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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How will you explain to a 6 - year old kid whose parents died in the World Trade Center, Pentagon or in the planes used to crash? Will you tell him that his parents died in a plane crash in the office? ... But what about the families of those who died? ... How can we have peace all over the world if we ourselves don't have peace in us? How? ...

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In the following weeks, more Japanese died from radiation poisoning. ... We all know how terrible cancer is and how many lives the disease has taken. ... We offered Japan the idea of an unconditional surrender, however Japan was prepared to fight until the last man. ... Some people say we were justified because of Pearl Harbor and the war crimes Japanese were committing against the Chinese. Just because the ignorant Japanese military committed these crimes, doesn't mean we need to also act ignorantly. ...

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I don't feel that people should have to die to maintain U.S. standard of living and this was something that I never really thought about. ... The whole thing was so bad, no matter how you look at it, that we can't ever let anything like this ever happen again." ... In considering this we may over come all violence and live in a better world. We are reading this at a significant time and I feel this is a mu! ... No matter who we are or what we've been through-the lessons of life have to take us forward. ...

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Inside Limerick's essay she explains how we should learn a great deal from war, how we learn from others and our own mistakes. When thinking about her title, "Haunted America", the first thing that comes to mind is war and people dying. ... This quote says that the people who fought at war and died had great consequences that united our nation and we will remember that. ... As pulling out the details in Limerick's essay, I begin to feel that the title "Haunted America" is much more than war and people dying. ... We will always remember what happened in our history and why we a...

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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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He believes that humans were destined to die. ... "Today we do. ... We ignore them. ... If it was know that AIDS started in Africa and if it was know how to protect oneself from the disease, would millions still of died? ... The importance is in how we react to these problems and how we try to solve them. ...

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Radio comes in "Hiroshima is clear, we deliver in 20." The levers are pulled and in seconds thousands of innocent people die. ... This "power" didn't just change the way foreign engagements were conducted but how they are now executed. ... The statistics are very clear but we still don't do anything about it. ... Nothing gets resolved and so many die." ...

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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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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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People were dying on the train Rita was on. ... He died the day before the rations came. ... It shows how hatred can become an obsession. ... The people who died could have done something amazing. We should continue to learn about the Holocaust so we don't forget about the tragic event that happened and the millions of people we lost....

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People were dying on the train Rita was on. ... He died the day before the rations came. ... It shows how hatred can become an obsession. ... The people who died could have done something amazing. We should continue to learn about the Holocaust so we don't forget about the tragic event that happened and the millions of people we lost....

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How can we have a safe world when people started favoring security over freedom? ... Scientists found out that 9600 died of stroke, 8400 died of heart disease, and 231 females died from breast cancer between 1950 to 2003. ... We come to the United Nations to seek your support. ... How can a country spend 35 billion dollar for weapons only and have a stable economy? ... The world isn't a prison, we shall not await the day of our execution, but we shall work on delaying it....

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There is so much violence in the world today how can there be peace? ... People don't like to talk about all the men and women that had to die in order for us to win. People that are not in the war are all happy because we won, but all the soldiers that actually came back are like we really did not win because we loosed so many lives in the process that it really does not mean we won. How can people think, say, and believe that we won when we have killed so many? ... We put our children in and out of psychologist because we think that there is something seriously wrong with them if they...

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They could continue to send men and machines to fight and die, or end the war quickly. ... We had to show them that we were serious, more powerful, and that it was time that they saw this and surrendered. ... We had not told Japan that we possessed the power to destroy entire cities with one bomb, or that we in fact had any power beyond them. We killed many women, children, and other innocent lives that were not informed or prepared in any way to die. ... By killing so many innocent lives and not giving a proper warning, how are we better than Japan? ...

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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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Our troops spent years fighting and dying for a country some had never heard of. ... You may ask how this could've happened or how it all came about, and ,yes, there is an answer it just may be a little difficult to explain. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... Because we gained no territory in this fight we could not search for our men that had not made it home. ... We are truly a lucky people. ...

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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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Another 40,000 civilians perished in the disaster, not to mention the many more who died later from injuries and radiation poisoning. ... " Truman felt that if he hadn't made such a bold move on Japan, even more troops and civilians would have died, but the war on Japan had already been nearly over. ... We gave no warning. ... At the least, the exposition of how destructive the atomic bomb really was should have been delivered prior to the bombings. ... Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, only to end a war that was already over....

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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 father tells his son the story of how he survived the Holocaust. ... Vladek explains "To die, it's easy But you have to struggle for life! Until the last moment we must struggle together" (Spiegelman 124). ... "So we worked day after day, we survived. ... His actions show just how tenacious he really is. ...

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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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