Granted, when the lights go out and the park is closed he does gain momentary autonomy, but each morning he is condemned to face more misery. ... Auden writes, "In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone as it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water; and the expensive delicate ship that mush have seen something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on" (line...

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Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...

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While many states have made efforts to, or even improved upon, their state of human rights, there is still a long way to go until all rights are fully observed in the international community. ... While many states have been developing their own courts, should their citizens want another court to go to they can go to an international court, such as the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. ... Many children fall from the camels and break arms, legs, and necks, which can and does result in death. ...

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and that they should "Go!"... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atypical of the type of censorship that existed at the front to maintain morale later in the war, as propaganda was used more extensively in order to bolster morale on the home front. ...

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