What makes this death so alarming is the fact that, although we feel great sympathy for the young boy, this young soldier died simply because he could not put his gas mask on fast enough. His death is both useless, wasteful and is not in any way heroic thus exposing the truth behind the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young soldiers during the war, a poignant yet useless loss of life. ... The failure to put this mask on quickly thus leads to a terrifying death, as the toxic gas slowly destroys one's body in the most horrible of ways. ... He says how the victim is "waiting for dark" as...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This exhibition, titled Mutation, is for audiences who like to delve deep and deconstruct the notions behind the human mind and indulge themselves in the darker aspects of art. ... The mysterious man is surrounded by darkness, and the town is shrouded by shadows and smoke. ... These dark colours also represent the depressing mood that was present in Sheffield at that time. ... A sense of movement is present within Painting 1977, with the use of swirled lines giving the effect of smoke and darkness drifting aimlessly throughout the disrupted city. ... The disfiguration of her face by the pigski...

• Word Count: 3306
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Exterminate All the Brutes" analyzes the primary cause of the Holocaust through his studies of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" which gives his writing a shadow of European thought. ... Similar to the Holocaust massive amounts of people suffered their death, the population was cut in half due to violence, famine, and disease. ... The Herero genocide of 1904 is responsible for the death of 65,000 south-west Africans in an attempt by the German exterminate policy to rid Africa of its "brutes". ...

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Also there is a contrast between light and dark and Rockwell uses a mix of lightness and darkness and shows a difference of the ages of each character through the texture of the skin. ... The closed eyes of the boys ability to sleep and the fact that they do not stay awake in the middle of the night worrying and fearing about death and destruction. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

the locks and chains all night in the unmade park had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 32-42). ... Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 39-43) leave the reader steeped in thoughts of violence and chaos, a highly representative literary effect of the modern era. ... The death of Icarus, as represented in Breughel's painting, exists as an ...

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The Viet Cong appear as a mass of barbarians running through the dark, trying to overrun the fort, who get exterminated by electrified fences. ... Nick ultimately loses the game, metaphorically illustrating a death due to his experiences in the war. ... The central plot, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is fictional and far-fetched. ...

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Notions of good and evil are essentially dependent on social and cultural constructs, making conflicts over morality open to debate. In order to understand moral action, individuals often focus more on the context of the action than any innate moral code. In Carol Reed's 1949, noir style film The Th...

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The stories about those who "had been burned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together" (Atwan/McQuade 35) totally contradicted all of my assumptions of quick, painless death or internal radiation problems in the distant future periods after the bomb. ... America was responsible for the destruction of his home, and the death of many people that he cared about! ... Surrender immediately after the bombing was devastating, because it seemed that the death of their neighbors and destruction of their homes were unnecessary. ...

• Word Count: 1909
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

First, the Emperor didn't not intervene in political affairs as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. ... The Japanese people had such a passion for their Emperor that if there was the slightest hint that he was going to be treated like a common war criminal, the Japanese people, man, woman, and children would rather fight to the death before they allow such a thing to take place. ... The major concern for the Japanese military was the loss of honor; they had a code of "death before dishonor" (Long...

• Word Count: 3760
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For such tragedies to happen during WWII, the Holocaust's deep darkness is exposed from reading War and Genocide, a Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen, through her powerful use of writing that she does throughout her book. ... Not only does Bergen go into the depths of how Hitler abused his power as leader during the Holocaust, but she also points out that the German public was to be accused of not stopping the unnecessary deaths of the innocent people that were being killed around them. ...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

• Word Count: 2487
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1927, Earl joined General Motors as chief stylist, but with the depression and subsequently the war, Earl's creativity "was temporarily stifled" as automakers, reflecting the mood of the nation, "painted most cars in drab colors: black, brown, dark green, and occasionally navy blue. ...

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The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, t...

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Although the assassination precipitated the events that led to war, the true causes of the Great War were much deeper and much more convoluted than a gunshot and the death of a statesman. ... Not only did his work attack religion and morality, but it also presented the idea of a "ubermensch," or the "superman:" I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the out of the dark cloud man. ...

• Word Count: 5871
• Approx Pages: 23
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate