He remembers staring death in the face. ... " Oddly enough, if Americans and Germans bumped into each other outside of battle, each would just walk on by because they knew random fighting would have no effect on the outcome of the war. ... He remembers turning away with "revulsion, horror, and remorse" when seeing dead men, women, and children in their regular weekday clothes scattered across the streets. ...

• Word Count: 2562
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, only a few are still known and remembered today for their unique and fascinating technique of delivery. ... "To His Love," depicts the frustration Gurney began to experience, foreshadowing his fragmented mind that would torment him indefinitely: "Knew it, on Severn River/Under the blue/ Driving our small boat through," emphasizes two conflicting memories of Gurney as he struggles to remember a peaceful setting with a horrific one (Greenblatt 2028). ... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... Some of the riflemen got up and they walked over and looked in the hole. ... They just looked in the hole and walked away..." ...

• Word Count: 3362
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... Dead bodies were stacked on the trench tops to make them higher and on the ground so soldiers didn't have to walk in the mud (The Century). ...

• Word Count: 3502
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Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. ...

• Word Count: 4790
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• Grade Level: High School

When he tracked his old friend down, he asked if Bernard would help him remember things about the war. ... Billy is in bad shape: he looks like hell, can barely walk, and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is up to those of us who follow to remember and to help prevent such terrible tragedies from happening again. 2) The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? ... "We walked over pain-racked bodies. ...

• Word Count: 2685
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• Grade Level: High School

The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. 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. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42