He lives in an underground town set up by a crazy control-freak who thought that the world would die soon so he gathered lots of people and paid them lots of money to come and start a new life down there. ... Although the book refers to how much the world has suffered so much, the main character always try to keep an optimistic mind, an example of this is where Diana believes that there is a city on the moon where people retreated to when the word started to die. ... In my own opinion, I believe that we are doomed. ... Or slowly yet surly destroying the planet from heat and then in time, we...

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How important is realism in constructing the narrative of Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers? ... Saving Private Ryan was produced in 1998 and is based on the story that a soldier by the name of Private Ryan who has to be saved due to his three brothers dying in battle and a mission is deployed to send him home. ... We often measure how realistic media is by comparing it to something that has happened before in our own situated culture. ... But one important thing about realism is how we involve realism in the media, all realism is constructed and that realism important in concern wi...

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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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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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In this paper, we take a look at how Hitler's life came to an end. ... Afterwards, he would publish his findings into what we now know as The Last Days of Hitler. ... Several people died but Hitler suffered little injury. ... While we already know what Trevor-Roper found, Bezymenski believed Hitler died from cyanide poisoning. ... The main theme was to present scientific evidence that can help us draw a clearer picture on how Hitler died. ...

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In order to avoid an inhumane act like the Holocaust in the future, we must remember it so that we know where racism can ultimately lead. ... These people endured an extreme amount of pain before they died. ... Some people were revived, but most ended up dying in these experiments. ... This just further reiterates how horrible the Holocaust was. ... By the end of the book, Eliezer's entire family dies and he is the only survivor. ...

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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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Philip Caputo spent his life acquiring the skills of killing, learning how to fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. ... Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. ... He began to despise the whole staff for sending the platoons out to die. ... When Caputo returned home he felt like many soldiers had died in vain. ... Also, I was surprised to find out how graphic and how much it went into detail. ...

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With certain stark differences, the two films subtly underlie how America and Japan's perceptions of the incident diverge. ... For instance, a person dies because of radiation; a woman has been rendered sterile; people struggle to make ends meet due to property loss. ... In the American film, we can hardly see any fatality and casualties, except for the burning ground without any human shown hurt or dead, from the explosion. ... In contrary, Children of Hiroshima builds up the emotion gradually from before the bomb was dropped with everyone getting involved in their daily routines until ...

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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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The best thing we can do is ignore the bad moments of our life, because we cannot change them. ... He tells us about how the cattle have awakened Jesus, yet he does not cry about it. ... The alien tells him how every character in the novel has their "ups and downs". This can be related back to the idea of everybody having good and bad moments in their life, and all we can do is say, "so it goes" to the bad ones, while we remember the good ones. ... There is only the masses, and they are quite frequently dead or dying. ...

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"It wasn't enough to visit a battlefield, we needed to know why the battle occurred, how it played out, and the consequences" Collins states in a recent interview ("Scholastic"). ... Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. ... "We fight, we dare, we end our battle for justice" Katniss Everdeen states toward the citizens of Panem, convincing them that the Rebels are right in the situation (Collins, "Mockingjay" 151). ... Characters will die. ... I try and think of how i would tell a particularly difficult event to my own ...

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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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This paper will explain the events of Pearl Harbor and how it had come about. ... They fought it through to the end and that's how it has always been. ... (Prange, 377) Before he had died he gave one final speech about what happened at Pearl Harbor. ... They all go to show their respects to the men that had died for their country.... For all the men that had fought for their country we are truly blessed for you so we have a place to call home. ...

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"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? ... Yes, how many ears must one man have, Before he can hear people cry? Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows, That too many people have died? ... Many people died in the war and brought grief to the nation for the demise of a large number of soldiers. ...

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One in three Australian prisoners of war had died, making this prisoner of war ordeal responsible for more than half the deaths of the entire war. ... In the sudden and unexpected silence of the surrender, the Australian troops had absolutely no idea of how they would be treated by the Japanese victors who disliked the Australians for their involvement in the ongoing war. ... Many prisoners of war from Australia had died from Malnutrition compounded by several tropical illnesses like malaria, dysentery and cholera --and rarely through torture and sometimes executions. ... When conditions were ...

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The people of Africa have suffered through much worse than the people of Iraq and we are doing almost nothing about it. ... "Recently he told his fellow black scholars that they must learn how to solve black poverty in a way that doesn't falsify the reality of black achievement. ... Though I agree with Horowitz to an extent, would all those people have died during the Civil War if we didn't begin taking slaves? ... However, how he says this scares away white America and makes them get defensive towards African-Americans in general, although only one African-American said this. ... A...

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We have all heard the phrase "the past repeats itself" throughout our entire lives. ... The past is repeating itself as we know it. ... Those whom were sent to perform labor would often die from exposure, starvation, dehydration, or exhaustion, or gunshots while the camps started to rapidly and effectively expand. ... "Most North Koreans are sent to the camps without any judicial process, and many die there without learning the charges against them(189)", revealing how unjust and easily people are thrown into the chain length Hell Hole. ... George Santayana once said that ...

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American Foreign Policy: Where are We Today and How Did We Get Here? ... When we die we leave younger generations of children and grandchildren to repeat the cycle. ... Many Americans want to know how we arrived at our present foreign policy. ... The second question posed, "American Foreign Policy: How did we get here?" ... Eventually one of the paradigms must prevail and it is the newer one, with the younger adherents, that experiences such success over the old paradigm, who's advocates simply "retire and die off" (p.567). ...

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"Truman: On July 24, I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. ... All he said was that he was glad to hear it, and hoped we would make 'good use of it against the Japanese'" (McKain, pg 171). ... Another 60,000 people had died from their injuries, and radiation. Over the following 5 years, 275,000 people had died as a direct result of the atomic bombs (Sullivan, pg 129). ... I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. ...

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