war. ...

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I am going to tell you about a book called Neighbors which show how people of Poland called Poles imposed many indecent and appalling things to the Jews that they have lived with for many years. ... A very important argument in the book says how the Germans were, "At the time the overall undisputed bosses over life and death in Jedwabne and they were the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews" (Neighbors, pg. 47). This clearly states that the Germans were in charge in Jedwabne and it was within only their power to do what they pleased with the Jews. ... Even though there were not...

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In fact, they are not able. ... They called it wing warping. ... "Commercial aircraft are those used for profit making, usually by carrying cargo or passengers for hire. ... Airplane makes things easy for human life. It transport passenger, or carries cargos. ...

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This news meant various things for different people . ... Wanted money from Germany for the damage they had caused . ... Also joining the League meant that this might involve having to do things that might set back the economy or damage America otherwise . ... Sanctions didn't work because they were too slow . ... Sometimes they came too late for effective action . ...

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Some were political, others were social and economic, but they all had something in common - they all helped to dethrone Tsar Nicholas II. ... After this the people wanted their own government so they could have power over the things like the price of bread and their wages, so Nicholas gave them a political institution called the Duma. ... As Nicholas wanted to please his wife he carried out many of things that Rasputin had suggested. ... Once he was there they murdered him. ... She too encouraged him not to change anything even when things needed changing badly. ...

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As soon as they were tattooed with their prisoner ID number, they became another cattle in the herd, and nothing more. ... At home, they valued security, nourishment, and shelter, but they took it for granted, never thinking that it would be stripped away. ... Only those things that were required for survival carried any weight, and everything else was trash. ... Life, security, 3 square meals a day, and shelter are all things we grew up with and never considered for a moment. ... As a society, we need to appreciate those things that we take for granted on a daily basis, the same things that...

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The governments, allowing complete destruction of the enemy, lost complete control of those men carrying out their mission. ... The next few lines emphasize just how tragic the war was to Yeats: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (3-6) Once the falcons have been released, they cannot be called back. ... They have done their "duty" and destroyed the enemy with no convictions concerning the destruction they c...

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Never did the Europeans make a valid deal, they always conveyed false promises. ... The British showed extreme selfishness when using an unstable group of people who, to Gertrude Bell, "carries no weight" (1). ... Yes they may be weak and unadvanced, but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of doing great things. Luckily for the Arabs they were receiving support worldwide. ... However, Europe got what they wanted which was the fall of the Ottoman Empire. ...

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I think the most important thing that I realized in watching this movie is that, while we try to un-personify the enemy, they are people just like us, they fight for their own cause, just as we fight for ours. ... Men are willing to trade things that they had previously held with high value for mere scraps of food. ... They could not believe that the people in charge had any idea of what was actually happening. They only saw the numbers and had calculated a certain amount of death to be acceptable. ... When out by themselves, Kat is shot and Paul is forced to carry him back. ...

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Few things exist that provoke as fearful or as gruesome an image as war. ... These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ... Obviously, no one knew what they were fighting for and why. ... These young men, unaware of the cause they are defending, viciously shoot at whoever stands opposite the enemy line. ... When children of today's generation think of war they can hardly relate to the devastati...

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Italy was forced to change tact, which they did; they became imperialists and more authoritarian. ... It seemed the conditions were right for revolution, but no one could carry out one successfully. However, the development of Socialism and other factions actually helped it carry on for a few more years. ... They either supported it or despised it, and would do anything they could to stop it from being in power. ... They had to fight in a war they didn't understand, and pay taxes to finance it. ...

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It was tough to figure the thesis out because they were just throwing the facts on the table. ... They were looped into each other and I also used both for more information. ... He was quite inferior when it came to intellectual measures and the common place things of the world. Essentially, what happened is they took the goldfish out of the bowl and threw him into the ocean. ... His two biggest goals when he came back were religion and education, which were the two things that helped and hurt him the most in his own life. ...

