In this particular part of the film some of the soldiers, whom were Algerian, were denied tomatoes as part of their rations. As this unfolded, one of the Algerian, French soldiers, knocked over the entire wooden crate full of tomatoes and stated that if he could not enjoy them, then none of the other soldiers can, because even though they have never stepped foot on the soil of France they were all fighting for the same cause. Thus was the beginning of the Algerian soldiers being identified as people of France and then therefore were granted the access and consumption of all the same rations ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, on August 15, 1769, of a good family in a well-established position. ... He was a soldier from his childhood, entered the military school at Brienne when he was 10, and obtained his lieutenant's commission when he was sixteen. ... To survive in a world altered by the French Revolution, Prussia would have to learn the principal lessons of the Revolution that aroused citizens fighting for a cause to make better soldiers than mercenaries and oppressed serfs. ... On March 1, 1815, he landed on the French coast with a thousand soldiers, and t...

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Maupassant's childhood consisted of a good education and upbringing. ... Since his good friend Gustave Flaubert taught him how to write fiction, he has wrote nearly 300 short stories. ... He causes moral predicament by describing the person's good and bad points, in turn, creating two sides of them. In Mother Sauvage he shows her great physical bravery and moral courage, however much to be "deformed" by the hard work she does, but yet tells of her murder of the soldiers. ... He also uses the major theme of good and bad in his short stories. ...

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Joan was triumphant in her battles mostly because she was so determined and was always present on the front line, which gave her soldiers motivation and only angered the enemy even more. ... These bows and arrows could defend the fort very early in the battle when the infantry would rush and also disabled soldiers on horses. ... Overall, the movie gave a good idea of the story of Joan of Arc. ...

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England and France had some major differences and similarities in absolutism, exploration, and religion. Even though England and France had a lot of differences there are still some similarities in both of their societies. One similarity is that both England and France had absolutism. In England bot...

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He also shows to us, the reader, and the conditions that the soldiers had to live with and put up with. For example the fact that they only had a bath and got a new change of clothes once and a while as Les states "I"m felling particularly well today as I had a good bath & change of clothes." ... This helps us to understand the good things about war rather than the evil. ... But in the modern world, wars have drastically changed from men taking turns to shoot at each other as in WWI to more sophisticated war tactics and through the use of machines which usually mean lower casualties for the so...

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Probably the most commonly used reason would be that we have a beautiful nation, with people who stick together through the good and the bad. ... He was an intelligent, hard-working soldier in his youth. ... France's current president is President Jacques Chirac who has already done a good job serving in office once before, winning once again by a landslide victory. ... He didn't have very good views on racism and bigotry. ...

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It took six weeks for German soldiers to defeat the civilians of the Warsaw Ghetto, two weeks longer than it took them to defeat the entire Polish Army defensive. ... Moral resistance consisted of remaining a mensch, or good person in spite of the hardships to be combated. ...

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It took six weeks for German soldiers to defeat the civilians of the Warsaw Ghetto, two weeks longer than it took them to defeat the entire Polish Army defensive. ... Moral resistance consisted of remaining a mensch, or good person in spite of the hardships to be combated. ...

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