In the Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cranes uses imagery to aid the story in its expression that war isnot romantic. A reader of the Red Badge of Courage may notice how Crane transforms Henry's thoughts of war from romantic to real life. ... These in depth views into true warfare transform the reader as well as The Youth from a dreamer of war to one whom has witnessed the actions on the battlefield. ... In Stephen Cranes goal of showing war how it actually happens he chooses to display another truth of war that many people seem to overlook. ... In the last attempt of Stephen Crane he show...

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When I ask how he knew this information he said he hear it on the news, I asked him if perhaps the news was wrong and he responded, "If it wasn't true, why would they say it." ... Most of the information that someone gains in one day is forgotten because most people intermingle bits of all the information pertaining to a certain topic and skew it together combining it with their own opinions to create a story that doesn't coincide with the true story. This is referred to as the telephone effect, which is study mostly in high school classrooms, where one person tells another person a ...

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Even the stories of the Bible which are considered to be truths were passed down as a form of tradition before they became writings. ... Also, society can change how history is written creating false truths. A Russian textbook can tell that the United States was the evil behind the Cold War, while a textbook found in the United States would be full of anti communist sentiment. ... This is an important tool in the sociology of knowledge, the ability to tell what is true and what is false. ... This is how we know what we know. ...

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It was a statement that was true over a century ago and still holds true today. ... This premise is actually repetitive in telling stories of those who are able to find their true "social self."" ... In Dialogues in a Monastery the main character, Synesios tells his good friend Ipklisis why he decided to become a monk; he continues with a love story. ... They fall so deeply in love, but Synesios' good fortune is no more when his love, Nouty, tells him she must leave him to return to her husband, who earlier we learn was affected by fighting in the War. ... But, one's experience i...

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The same parents that preach about how lies are wrong slap their child when he tells them that he doesnt likes mathematics. ... Aristotle Story truth is different from happening truth. ... But a true war story is never moral. ... The story truth needs to establish a link with actual truth so that people could connect with the story. ... How beautiful it would be if all of us young and old, men and women, devoted ourselves wholly to truth in all that we might do. ...

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The women talk of how carefully their mothers guarded them, and how their own mothers were in turn warned of Roman fever to keep them in at night. ... Slade finally, after all these years tells Mrs. ... Slade still felt she ultimately won the war, because she ended up with Mr. ... One of the main images in the story is the comparison between dark and light. ... The main symbol in this story is moonlight. ...

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