How important is realism in constructing the narrative of Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers? ... Saving Private Ryan was produced in 1998 and is based on the story that a soldier by the name of Private Ryan who has to be saved due to his three brothers dying in battle and a mission is deployed to send him home. ... We often measure how realistic media is by comparing it to something that has happened before in our own situated culture. ... But one important thing about realism is how we involve realism in the media, all realism is constructed and that realism important in concern wi...

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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. ... One explanation might be that Owen used this comparison to describe the actual face of the boy as he was dying. ... This was the fate of the man Owen describes, an appalling end to a young and innocent life which makes us, the audience, feel as grieved for the millions who died in the war, as we do for this young man. ... In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet a...

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The persona tells of how he and his battalion are attacked with mustard gas and one of the soldiers not putting his gas mask on in time, suffers from the effects of it. Wilfred Owen aims the poem at the government of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier in war and honourable to die for the cause. ... 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 curs...

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With certain stark differences, the two films subtly underlie how America and Japan's perceptions of the incident diverge. ... For instance, a person dies because of radiation; a woman has been rendered sterile; people struggle to make ends meet due to property loss. ... In the American film, we can hardly see any fatality and casualties, except for the burning ground without any human shown hurt or dead, from the explosion. ... In contrary, Children of Hiroshima builds up the emotion gradually from before the bomb was dropped with everyone getting involved in their daily routines until ...

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The characters articulate against the paternalistic practices, and how the usage of it in real life is as devastating as applications of it in stories. ... Since Gawain was most likely to end in expulsion due to his lack of self-confidence, the headmaster says "we must consider the greater good. We are responsible for the formation of this lad's character", believing that sending him to slay the dragons uphill will help his abilities into becoming a man. ... In an effort to save the school's reputation from harm, "the headmaster and the assistant professor of pleasance...

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The main focus is how we can avert any attacks before they take action, as well as the assassinations of any leader by a group or organizations. We will also discuss the Korea Issue, as each day passes, not one resolution or negotiation has taken place for how to handle this. ... We especially do not sustain any sort of state-sponsored terrorism. We only wish to hold a peaceful nation, free of terror acts. ... Four of the tourists died, and two others--including one US citizen--were wounded during a Yemeni Government rescue attempt that liberated the remaining hostages. ...

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Because of our government dropping the atomic bomb we have been able to make military advancements that would never have been fathomed before and we have been able to make political advancements that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to make. ... Had the United States decided to not use the atomic bomb there is a large chance that we would have had to invade Japan and if we did this we would have lost a much greater amount of lives. There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but given Japan&...

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In one case we have an email sent to a school board member threatening a lethal attack on multiple schools, naming the sites, how students would be harmed and the specific date these attacks would take place. ... One was a nineteen-year-old boy by the name of Quintonio LeGrier, who died from multiple gunshot wounds, and the other was a fifty-five year old woman by the name of Bettie Jones, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest. ...

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The surprise assault by Japanese warplanes destroyed dozens of ships, loaded with crew "all in all, over a thousand servicemen died that day. ... And fight back we did. ... But for better or for worse, the early fourties were inarguably a period of great change, one that would define how we live our lives today. Most clearly, it is a prime example of how history repeats itself, and, if one heeds the warnings of the past, how that same history can be avoided. ... For now, we can only wait and see....

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August 15, 1945 japan announced its surrender just after 6 days of the two atomic bombs that have been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this shock attack forced the Japanese to surrender and it even made Emperor Hirohito himself shocked of the divesting power of the atomic bomb, it got him to a point were he is pushing for peace instead of counting to fight, he even said "Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.... Therefore it shows how eff...

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Hachiya recorded from a colleague related the story of four middle school students who huddled together in the street, and were so badly burned from the blast that they themselves knew that they would soon die. ... Hachiya, after meeting with troops at his hospital, relates in his diary how impressed they were with the American troops" light-heartedness, friendliness and warmth. ... I had naturally assumed that he would feel enraged at and resentful of any representation of the destructive force, no matter how uninvolved these representations were in the actual bombing. ... All of these fears ...

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The parable educates people the value of sacrifice, similarly as to how Jesus died on the cross for mankind. ... "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" shows the hardship of villages both before and after World War II, it illustrates the communist regime, and how people needed it so land could be accessed by all and ownership disputes kept to a minimum. ... "We haven't said anywhere near all we have to say about our valley. ... It completely crosses the line of moral entertainment to eccentric education, leaving the viewer perplexed and entirely lost, yearning for emotional attachment; while at ...

