We have all heard the phrase "the past repeats itself" throughout our entire lives. ... The past is repeating itself as we know it. ... Anyone who does not acknowledge his sins and instead denies them or carries a deviant opinion of them will be shot immediately"(143). ... The past repeats itself. ... George Santayana once said that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it", but how does a evil man learn from another? ...

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In my opinion, ever since the "Fall" of man, there has been sin in our world. This sin causes great conflict between man. We (man) are clouded by our own self-centredness, stripping ourselves of the ability to see past our present situation. ...

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Liesl transforms and change Dunstan by tempting him to do new things and a live a life which does not tie him to his past. ... Paul believes in a better life and tries to build his own life and his own way of living by leaving his past which in part is his mother. . "She is part of a past that cannot be recovered or changed by anything I can do now. ... (Davies, 148) Paul Dempster believed that the only way for him to forget about his horrid past was to start a new life for himself and stay as far away as he could from Deptford. ... Joel changes his immoral life of sins to a life he didic...

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Indulged in the shadow of his past, Laeddis neglects Chanal's unusual conducts, leading to an irreparable tragedy – Chanal drowns their three children when insane and Laeddis murders his wife out of grief. ... Cawley breaks through Laeddis' heroic fantasy and enforces him to look straight at reality, his love, guilt, trauma and sin. ... Nevertheless, perhaps the past is too heavy a burden, perhaps life is too daunting to live; he at last consciously chooses to take the transorbital lobotomy rather than live soberly in the world. ... " Shutter Island might be the wonderland...

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The simile "like a devil's sick of sin" is used yet the exact meaning is not clear. ... Another explanation is that he might have used the word "sin" to describe war and the deaths it causes, or that he used it as a noun to describe what actually come out of the boy's mouth is like. ... 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, isol...

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Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering also stated in his 1942 radio broadcast to the German nation that raw materials such as coal and iron should not be wasted, and that anyone who "uses too much power is committing a sin.""22 Germany took an extra step and set up the War Raw Materials Board which rationed and distributed all kinds of raw materials, from foreign oil to barn manure.23 Moreover, a recycling program was set up, which made good use of almost any material, from fruit peels to women's hair.24 Food rations were also installed to limit the available resources. ...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...

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Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. ...

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