They had just risked their lives fighting for their country and got nothing in return, even worse they were abused by their fellow Americans. ... I can forget about the bugs, the rats, the physical wounds and the VC - but being betrayed by your own country, hurt more than any thing else. ... You took my house to plunder, twisted my maids to serve you and you dared bid for my wife while I am still alive. ... He would have rather it from his wife, but he had no way of knowing when he was going to arrive home. ... He wanted to be home with his loved ones, most importantly his wife and son. ...

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Now at twenty-eight years old, he owns a house, loves his wife and three year old son, and hopefully soon to be daughter, and not including the country record he just broke. ... He tries to leave to get some more but he wife to beg him to stay. ... The gun falls and shoots off a bullet that goes through his son and his wife. ...

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At the beginning of the play, Macbeth trusted his wife as he did anything she said even if he didn't want to. ... Macbeth began as a brave and respected soldier who could barely handle any evil without his wife. ... This foreshadows the insomnia that plagues his wife at the end, which ultimately leads to her suicide (Sparknotes). ... Macbeth was committed to making his Lady's dream of being Queen come true, as he did unthinkable things to pleasure his wife. ... The descent of his love replicates the descent of his political power as his commitment to his country was less of a concern...

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"Macbeth betrays his country, he betrays his king, his best friend, and he betrays his subjects, but above all he betrays himself." ... He also betrays his country by murdering his king, destroying natural order, because his ambition and greed overcome his patriotism. ... He is supposed to do everything good for his country, but he only looks at his own interrests. ... As his wife suicides he suddenly wakes up and realises that the last years of his life were a big mistake and that he did all this for nothing. He betrayed his country, his king, his best friend and his subjects for nothing e...

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But Macbeth did not see this and instead, he tried to make the witch's prophecy come true (1,3,153) - Macbeth because of his good conscience came to the conclusion that he would not kill the king, but because of his wife's pressuring, he finally gave in (1,7,33) - Before Macbeth's death he shows the audience that he indeed has some goodness left in him(5,3,58) - He wants normalcy for his country and he wants his wife to be cured Topic Sentence: Macbeth's tragic flaw was undoubtedly his ambition. ... - They filled him with his ambition and he felt that if he did not ...

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I have been married to my wife for a little over 6 years and we have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. My wife has a 14 year old daughter from a previous marriage. ... After the kids move out and we finally retire, my wife and I hope to sell our house, get an RV and travel. We talked about traveling throughout the country for a year or so before coming home and buying a nice condo somewhere. ... My wife and I have many places that we would like to see and visit in the next couple of years. ...

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He did this during a time of turmoil and change in his country. ... During the men's journey they realize that their fake gains of wealth and glory are no substitute for real love they have with their wife's. The film is mostly omniscient starting out with focusing on two families, then the husband and wife from each family split up and the film becomes focused on four characters. ...

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Soldiers in the war are not only fighting for their country, but for their lives. ... In God Bless America, the main character Joe had to deal with the trauma of leaving behind his pregnant wife. He knows how this is affecting his wife for the worst, but he uses humor as a way to assure her that things won't be as bad as she thinks. ... When he uses the metaphor about his "going away party", he tries to make his wife feel that this should be a celebration. ...

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In The Firm, by John Grisham, Mitch McDeere has to risk losing everything in order to be one of the most powerful lawyers in the country. It is only a matter of time, until he realizes that if he doesn't make the right choices and soon, it will only lead to the death of him and his wife. ... In The Firm, Mitch gets an offer, to work in one of the most powerful law firms in the country. ... They kept the pictures and threatened to show his wife if he didn't do what they told him to. ... Mitch became very powerless and had no other choice but to run away from them and then had to l...

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He felt it would give him something to believe in, a purpose in life, living to fight and die for his country. ... The young waiter tries to use his relationship with his wife as his truth, the reason of his existence. "I have a wife waiting in bed for me"(289). ... "He's got plenty"(289) of money, "He had a wife once too"(289). Now, he has no wife, has no job and has even lost his hearing, he has no reason to exist. ...

