GCSE English Literature: War Poems Compare two poems from the selection which make you feel sympathy for the people involved in war. Which do you find more effective? ... You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won't say that you"re mad- Siegfried Sassoon, "Does it matter?" ... The feelings of excitement, patriotism, and a sense of duty and the romantic ideas of what war would be like persuaded many to join. ... The simile "like a devil's sick of sin" is used yet the exact meaning is not clear. ...

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Propaganda is the way in which you persuade a person to your way of thinking by showing one sided views of an event to make somebody think in a certain way or to mask the truth. ... In the beginning of the war the people thought of war as an adventure, a way to make money or a way of becoming a hero this is because world war one was the first war of its kind a modern war and so the government decided to use these things in their propaganda campaigns for e.g. the government would put up posters a happy family in which the children would ask their father "what was the war like father?" which su...

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What I had believed before was that, like mentioned above, people too close to the hypocenter immediately died, and all others suffered prolonged internal effects later in life, years after the bomb, like tumors or terminal diseases. ... Undoubtedly every character in Hachiya's accounts was Asian in heritage, but it has been statistically proven that you relate more easily to those who look like you. ... The simple fact is, no matter what side you"re on, your sentiments are probably similar to those of the people of your "enemy." ... The latter is what you desire; the former is who you a...

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Hypocrisy is a form of faking and acting; you become the main character of a situation you are trying to hide. Hypocrisy is not a good thing; you become cynical and start affecting others only to save yourself. ... Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally"; in few words it is trying to tell us "practice what you preach". ... It is written in a tone in which the woman seems to belief she is better than everyone else and because of the social class she belongs to and her wealth, she has the right to order God and feel like she has authority...

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YOU can join my military, receive benefits AND love the same sex!... "Do you like girls?... Instead of having someone ask me "Why do you want to join?... Even when the "butch" women had men haircuts and wore men's clothing they were not persecuted because of the need for quota in braches like the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). ... This could make it seem like he is biased due to his sexuality, however, his book is very well researched and documented in the 96 pages at the end of the book. ...

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Owens use of these devices positions the reader to question the stereotype of these soldiers and to negatively respond to the issue of war: "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks/ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge/men marched asleep,/all went lame; all blind;/ drunk with fatigue". ... This description of beggars: "coughing like hags" encourages disgust and revulsion towards the soldiers and forcing the reader to see the transformation of the soldiers as a result of war putting it in a negative light. ... "Knock kneed, coughing like hags" gives us the image of d...

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Like any other war/anti war series, it represents the horror and heartbreak of war. ... Thus is not surprising that war films, like other film genres, often have variations in different times and places. ... The political accuracy added to the realism of Band Of Brothers, but Spielberg felt that although you have a political correct character base, its essential that they are realistically costumed. ... Story tellers don't want you to realise that they are telling a story, and really its just a collection of devices for making up the story, then it's a short jump to the idea of reali...

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This is key because if you read a book that only delves into either just the emotions or just the facts you get left either feeling overwhelmed with emotion, but left stupid to the subject, or completely overtaken by facts and figures which leaves nothing to the imagination. ... Ambrose with almost Hemmingway like descriptions writes about the color of the sand the intense sound of the artillery and machine gun fire. ... Another key to the book was the fact that this was not a tool for Ambrose to force out his patriotism to make the Americans look like a huge behemoth that could not be stopped...

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He begins his assault against Jews in the chapter "Transformation into an Anti-Semite": "By their very exterior you could tell that these were no lovers of water[]all of this could scarcely be called very attractive; but it became positively repulsive when, in addition to their physical uncleanliness, you discovered the moral stains on this chosen people." ... If you cut even cautiously into such an abscess, you found, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light-a kike!" ...

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As an American, I have read about World War II and the events which took place; however, I have never really thought about what it would have been like to experience these events first hand. Hersey does an excellent job at involving you in each of the characters lives and situations, and I really felt at times that I was truly relating to these peoples" suffering. ...

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"You Must Face the Fact", "I and thou", "Earth, O Earth", "How is the Hammer of the Whole Earth Cut Asunder and Broken?" ... On the top middle section of Diaspora shows 3 (6-panel) modules: "I and Thou", "T", and a biblical reference from Colin McCahon which reads: YOU MUST FACE THE FACT / The final age of this world is to be a time of troubles. ... How Tillers portray the four faces with long necks, how the four faces seems to be stretching their necks to reach the word "RIGA", appears to me how they longed to be part of "RIGA", how much they wanted to go to where they feel they belong, where...

