Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", is a short story about a soldier, Harold Krebs, who comes back from World War 1 as a whole new person. After returning home, he feels as if he is rejected from his community's values and doesn't feel at home. ... In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", Harold Krebs is traumatized by his return and in exchange, he is transformed completely through patterns of emotional feelings. ... When Krebs comes back home, his apathy begins. ... He slowly develops a daily routine of during the blazing summer, "slee...

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Briar Rose Book Review Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... The story beings with Gitl, or Gemma (as she is referred to by her granddaughters), in a nursing home. ... Throughout Briar Rose Yolen depicts Becca's struggles to uncover the truth about her Gemma's connection to Sleeping Beauty. ... It was very well told, and Yolen used a very inter...

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Many women had trouble sleeping because the noise continued to throb throughout their bodies, even when they were at home. ... The women were very busy, and hardly had time for sleep. ... When they got home they had to make breakfast for their children before they went off to school. While the children where at school the women would sleep until around 11:30 A.M. or until the children came home for lunch. ... While still being the major domestic worker, they also contributed to the workforce outside the home. ...

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At least one television is found in every American home. ... Later his parents are found dead in his home. ... According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. ... I am not blaming the parents; I am just concerned with what is going on in American...

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One of his poems: Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. ... - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?... The German who loves his people, who believes in the greatness and the future of our homeland, and who is unwilling to see its position diminished, dare not close his eyes in the indulgence of dreams such as these, he dare not allow himself to be lulled into indolent sleep by the lullabies of peace sung by the Utopians:(3-4). ...

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One being she would sleep with an ax under her pillow and having a habit of bringing her own water when going out to eat. ... After this incident, she was sent to a nursing home and was later diagnosed with PTSD. It's unbelievable to think that victims just like Sonia are so afraid of death or a disaster to occur while they sleep, but what you see with your bare eyes can stay with you forever. ... Is it any wonder that since then sleep tends to elude me (Wiesel 32)?... Because they never had a home country, Jews are scattered around the world, trying to sustain their people and culture in...

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For many, it is not home, a place where they feel safe. ... Home was a safe haven of thought during the time of my training. ... Soon, they became my home away from home. ... That short time I was able to relax, sleep in my bed, eat my mother's food, and spend time with my family and friends made me realize of how I took the simple things in life for granted. ... This nation was my home, and I had a duty to protect it. ...

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After the war, the narrator went home, married, and had kids, all of whom are grown now. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ...

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People are winding up in nursing homes and intensive care units" (Lovett). ... William Muehleib, an 89-year old survivor, remembers that fateful day that he was awoken from sleep in his tent; "I could see underneath the tent flaps Japanese planes dropping bombs," he said. ...

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In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting th...

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Others destroyed their homes hoping to prevent fires from spreading if a bomb were to be dropped. ... Every night she would do the same thing, but on August 6 she decided to let her tired kids sleep at home. ... Their days became night, their homes became stacks of debris, and their family left dead. ...

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Once he returned home, he was sent back to Vietnam, but this time he was a consultant for the Chicago Tribune. ... I gotta get a little sleep Screw it and screw you, Harris. I gotta get a little sleep myself Like I said Harris, you ain't got the balls to do it. ... Caputo experiences all three: he went into the Marines wanting to experience war, but halfway through he kind of wants to be at home. ... These mines crippled a few men so terribly that they were sent home. ...

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After three weeks of being away from home he decided to go back. ... They would spend their nights sleeping at the Aldwych Underground Station, and during the day they would take long walks a have picnics in the parks that were still intact. ... After about a week Bill got home sick and wanted to go back to the firmilier side of London. ... Julie stayed home and cleaned their new home as Bill would find a job. ... It took him almost all day to find some when he did he couldn't wait to get home and give it to Dixie. ...

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In addition to working outside the home mother's continued to maintain order in the home. ... Women were expected to quit their jobs and return to the home leaving job positions open for returning Veterans. ... Women remembered the days of the Great Depression and now felt they could balance home and work life ( Keshen, p.255). ... Men returned and many women were content to return to their previous full time roles in the home. ... In many cases children in Europe and England were evacuated from their homes, living in fear of constant air raids (Barrow, n.d). ...

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Paul was given a fourteen day leave so he could visit his ill mother at home. ... They where bandaged up and sent on a train back home. ... After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... As he tells the story, insight into the sacrifice the soldiers gave defending their country is seen as well as the difficulties of loosing friends, killing another man, and going day after day without much, if any, sleep. ... While he was safe, sitting at home with a pen, they were witnessing death and destruction all around them. ...

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Whether they were at home, across the country or volunteering at home they played a big part in helping with the war. ... What Japan didn't realize is that they had awoken a "sleeping giant" (history.com). ...

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"These nineteen-and-twenty-year-old enlisted men, free from the restraints of home and culture, thrown together in an all-male society, coming from all over America" joined Easy Company for the honor, thrill, and a little bit of extra money. ... On September 15, they docked in Liverpool, England, and rode the train south to their new homes. ... They sleep in and take valuable items from the homes of the high ranking Nazi officers. ...

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In an article printed in the New York Times on October 1st a headline read, "Chamberlain is Confident - The settlement of the Czechoslovak problem, which has now been achieved, is only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. " As many people gathered outside his home in London he and his wife came to the door where he said to the public cheerfully, "I think you can all go home and sleep quietly tonight, it will be alright now. " At the time those would have been comforting words, hiding the true irony that can only be appreciated some years later. ... Chamberl...

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Many did not understand why the US involved itself in the war in Europe but these four paintings helped bring the war closer to home and American related to the war better. ... Rockwell places the people close together so one can imagine the closeness of the family something which many desire because their loved ones were either recruited to fight in the war or have left home to find a decent job to help support the family. ... The closed eyes of the boys ability to sleep and the fact that they do not stay awake in the middle of the night worrying and fearing about death and destruction. ... ...

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As I sit in the comfort of my home with the freedom to do as I please, it is very easy for me to criticize the victims of the Holocaust for not rebelling against their captors. ... All things that we as human beings take for granted, such as water, food, a flat surface to sleep on, and even a semi-private place to relieve ourselves was taken from these people. ... Imagine finally arriving at a camp, after being stripped of everything that we have that makes us "cultured" individuals, being separated from our mother and sister, as Wiesel was, and our first experience of our new "home", is see...

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This theory has led to "breastfeeding children until the age of three or beyond, having your baby sleep in your room, if possible in your bed and ˜baby wearing' where you carry your baby with you at all times " (Barnes). ... The benefits of home schooling as it provide the best possible opportunity for healthy relationship parent-child relationship. ... A strong home-school connection will set the stage for a child who will grow up with a love for learning. ... "Proponents believe the stern home environment and strict demands motivate children to perform their best. ...

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Peasant women and girls took to sleeping outdoors in fields and forests rather than their homes where bandits might find and ravage them (263). ... After the Warsaw uprising, the Polish military leadership in the United Kingdom once again begged with the allied commanders to allow airborne Polish forces to aid the Home Army, but to no avail. ...

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The film begins with a short sequence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the sea of white crosses that marks the memorial to those who died liberating the country. From there, the film slips more than five decades back in time, to the second world war and June th...

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He goes on leave and comes home to visit his mother. ... "We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. ...

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Many people starved, lost their homes and family and started a life on the tracks to find work. ... In downtown New York it was reported that a clerk from a hotel asked people for a room for sleeping, or for jumping. ...

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