The costs of total war, mobilization, and the end to modernity ultimately led to drastic shifts in the perceptions of identity across the globe, which led to decolonization and the birth to new nations, and whether or not the assimilation and abandonment of old traditional ways of life, as is the case presented by Leslie Marmon Silko in the novel Ceremony. ... In this film, there is an immediate sense of discrimination while the troops go into the mess hall to receive their food rations. ... However, the identification of Algerians, in their perception, changed less than 10 years later, as...

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Advertisers appealed to the morality of buying now paying later rather than spending all your money at once which created a sense of guilt. ... Television gives Americans wisecracks and at the same time sparks conversation but, still the conversations are all about television which creates the perception that all Americans do is watch television because they're too lazy. ... These massive social changes that occurred in the 1950's modeled very much how we live our daily lives every day in America as whole , creating the perception of Americans being all the same, being lazy and watch...

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And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarking on a global scheme of Imperialism, fueled at least in part by a growing sense of Nationalism within the many countries of Europe. ... He loses all sense of securit...

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Booth suffers from limbic epilepsy, which affects the part of his brain that deals with intuition and perception and causes him to experience visions and hallucinations, which is no wonder why his artworks are distorted and somewhat odd. ... 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. ... Individuals are continuously trying to fit in with society, following what society thinks is acceptable and in turn losing their sense of identity and individuality. ... Because of ...

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In a sense, he chose an idiom that was especially comprehensible to European sensibilities. ... However, unlike the perceptions Hussein and the British government had regarding this agreement, the Balfour declaration became a policy through Jewish activists. ...

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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. ... Although these ideas were rather extreme, they did foster a sense of nationalism based on the idea of the superiority of a race. ... In this sense, Serbian nationalism became a direct threat to Austro-Hungarian national integrity. ...

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Hachiya "matter-of-factly dislodged [the glass fragment from his neck] and studied it" (Atwan/McQuade 33) immediately after the pika, for some reason, my perception of the event changed drastically. ... This was never a judgment in the sense that I dislike, fear, or distrust any race of people. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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