In the novel Ceremony, Silko displayed how the identities of Native Americans who participated in World War II, fighting for the U.S., shifted from the time they were enlisted to their homecoming and how the assimilation and integration of Native Americans and whites had also influenced their changes in identity. ... Alike with the novel Ceremony, the film Days of Glory also displays a non-discriminatory aspect of the French and their colonized peoples of Algeria. ... In a post-World War II America, things seemed to be as they were before the war, for Native Americans, as described by Silko ...

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"The white scar I saw on Emiko's small, fine-boned hand was a tiny metaphor, a faint but eloquent reminder of the scar on humanity's conscience." Kildare Dobbs reminds us of humanity's biggest mistakes but also warns us of our greatest danger; "a modern thermonuclear weapon [is] upwards of 1,000 tim...

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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. There is a very interesting quote by Alan Dershowitz, which says, "Hypocrisy is not a wa...

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In the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games held in Sydney, Australia, in September, athletes from both of our nations paraded together under the neutral flag of the Korea Peninsula. ...

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Chilling stories such as Eiko Taoka's are throughout this book and are still remember in memorials each year, both in museums, and in memorials such as the Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima each year on August 6. ...

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From commemorative programs and Anzac ceremonies held at schools across the nation, to dawn services, which originated on the shores of Albany, Western Australia on the 25th of April 1923 (Australian War Memorial, 2014), Australia as a nation has adhered to the legend. ...

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"Fascism" When and why? Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. the Italian army had been heavily defeated and had only won its first major victory at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918. Italy had been promised extra land by B...

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He would not return to the United States until 1972 – five years before his death – "when an apologetic Hollywood honored him with a life achievement award during the Oscar ceremonies....

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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