His wife, Dolores Chanal, who desires badly to attract her husband's attention, finally falls into the abyss of mental illness, "insane, manic-depressive and suicidal" (Shutter). ... In the decision of "[living] as a monster or die as a good man", he chooses to "die" (Shutter). ... Undeniably, Laeddis is insane, but many places in the movie are trying to inspire us to think twice of this problem: who is actually insane, Laeddis who has a strong desire for justice or the so called "normal people" who are indifferent with the violence in the world? ...

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Most soldiers though still felt the desire for human comfort through proximity even though it was a dangerous strategy to bunch up while under fire. ... Soldiers had to watch many of their close friends die in battle. ... " This horrible incident of watching fellow American soldiers die was not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, most soldiers had the misfortune of experiencing this. ... One of the most obvious mental stresses of a soldier would be the risk of dying or being permanently injured. ... Another mental stress soldiers dealt with was not the possible fate of dying, but the act o...

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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. ... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinking the war was still going on....

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In order to completely understand Stalins seemingly fanatic desire for increased security, one must understand the degree of destruction the Soviet Union endured at the hands of the German forces and their allies during the Second World War. ... They looted and destroyed 40,000 hospitals and medical centers, 84,000 schools and colleges, 43,000 public libraries (which contained approximately 110,000,000 volumes), 44,000 theaters, 2,800 churches and 427 museums.8 Additionally, the Soviet Union desired to maintain its Eastern and South-Eastern European territory in order to create a united Slavi...

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Everyone is gripped with the desire to lead a comfortable and urban life. ... Joe's own son, Larry, a military pilot, dies en route to China in a related crash. ... His son, meanwhile, has dreams and desires of his own, ones which are perhaps not quite in keeping with those of his family. ... Keller is something of a self-made man, a hard worker with an almost exaggerated desire to pass on his business to his son, Chris. ...

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But American foreign policy suffered a major setback in April 1945 when President Theodore Roosevelt died and President Harry S. ... These events sparked in the Korean a strong desire for independence and laid the framework for communism to take hold due to the large number of peasants and workers who had suffered and desired reform. ... Hodge's other option was to work with the Korean People's Republic, which was composed of staunch anti-Japanese Koreans who desired independence and self-governance immediately. ...

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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. Hitler's desire was to study art, especially architecture. ...

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Because Britain remained free Hitler was unable to quash all resistance in Western Europe and was forced into the war that no German ruler has ever wanted or desired: A two front war of attrition. ... Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874 and died ninety years later in 1965. ...

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But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... He seems to have been contemplating further anti-Semitic measures, and possibly a purge of his associates in the Party, when he died on March 5, 1953. ...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...

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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. ... Shocked by his obstinacy, the Colonel throws him into jail, where Olaf later dies. ...

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The Little Prince which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and was published in 1943 during the World War II, is my favourite great book. Although the story is simple, but it enlighten me so much. The story started with the author's plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from hel...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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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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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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The task of explaining why appeasement, has been continuously addressed by historians over the years. To date, there is still no single cause identified. Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. 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...

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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 publica...

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