On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close t...
Of course they're "longing to go out again,"" These boys with old scared faces, learning to walk. ... This disease will cause the flesh to rot until the surgeon removes the infected, gangrenous foot in order to save the leg. ... He reported seeing "soldiers in filthy tatters, their feet bound with rags "soldiers limping, staggering on crutches, without arms, without legs, discharged from the overcrowded hospitals [where they were six to ten to a room] still blue and shaking from typhus- (Gilbert 111). ...
Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...
This fact meant that their lives were forever going to change and possibly be cut very short. ... Before the United States' involvement in the war, many young American men were living everyday lives, but now were being forced to leave everything behind to go fight for their country. ... Some would go as far as to shoot themselves in the legs to escape battle. ...
While many states have made efforts to, or even improved upon, their state of human rights, there is still a long way to go until all rights are fully observed in the international community. ... While many states have been developing their own courts, should their citizens want another court to go to they can go to an international court, such as the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. ... Many children fall from the camels and break arms, legs, and necks, which can and does result in death. ...
He would go on believing that these were the working class people of Germany. ... Some of his daily duties were on the front lines and at headquarters, He was wounded in the leg in 1916 and gassed in 1918. ... "The article would later go on to say in an account of Hitler...
His mother, who had a lot of faith in him becoming a artist, gave him enough money to go to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. ... In October1916, while fighting in France, he was wounded in the leg and sent back to Germany. ... Hindenburg, now senile and incapable of understanding what was going on, preceded to rubber stamp Papen`s recommendations . ...
and that they should "Go!"... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atypical of the type of censorship that existed at the front to maintain morale later in the war, as propaganda was used more extensively in order to bolster morale on the home front. ...
