Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... (Herman 12-14) It wasn't until World War I and the horror brought by the "industrialization of war" (The Century) that the symptoms suffered by hysterics could be compared with the symptoms of a large number of men who had endured documentable horrors. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never eve...

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The music gave evidence of what the world was doing wrong. ... In January 1962 Chubby Checker introduced the world to The Twist. ... In fact, songs were later written that accused the music industry of abandoning this moral high ground in the 80's, like Harry Chapin's "Remember When the Music." Music awakened people to what was "hip" or "unhip" in the world around us. ... Elsewhere in the world in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were holding a unique protest in bed. ...

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U.S. pilots began a bombing campaign on the capitol of Guatemala and other cities around the country. ... Some of the grossest human rights violations ever committed were committed under this regime that received $80-$90 million dollars from the U.S. government within the first few years after the coup. ... The lowest casualty estimates, based on the now-renounced North Vietnamese statements, are around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed. ...

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