Yet, like "Pearl Harbor", "The Patriot" or "Shindler's List", some films also are based on the historical events that have taken place. ... It is one thing to read about a war in a book than it is to see your favorite actor playing a main character in the historical event itself. ... Even though movies tend to twist the plot by adding a love story into it or having the main character be a very important person in the war when in reality this man/woman was just another soldier. They still represent the truth about war, the horror of it all. ... I doubt any of us were alive when the Rev...

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All most in every single event that happened in this novel, Paul had his own feelings and thoughts, this book seemed like a Paul's little diary, which recorded his pain and suffering. ... The most impressive event for me in this book was the in one of the battles which is in chapter 9: Paul separated from his company, and forced to hide in the shell hole. ... From this event happened on Paul, we can understand that Paul is a very sensitive, compassionate, and pure-hearted man. ... The film of All Quiet on the Western Front basically followed the plot of the book, but it cut off some of th...

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In the history of American Entertainment, no subject has been more historic than the Civil War. ... But no work about the Civil War has attained the place of gone with the wind. ... She faces the changes in her life due to the American Civil War. ... Another incident was the emotional support to Ashley and Melanie and many more In one way, these events was a lesson to herself. ... Both the movie and book versions of gone with the wind became important documents of American culture for the rest of the world. ...

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One is the malevolence at war of the war to end and other is the effect off the war on the soldier. ... I believe the author's intent for this book was to show the world what war was really like and to tell them it was not a romantic event like may other books depicted. ... It was the first book to show how war really was and it let young readers who did not really know anything about war in a way experience war. ... This quote is important because it shows how the experience of war kills the soldiers' innocence and essentially kills them inside. ... - This quote is ver6 important b...

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Two years ago, a tragic event occurred. ... The entire disastrous event was like a bad dream. ... The war in Afghanistan left many wondering if the outcome would lead to further political unrest. ... As we past the 2nd anniversary, people may, once again, find themselves refocusing on the tragic events of two years ago. ... It is important to remember that anniversaries of tragic events are often a time to remember those who have died or were injured and to celebrate the accomplishments and survival ...

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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. ... From knowing the real facts on war against the natives, it helps us learn not what to do next time. In Limerick's essay she has a twelve point guide to war, that has many important issues at stake. ... As Limerick says, "a whole range of people who see each other as alien and who feel that they have no common ground, benefit from the tragic ev...

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He uses many techniques to show his feelings towards the war. ... This is an important metaphor because it describes the quick manner in which the soldiers will have been trying to put on their masks. ... The gas attack is one of the main topics of the poem and as a result this piece of imagery is based around it shown by all of the words that have to do with sea and drowning, which is seen in the event: " dim, through the misty panes and thick green light". The use of figurative language helps to reveal the reality of war. ... Overall Owen shows that there is no triumph in war, he effec...

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It is not about the war, but the people that were in it. ... Although it is not about the war in itself, it was not the war, but the people that were made out of it that has shaped American society for the past 55 years. ... They won the war; they saved the world. ... It disheartens me to me at a sporting event where my peers are talking and joking during the "National Anthem" when the same flag that we are supposed to be paying homage to is the same that flew over many battlegrounds turned graveyards of World War II. ... I think I is almost impossible to watch "Saving Private Ryan" without fe...

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The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War time period. Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. ... Inman deserts the Confederate army a few years after the start of the war, and he tries to go back to Cold Mountain where he can find Ada's home. ... In Ada's case from the harm of public opinion, and in Inman's case from the harm of war. ... And to achieve balance the most important factors that should be present are similarity, and deference. ...

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Ralph, Simon, and Jack all proved to be monumentally important to the cause of events that followed their survival of the plane crash with their each distinct personality and how they handled the situation of being stranded on a deserted island. ... Eventually, when Jack rejects Ralph's democratic order and creates an anarchy on another side of the island, the other boys decide that hunting and mean are more important than the minute chance of being rescued. ... Towards the middle of the novel, mostly due to Jack's hunting had become an event everyone participated in. ... One can j...

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He told her the war was ending. Emily really didn't care about the war, because her father died fighting in it. ... Her uncle told the events that had happen while she was sleeping. ... He is a main character because he is a very important part of Emily's life. ... All the parts came into place when this event happened. ...

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Although different answers are procured amongst society, the act of putting some thought or rather to search for meaning is not so important, rather "the why" question that engages us all. ... Political events and wartime images for history sake also reached our senses resulting to having a feeling of connection induced in our heart and mind. ... The background is most probably a deserted home now due to war has become used as temporary headquarters. ... The talent that splits these individuals from the pack is their ability to see and sense a visual configuration in which a person will b...

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The novel deals with tragic and provocative scenes of terror and an ongoing timeline of events to follow a pack of boys on an incredible journey while a nuclear war continues on back home. ... As the boys started out on the adventure of a lifetime they never expected to lose something so very important -- their sanity. ...

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In William Golding's classic novel, "Lord of the Flies," chapter four is a very important part of the book. ... In this essay, I will cover three important quotes found in this chapter; on theme, symbolism and irony. ... By re-describing Jack's savage like face, the author wants to emphasize the continuously more important getting theme of savagery at this point in the book. ... The irony continues as Ralph went intensely red after the event had happened. ... The author has chosen to clarify this through symbolism and irony, to slowly make the reader more aware of the deeper though...

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