These movies, known as film noir, looked at the darker side of human nature and were marked by a distrustful, fatalistic view of the world. Despite their darkness, or probably because of it, they were fascinating and hugely entertaining, providing catharsis and acknowledging the ambiguity of an uncertain world. ... Film noir acted as a "dark mirror" to post-war America and reflected its moral anarchy of the "American dream". ... Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male protagonist who encountered a beautiful and seduc...

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Imperialism is a process created to expand the state by dominating foreign territory while abusing the population as well as the natural resources. Lindquist believed imperialism was not only the cause of the Holocaust but was not used to help the natives of foreign territory. Instead imperialism wa...

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The voice over 'Vienna, light hearted capital' establishes a setting suggesting that prior to the war, Vienna was a peaceful city, renowned for its culture and music. ... The darkness reflects the disenchantment of the time. ...

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What Nancy Bristow then explores is the darker, repressive side of the CTCA "s crusades. ... While the rest of the class may disagree with me, I believe that she did a wonderful job of outlining the way ideas of appropriate masculine and feminine behavior laid at the heart of the Progressive campaign for moral reform. ...

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I proudly served my country for seven years as these homosexuals did in WWII and even though I suffered far less discrimination, I appreciate their sacrifices with all my heart. During the dark times I felt while I was serving, due to my sexuality, I used to always tell myself that the homosexuals before me in the "old army" had to deal with far worse situations but this book made me realize that I had no idea how right I was. ...

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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. ... The central plot, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is fictional and far-fetched. ...

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The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty the Emperor, mindful of the fact that the present war daily brings greaterevil and sacrifice upon the peoples of all belligerent powers, desires from his heart thatit may be quickly terminated" (Alperovitz 23). ... The retention of the Emperor was crucial to the surrender, as the Japanese believed their Emperor was a god, the heart of the people and the culture (Long). ...

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For some reason, this touched a particular part of my heart, and the care given to the horse reminded me that, instead of being seemingly fictional characters from an increasingly distant past, these were human beings, who, even in the face of disaster, were capable of caring for a simple animal, exactly like me. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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