"Our force structure needs to be robust, flexible, and credible enough to meet the worst threats we can reasonably postulate." ... Leaving many of the small towns like Fort Repose completely isolated from the outside world. ... Disorder prevailed and the town turned on itself, the local sheriff is killed by outsiders who fled a "mushroomed town." ... This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... Frank is most likely trying to show our greed in society and how it is decaying us ...

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Eisenhower, said that "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him (Secretary of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.... There were many other reasons why some say that it was unnecessary to actually drop the bombs on the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Na...

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Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of God. ... It was as if I had gone right down into Hell and through the worst of the fire, and come on a clear, pure pool where I could wash and be clean...they turned me loose the next morning...

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He then begins to use quotes from Lenin to only further his theories. ... We shall not have to attack; it will fall like overripe fruit in our hands- (10-11). ... "We are losing rapidly, a Cold War in which our freedom, our country, and our very existence are at stake. ... In the South, the John Birch Society saw more growth in towns and villages than big cities like Little Rock. ... "Stretching all the way from the White House all the way down to the local town council, the school board the town public library and the local pulpit- (Epstein 89). ...

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This quote was described by a NKVD officer, a member of Stalin's elite security force and who later defected from Russia. ... This was a quote by a guard at one of the gulags (Stalin 122). ... Recently some of these mass graves have been uncovered at the site of a former gulag just outside a small town in northern Russia called Vinista (Triumph 323). ... We and our allies (including Stalin's Russia) went to war to prevent Hitler from domi...

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The aforementioned quote will satiate your thirst why we are concerned about history and why Huq has found history as the background of his finest creation, Agunpakhi. ... These communal riots were such infectious that it did not even spare calm and serene village, "where the sun and moon arise silently and set silently, where paddy, wheat grow silently, where fruits and figs ripe silently and fall silently, where our children are born silently, grow and die silently," (193). ...

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She was only a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido. ... Mameha had once said, "We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice" (294). ... I particularly remembered this quote because it was placed as just one paragraph in the context, and was a relatively perfect metaphor given the situation Sayuri was in. ...

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The best thing we can do is ignore the bad moments of our life, because we cannot change them. ... Before chapter one even begins, Vonnegut quotes the Christmas carol Away in a Manger. ... From the top of the Frauenkirchen's dome, I saw the sorry tremors planted in the beautiful townly order; there I was as the sacristan was praising the art of the architect, which had constructed the church bombproof for such an uncalled for event already. ...

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" This is a direct quote from the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was formulated to create a standard that every nation should meet in regards to the human rights of their citizens. ... The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons of the sea, killing of hostag...

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Many other products have grown out from the Western culture and proceeds to have a positive effect on our world. ... Quoting from the narrative he writes, "People lay ill little more than two or three days and died suddenly, as it were in full health. ... Swellings appeared suddenly in the armpit or the groin – in many cases both- and they were infallible signs of death wherefore in many towns timid priest withdrew, leaving the exercise of their ministry to such the religious as were more daring....

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