Anzac day is on April 25; a day set aside to honour and keep in mind those who have fought to show the world what we could do as a new country and gave our "mother country", Britain a helping hand. ... It is said that we had the highest amount of casualties seeing that every first men died and every second injured either lightly or permanently resulting in 215,585 casualties; not including those held in prison. ... Australia was also involved in a battle against Germany in 1918, where we lost an awful amount of 65000 heroic men that fought hard but in the end lost their lives. ... Brave men f...

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I think freedom means trying to live the way that the millions of soldiers, militiamen, and draftees who have died would want us to: peacefully, harmoniously, but not without some of the hardships of life which make us who we are. ... To me freedom means the right to remember all of those who have given their lives for how we live now. I think our founding fathers would be amazed to see that we are still alive, but then again maybe not because they know how much people will risk if they truly believe in something. ... Yesterday it was almost common for five hundred people to die in one day. T...

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He plummeted from the top of a tower and died. ... In the 1800s, inventors turned their attention to studying the shape of the wings and how it performed in stream of air. ... Pioneers Par Excellence: The Wright brothers In 1896, Otto Lilienthal, who performed many experiences of flying and had developed gliders, died. ... Also, for military use, now we hear about the spy crafts that cannot be detected on the radar, and the hypersonic airplanes that fly at an unimaginative speed. ...

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In Verse One, Owen starts by explaining how he and the people around him are feeling. ... This line allows Owen to show how violently the wind was blowing, causing the wire to move. It allows us to appreciate how cold the men must have been, due to this violent wind. ... Owen writes, "Is it that we are dying?" ... In the last line of this verse, Owen writes, "we turn back to our dying". ...

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But we never had any. How will we ever get used to one after this, here?" ... Paul only feels at home now on the front with his fellow soldiers, his friends who one by one die. ... He is in turn able to relate just how unfair, ruthless, and senseless war truly is. ... This war took so many people's lives, those who died physically, those who died mentally, those who will never be able to return to society, and even those who must cope with the new "breed" of human. ...

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He talks about how the war becomes a never ending nightmare of attacks. ... Pro patria mori which means to die for one's country. ... Win or lose, live or die, it is all for your country. ... Do we know all the history? ... I guess we will never know....

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I think the most important thing that I realized in watching this movie is that, while we try to un-personify the enemy, they are people just like us, they fight for their own cause, just as we fight for ours. ... These students are the men that we follow throughout the movie and watch as they realize how little nobility there really is in the trenches. After what seems to be very little training, the men are sent off to probably die. How much training does death require anyways? ... People are dying everywhere, seemingly at random. ...

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It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without or knowing how We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers, we reach the zone where the front begins and become on instant human animals. (55-56 All Quiet on the Western Front) This transformation happens in both novels and soon we begin to see the actions of the characters in both novels reflecting their psychological change. ... With each person losing a friend each day the men's priorities turn fr...

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This is developed by words such as limped, lame, blind and "Drunk with fatigue", these all suggest how oblivious the soldiers are to all around them, and how they stagger and fall - as with being drunk -. ... The personification of 'helmets' by the use of 'clumsy', outlines how 'drunk with fatigue' the soldiers are, uncoordinated in their actions. ... "In all my dreams before my helpless sight", suggest this scene haunts Wilfred Owen's memories, because, we discover, he was unable to help the dying man. ... The dying man is treated like chunk of meat. ... (Sw...

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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. ... One explanation might be that Owen used this comparison to describe the actual face of the boy as he was dying. ... This was the fate of the man Owen describes, an appalling end to a young and innocent life which makes us, the audience, feel as grieved for the millions who died in the war, as we do for this young man. ... In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet a...

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Owen goes on to tell us how the men were dragging their feet. ... Owen uses - "Cursed through sludge" to show how frustrated they were walking through the sludge. ... Owen uses a simile to describe how the soldier is dying in the gas attack as a result of being to slow in getting his gas mask on - "Floundering like a man in fire or lime" he uses a simile as if the man being burned by the gas attack is being compared to someone burning in a fire. ... We can feel the mans pain and agony as his flesh is burning. ... The description of the dying man also continues in this verse. ...

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She was the Tsar's youngest daughter and she knew how to have fun. ... Eventually Tatiana and Maria died. There is much confusion about how Anastasia died. ... In my opinion, we will never really know what happened on that night and what happened to Anastasia. ... The exact truth will never be told and we will probably always be kept wondering. ...

