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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How they feel? ... How many are single or double or triple or quadruple amputees? How many will remain immobile for the rest of their days?" ... Dalton expresses what the men were thinking by saying, "And all the guys who died all the five million or seven million or ten million who went out and died to make the world safe for democracy to make the world safe for words without meaning how did they feel about it just before they died? ... The thing that is embarrassing is the way that we spend Memorial Day which is suppose to be a day to honor the men who fought for our freedom. ...

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" Tim demonstrates how he fights out of fear and does not reflect on his inner emotions. ... This example demonstrates the key reason that we fight. ... But we didn't think that of them" (11). ... " In the New York Times, Paul Krugman reveals the reasons that explain why we fight wars. ... He cannot think about the horrors of war, or else it would make him go mad and he would die. ...

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The soldiers are even sometimes wakened in the middle of the night to unexpected attacks as in the one explained by Paul, We wake up in the middle of the night. ... It is a constant struggle to live for these soldiers each and every day they are at war, and everyone knows that they could die at any time. ... One occasion, when Paul is sent out to patrol and obtain a visual of how the enemy is manned, he gets very scared when enemy fire becomes near to him. ... Paul describes his thoughts as, We are no longer untroubled we are indifferentWe are forlorn like children, and experienced like ol...

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Perhaps it might be best to die, and set her fears at rest," (Gurney 5-8). ... Juliet believed that what she saw did not look like two people making love and becomes confused as to how people that wanted to make love ended up hurting each other. ... "'Madam we regret to inform you that Lord Hartwell died in action Thursday se'nnight.' ... In a month, here underneath this lime, we would have broke the pattern. ... We are creatures of habits and habits are difficult to break....

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So let's look at how we attempt to gain our objectives, while always conscious of the obstacles that we face. ... So firstly how do we talk about representation and common experience? ... How would you feel in the same situation? ... How do you feel now? ... Another technique we use to draw out how the ANZAC Legend and the idealised qualities of the Australian soldier is by examining the dioramas. ...

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The Lost Generation Let us see if we cannot make a fine game of it that we shall be all the better for having played out to the end. ... You are ready to die for your faith...let us fight it out. ... He does not know how to respond. ... "we are not youth any longer. we don't want to take the world by storm. we are fleeing, we fly from ourselves, from our life. we were 18 and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces. ... We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war"(81-88). ...

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How true. ... President Wilson developed its charter and soon died from exhaustion after his own country, the United States, refused to ratify it in the senate. ... Ironically, Wilson also believed that,The men, whom we are about to deal with, do not represent their own people.? ...

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As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround our world even until this very day. ... While in jail, Hitler stated, " instead of working to achieve power by an armed coup we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. ... But sooner or later we shall have a majority - and after that Ge...

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As one German Field Marshall named Hindenburg put it, "In the event of a resumption of hostilities we can . . . defend our frontiers in the east. In the west, however, we can scarcely count on being able to withstand a serious offensive . . . The success of the operation as a whole is very doubtful, but as a soldier I cannot help feeling that it is better to die honorably than accept a disgraceful peace." ... The point made by Hindenburg shows how many other Germans felt as well which was that they believed that it would be better to die then to accept the shameful Treaty of Versailles, these...

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(Weiss) The question still remains in the mind of a lot of people, how do we protect ourselves if an attack was to occur. ... However, there might be new viruses that we know nothing about and have no defense against. Immunizing only protects a person from one certain virus and we can never guess which virus the the enemy would fire at us. Injecting ourselves with every antidote known to man is not the ansewr either because a person could die from over immunizing. ...

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We can be sympathetic towards him because of the size of his empire but some of his problems were his own fault. ... Tsar Nicholas had a son, Alexis, who suffered from haemophilia and the doctors didn't know how to help him. ... The only eyewitness, his murderer, said that he was poisoned with enough poison to kill an army then was shot several times but still didn't die, so they tied him up and dropped him in the river and there he met his end. ...

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Hitler did not give the opportunity of choice to people unless it was a choice of two evils, for example "go to the gas chamber or die on the spot. ... He began by accepting war against the British Empire without any clear conception of how to win it. ...

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