The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. ... After World War I, Hemingway returned to northern Michigan to read, write, fish, and later to work for the Toronto Star in Canada. ... He died July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and was buried in Ketchum. ... The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... He lays on his cot where he flashes back to scenes from his life that he has saved to write, taking pleasure in their recal...

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Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... "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). ... However his studies were quickly halted by the outbreak of World War I. ... He's tormented with the death of his friend and struggles to remove the pictur...

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Joe's own son, Larry, a military pilot, dies en route to China in a related crash. ... You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away?... He tells his son "Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance and I did it for you. ... Here Keller attempts even to lay blame on his son's shoulders. ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. ...

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However they both died in infancy. ... Alois Hitler died when Hitler was 13 and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. Klara died when Hitler was 19, and from then onwards, he had no relatives willing or able to support him.1909,Hitler left his home to seek his fortune in Vienna. ... Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." ... " That night I resolved that, if I r...

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Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. ... Sixteen Nazis and three policemen lay dead from this massacre. ... In August of 1934 President Hindenburg died. ... Speaking to his Generals in October 1939, Hitler said, "If it becomes clear that Britain and under its leadership France also, are not prepared to end the war I am determined to go on the offensive without delay." ... Speaking to the Reichstag in June, he said, "I can see no reason why the war need go on." ...

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Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," 4 where he uses "etcetera," as an adjective, adverb, and a noun. ... Also, the meaning of "etcetera," is "and so on," such as, "I need to eat, sleep, etcetera." ... Shocked by his obstinacy, the Colonel throws him into jail, where Olaf later dies. ... "i sing of Olaf" is a perfect example of Cummings" message of his rebelliousness to find ...

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As he lay awake in bed that night, the narrator looked at a history of Dresden published in 1908. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. ... While he was in the hospital, his wife died of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

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So now, every morning I wake up and turn on the news, praying that some upstart little country that I have never laid eyes on hasn"t sealed everyone on the planets fate. ... Next, I will look at terrorist and their motivations for harming innocent people along with a list of unconventional weapons that terrorist have used. ... Thus, after an army captures an enemy base they can lay the VX around leave and not have to worry about anyone mounting a counterstrike. ... 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 administ...

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In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ...

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But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions near the close of World War I. ...

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