However, their work became hopelessly bogged down by the question of whether their patients were recalling actual traumatic events or creating fantasies due to repressed sexual desires. ... (The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." ... Yet another man's fits of jerking and twitching were so bad that it seemed some wild demon had possessed his mind. ... Some victims become frozen or mute thanks to shell-shock, and when they didn't res...

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"[B]oth sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question .Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. ... Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... They drove ambulances, served as nurses and doctors, and distributed food to the soldiers, "undeterred by discomfort and hardship.""14 Furthermore, a number of women "responded with enthusiasm to the call for drafts-15 and by their help, they contributed directly to the victory of the allied forces in the First World War. ...

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A master orator, not only was Hitler a charismatic speaker, but his public speaking was so passionate and dynamic that the crowds would be driven wild with enthusiasm of the ideas he preached. ... This exasperation meant that many people were more willing to listen to extremist party's who called for its over throw. ...

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An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ...

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