This sense of terror also included Shukhov even when he was already sentenced to Gulag. Prisoners would wake at dawn every morning feeling a sense of fear at the thought that perhaps it was their last day alive. It was common for prisoners to be shot with absolutely zero justification or warning. ... Being stuck in a camp, the prisoners cannot fulfill their moral and practical obligations to their families and thus they lose their sense of self worth and become deeply depressed. ... Family and love are what brings people, especially Soviet people a sense of value within life, otherwise there i...

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"Who we are and what we do is no longer given to us by tradition; instead each individual faces the challenge of combining personal autonomy with an ongoing sense of secure selfhood" (Van Kriken et al 2000, About Giddens 1992 ). ...

• Word Count: 1928
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He says, "In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties" and uses "us." He places himself and the rest of the country on the same level; the problem of the Great Depression is common between the citizens of the United States of America and the president. ... Roosevelt wants to distance the common people or person, from the people who he believes to have caused the problems. ... By repeating these words in particular, it is believed that he is creating a sense of community and comfort. ... He knew there was minimal money in the economy, job shortages, l...

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It was used in this sense until the mid-19th century when it gradually began to refer to eracial characteristics. ... Nationalism identifies a primary political and territorial community- the state with a common ethnic identity- the nation. Nationalism forges together a sense of people hood or belongingness based on common history, ancestry, culture, language or religion. ...

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The Baseball gloves worn by all the boys illuminate the love for baseball, which demonstrates that most children share common interests. ... Norman Rockwell had the toughest time painting, Freedom of Worship, the third painting in the series, he wanted to show the differences of religion from person to person while still have a sense of unity amongst the people. ... Norman Rockwell expresses the last painting in the series Freedom from Fear by painting two parents tucking their two children into bed because this action is linked to a sense of comfort. ... Light illuminates in to the wall repr...

• Word Count: 1928
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No sense chants, strange costumes were the norm. ... The name theatre of the absurd applies to a grouping of plays that share certain common structures and styles and are tied together by a common philosophical thread: the theory of the absurd. ... They do this by creating plays that in the normal sense are not really plays at all. ...

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Bean, such as sense of humour, egalitarianism, larrikinism and distrust of authority. ... So firstly how do we talk about representation and common experience? ... It is then emphasised that in this program we are not thinking about their differences but what they had in common. ... In the Gallipoli Gallery we look at the frontline diet as another way of understanding the common experience of the soldiers. ... Perhaps surprisingly children of all backgrounds appear to display a sense of ownership over this part of their history. ...

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Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. ... (P 139) This quote shows that the soldiers sense that death is a very real possibility and so they want to do everything that they can with their time. ... This book points out that war cannot be defined; it cannot even be discussed with any accuracy and in the end it has no sense. ...

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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. ... "Trenches, hospitals [or] the common grave,"" he argues, are the only remedies for this condition (Page 283). ... He loses all sense of security, and is left to fend for himself in a world of violence and death, which he has grown to know and cope with too well. ...

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Through the wide use of letters as the key form of communicating with family and friends and the communication they had between themselves in the trenches, a myriad of words and phrases came into common use. ... In this sense, black is what earlier English termed as gloom. ... Other common words and phrases that originated among the soldiers and their experiences and are still used with the same meaning include barrage, camouflage, conk out, D-Day, May Day, and fed-up. ... However, the battlefield provided common ground for the contact of different languages and culture, which inadvertently b...

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That was a large family and that kind of family structure was a common sight at that time. ... Scarcity of daily commodities, clothes pushed the common people of this region towards the endless miseries. ... From the statement it can be easily understood what kind of situation it was and how World War laid its icy hands upon the common lives of Indian sub-continent. ... Common people couldn't afford to buy their daily necessaries. ... The lives of common people came to a standstill. ...

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Many struggled with being forced to give up their job as they did not want to give up their new found freedom, independence and sense of self worth outside the home. ... For example one soldier repeatedly smelt gun smoke and burning (Lagner, n.d.), vivid dreams were common. ... Grief was common as many families received the tragic report that their father's and brother's would never be coming home (Summerside War Effort, n.d). ...

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But do not let us lose our common humanity in the struggle. ... But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can not feel at home amongst these things. ... Overcome by the sense of isolation Paul is unable to turn to even his family for help. ... "A common feeling among soldiers was that their experience at the front had created an insurmountable barrier between them and civilians. ...

• Word Count: 1787
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It is all too common for modern literary works from the 1930s and 1940s to exude human suffering, and Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" is no different. ... By explaining how the rest of the world barely took note of Icarus's splash, Auden is toying with the idea of human suffering - in a sense making light of the situation. ... Upon final analysis, perhaps one thing is certain: the poems simultaneously conflict while still remaining examples of what art can be in the modern world - somewhat of a juxtaposition, but wouldn't that just make sense....

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Common generic conventions of war series are POW camp experiences, submarine warfare, espionage, heroism, air dog fights, tough trench/infantry experiences, and in the majority of episodes of the ten hour series, they represent one of more of these elements. ... These are all common representations of the US Army in the 1940's and this concept of variation of races is seen in Band Of Brothers and primarily in Saving Private Ryan. ... John Fiske says in Television Reality (1987) that realism does not just reproduce reality, it makes sense of it'. ...

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Second Generation Japanese The term "Oriental" seemed to be a very common word among those who disliked Asians during the immigration period. ... The second generation Chinese and Japanese have many things in common as to how they were raised and their experiences as children. ... They earned a sense of respect for their efforts and patriotism for the country they called home, America. ...

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This book was the first book that dealt with Vietnam reasonably and it gave people a sense of what the war was like. ... The sniper is still around, however, ambushes are more common in this stage of the war. ...

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People can love other people or things or places, but love or loyalty towards a country makes no sense. ... In order to reduce our pleasure we must not be blind to the fact that our pleasure causes others' pain in the sense that we over consume. ...

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After World War II, American lives changed drastically from the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression and then entering World War II. In the 1950's when the youth population increases, modernized entertainment technology is introduced, and white collar workers rise; they create the perils ...

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In George Catalano's article "Promoting Peace in Engineering," he proposes that the way to promote peace is through the education of engineering. He proposes several ways of modifying the ABET Criteria. ABET, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is an organization that accredits col...

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However the forth and fifth stanzas are harsh and dispel the common belief of glory and honour which is associated with death on the battlefield and replace it with the reality of mass killing and bloodshed. ... The techniques that Owen uses in 'Spring Offensive' allow him to bring a sense of depth and purpose to his poem. ...

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Media: The Puppeteer of the Public's Perception Ever watch Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toon gang? Of course. Remember the episodes depicting Bugs and the gang in Word War I or World War II garb and situations? Bugs was always the red-blooded American hero and those Germans were depicted as despicable...

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The emergence if Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan are the most common of examples, oppressing the rights of African-Americans and intimidating them to not do things such as vote, even though the 14th Amendment clearly states that they can do so. ... The letter written by the state of South Carolina proved to be an interesting letter to me, simply because they made a lot of sense. ... It only makes sense that we as a nation should move forward, and the Tea Party should stop looking in the rear-view mirror and try to drive this car in reverse. ...

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The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Most of the youth in Germany were raised in fatherless homes. Hitler, being the corrupt opportunist that he was, capitalized on this state of affairs. ...

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During the post-war era in the 1920s, many people attempted to make sense of the world around them and find some kind of order. ... Because readers can relate so well to them and they are more entertaining to read than the righteous hero, they became more common in works of fiction including various graphic novels....

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