It shows us how much we still have to learn about the world and the civilizations and how hard it is to understand the reason why we do such things to our fellow human beings. ... We have to imagine what it was like and how bad it would be if something of such impact would be happening to us. ... Alexander Kimel, a Holocaust survivor, expresses how the Nazi's treated the victims: The Germans establishes a bureaucracy that dealt with people like we are dealing with commodities not even cattle. ... "We walked over pain-racked bodies. We trod on wounded faces. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... Wars would look good, and we would be sure to have more of them. ... We now see Billy working on a second letter describing the Trafalmadorian conception of time. ... We move to the first time Billy gets unstuck in time. ... His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ...

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First and foremost, we must address the fallacies concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. ... They did not do anything, thereby allowing more Jews to die. ... In fact, a British official is quoted as saying,What are we going to do with 100,000 Jewish children?? ... Imagine what there eyes saw, what there souls felt, and how there hearts burned. ... They did not do anything, thereby allowing more Jews to die. ...

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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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He is convincing himself about how to go about being insane. ... We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." ... In the following we see Yossarian's true motives. ... Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. ... Surely so many counties can't all be worth dying for(257)'". ...

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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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We must understand how he gained and abused power. We must know the life and impact of the man who was once a madman and a po-litical genius. ... Alois Hitler died when Adolf was only fourteen. ... She died on December 21,1907. After his mom died he had no one. ...

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We often think about how many marks we obtain, but we forget the process we have passed; We often concern about how much money we earn, but we forget about the satisfaction of the job; We often care about how much inch of the screen of our smartphone, but we forget to look upon the sky to count how many stars in the sky. Time goes by, we gradually lost our patience about our life. ... When we intend to analysis the story, we should know about the main character. ... Adults always use amount to measure their life, such as salaries, marks, even how many children they have. ... "I would rath...

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In the decision of "[living] as a monster or die as a good man", he chooses to "die" (Shutter). ... Cawley said, "We treat them, try to heal, try to cure. And if that fails, we at least will provide them with a measure of comfort in their lives. ... The Shutter Island for the patients is the last refuge to stay, no matter how daunting it is described by others. ... When their justice eventually becomes injustice against the mainstream, there are three ways left: die for the faith, struggle in the conflict or repent and confess like the German officer in the film. ...

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The ten events are a visual aspect of the how the nation evolved into what it is today. Without the events occurring, we may never have the materials that we do today. ... White House officials and Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, gave confusing testimony on how the gap might have occurred. ... Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. ... A little piece of everyone died that fateful afternoon. ...

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(Rentschler "How American Is It?" ... Most Germans would tend to be ashamed of the cause these sailors died for, while, on the other hand, most Americans would tend to feel a sense of pride for overcoming evil. ... But, how does Petersen show us the characters this way, who do we identify with and how?; how does he separate the good guys from bad guys visually?, and how does this create sympathy for those characters? ...

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The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany i...

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Here today we draw together one of the consequences of these events in the disarmament of the British Army of the Rhine"(James). ... Even after W.W.II, the Nazis still talked about wonder weapons and how they could get back at all of the Allies. ... This movie showed how close the Soviet's were from attacking the U.S. ...

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When there's a problem we must focus on the problem, the reason, and the solution not the war. ... Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for child soldiers. ... This former solider was in the Angolan armed forces and explained how soldiers burst into his home one night three years ago and took him away. ... Besides the large number of women who died as a result of combat operations, there were hundreds raped by fighters on both sides. ... In addition, due to the thousands of fathers who died at war, Liberian and Angolan women had no other choice but to go out and make money to provide for...

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So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. ... Up to 40% of people who catch the virus will die within the first two weeks, and there is no vaccine because it has to administered before the virus is contracted. ... And the final weapon that we have to worry about terrorist or leaders of small countries trying to get their hands on are nuclear weapons. ... First, how and for what purpose do these countries prepare to use this weapon? ... Basically, military doctrine consists of plans that a country makes deciding...

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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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These troops are also known for kamikaze raids and suicide bombings, meaning that the troops were willing to die for a very small cause. ... The United States had tried their best to avoid using the atomic weapons but unfortunately, "[...] we [Americans] killed 100,000 Japanese...but it didn't mean a thing insofar as actually beating the Japanese" (Walker 3). ... Without the use of the atomic bomb, who knows how long the Pacific War would have continued, bringing a large death toll with it. ... According to another author, William Sloane Coffin, "the war, which, we never fo...

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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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However, what angered Rua the most as seen though his resistance in the First World War, was the way that the Crown had separate laws for Maori and Pakeha, reinforcing not only how the crown neglected the Treaty, but also how they discriminated against Maori. ...

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Eisenhower wrote: We do not intend to employ war as an instrument to accomplish the worldwide political settlements to which we are dedicated and which we believe to be just. ... We don't know who the hell's the enemy over here." ...

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Eisenhower wrote: We do not intend to employ war as an instrument to accomplish the worldwide political settlements to which we are dedicated and which we believe to be just. ... We don't know who the hell's the enemy over here." ...

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I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... I set the gun up, and we"re looking, we"re looking. ... We only fired bursts of three or four at a time. ... We couldn't do that. ... How important was air-power for D-day's success? ...

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Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... In the end, the assault of Northern France codenamed Operation Overlord did not begin until June of 1944.1 Perhaps the most significant dilemma facing the Allies following their victory in Europe was how post-war Europe was to be divided. ...

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