The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. ... Toward the end of May, Allied troops were backed up to the coast of France in the town of Dunkirk. ... Remembering his son's passion for playing at war, Lord Randolph asked him if he was still interested in the army. ...

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Dismayed by the growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried to counter the resistance by creating a major motion picture to, what he says, "Tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans." ... After being taken prisoners, the three friends are forced to play in a Russian roulette sequence where the captors bet on the outcome. ... This gut-wrenching scene of American soldiers fighting for their lives through the ...

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Nationalism and self-governance also played an important role in the conflicts between the Boers and the British Uitlanders. ... During the eighteenth century, largely in response to the Dutch East India Company's strict regulation on their lives, many settlers slowly moved away from Cape Town and established a dispersed, pastoral and patriarchal frontier society. ...

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The earlier sources provoke Victorian attitudes towards duty, leading to the enrolling of over two million volunteer troops into the British armed services from 1914 - 1916, while source C plays on the moral decency of the reader, calling for a halt to the foul deeds committed by the ape (representing Germany) that has caused the desolation of massive amounts of territory, together with the atrocities committed by soldiers under the direct control of Germany. ... Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what was a predominantly team-based society, a suggestion could...

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In Christian symbolism the elephant is an icon of temperance, patience, and chastity. 6I believe that our patience, even chastity have been steadily eroded with money, fame, position when we grow in these modern days, like an elephant is being digested by a boa. We often think about how many marks we obtain, but we forget the process we have passed; We often concern about how much money we earn, but we forget about the satisfaction of the job; We often care about how much inch of the screen of our smartphone, but we forget to look upon the sky to count how many stars in the sky. Time goes by, ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by ...

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It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial expansion in Asia not unlike that of Genghis Khan's Mongolia or Julius Caesar's Rome but the question remains whether Hirohito played an active role in that expansion. ...

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