The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead lan...

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Wounded men would be left to die in the space between the opposing trenches which came to be known as "no mans land"3. ... There were dead corpses everywhere disease was spread all through the rat invested trenches. ... Further the destruction to the land and major cities meant that Europe had to rebuild itself. ...

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This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. ... The awful weather, day after day, causing the land they walked over to turn into slime. ... They have to fight their way through the slushy, pasty land. ... Owen uses the expression "flung" to address to us that men half dead had been given no respect and treated as though there is no hope for them in recovering. ...

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We were asked by Pakistan to help rebuild Afghanistan, since they had done as we asked and fought back and driven the Soviets from their land. ... More than 5000 people are dead. ... That's going to be tough to do in a land where nobody has a television or radio. ...

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WWI ended on November 11, 1918, leaving millions of European soldiers dead and even more injured. ... These land uses led to soil exposure and great erosion. ... The wide row crops were very disastrous because between the crops, the land was kept bare; as a result, this area was exposed to the elements. ... After its defeat in World War I, Germany was forced to give up land, demilitarize and pay war reparations. ...

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France also granted a piece of land to Canada in order memorialize the success of the Canadian troops at Vimy Ridge and many others. ... The memorial is engraved with the names of 11,285 soldiers who were either listed as dead of missing in Francev. ...

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This is due to France being wounded in land mass and ego from Germany's acquisition of disputed territories between the two countries. ... Some of the headlines read, "Policeman Found Shot Dead in Park", "Baby's Screams Reveal Murder, Suicide", or "Local Business Burns Down." ...

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Mass Evacuation From the mid-1800s through World War II, the San Francisco Bay area was in constant turmoil with people of Asian decent. This conflict eventually permeated the surrounding areas and made its way to lawmakers in Washington D.C.. During the Second World War, fear and hysteria led ...

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In 1915, her father died and she returned to run her family's estate on her own since the "only men left to work the land were either very old and very young" (Pg. 130). Catherine had acquired basic skills from her father, who taught her how to shoot a riffle and harvest the land. ... Linden was a lawyer and his family belonged to the German upper class, however, "as far as everyone in Upper Street ham was concerned, the only good German was a dead one" (Pg. 137). ...

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The healthy human mind does not wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But this is believed to be a luxury, not a curse. The soldiers that fought during World War One, unfortunately were not exposed to this mentality, instead they were exposed to the harsh reality that each d...

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