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As one German Field Marshall named Hindenburg put it, "In the event of a resumption of hostilities we can . . . defend our frontiers in the east. In the west, however, we can scarcely count on being able to withstand a serious offensive . . . The success of the operation as a whole is very doubtful, but as a soldier I cannot help feeling that it is better to die honorably than accept a disgraceful peace." ... The point made by Hindenburg shows how many other Germans felt as well which was that they believed that it would be better to die then to accept the shameful Treaty of Versailles, these...

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The raid on Dieppe showed how important it was to destroy enemy defenses with air bombings prior to the attack, along with improvement of military tactics and equipment from traditional war trends. Dieppe resulted in important lessons, assisting in the Canadian development of new military tactics "Dieppe taught us that if we wanted to land in France, we had to have mass bombing attacks.... Out of the five-thousand soldiers sent by Canada to participate in the raid, one-thousand soldiers died, five hundred were wounded and two hundred were captured by German forces approximately(1942 Diepp...

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So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. ... Up to 40% of people who catch the virus will die within the first two weeks, and there is no vaccine because it has to administered before the virus is contracted. ... And the final weapon that we have to worry about terrorist or leaders of small countries trying to get their hands on are nuclear weapons. ... First, how and for what purpose do these countries prepare to use this weapon? ... Basically, military doctrine consists of plans that a country makes deciding...

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"The Silent One," on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt 2029). ... Moreover, in his later poems like "The Silent One," Gurney evinces sentiment and concern for the untold truths of the war, which when we look at his biography and broken poetry, suggests how the war tormented him; leaving his mind and memory fragmented up until his death (Greenblatt 2028). ... Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war...

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Louis, and this denial is one of the reasons why many of them had died in the Holocaust. ... We were Jews, we were expendable It was terrible ..., terrible, terrible of Canada and the United States, of all countries, to not let us in" (National Post News, 2011). ... Prime Minister Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on March 29, 1938, "I fear we would have riots if we agreed to a policy that admitted numbers of Jews," and Frederick Charles Blair, director of the immigration Branch of the Department of mines and Resources had said, "No country could open its doors wide enough...

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However, what angered Rua the most as seen though his resistance in the First World War, was the way that the Crown had separate laws for Maori and Pakeha, reinforcing not only how the crown neglected the Treaty, but also how they discriminated against Maori. ...

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Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... In the end, the assault of Northern France codenamed Operation Overlord did not begin until June of 1944.1 Perhaps the most significant dilemma facing the Allies following their victory in Europe was how post-war Europe was to be divided. ...

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Politics it self strived to find idealistic methods of politics and philosophy in the history and so now we are living in the capitalism and democracy society. ... On the other hand, many people dies because of extreme poor and starving. ... TIME magazine reporter had interview with John Howard and reporter asked how does he answer people who say the U.S does not need military help from Australia. ...

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As it became evident that the policy of appeasement had failed in 1939 and that Britain would in fact go to war, the Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair expressed his feelings on the achievements of appeasement We have eaten dirt in vain This statement is clearly expressing the fact that Britain has tolerated the deceitful acts of Germany to no avail or successes. ... Winston Churchill was also a clear critic of the policy of appeasement stating that We cannot look back with much pleasure on our foreign policy.... the violation of the Rhineland is serious because of the menace to whi...

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Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Party in 1922, and although he quickly began to increase his personal power, no one realized how dangerous he was at this time. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... He seems to have been contemplating further anti-Semitic measures, and possibly a purge of his associat...

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Unfortunately, there is no date on this photograph so we cannot presume that it was taken before conscription was introduced and if it was taken after then it proves nothing to us. It is impossible to prove a fact until we are 100% certain and in the case of source D proving that A and B were successful in persuading men we cannot be, although it is indeed likely. ... 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 blo...

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The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. ... Thus, through the myths of an ethical confrontation, the authority of experience, and the inaccuracy of the enemy, The Green Berets exemplifies how noble-grunt films concentrate on de-contextualizing history to produce certain interpretations of the Vietnam War that will attract a receptive audience. ...

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British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response to the issues of imperialism, nationalism, and war. Britain, at its imperial zenith, faced a war that sprung from both ideologies of imperialism and nationalism. The Boer War (1899-1902) would change imperialistic relations between England her colonies, and open their eyes to the country's m...

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