Spanning generations, the anecdote encompasses events from the mid sixteenth century all the way up to the beginning of World War I. ... They would take these children to Istanbul or another central part of the Ottoman Empire, and convert them to Islam.2 After being positioned as a janissary in the Ottoman Imperial administration, Mehmed demonstrates he is a "brave officer at the Sultan's court" and moves on to become a Great Admiral of the Fleet, eventually becoming the Sultan's son-in-law. Once in power, Mehmed ordered this new project of the bridge to be started as a way...

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The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... This traumatic combat led to Gurney's change of thinking and transformation of language, evoking a new broken stream of expression and consciousness, attributes of modernism (10). ... His writing, much ...

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