York gladly accepted this lifestyle and soon met his future wife, Gracie Williams. ... Once there he was assigned to G Company, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division At Camp Gordon, Alvin stuck out from the rest. he soon distinguished himself as an expert marksman. ... The initial name of the school, the York Industrial Institute reflected Alvin's belief that the future lay in industry. Ironically, Alvin's school would train students for a technological future and insure that many children would leave the region for larger urban areas. ... Alvin believed that once Americans w...

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While older soldiers had their homes and families to help keep them focused, younger soldiers had nothing to focus thoughts of the future. ... Over the course of four years they were slowly killed off, their once bright and cheerful youthfulness ripped from their beings, replaced with listless and hardened souls. ... "For Germans the focus of the war was directed toward the future"(Eksteins, 118). It was too be a future of physical and spiritual unity. ... The future of any society lies in its children. ...

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McCumber stated, "We need a fair treaty to prevent future wars as horrible as the Great War was. After the war, the central powers composed the Treaty of Versailles to create the League of Nations in an attempt to ward off future conflicts. ... I believe, because of that, that we need a fair treaty, equal to all its members, that will restrict the use of new weapons, and prevent future wars from breaking out. " (McCumber) In addition, Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, who preceded Henry Cabot Lodge as the Senate Majority Leader, stated, "The trouble with Senators who oppose the League of Nations is t...

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It must be won in such a way as to ensure the future peace of the world." ... The League therefore divided the region along these lines but they built in many safeguards to prevent future disputes. ... It also stated that France and Germany agreed to settle any future disputes. ... Additionally, the economies of European countries were once again recovering. ...

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Lao Tzu will not prevent any future terrorist or foreign country attacks. ... If Lao Tzu was our president, he will not initiate any action to prevent any future terrorist attack even after the suffering from the tragic event on September 11. ... Machiavelli once wrote, "One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said earlier, when danger is far away; but when it com...

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The Allies hoped that writing a peace agreement would be a quick and easy process; however, once the process of writing the treaty started, the Allies found that they had many conflicting ideas and motives. ... The cries of "Hang the Kaiser" and "squeezing the German lemon until the pips squeak" were indicative of the desire not merely for a guarantee of future security, but for the national humiliation of Germany The Germans saw every difficulty in subsequent years as a further indignity that they alone must suffer as a result of the hated Treaty of Versailles (244). ... Once the Germans s...

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The irony in the poem is that it is based around a veteran that fell for a lie of a promise for glory, as he was a victim of propaganda, and in thinking that he would achieve fame and glory by securing his country's future, he instead gave up his own to experience rejection from his people, isolation from the society he was once part of, loss of his limbs and a profusion of time to reflect on the horrors of his past and the dreams he had had back then of how beautiful life would be once he is back home, another tragic outcome for a man full of youth, happiness and life. ... He waits...

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isis; this is an example of history influencing future actions). ... This served to once again inflame the Germans so that their na! ... Once Hitler had captivated the attention of the German people by giving them a common enemy, it was time for him to put his plan into action. With propaganda and promises of a brighter future, Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor in 1933. ... Once Hitler had gained Germany's trust and loyalty he was able to accomplish what others could not. ...

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"I never loved that old earth more than in those last years before the First World War, never hoped more ardently for European unity, never had more faith in its future than then, when we thought we saw a new dawning. ... He proceeded to Switzerland at once, and visited Romain Rolland. ... On the contrary, the twenty thousand copies of the book were sold at once. ...

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The next few lines emphasize just how tragic the war was to Yeats: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (3-6) Once the falcons have been released, they cannot be called back. ... Once the fighting began, it was every man for himself. ... Be wary of the future, for the beast shall overcome hope....

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Four President's effects on American Isolationism during the 20th Century On September 6, 1904 Teddy Roosevelt made the most future altering decision of the twentieth century. ... first were spoken by a president who was once convinced that staying out of foreign affairs was the only way to insure stability. ... With the end of the Cold War struggle between the United States and Soviet Union in the early 1990s, some Americans are once again calling for the United States to retreat into isolationism. ...

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Indeed, Babe Ruth was a great baseball player; however, he was a typical overpaid athlete with an attitude that foreshadowed many to come in the future. ... Such examples of overpaid athletes in early America opened the doors for those in the future (Sullivan 144). ... Needless to say, Michael Irvin got off once again with nothing but a slap on the wrist (Associated Press). ...

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Hitler once described a speech he had given in his earlier years at the University of Munich. ... The people of Germany used what leverage they had to try and insure that Germany would have enough money and support to get through the Depression and in the future. ...

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The Russian provisional government was put into place after the long Tsarist regime in 1917, but was ousted after only eight months, once the Bolsheviks took power after the October Revolution. ... As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of this new party and was viewed by many as a tyrant who would significantly influence future Russian political parties. ... Once the viewers left the theatre, Vertov hoped the audience would start to take action to improve themselves and their surroundings. ...

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Once Germany had been defeated in 1945 the war time allies between the USA, UK and the USSR began to break up. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ...

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After the parties reflect they would make their projections into the future. ... Once again I have an ethical issue with this because who is to define that peaceful means are the best way to resolve something. ...

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Before the First World War, rising living standards, increased education, and general progress, gave people an extremely optimistic view of their future and the world around them. ... They are that all the beliefs that once seemed grounded and determinable, such as the existence of God, the use of logic and reason to find solutions, and the notion of general human improvement, are now irrational and have no merit. ...

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The last point which called for a League of Nations would be backed by peace seeking nations that would oversee world affairs and try and prevent any future conflicts. ... Thus immigration within the US would once again increase dramatically as it did before the war. ...

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This kept the United States in its loner state once again. ... By concerning ourselves with other nations affairs we can make allies that will be good for the future. ... Leading Republicans say that the Clinton administration was a foreign policy of wish fulfillment and that it wanted China to respect their people and their rights, for Bosnia to be one nation once more, Hussein to be cowed, and North Korea to be totally rid of nuclear arms. ...

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The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. ... In 1930 he announced to his followers: Aas long as I am its leader, It will never become a debating club for rootless intellectuals or chaotic parlor Bolsheviks, but will remain what it is today: an organization of discipline, which was not created for the doctrinaire foolishness of political dilettantes, but rather for the battle for a new Germany of the future in which class concepts will be destroyed and a new German people will determine its own fate. ...

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Once accepting our role as hegemon, the United States joined the United Nations and eventually established the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in order to help us adjust and adapt to our new place in international policy. ... John Ikenberry suggests one way in his article, "The Rise of China and the Future of the West". ...

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The family's dynamics are at once set as the reader finds the mother remote and as distant as the father, who seems to spend most of his nights in London, rather then at home. ... It is at this point that she begins to glimpse a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. ...

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The Archduke was targeted due to the general feeling amongst Serbians that, once appointed to the throne, Ferdinand would continue the persecution of Serbs living within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ...

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Though they expected battle that was fast and localized, most forward-thinking policymakers planned for war in the near future. ... Once France was out of the picture, Germany could devote all its military might to defeating the Russian Bear. ...

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Nancy Pelosi once said "Women are leaders everywhere you look-from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. ... She provided him with a draft of the future terms of reference and also a list of women who might've served on the commission ("Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada", n.d.). ...

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