One of his poems: Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. ... If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. ... I quote Crown Prince Wilhelm :Each of us must keep himself fit for arms and also prepared in his mind for the great solemn hour when the Emperor calls us to the standard - the hour when we no longer belong to ourselves, but to the Fatherland with all the forces of our mind and our body; for all these faculties must be brought to the highest exertion, to that "will to victory" which ha...

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"Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. John Hersey, from Hiroshima, p8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United S...

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Although an expatriate, through his life and works he touched upon the feelings and needs of countless Americans that were lost in history. ... Hemingway's first book, "The Sun Also Rises," was a masterpiece that elaborately depicted Hemingway's "Lost Generation" through fiction. ... He is without a doubt as pure and ideal a character as there has ever been in the history of literature. ...

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As Jack approaches with his choir from the darkness of the forest, he cannot see Ralph, whose back is to the sun. Jack is symbolically blinded by the sun. These two are very obviously intended to recall God and the Devil, whose confrontation, in the history of Western religions, establishes the moral basis for all actions. ...

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Introduction Since her day of commencement, the USS Indianapolis had a great career, leaving her mark forever etched in American history. ... The USS Indianapolis was the last major American warship to be lost at sea, and has become known as the greatest sea disaster in American naval history. ... For the next 4- ½ days, the remainder of the Indianapolis crew drifted without food or water, and little hope of rescue, succumbing one-by-one to the largest shark attack on record, and for those that survived the relentless attacks, they were still yet faced with the heat of the sun during t...

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