Whitman is able to give an accurate description of these events because during the war "Whitman was overcome with the carnage he beheld and settled in Washington, D.C., where for the duration of the war he ministered without pay to sick and wounded soldiers" (Olsen-Smith). ... Although he does write this poem about the victory of the North and the values that are embraced there, Whitman also reveals a line that he hopes will make people take a closer look at the direction that the nation was headed before the war. ... Hughes" father left when he was just over a year old and had very little c...

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I hardly saw any one dressed in head to toe clothes. ... It is giving not only the younger children but also the adults a wrong message. A lot of the teens are now wearing push up bras just so they could show some cleavage just like the women they see in the magazine and this has been very normal to do. ...

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• Grade Level: High School