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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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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"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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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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Food is a very real experience for children, and learning about the monotonous, meagre diet of the diggers really brings home the tough conditions of war. ... Consequently the corpses in the dioramas often have more dignified, peaceful poses, almost as they are sleeping. ...

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How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? ... This war heavily used the draft and was said to have stolen a generation away from home. ... The author also indicates the pain that soldiers who survived and managed to find their way home after the war felt, especially when recalling the demise of their friends in the battlefield. ... Ideally, the author seeks to maintain that as much as returning home was a relief, the memories of the war still haunt survivors. ...

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A reflection of how deeply this traumatic experience has affected Owen can be seen through is use of an enjambment to describe the boy's death: " the blood, Come gargling- This is used not only to develop the images Owen sees in his nightmare, but also to emphasize a powerful burst of emotions that cannot be contained within one line; an emotion of anger and bitterness towards those who lied to the people, to those who do not see the dream he does every time he goes to sleep and thus do not suffer as he does. ... From this, we too are shocked as the effect of the war on soldiers is finall...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ...

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The compulsion was enough to awaken her from her sleep. ... Her military resources had dwindled too, but then her people had learnt to be efficient, Simple home-gadgets manufacturing companies began manufacturing firearms. ...

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Generally the first thought of war is believed that the soldiers are the ones suffering, it is forgotten that their families at home are struggling greatly as well. ... In Ivor Gurney's The Target, he chooses to portray the soldiers time away from his family in a different way, "My mother, she cant sleep for fear of what might be a-happening here to me. ...

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To feed a growing population and acquire the cheap and plentiful raw materials that were not present at home but were essential for sustained success, expansion overseas was vital. ... As Admiral Yamamoto, of the Japanese Combined Fleet, accurately predicted, "We have awakened a sleeping giant, and have instilled in him a terrible resolve." ...

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Propaganda in Nazi Germany Pegah Ghassemi English 1 12/11/00 Propaganda in Nazi Germany In the period of time around the Second World War, the German people's heads were infiltered with Nazi Propaganda.. Little by little the German population was stripped away of their judgement and moralit...

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In Charles Todd's, A Test of Wills, the protagonist, Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard in 1914 to fight in the Great War. In 1919, Rutledge is back, burdened with a heavy secret. He is still suffering from "shell-shock", haunted by an internal voice that belittles him and exace...

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His childhood was ended working twelve-hour days and sleeping on the factory floor. ... Then upon contracting typhus he returned home for convalescence and it wasn't until late 1918 that he returned to military service with what was now named the Red Army. ...

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