Ordinary men doing extraordinary things. Ordinary men doing extra ordinary things is a phrase used to describe the enigma known as the ANZAC spirit that instils patriotic pride in men and women of New Zealand and Australia. ... These men were not ordinary men; they were the cream of Australian society at the time. ... A chest width of 34" meant that only people with, large lung capacity, or figures of muscular frame were accepted. ... This is because of the type of people who signed up during the first enlistment drives. ...

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If realism was the theory of depicting reality as ordinary men and women might see it, symbolism would explore, by means of symbols and metaphors, the inner realities that cannot be directly displayed. ... Realism, people decided, would never raise the level of art. It would only drag art down into the muck of the ordinary. ...

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He was a strict autocrat - giving the people no power or control over their lives. ... This was known as Bloody Sunday and it proved to be the start of people turning against him. ... Some people felt betrayed by him because of their lack of power, which earned him enemies. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their situation was getting worse. ... This showed that the people had at last turned against him. ...

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They were just ordinary people who went off to fight for a country they loved. ... Therefore through the use of tone throughout the novel, by the author Hill, we are helped to better understand how people are feeling and this helps us to be better involved in the everyday struggle that people faced at war. ... It is also used to help us to feel more emotions felt by people throughout the story. ... His use of tone informs the audience of how different people felt at different times of the story. ... They also emphasise different words that help to inform us of how people are feeling. ...

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The home front was the base in which ordinary citizens were able to be involved and continually assist armed forces in the struggle to win the war. ... At the super market people had to exchange coupons for restricted foods. In 1939 sixty percent of food eaten by British people came from overseas so the war put a huge strain on supplies of food. ... People also helped the war effort by making weapons. ... Children collected scrap metal, and people handed in tin foil to help make bullets. ...

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Carr believes the effects of " the state intervening so actively in the regulation of the economy (was that) ordinary Germans began to blame it for its manifest failure to protect their living standards in the second half of the war." ... In addition to this, government expenditures on the war effort contributed to a steady rise in inflation that hurt people on fixed incomes. ... These factors led the German people to doubt the wisdom of their government. Source E illustrates the discontent of the people as it is an account of the first anti war demonstration in which thousands of people tol...

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Two people enquire as to whether or not he will be signing up to fight. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." The hypocrisy of human nature is displayed, using Connie as a representative, whereby she discourages the fighting between the people in her own town, yet encourages Jim to enlist, in order to fight in a war of which he is completely ignorant. ...

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Many people also chose not to vote: the initial enemy to the Liberal state, Catholicism, divided the country. ... The only way to keep the people happy and under control was by these methods, concluded governments. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... The people and the Government were aiming for both of these respectively as I will show. ... He tried to convince Nationalists by declaring, and winning, a war on Libya in 1911, but many ordinary Italians disagreed with the war. ...

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A moment in time; most people can pinpoint one or two times in their lives when the choices they made had long term repercussions. ... Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now, it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between the people, the ordinary people that she knew , and what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get over everything wrong, completely wrong. ... She still perceives people, life and events as they pertain to her. ... When she does, she has to come to understand the...

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This would a war in order to defeat Soviet Bolshevism. 3.To include all German-speaking people in his proposed "Third Reich", especially those living in Austria, the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia and Danzig. 4.To create a "racially pure" German state that would be the most dominant power in Europe. ... The Treaty of Versailles had humiliated the German people and caused deep routed resentment among them. ... Hitler was supported by public opinion and therefore the German people must take some of the blame for the outbreak of war. ... A.J.P Taylor rejects this idea and claims that ...

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Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ... He blamed these protests on the Jewish people. ... He added in his views on the Jewish people. ... The German people became very upset. ... Hitler convinced his people to boycott shops that were owned by Jewish people. ...

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Political authority is derived from the people. ... Not only could the people choose their own government, but they also had a vote in who led that government. ... These rebellions were dangerous because the government had very little support form the ordinary Germans. ... Horrified people noticed that they can starve on millions we will no longer submit . we want a dictatorship!- These economic problems caused social problems for the German people as explained. ...

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Many laws prohibited interracial marriages and people rejected the possibility of interracial children. ... Many people suffered from hunger and died of influenza. ... Many people believed that Mark lived a "charmed life". ... Similarly, many wartime artists emerged and captured the feelings and attitudes of people in war-torn England. ... Many people "treated him as if he were something nasty that a passing horse had left behind" (Pg. 61). ...

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Another resource which France lacked was people; for reasons which remain unclear its population growth was far outstripped by Germany's. ... The race was now on between Britain and Germany to build more Dreadnoughts as well as submarines and ordinary battleships. ...

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