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At the age of fifty-eight, Steinbeck was brave because he refused to become a hindrance for his wife and a burden to society. ... Although I am not an American, I am beginning to realize the value of its culture, the vastness of the country's natural resources, and uniqueness of the American people. ...

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Where to live is a thought that passes through young people's minds frequently as they are growing up. Some people enjoy the big city life while others appreciate the solitude of country living. I am in between these two areas. I enjoy cities but I also like to walk out of my house and not have to w...

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Zhivago, I mean his love of his wife Tonya, his mistress Lara, poetry, and of his practice of being a doctor. ... He takes the words of wisdom and he and his family pack up and move to the country where it is peace and quiet. Zhivago and his family live peacefully in the country for a while and Tanya gets pregnant with their second child. ...

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He then asked a rhetorical question of why she had not included serving her country. I do not think she included that because she did not feel like it was her country. ... So after Sam Deeds divorced his wife he moved back to Rio County in hopes of reuniting with his lost love. ...

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Much less in the country where being gay was the opposite of being a man. Gay's living in country areas, were looked down upon even more so because you're supposed fit the part of being a hard working cowboy supporting your wife and kids. ...

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""Comrade, I did not want to kill you Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - "I will write your wife I will tell her everything I have told you. ... The same idea of a mass enemy and disregard for innocent individuals is what I am seeing in my country and others since the attack on America. ...

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We ended up getting a two bedroom duplex in the country, and set about decorating our baby boy's nursery. ... I"m just thankful now that I have such a wonderful wife and beautiful son. I have no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be where I am today if it was not for that "Mid Summers Night" and my wife standing by my side....

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Willie appeals to all the country folk by telling them how he too was just a hick who was out to help other hicks. ... Willie also goes from a trustworthy husband to an adulterer who not only cheats on his wife Lucy but also on his mistress Sadie with the love of Jack's life, Anne Stanton. ...

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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, after having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent to the land of Tossuk Vlad as ambassador by the Caliph of Baghdad. A country far north. He has been banished from his home and from all that he has. He journeyed on camelback many months into the land of barbarian people. A...

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The Quiet American is judged as one of Greene*s "entertainments" that include comedies, spy fiction, and thrillers that take place in foreign countries (Introduction). ... Phuong first started off as Fowler*s girlfriend, but when she realized he could not give her what she wanted, children, because of his wife who will not divorce him because of religious reasons, she leaves for Pyle. ...

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I must have ten thousand acres of land surrounding my home and fish ponds and fruits of every kind and a beautiful wife, good and loving to me, and rooms stocked full of grain and trunks full to the top with money, and I myself must be a Grand Councilor or Duke of the First Rank and enjoy honor and prosperity and live until I am hundred years old. ... This time I will choose a country where people enjoy greater peace and facilities of life like United Kingdom or United States of America, or Switzerland or Norway; any will do provided they do not object to my skin color. ... I do know that the ...

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Swift's real message seems to be that we should tax our absentees five shillings, use no other cloths or furniture besides our own Irish products, reject foreign luxury, cure pride in out women, introduce prudence and temperance, learn to love our country, quit our animosities and factions, teach the landlords to have one degree of mercy towards their tenants, and put a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill in our shopkeepers. ... He also cannot profit from his proposal because his wife is past child bearing. ... He is writing about the poverty and misery in his own ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front The novel All Quiet on the Western Front portrays all the negatives of war. It shows how a war goes from an adventure to a reality. The German soldiers in the novel were school kids that had no idea what war was really like. They looked at it as an adventure a...

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Bell also recalls how him and his wife were driving down the lonely dirt road at 2:00 a.m. in 1994, when they saw what they believed to be a flying object. ... I believe that our country should know what's going on with our government and our land. ...

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