There are also times when war was not necessary but carried out none the less. The United States has made decisions just like other countries, where they think they are helping their people, when in reality they are hurting themselves, and others. ... They can't just let people walk in and step all over them. Nations have to stand up against these things. ... Countries should have legitimate reasons on why they want to go war. ...

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I am going to tell you about a book called Neighbors which show how people of Poland called Poles imposed many indecent and appalling things to the Jews that they have lived with for many years. ... A very important argument in the book says how the Germans were, "At the time the overall undisputed bosses over life and death in Jedwabne and they were the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews" (Neighbors, pg. 47). This clearly states that the Germans were in charge in Jedwabne and it was within only their power to do what they pleased with the Jews. ... Even though there were not...

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This news meant various things for different people . ... Wanted money from Germany for the damage they had caused . ... Also joining the League meant that this might involve having to do things that might set back the economy or damage America otherwise . ... Sanctions didn't work because they were too slow . ... Sometimes they came too late for effective action . ...

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As soon as they were tattooed with their prisoner ID number, they became another cattle in the herd, and nothing more. ... At home, they valued security, nourishment, and shelter, but they took it for granted, never thinking that it would be stripped away. ... Only those things that were required for survival carried any weight, and everything else was trash. ... Life, security, 3 square meals a day, and shelter are all things we grew up with and never considered for a moment. ... As a society, we need to appreciate those things that we take for granted on a daily basis, the same things that...

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Never did the Europeans make a valid deal, they always conveyed false promises. ... The British showed extreme selfishness when using an unstable group of people who, to Gertrude Bell, "carries no weight" (1). ... Yes they may be weak and unadvanced, but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of doing great things. Luckily for the Arabs they were receiving support worldwide. ... However, Europe got what they wanted which was the fall of the Ottoman Empire. ...

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I think the most important thing that I realized in watching this movie is that, while we try to un-personify the enemy, they are people just like us, they fight for their own cause, just as we fight for ours. ... Men are willing to trade things that they had previously held with high value for mere scraps of food. ... They could not believe that the people in charge had any idea of what was actually happening. They only saw the numbers and had calculated a certain amount of death to be acceptable. ... When out by themselves, Kat is shot and Paul is forced to carry him back. ...

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Few things exist that provoke as fearful or as gruesome an image as war. ... These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ... Obviously, no one knew what they were fighting for and why. ... These young men, unaware of the cause they are defending, viciously shoot at whoever stands opposite the enemy line. ... When children of today's generation think of war they can hardly relate to the devastati...

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This is why people at the time used money for all kinds of things such as decorating wallpaper or even used as heat in fireplaces purely because money was worth much less than firewood. This even resulted to people carrying briefcases full of money just to spend for something as small as a loaf of bread. ... This shows that the defeated countries were indeed in this position of Germany, the "leaders" and they gained power over Germany as she had to do what they said. ... They couldn't afford to afford to develop their country purely because they were forced to pay for the expens...

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It was tough to figure the thesis out because they were just throwing the facts on the table. ... They were looped into each other and I also used both for more information. ... He was quite inferior when it came to intellectual measures and the common place things of the world. Essentially, what happened is they took the goldfish out of the bowl and threw him into the ocean. ... His two biggest goals when he came back were religion and education, which were the two things that helped and hurt him the most in his own life. ...

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They did not want to fight, did not want to fight against the people who are as inculpable as they are. ... They got totally lost on the battle field. ... They were not the one that caused the war, they could not control the war, they were inculpable, but, they have to fight each other for the people they don't even familiar with. ... The film did carry out the theme in the book, but since the absences some of the feelings in the book, the theme in the film was not as impressive as the book. ... The book All Quiet on the Western Front has covered all by the feelings of young soldiers, a...

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France was very heavily hit by Germany and invested all they had in the first war therefore, when they lost the war they could not recover financially and could not start another war. ... In addition too much patriotism led to people thinking and acting irrationally whereas, they should have looked ahead figured that if they were to take any actions it would only harm their nation because they were already weakened and could not afford to invest and lose any other resources they had available. ... Things did not go as planned and Germany failed to defeat France. ... Kaiser the second wanted ...

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