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There we are given one of the expressions used by Owen to compare the men like "old beggars under sacks". ... The impact that Owen draws upon the reader is of young men who are no longer young but who look old and dying in amongst the crud. ... "Men marched asleep", it may seem impossible but this showed to us just how knackered they were. ... Wilfred Owen sadly died on Armistice Day in 1918 just after coming out of hospital months earlier. His parents were sent a telegram that very day probably saying he was a brave soldier and died serving his country. ...

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Owen shows in his poem how instead of using science in order to work for nature, man has both intensified an attack on his fellow man and corrupted the natural world ( Breen 181). ... In this unique way Owen not only conveys Mankind's corruption of nature, but shows how such corruption leads to the destruction of Mankind, exemplified in the form of the cringing soldiers hiding in the salient. ... The lines in the poem: Since we believe not otherwise can kind fire burn; Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is ma...

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At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, "The Soldier" is one of these poems. ... In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. ... "Think how it wakes the seeds, Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. ... This poem is very philosophical poem it makes you think what are we doing to each other. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. ...

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Through Paul Baumer, Remarque shows how war makes man inhuman. ... "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world: and we had to shoot it to pieces. ... The only thing they need to know now is how to survive. ... Paul said, "I well remember how embarrassed we were as recruits in barracks when we had to use the general latrine."3 When Paul was sent to the front, along with his other friends, new friendships where made that would last throughout time. ... One by one he watched his friends die. ...

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However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. ... 'Dulce et Decorum Est' is Latin for: It is sweet and fitting (to die for one's country). ... How can it be sweet and fitting to die for your country if no one knows about your death? ... It causes tension and sadness because the answer to the questions we probably could answer but do not because it is upsetting to remember the dead - especially when the question implies why should it have been them and not you? ... The last line of 'Anthem' - the...

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For sure there would have been a greater loss of lives of American soldiers but all in all maybe fewer people would have died. ... From watching the movie All Quiet on the Western Front I learned a lot about how bad the war really was for the soldiers sitting on the front line. ... Soldiers lost their friends, comrades and family, sometimes watching them died next to them, and it always showed how easily it could have been them dying. Dying on the battlefield was a play of luck; if it wasn't you this time, it could be you the next time. ... On the other side I think that it really is im...

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Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war. ... But it was too late; the French soldier was dying. ... From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. ... The book made more sense of the essential of the war, and how the young men had been destroyed in the war. ... Paul was died just at the end of war, just because of the little butterfly. ...

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The persona tells of how he and his battalion are attacked with mustard gas and one of the soldiers not putting his gas mask on in time, suffers from the effects of it. Wilfred Owen aims the poem at the government of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier in war and honourable to die for the cause. ... Owens use of these devices positions the reader to question the stereotype of these soldiers and to negatively respond to the issue of war: "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks/ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curs...

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He was twenty-five years old when he died. ... In one of his most well known poems, 'Dulce et Decorum est' Owen challenges the famous Latin saying by Horace which means that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. ... The second stanza deals with a gas attack in which one of the soldiers dies, unable to fit his gas mask in time, and he drowns on his own blood. ... The poem starts with a harsh presentation of exhausted men: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, This tells us of the decline of fit young...

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To figure out how an attitude such as this exists can be looked back upon how engineering is taught to people. ... I guess then the only problem is that people will experience high level of cholesterol and will die at a sooner age since they will have heart failure. ... Here is the scenario: Hitler is killing people because he thinks it is the right thing to do but we disagree with his decisions. Now we keep trying to leave him a message on his answering machine to cut it out and we could talk it over some sausage and beer. ... But here you get into things like what exactly is defined as p...

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I looked at the titles on the syllabus and I remembered how much I enjoyed "Dulce et Decorum Est" written by Wilfred Owen. ... This poem grabbed my attention more than any of the other selections we have read thus far, making it my favorite. ... His message is that it is a lie to think that dieing for ones country is "sweet and fitting." ... Lastly, the message that dieing for one's country is not sweet and fitting was fascinating to me. Throughout history it has been said that to die for your country is honorable. ...

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In the story, Paul Bäumer and his other friends in the German army were talking about how they were influenced and motivated to join the war: "When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barrack. ... In this quote, Paul explains how the soldiers transform from their natural human instincts and personality and become "animals" during war: "We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our...

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Besides regret and remorse, we can form a negative view of ourselves because of whatever it is that we feel guilt about. Often we feel a need to do something to undo whatever we have done or make amends. ... Everyone has some type of emotion that can explain how they feel about World War II and Hitler's genocide. ... They must believe that these people were human too and had to have realized what they were doing, and how wrong it was. ... In war people die. ...

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