He died July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and was buried in Ketchum. ... We generally, call this man the "code hero" "this because he represents a code according to which the hero, if he could attain it, would be able to live properly in the world of violence, disorder, and misery to which he has been introduced and which he inhabits. The code hero, then, offers up and exemplifies certain principles of honor, courage, and endurance which in a life of tension and pain make a man, as we say, and enable him to conduct himself well in the...

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Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... Writer Robert Graves wrote, "We held two irreconcilable beliefs: that the war would never end and that we would win it."... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinking the war was still going on.... Tens of thousand of shell-shock victims had been diagnosed by the end of the war, but doctors hardly even knew how to begin getting a handle on what the disease was. ...

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But why should we care? ... 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. ... Plato even said "Only the dead have seen the end of war," 3 and Cummings emphasizes this thought by showing that despite our many warnings by people who we accept as profound thinking, we still continue our ignorance until death. ... Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an ad...

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While he was away at college, his father died at the young age of 46 from stomach cancer. Theodore made it home only hours after his father had died. ... On February 14, Roosevelt lost his mother to typhoid, and within hours, his wife died of Bright's disease. ... Then, on September 14, 1901, William McKinley died of bullet wounds inflicted by an assassin; Theodore Roosevelt suddenly became the nation's 26th president. ...

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While he was away at college, his father died at the young age of 46 from stomach cancer. Theodore made it home only hours after his father had died. ... On February 14, Roosevelt lost his mother to typhoid, and within hours, his wife died of Bright's disease. ... Then, on September 14, 1901, William McKinley died of bullet wounds inflicted by an assassin; Theodore Roosevelt suddenly became the nation's 26th president. ...

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The Battle of Tannenberg is considered the single most brilliantly conducted operation of the entire war. The German official history of war asserts that Tannenberg was the greatest battle of encirclement in world history. Historians consider Tannenberg a spectacular and complete German ...

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"The Silent One," on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt 2029). ... Moreover, in his later poems like "The Silent One," Gurney evinces sentiment and concern for the untold truths of the war, which when we look at his biography and broken poetry, suggests how the war tormented him; leaving his mind and memory fragmented up until his death (Greenblatt 2028). ... Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war...

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The individual must fight and be willing to die to preserve the State. ... The laissez faire policies of the early nineteenth centuries gave capitalist owners the freedom to determine how long work days would be and how much they would pay their workers. ... Like socialism, fascism sees the importance of how the individual and society are inseparable and must cooperate with each other to succeed. However, the focus upon how they cooperate with one another is the defining difference between the two. ... An anarchist can have several perspectives on how to achieve this autonomy. ...

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This statement by Offitzer in "Diners" gives a nice description of how not only diners became an important part of American history, but the architecture of the diners were just as important. The design of the diner is directly related to a time in American culture and the architecture of it can reflect how Americans were using certain materials and styles in a post-World War II world. ... Now, not only did people have a place to purchase food and water on-the-go, but also starting to introduce that quick and casual sit down experience that we would see start to bloom elsewhere. ...

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They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-- Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride . . . ... Through the eyes of Septimus, the reader becomes aware of how the brutality of war can affect the human psyche. Woolf also reveals how the post-war society of London responded to individuals with shell-shock. ... As German soldier, Herbert Sulzbach stated, "We pull forward, get our first glimpse of this battlefield, and have to get used to the terrible scenes...

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As it became evident that the policy of appeasement had failed in 1939 and that Britain would in fact go to war, the Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair expressed his feelings on the achievements of appeasement We have eaten dirt in vain This statement is clearly expressing the fact that Britain has tolerated the deceitful acts of Germany to no avail or successes. ... Winston Churchill was also a clear critic of the policy of appeasement stating that We cannot look back with much pleasure on our foreign policy.... the violation of the Rhineland is serious because of the menace to whi...

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Unfortunately, there is no date on this photograph so we cannot presume that it was taken before conscription was introduced and if it was taken after then it proves nothing to us. It is impossible to prove a fact until we are 100% certain and in the case of source D proving that A and B were successful in persuading men we cannot be, although it is indeed likely. ... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blo...

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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? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the government for help. ... In times of crisis we all know that the common people do not want to be making the decisions they want someone to decide for them. ... Mussolini, being quite clever and devious in his own way, knew how to deal with this problem. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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Also in 1920 Hitler showed how he could incorporate certain international events into making the attainment of his goals easier. ... And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differences between France and Italy, in order to win Italy over to our side." ...

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Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry into the twentieth century; many of the new tones of voice, the new anxieties and difficulties that we associate with modern writing had already begun. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purify poetry', which was to continue, through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the period when the Modern movement in poetry was formed. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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