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In 1929 they expanded to 1,825. ... The panic only worsened things and on October 24, 1929, stockholders sold a record 16,410,030 shares. ... They were wrong. ... Germany had no choice but to sign the unfair "diktat"1 and there was only a matter of time before things turned for the worse. ... They carried out violent acts against Hitler's enemies. ...

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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... This being said, it is difficult to draw conclusions on which spies completed which action, or what class they were considered to be in. ... When they landed and started the first colony, ideas of a revolution were already stirring. ... His ideas influenced the actions taken by patriots to gain independence from the British, and gave them the they needed to win the Revolutionary War. ... The United states carried out multip...

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When they were invading France, they had a separate strategy from their main one. ... They made them think that they would invade at Pas de Calais. ... They got their name from the torpedo shaped bombs that they drop. ... The B-17 was slower then the Torpedo Bombers but carried twice as much bombs. ... Only a few things remain the same. ...

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They did not want to fight, did not want to fight against the people who are as inculpable as they are. ... They got totally lost on the battle field. ... They were not the one that caused the war, they could not control the war, they were inculpable, but, they have to fight each other for the people they don't even familiar with. ... The film did carry out the theme in the book, but since the absences some of the feelings in the book, the theme in the film was not as impressive as the book. ... The book All Quiet on the Western Front has covered all by the feelings of young soldiers, a...

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The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... As a writer, Hemingway drew heavily upon his war experiences, as is seen in his earlier works that speak of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, as well as, of those who lived with hostile disregard for anything but their own emotional needs. ... He never acts, he never loves, he never carries out his plans. ...

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At the beginning of the Great War Wilson approached the notion of America joining the war as incomprehensible, partly because of his strong feelings to resolve things by peace and partly because like many other Americans" he felt that the war was a European affair. ... Some American citizens felt that they should defend democracy and some people formed groups, such as the National Security League. ... The Germans cause to attack the liner was that it was secretly carrying weapons therefore it was a reasonable target for the Germans to attack, however, their unrestricted U-boat warfare in 1915 ...

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The American people became increasingly angry as they saw both Britain and Germany trying to manipulate the United States for their own purposes on the battlefield of propaganda. ... Prior to 1915, German submarines had a policy of warning and allowing time to evacuate ships carrying passengers before they sank them. ... In 1916 President Wilson took a stronger stance toward foreign affairs by increasing the size of the military and issuing a warning to the German government: Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of su...

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His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. ... People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Among the many events that gave him inspiration, such as the rising power of upper-class America during the 1920s, his draft into The Great War would eventually push him to publish his first work, The Enormous Room. 1 The rest, as they say, is history. ... While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during bat...

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Sense the village was vacant they were allowed to go through the houses and take and use whatever they wanted. ... After they were dropped off they were sent to a Catholic hospital to be treated. ... In school he was an extremely bright student and during the war he still carried around his books. ... People during this time where desperate and all that was needed was an excellent speaker to say the right things and the people would follow. ... They were very easily convinced by Hitler. ...

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The All Purpose ANZAC Legend - Museums Australia Conference 1 What I would like to talk about this afternoon is how our education programs introduce the ANZAC Legend and how it lends itself to learning about different things for different age groups. ... This is also a good point to ask the children were they all brave? ... Children say they are proud, sad, they know why it is important to remember, the soldiers fought for us and we shouldn't go to war again. ... They were happy because they knew they had been tried for the first time and had not been found wanting ... ... How impo...

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It seems that Hitler did have consistent aims and plans which would be carried out when he came to power. ... But it is a detailed version of how Hitler thought things might go over the next eight years after. ... They felt that the Germans were only reclaiming land, which was theirs. ... Britain and France did little to stop Hitler following their policy of appeasement, which meant they they would concede to Hitler in the hope that he would stop his advance in Europe. ... They pledged to stop Hitler's next advance. ...

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All things considered, patriotism is the key reason that explains why we fight in the first place, but not after the negative effects of war. ... They fight because the leaders and generals tell them to, meanwhile the leaders do not know the real horrors of war. ... Soldiers are misled constantly about what they are fighting for. ... They are not fighting for anything besides their survival. ... They have just been fighting all this time for survival and as a result, war has left them reckless. ...

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