He tells his son "Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance and I did it for you. I'm sixty-one years old, when would I have another chance to make something for you?... After all, Chris accuses his father of having "such a talent for ignoring things" (Miller 16). ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. ... I believe that one could argue that Chris' feelings stem from being a pawn in his father's own dream – C...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. ... Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. ... When the American people saw that the economy was flourishing, they felt that they were on a pedestal, protected from the river of uncertainty, economic depression and the failure of the "American Dream." ... Most obvious is that fact that World War I had devastated European business. ... This attempt to have a const...

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In the end of the poem, the character dreams of "your Etectera" while he lies in mud, wishing he could be back home. ... Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," 4 where he uses "etcetera," as an adjective, adverb, and a noun. ... Also, the meaning of "etcetera," is "and so on," such as, "I need to eat, sleep, etcetera." ... However, the only person who doesn't share the same...

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Adults always use amount to measure their life, such as salaries, marks, even how many children they have. However, I think that many things in life cannot be measured using amount, such as health, happiness and dream. ... 'I put the lamp out in the morning, and in the evening I lighted it again',14 said the lamplighter. ... "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.... Nowadays, many people follow the majority, and forget what they really should do to fulfil their dream. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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Determinism is the belief that man does not have free will. ... Golding uses the names of two of the boys as if to say "This is how things really would have happened."" ... From the book, it can be inferred that Conrad did not have a very favorable view of this cultural exportation. ... Already the Africans have shown themselves capable of participating in European society. ... It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation - Conrad's goal is to make the reader see' Kurtz. ...

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However, because of his violent and dangerous behavior, the Board makes a decision that Andrew Laeddis has to have a transorbital lobotomy to become more "controllable and tamable" (Shutter). ... Laeddis eventually wakes up from the dream. ... Kearns elaborates bluntly, "I don't know the world anymore. ... I hear enough voices already.... If justice is not absolute but depends on the one makes it, it will have a room for doubt, especially in the cases of those who do not have the firm faith in the righteousness of what they do. ...

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But World War I crushed all hopes and dreams. ... They did not have the strength or will to believe in themselves anymore. ... Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... The new weapons and new methods of warfare that were developed during World War I dramatically affected the nature of the conflict. ... World War I marked the beginning of chemical warfare in which clouds of poisonous mustard gas contributed to the casualties of the war. ...

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Wars would look good, and we would be sure to have more of them. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... Billy is in bad shape: he looks like hell, can barely walk, and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. ... They have been captured. ...

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Survivors No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. ... 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 . . . ... World War I World War I, also called the Great War, lasted from 1914 to 1918, and began as a local conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. ... The use of gassing in combat became popular during World War I. ... Some of the problems...

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As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. ... All of a sudden I spotted him, about 200 yards away, and I"d say maybe 30 or 40 feet higher than me. ... So he fired, I picked him up, I got about ten rounds in there, that sonofagun never fired any more. ... Without that earlier victory, the assault would have been foolhardy. ...

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Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... He seems to have been contemplating further anti-...

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Recently, I visited my family in the northwest outskirt of Seoul, which is my reason for choosing this topic. ... History There is an old folklore that I remember from childhood, of how the Korean people came into being. ... Since it is impossible to list all the sites here, I will only include the most popular spots. ... The rules are very strict here and South Koreans are not allowed unless they have a special permit. ... It is not much to see but I enjoyed the story behind it. ...

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First, the war was ignited when the separate countries of the Axis began to fulfill their ambitious dreams to conquer land for themselves. ... For Germany, the harsh circumstances left from the Versailles Treaty of World War I planted seeds for a future war. ... Consequently, many problems and conflicts were left over from World War I for Germany and Italy. ... Between Wars (WW I and WW II) Twenty-one years before World War II began World War I ended. ... In total, 10 million soldiers and civilians were lost their lives in World War I. ...

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The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, socially, and diplomatically. ... Without the events occurring, we may never have the materials that we do today. ... A single individual seemed to have murdered an entire era (Holiday). ... In 1918, as one of his Fourteen Points summarizing Allied aims in World War I, United States president Woodrow Wilson presented a plan for a general association of nations. ... The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. ...

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The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. ... After World War I, Hemingway returned to northern Michigan to read, write, fish, and later to work for the Toronto Star in Canada. ... If Francis would not have went out on the safari the last time and had so much courage his wife would not have shot him. ... Another episode in 1940 may have also served as a source for the novel. ... He dreams of his younger days when he was capable of fulfilling and remaining true to his talent. ...

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The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas empire rivaling that of Great Britain's. America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... Spanish-American War Having already annexed Hawaii and forced Japan to embrace western contact by duress, the United States was ...

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His mental disorder is believed to have gotten worse during the war, which can be correlated to his style of writing (Das 9). ... However his studies were quickly halted by the outbreak of World War I. ... Though he created many brilliant poems in the late 1910's his mind is said to have perish to the point where his family institutionalized him in 1922 (Thornton & Walter 120). ... Thus, much like many other poets of his time, the traumatic war experience began to have an effect on how Gurney thought, transforming the language in his later poems. ... He's tormented with the death ...

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However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... Throughout the Victorian and Georgian periods the language of poetry was felt to have a special decorum and to be different from everyday language. ...

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What is most disturbing is that they have nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them."" ... Beware, I say; time may be short."" ... "After World War I, the League of Nations was formed, and after World War II, the United Nations. Both have played a useful role, but not completely fulfilled the hopes of their founders. ... We have got our priorities drastically wrong. ...

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