At that time Americans had enormous pride and confidence in going to war. ... Men were put on watches and snipers fired on the battalion's positions about nine or ten at night, as the Vietnam War became a nocturnal event. ... At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the atmosphere was like Kipling's colonial wars. ... Lieutenant Bradley called Vietnam the "splendid little war." ... The men in the military along with Caputo were drawn to war (71). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem describes the long term effect that soldiers experience and in that way he emphasise an important negative comment. ... The poem seems to describe events that Owen has experiences himself. Which makes the poem powerful as the reader knows that the events are real and the imagery and description that he gives makes them more powerful. ... An important fact is also present in the phrase 'where even', this is suggesting that a force of nature more powerful than the 'little brambles' had tried to stop them, yet they persevered. ... By focuing on different aspects, ...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. ... This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. ... Americans viewed the Soviet denial of the Yalta agreements as enmity between the two nations, which could in effect develop into a war, with the power to destroy humanity, hence both the United States and the USSR shared responsibility for the origin of the Cold War. ... This was because, as events turned out, Stalin failed to keep his promise that free elections would be held in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most important thing we are leaving behind is faith. ... The most powerful event that got across his message was near the end of the book. ... An important part of A Prayer for Owen Meany is set in the time period of the Vietnam War. ... This inner war in Owen is a reflection of a war between two interest groups in the USA, which are the supporters of the war and those who protest the war. ... Nearly every significant event and character had some religious affiliation. ...

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Pacelli saw the conditions that Germany was in after the First World War. ... The L"Osservatore Romano was flown and air dropped over German and Soviet occupied territories, so that the occupants could be aware of the events of the war. ... The Vatican Radio was used to broadcast the events of the war to the world. ... The communication with prisoners of war was another of its important services (Chao 8)." ... Yes, Pius XII did not handle the war in the way that many others would. ...

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Pacelli saw the conditions that Germany was in after the First World War. ... The L"Osservatore Romano was flown and air dropped over German and Soviet occupied territories, so that the occupants could be aware of the events of the war. ... The Vatican Radio was used to broadcast the events of the war to the world. ... The communication with prisoners of war was another of its important services (Chao 8)." ... Yes, Pius XII did not handle the war in the way that many others would. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... In the novel this thematic problem is slow in development--in fact, we are hardly aware of it until mid-point--and even as it comes into the cutting edge of action toward the end, it is silenced by Cooper at the very time that it becomes the most immediate encouragement for the hair-raising events that bring the novel to its close. ... When the force of progress challenged the condition of "place", the following event too often...

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These questions seem intrinsically connected, that is it follows logically that if someone is morally responsible they are to blame for some event. ... Causal Luck stems from the fact that all events are caused, therefore prior events affect future outcomes. ... Although such a person seems morally culpable for his actions, Nagel gives us another example of a German, who moves to Argentina before the War for business reasons, who, if he had remained in Germany, would have behaved just as badly as the first German. ... For instance concerns about the compatibility of free will and determinism h...

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This tragic event marked the beginning of the youngest Presidency in U.S. history. ... were shaken by the onset of civil war. War between the North and South erupted was declared on April 12, 1861. The Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression, (depending on what side of the Mason-Dixon line you were raised), brought discourse in the Roosevelt home. ... In the summer of 1870, Theodore Sr. sat his son down and gave him an important piece of advice. ...

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The events that followed are history, for the following 4 ½ years the stage is set for violence in Yugoslavia ( Goldstein, 1999, pp226-228). ... The focus has shifted from Inter-European wars to conflicts between the West and non- Western civilizations. ... However what is important to keep inmind is the fact that differnces do not matter as long as equal rights are preserved and guarded by a government. ... (Ignatieff, 1999, p 55)What is thus must important is the way in which the one percieves the other and why he does that in that specific way. ... Furthermore it is important to resp...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls them controls the society. ... Using history, logic and the dynamic nature of humankind as guidelines, Carl Marx attempts to map out a sequence of events which will eventually lead to utopia (anarchy). ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... Having failed, the King traveled nort...

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• Grade Level: High School