Leap Into Darkness is a real life story written by Leo Bretholz. ... He was a survivor of dehumanization and brutal punishing, when living day and night became a brutal challenge, a time when souls were lost in a living death. ... Leo had escaped many death trains which where leading to concentration camps. ... The book Leap Into Darkness is a very valuable book to read in a course based on the Holocaust. ... The book Leap Into Darkness is a story about Leo and many people who were victims of the Holocaust. ...

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He accepts death as the end of existence. ... The setting outside while Catherine is in labor is dark and dreary: "I could see nothing but the dark and the rain falling across the light of the window- (327). ... Another interesting symbol is night and the fear of darkness. Henry is afraid of the dark. ... Henry's fear of darkness is really fear of evil elements and the sadness around him. ...

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Through the central character's voyage of realization, the reader is confronted with a deeply philosophical approach to the meaning of life and death. ... Specifically, it is demonstrated through Jim's experiences in relation to the insignificance of individual life, the inevitability of death and the unstoppable movement of time. ... Wizzer tests Jim's innocent character, drawing out his dark side, and only Clancy's intervention prevents Jim from being infected with his father's savagery, which Jim had until now been able to keep at a safe distance. ... At this po...

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While Billy is in Germany, the reader learns of thousands of senseless deaths. ... Not only is the book inundated with thousands of meaningless deaths, but many riddles and double meanings. ... Vonnegut uses dark irony in a very effective way, which not only disturbs the reader, but connects various events throughout the story. ... Without Vonnegut's use of imagery, dark humour, and irony, Slaughterhouse Five would not be nearly as effective of an antiwar book as it is. Though all the senseless death and dark humour can at times almost become nauseating to the reader, Vonnegut achieves hi...

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What makes this death so alarming is the fact that, although we feel great sympathy for the young boy, this young soldier died simply because he could not put his gas mask on fast enough. His death is both useless, wasteful and is not in any way heroic thus exposing the truth behind the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young soldiers during the war, a poignant yet useless loss of life. ... The failure to put this mask on quickly thus leads to a terrifying death, as the toxic gas slowly destroys one's body in the most horrible of ways. ... He says how the victim is "waiting for dark" as...

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Ultimately, this leads to Ross's shooting of a higher officer, his desertion of the army and eventually, his death. ... The Ross household was generally a good one until the untimely death of Rowena. ... Ross was never able to actually come to terms with her son's departure, she would never be able to return to normal after his death. ... This failure ultimately leads to the death of Ross and only then did people begin to even consider him as a hero. The fact that World War One was going on at the same time as the life of Robert Ross seems to play little more role to the book than ...

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Presently it grew altogether dark: the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. ... A dark water was before him, and he was crawling on the ground, this way and that, doubtful of the way. ... He went some paces back in the darkness, not daring to move far, or to call in more that a hoarse whisper. ... He fell and came heavily on his hands, which sank deep into sticky ooze, so that his face was brought close to the surface of the dark mere. ... They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. ...

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This reveals that war causes him to always be constantly thinking about death's possibility. ... A disease, like cancer, is known as an ultimately inevitable fight to the death. ... However, one must fight to survive in fear to overcome death. ... They're almost zombie-men, stumbling through the dark with bodies that do not work anymore. ... In conclusion, war is a disease that can ultimately lead to one's death if not feared. ...

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The populations of occupied countries lived in fear of being taken away to German Death Camps. ... These death squads murdered over 2.5 million Jews. ... In 1934 the first concentration camp was formed prisoners were literally worked to death. The population of these camps rose from 25,000 in 1939 to 714,000 in 1945 excluding death camps. Death camps were created in 1942 and killed over one million people. ...

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The Dogs of War In his poem, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats uses strong, precise syntax to make the reader feel the intensity of his words while conveying a dark atmosphere that gives the reader an uncertain and seemingly hopeless sense of what is to come. ... The overall atmosphere is one of death, destruction, and hopelessness following, I believe, the First World War. ... I believe the sphinx, representing Christ upon his return, represents the beast within us craving the human appetite for death, vengeful and all-powerful. ...

