Killing people for whatever reason is not right. ... While the war right now is not clear as to whom or what country the United States is going to have war with/ The U.S. keeps saying that it's a war against terrorism, but terrorism is everywhere, does the mean that it's against all countries that sponsor terrorists and their activities? ... Talking is the most important thing the United States can resort to, so they can solve their problems with Afghanistan or whatever country is responsible for the attacks. ... These are my opinions, these stuff have been going thru my mind since t...

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With his uncontrollable power and great respect from the German people Hitler could literally do whatever he desired. His power was so great that whatever he said was considered to be true. ... 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 rest of mankind would never know. ... Hitler believed in many eccentric and biase...

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If we've committed an act (sometimes even just had a thought) about which we feel very guilty, that guilt doesn't go away easily. Besides regret and remorse, we can form a negative view of ourselves because of whatever it is that we feel guilt about. Often we feel a need to do something to undo whatever we have done or make amends. ... Although this was not demonstrated, the same goes for the Japanese. ... As much as that is a noble cause to go to war, all of these people were dying, and rescuing them was only a secondary effort in fighting the war. ...

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So then I got in line for the tour, I felt so alone and secluded from the world, maybe I was going crazy, maybe it was just because of the atmosphere I was in, whatever it was I didn't like it, I didn't like it at all. ... Then they took us to this place where we had to go through doors that automatically opened and closed and I started freaking myself out and thinking that I was going to die, if there is reincarnation I think I was living one of my past lives or something. ...

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If this had happened it would have meant the U.S. was not sticking with their policy of containing communism, so we had to go in and stop it. ... Document 4 shows and excerpt from NATO and it explains that if another NATO party is attacked, another NATO party will assist them, and they will do whatever it takes to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. ...

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Hitler made people proud to be Germans again, made them proud to go to work each day. ... The Nazi scientists running the concentration camps were meticulous note-keepers, and with no ethical issues at hand, were free to do whatever they wished to their subjects, and record the results. ...

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It is Summer Session and the boys in Gene and Phineas's class are free to do whatever they want. ... He is referring to the anguish that he was forced to go through during his days at Devon, and ended up with him killing his best friend. ...

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The novel recounts the struggle of Naomi's Aunt Emily to ensure that her family would be together in whatever place they were sent to. ... Aunt Emily finally finds a place in Slocan for the family to go live, but just before they leave finds out her and her immediate family could go to Toronto. This leaves Aunt Emily going to Toronto and everybody else moving to Toronto. ... Joy Kogawa also brought in a good insight about what the Japanese Canadians were really feeling and going through during these tough times. ...

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Churchill is calling upon the noble traditions, which have kept Britons going for centuries. ... When Churchill quotes it, he is not trying to dampen Allied victories; he is saying the country must keep their heads held high whatever the circumstances may be, because victory is not certain until the end. ... Churchill persistently drilled the places, procedures, and attitudes that Britain is going to have to take, if the war is going to be won. ...

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Often times people mention that time heals everything, nevertheless when Krebs returns from the war, he does not feel the need or the urgency to go back to the people and things he used love. ... 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). ... Whether you are a soldier, or you are someone that has lost someone else and even if you are in the vicinity of any war, it's going to affect you negativ...

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The Lottery created so much outrage in the readers simply because the story was written shortly after World War II, the lottery could be cancelled but instead it goes on and the story ended rapidly and appalling. ... The citizens of Europe and the citizens in the lottery ask no questions and make no remarks; they just do as they are told even though they know what is going on is wrong. ... Adams mentions to Old Man Warner that "over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery. " Old Man Warner snorted and brushes it off with distaste "how can you ban something that...

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First, we must look at what was going on at the time the decision was made. ... The Japanese would have continued to fight the US with all of what they had; spears to guns and knives, whatever they could get their hands on, just as long as long as they could still put up a good fight with the enemy. ... The reason they were going to fight with spears was, the government just didn't have the resources needed to give anyone a gun. ...

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One being, " Do whatever you can do to get and stay in power, no matter what." ... Finally, " You shouldn't make promises to the public if it is going to hurt you, and you have to learn how to deceiteful." ...

