Is War Necessary? ... This movie tells the story of a reluctant hero, Benjamin Martin, who enters the war after his family, becomes endangered by the British. ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... Based on an inspiring true story, The Lost Battalion recreates the life and death action of the first Great War, however seems to focus on death and negativity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He went to war. ... He dreams of his younger days when he was capable of fulfilling and remaining true to his talent. ... This is similar to how he ignores his wife's cheating habits instead of confronting her. ... You may not always know one's true background and what is really happening in their life. ... The narrator for the story is in Milan for rehabilitation where he meets an Italian Soldier, a champion fencer, whose hand has been wounded while at war that is also in rehabilitation. ...

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Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinking the war was still going on.... In his novel, "Regeneration", Pat Barker tells the story of a doctor in a mental hospital whose job was to cure victims of ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... In his own mind, Weary narrates the war stories he will one day tell. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ... His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this story William Golding employs religious allegory, linking parts of his novel to several biblical stories and portrays Simon as a Christ-like figure. ... Simon's character traits are like Jesus' because he demonstrates true morality and selflessness and many of the things he do seem supernatural. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. ... Simon's quest to tell the truth is also comparable to Jesus' coming to tell the truth, and Simon's murder is symbolically like the crucifixion...

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While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during battle, and later carried his personal beliefs of freedom to protest against the glorified view of war that Americans embrace. ... Instead, we see his teachings spanning other topics, as thus, Cummings uses the subtlety of parenthesis to show how our culture ignores a symbol as powerful as Jesus if he conflicts with tradition social perceptions, like war. ... As war continued to rage through the world, Cummings" continued to write his concerns. In another anti-war protest poem, "my sweet old etect...

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• Grade Level: High School

During World War II he served in the Royal Navy as commander of a rocket ship. During the war, he experienced firsthand man's inner savagery. ... Eventually, the war destroyed his faith in humanity itself. ... Golding uses the names of two of the boys as if to say "This is how things really would have happened."" ... It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation - Conrad's goal is to make the reader see' Kurtz. ...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan's industrial capital. ... When the Japanese had realized that they were the only ones left in the war, Germany their ally, was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war. ... The desire of the Emperor for an ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She tells us of when they get to their destination and of how she attempted to gain an education in the conditions they were subjected to. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. By the end of the war, only she and her mother had survived. Toby became an artist and presents her story through the use of her own art in paintings and descriptions of them. ... It is up to those of us who follow to remember and to help prevent such terrible tragedies from h...

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One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... Not everyone will jump off the bridge if you tell them it's safe. Mussolini, being quite clever and devious in his own way, knew how to deal with this problem. In a true Machiavellian fashion of eliminating any dissenter that could not be "swayed" to understand the "glorious new ways" Mussol...

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