This poem is employed as a monologue in which a soldier struggles with the memory of his now dead friend, who he will never see again. The letter is sent to a dead soldier's girlfriend and describes the horrific remains of the soldier, depicting resentment towards participating in the war. ... Additionally, his description of the dead soldier symbolizes a mind that's becoming less stable and sane, "You would not know him now" "Cover him, cover him soon!... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ... The dead soldier represents Will Harvey, ...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...

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On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago. Both here and in Michigan, he could explore, camp, fish and hunt with his father, Dr. Clarence Hemingway. ...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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Plato even said "Only the dead have seen the end of war," 3 and Cummings emphasizes this thought by showing that despite our many warnings by people who we accept as profound thinking, we still continue our ignorance until death. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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When thinking of World War One, the pictures that often come to mind are trenches, stagnant warfare and other items that are associated with the Western Front. When one thinks of War in Africa, items that generally come to mind are old tribal wars, or General Rommel's Afrika Corps, General Montgome...

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The Battle of Tannenberg is considered the single most brilliantly conducted operation of the entire war. The German official history of war asserts that Tannenberg was the greatest battle of encirclement in world history. Historians consider Tannenberg a spectacular and complete German victory of World War One. It was here, Tannenberg, where the Germans had demonstrated skilled planning, swift movement, and considerable daring to lure the Russian Second Army into encirclement and annihilate them. The Germans had ended Russia's invasion of East Prussia before it ha...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

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"I always hear Caesar did, Caesar conquered. Was not there at least a cook along?" "Bertolt Brecht In 1914, the world witnessed one of the most terrible and bloody wars in the history of mankind to that date. World War One, at that time entitled the Great War, began as a result of the conflict ...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologies. The world was in constant change. July 28, 1914 was a date that would change the world forever. ...

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