The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... As a writer, Hemingway drew heavily upon his war experiences, as is seen in his earlier works that speak of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, as well as, of those who lived with hostile disregard for anything but their own emotional needs. ... He never acts, he never loves, he never carries out his plans. ...

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They introduce a kipande which was like an I.D that each working Kenyan or any Kenyan who's over 16 had to carry wherever they went. White settlers that lived in Kenya didn't need to carry a kipande. ... One example of discrimination is the Kipande, which was like an ID that every Kenyan and African had to carry. ... The religion made them more religious and to show the British that they could handle things on there own without the help of the British. ... Some things they resorted to were brutal, and they savagely killed many whites and also 2,000 Africans who they believed were col...

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These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... Some events and setting details prove this novel to contain religious allegory, considering they are almost parallel to those in the bible. ... Upon the arrival of humankind in both places though, they become much less like paradise and ultimately carry out the same fate. ... Jack and his tribe are clearly not satisfied with the heavenly setting and become obsessed with hunting and getting meat, even though they have food supply from all the fruit trees. ... Also, some of the things S...

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All of these things seemed to create weak soldiers who were likely to succumb to a major yet unforeseen and at the time unknown illness called combat exhaustion. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. ... Mental stress that impacted a soldier's psychological stability was another factor setting American soldiers up for combat exhaustion. There are countless things that the soldiers did or saw that could have affected them mentally. ... One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" d...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). ... After the verdicts were carried out, and the majority of the defendants executed, the international legal community and the w...

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His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. ... People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Among the many events that gave him inspiration, such as the rising power of upper-class America during the 1920s, his draft into The Great War would eventually push him to publish his first work, The Enormous Room. 1 The rest, as they say, is history. ... While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during bat...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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