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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is changed by the death of one of the soldiers under his command, Ted Lavender. A change is also experienced by the other soldiers in the once seventeen-man platoon, but none as telling as Cross". He transforms both as an individual and a commander. His once treasured...

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When thinking of a symbol of the United States of America, the first item that wonders into my head is our flag. Ever since our nation has been established, the flag has represented the freedom that exists in our great land. It has flown in every battle of war that our soldiers have bravely fought...

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The Ukraine, Finland, Estonia and whatever remains of Latvia were changed into free states under German insurance. Bessarabia was to go to Romania and the Ottomans took the Armenian territories in the Caucasus ("The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk." par. 5). ...

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Changing fashions throughout history was just whatever was different. ... The skirts are so long that I go into brief mourning for the calf-length black leather skirt that I cut to thigh-length when short was in style. ... She admits that the old stuff she has in her closet may never go out of fashion. ... This goes against the thought that a shocking new trend will just die out and never withstand. ...

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There's a constant struggle between a group of boys go through a roller coaster ride. ... The main culprit was Gene, whatever Finny wanted he would follow in his steps. ... Only the guilt built up by Finny into Gene made him go. ... Leper was one that would go off on his own and do his own things. ... Going through war caused Leper to realize a few things about himself, that he wasn't fit for war and he was going crazy. ...

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One very important additional thing that we have to consider is the people's views and thought's regarding the United States going to war. ... Why risk going to war, when it is contrary to American policy which most if not all Americans were in agreement with and also including the fact that the American military was not in its best shape. ... The health of the American economy could not be jeopardized, whatever was happening elsewhere. ... America was now involved and not going to war would only endanger the United States more than it already was. ... At last America had to go to ...

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The Allies dismissed the aggression of the Axis, which consequently led to more aggression because the Axis then believed they could do whatever they wanted and not get punished. ... Patriotic Americans were all ready to go to war. ... Roosevelt tried as hard as he could to convince people to go to war before Pearl Harbor. ... That's why America finally decided to go to war. If the US did not go to war there could have been a whole lot more damage done to the US soil. ...

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Many will tell you German doctors were left with no other options, but the harsh reality is they chose to go along with it and stopped refusing. ... In whatever form we kill, whether directly, through our actions, or indirectly, through our views, we are an enemy of liberty. In the modern world we see physician assisted suicides and excuses from murderers that they were doing a favor for society, and we let it go. ... Even today the ridicule, mocking, and discrimination of the mentally and physically handicapped goes unnoticed. ...

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After three weeks of being away from home he decided to go back. ... o go. ... Bill of course went along with whatever she said so she would be happy.As they went upstairs all they heard was loud gun fires and bomb going off, Bill nor Julie wanted to be out there but they didn't want to get separated. ... Over breakfast they Bill decided that he was going to go to work. ... He was inlove with Julie. he wouldn't let her go. ...

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If anything were to go wrong, as it tragically did, it could only come from within; the only enemy of man was himself. ... He goes into the jungle to pray, to build a church. ... At the end of Lord of the Flies the abrupt return to childhood, to insignificance, underscores the argument of the narrative: that Evil is inherent in the human mind itself, whatever innocence may cloak it, ready to put forth its strength as soon as the occasion is favorable. ...

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His dullness protects him from going mad at the sight of a slaughtered or butchered friend. ... It is not the morality of war, it is the pain a soldier goes through before death. ... A new perspective of the battlefield was presented in which soldiers of opposite forces are in much of the same state: frightened human beings with family and loved ones at home, attempting to avoid death each day by whatever means possible; many very likely questioning the purpose of war as Paul constantly did. ...

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Every possible reality was out there in the news which said we were going to war because we wanted all the oil in Afghanistan, other said for justice because of the destruction of the twin towers and all the lives that were lost and the government claimed we went to war because Afghanistan had nuclear weapons. ... Once they started to run out of space the Europeans also took the land of the Native Americans and killed anyone who tried to go against them. ... Europeans expanded their territory when discovering this "new world" and when they started to run out of space the Native Am...

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