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. # Dorothea kept this secret so well that it was not until after her death that her own husband and children learned her birth name was Nutzhorn. ... After her death from cancer in 1965, Lange's husband donated an archive of some 25,000 negatives and 6,000 vintage prints to the Oakland Museum of California.# Another photograph by Dorothea Lange is White Angel Breadline. ... Dorothea Lange carefully isolated the man against a dark background with a warm light on his hands, the simple cup, and his hat. ...

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Also there is a contrast between light and dark and Rockwell uses a mix of lightness and darkness and shows a difference of the ages of each character through the texture of the skin. ... The closed eyes of the boys ability to sleep and the fact that they do not stay awake in the middle of the night worrying and fearing about death and destruction. ...

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the locks and chains all night in the unmade park had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 32-42). ... Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 39-43) leave the reader steeped in thoughts of violence and chaos, a highly representative literary effect of the modern era. ... The death of Icarus, as represented in Breughel's painting, exists as an ...

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Since, I felt responsible for these innocent people's deaths. ... They purposely kept us in the dark, hiding the horrors that they we're planning for years. ... They were in shock of the amount of damage and how much death it caused. ...

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Confined and rendered helpless, subjected to constant threat of death, and forced to witness the mutilation and deaths of their comrades many young soldiers experienced a total destruction of the personality. ... I am young, I am 20 years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. ... Our knowledge of life is limited to death. ... At the end of the war, "the future, whose promise had been so dazzling in August 1914, now seemed to offer only darkness, a blackness without compare"(206). ...

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In the book " A Separate Peace" it exemplifies true feelings and characteristics of ordinary people. It takes place in 1942 during the dark days of World War II. The book is based on a flashback by main character and narrator Gene Forrester. Based at a highly regarded prep school, by the name of ...

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The stories about those who "had been burned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together" (Atwan/McQuade 35) totally contradicted all of my assumptions of quick, painless death or internal radiation problems in the distant future periods after the bomb. ... America was responsible for the destruction of his home, and the death of many people that he cared about! ... Surrender immediately after the bombing was devastating, because it seemed that the death of their neighbors and destruction of their homes were unnecessary. ...

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If the child cannot have a world without these torments he prays for, he state to "otherwise kill me", showing how he is thinking of death before he is born, he does not want to be born and he does not see anything in the world which he could find worth living for. ... The "desert" is also tempting but it leads you to dehydration, starvation and death. ... The third line of the second stanza produces strong imagery with "black", a dark overcast mood is created and with "blood baths", we see the red of killing, a horrible slippery red, splashing as though in a bath. ... In the last line the...

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For such tragedies to happen during WWII, the Holocaust's deep darkness is exposed from reading War and Genocide, a Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen, through her powerful use of writing that she does throughout her book. ... Not only does Bergen go into the depths of how Hitler abused his power as leader during the Holocaust, but she also points out that the German public was to be accused of not stopping the unnecessary deaths of the innocent people that were being killed around them. ...

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In this speech, Eisenhower says, "So my country's purpose is to help us to move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which the minds of men, the souls of men everywhere, can move forward towards peace and happiness and well-being.... "To the making of these fateful decisions, the United States pledges before you--and therefore before the world--its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrate...

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This left too many Germans in the dark, which left them vulnerable to Hitler. ... I know it sounds cruel and sadistic that I would let 12 million people be tortured and murdered during the Holocaust in the death camps. ...

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She was wearing shirtwaist dresses, or cotton blouse with a heavier, dark skirt, and a huge hat that looked enormous with the opulent coiffure. ... Marilyn Monroe, as a heroine of 50's, remains, more than thirty years after her death, the ultimate symbol of Hollywood glamour. ...

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At least the men have something to look forward to, but then again maybe not, maybe the sentence has a double meaning, maybe "distant rest" is meant to be read further into and is a disguised synonym of the deaths that eventually the men will encounter. If this is the case then the line is quite dark, but if the line is taken as it is written then there is a little more optimism being displayed. ... The sudden realisation that death is imminent is not a pleasant one, it is, in fact, a discovery that most people would rather not make. ...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

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A poem written by the World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, is 'Exposure'. This poem is set out to show the reader what the conditions were really like during the First World War and to make it clear that the events that surrounded him, were not pleasant. In this essay, I am going to write about how Owe...

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