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The novel opens with an epigraph by Gertrude Stein: "You are all a lost generation." ... The cafe' was like a battleship stripped for action» (Hemingway, 1954: 153) The author does not forget to mention that on the next day after the end of the Fiesta people in the cafe again sat in "wicker chairs at marble tables" (Hemingway, 1954: 227) He emphasizes upon it in order to show the similarity of how unimportant the previous events were, might be a café before and after the holiday or might be a world which has survived the terrible episodes of the War, careless and forgetful....

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You no longer needed to be hot and full of feeling. You could be super cool. ... No matter what his chosen medium, the works of Andy Warhol generally shocked, outraged, and influenced public opinion like no other cultural figure in modern America. ...

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First off, we should know more than anyone what it's like to be controlled by another nation while possessing a strong thirst for independence and freedom. Much like how the British controlled America in the early years of our prospering nation, we attempted to control political and economic control over Cuba in the late 1800s and early 1900s. ... No matter what the reason, even if we think that we know what's best for them, if someone does not want you involved and does not want your help, you leave them alone. ...

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"If your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb at him- (Page 78). ... Coupled with the physical ruin was the destruction of the spirit of an entire generation of soldiers; totally drained of emotions, they became self-centered and thoughtless, almost animal-like. ... Friends are dying in his arms from wounds that could only be seen first-hand to be believed, and the youth of his country are dropping like flies in a world they know nothing about. ... He captures their frustrations completely in the following passage, in which one soldier is responding to anot...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started ame...

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The American message was: if you support attacks on America, no matter how tangential the connection, we are going to take your governments out wherever they are. ... To understand why a dictator like Saddam Hussein is a threat to the international community, it is important to understand his brutally insane nature that has made him comparable to the likes of some of the most atrocious dictators in world history. ... However, it must not be forgotten that Iraq has enjoyed close ties with terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, and in recent years these groups have joined together with tyra...

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As Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said, "The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. ... If more superpowers were in the League of Nations and if they had military power, the League would become more like the United Nations today, a powerful organization that actively works on world issues and keeps peace. ...

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On the other side were the democratic, capitalist, Western countries, like The United Kingdom, France, and later the United States of America, who entered into the war after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. ... Once the piece settles back down, and returns to the original key, it sounds much like the beginning, as if everything has returned to normal. ... Everything seems like normal, but there is one subtle difference that makes everything feel different, and more somber. ... After World War II, it seems for a moment like everything is going to return to normal, but then we realize that ...

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Once many wars were concluded the United States tried to put in a strict set of laws much like our own, the ideal behind Democracy are not bad, but what is bad is forcing countries to adapt rules without a choice, or severe consequences will take place. ... I interpret this pact much like the proverbial bully and the milk money fiasco were the bully hits kid for milk money and then the bully is punished but we all know the whiny kid will get his for telling on the bully. ... That seems like a prime example of some Orwellian terms to me. ... Once again it is ok for Democracy to spread but not...

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The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... , the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please parents, friends and girls was to join up and head towards the fighting. ... However, the usage of female workers, due to necessity, not equality, together with the recruitment figures already mentioned above, help to prove more or less that source D, whatever its providence, (which is not at all clear) generally recruitment posters were fairly effective, the most famous being left out, Kitchner's fing...

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"Sometimes you could get fish but it was always in short supply - first come, first served. You could wait half an hour and still not get any". There were some foods that people were also encouraged to eat like carrots, and potatoes because they were easy to grow and plentiful. ...

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These techniques are used to distance the audience from the characters and situations, and encourage them to think objectively about the play's content; he wanted reactions like "This human being's suffering moves me because there would have been a way out." ... When you were young you didn't belong to yourself, but to Prince Kazbeki. ...

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The use of credit was advertised; when money was not available you just borrow it. ... The cycle is as that more stuff is invented with intent to sell and constant advertising persuading you to consume along with the youth helping with persuasion, as the youth gets older the cycle continues. ... When kids were born, families would need a place to live like a house; Suburbs outside of cities were built for families to be raised in. ...

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For example, when people see their favorite celebrity in a commercial wearing a specific shoe, they want to buy and wear it also because they think that they will look like them but when the fashion of those shoes finish people will throw away it and purchase a new one. ... Usually it is seen as a both positive and negative concept but if you go deep into it you can see that it is predominately a negative concept. ...

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