Most of the men of that time basically had no say rather or not they went to war because it would take away their families pride. ... Though many people died in this war, their were still many who survived to give there stories, and opinions. ... Owen once said "I came out in order to help these boys, directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. ... Crown Prince Wilhelm was a full going Nationalist. ... Many people were freed, but many were also killed, all that was left was speculation, and o...

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The powers that be were notified many times of what was going on. ... It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes is fallacious. ... Despite their virtual lack of outside support, the European Jews did not go like lambs to the slaughter as they are often portrayed. ... Imagine watching all those you loved or cared about killed. ... The powers that be were notified many times of what was going on. ...

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The powers that be were notified many times of what was going on. ... A Swiss-German industrialist, after having been invited to watch a mass killing, sent photographs to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they were ignored. ... It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes is fallacious. ... Despite their virtual lack of outside support, the European Jews did not go like lambs to the slaughter as they are often portrayed. ... Imagine watching all those you loved or cared about killed. ...

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The people in power at that time were notified many times of what was going on. ... A Swiss-German industrialist, after having been invited to watch a mass killing, sent photographs to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, they were ignored. ... It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes is fallacious. ... Despite their virtual lack of outside support, the European Jews did not go ''like lambs to the slaughter'' as they are often portrayed. ... Imagine watching all those yo...

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Owen goes on to tell us how the men were dragging their feet. ... He uses "blood-shod" to show that the soldier's feet were caked in blood, due to them having lost their boots from being trapped in the mud - walking through the trenches bare footed across sharp stones, grit and dead bodies, and also to show how weak their feet were with all the walking they had to do through the trenches. ... The soldiers are panicing when the gas bomb goes off, the writer shows this by using the works "fumbling" and "clumsy" to emphasise their panic. ... The extended metaphor is effective in the poem ...

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In the same year, a 14-year-old boy killed 5 students because they were praying in the hallway. ... America opens its eyes. I could go on and on with these little stories but I think we can all see what my point is. ... Parent must make sure that their children are watching appropriate shows according to their age. ... So therefore, it makes it even harder for a parent to watch their child, but parents must apply themselves a little more. ...

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In the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front", I gained a new outlook on World War One, as seen through the eyes of the Germans, who I had previously only viewed as our enemies. 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. ... Another scene that portrays the low levels of humanity that the men were forced to go into because of their survival instincts was when they guys all went to see their sick friend. ... There was a suggesti...

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While Europe was already going through a war, the U.S. hadn't decided if they would join the fight. ... Secondly, the conditions under which the soldiers were living on the front lines were hideous. ... Soldiers lost their friends, comrades and family, sometimes watching them died next to them, and it always showed how easily it could have been them dying. ... Watching a movie out of the German perspective shows the war in a whole different view than it would have through American eyes. ... Watching a movie with German perspective shows also that each nation had their nationalism, and tha...

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Two American soldiers Vince Boe and Aaron Radmanovich escorted their German POW work crew to the Segundo Mines. ... Straub came barreling for Boe, Boe stabbed his thumbs in Straubs eyes. ... The hooded cobra has a plan to go to the Carson Ranch and steal horses and escape to Mexico. ... In Von Toth eyes he was no use for him and shoots and kills him. ... "Jack ain't one to never start no fight, but he ain't the kind of man who's gonna sit back and watch one of his boys get whupped by a full grown man neither (Reed 12). ...

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Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. Their destinations were unknown and their future was also unsettled for they did not know what would await them. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. ... Children were kidnapped from their homes and sent away to camps, and the children that were useless were killed by starvation, lethal injections, and disease. ... The victims were treated inferior simply becaus...

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Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. ... Watching the noble-grunt films, the audience relates with misunderstood, confused, idealistic, and betrayed characters. ... Over the last the forty years, far more Americans have reached their comprehension of the Vietnam War from watching noble-grunt films, such as The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, First Blood, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Born on the Fourth of July, rather than reading historical books. ... First, the hunting scenes were shot, not in the smaller and older Alleghenies o...

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They start to feel like the war is going to last forever and they are going to be stuck in these awful conditions. ... They simply watch the snow fall and the wind blow as they begin to accept their fate. ... It is very sad for them as their imaginations won't let them go back to their homes to dying happily. ... This is "All their eyes are ice". Owen is obviously comparing the men's eyes t...

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o go. ... They would spend their nights sleeping at the Aldwych Underground Station, and during the day they would take long walks a have picnics in the parks that were still intact. They both watch the city fall apart each day. ... Just hearing her voice like that made tears come to eyes. ... Over breakfast they Bill decided that he was going to go to work. ...

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We learn that while Americans were being bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hitler was moving thousands of Jewish people into concentration camps, but we never focused on the lives of the Jewish community and the hardships that they had to go through in order to survive. ... When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. ... When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. ... I have even watched documentaries on the subject. ... While others left family members behind in order to better their chance of survival on t...

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It was both straight and private, talking directly to people in their homes across the country. ... Amateur radio operators were particularly hit hard by the restrictions. ... Today, the majority of parent's work and watching television is considered by most good quality family time. It's a time where families catch up on each other's lives, and are entertained without gaining the expense of going out to a movie. ... Children keep their eyes glued for hours on end to the magical box. ...

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The simile of contrasting the young strong, heroic, healthy men to old beggars alters the readers stereotypical idea of these soldiers who are fighting for their country and their survival. ... Owen aims the poem at an older audience and the government that were punishing these men to go to war when they didn't know the circumstances; physical and emotional effects that war had on these soldiers. ... The metaphor of men marching asleep shows their vulnerability and foreshadows them dying. This metaphor suggests that 'drunk with fatigue' and 'marching asleep' these sold...

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Enemies, most of the time, would just charge until they were gunned down like in some cheesy World War I movie. ... While you run out in the open to draw their fire, a sergeant sharp shooter would pick off the gun occupants. ... The sun, during evening hours, will shine in your eyes. ... It gives a teeth gritting sense of adrenaline while watching your enemies run for cover when you stand up with the trigger down. ... It sounds like you were plunged head-first into water. ...

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Perhaps Hitler's most profound features were his eyes. ... They had never met anyone whose appearance was so completely dominated by the eyes. ... He thought of time as an enemy and would refuse to wear a watch or concern himself with it. ... He wanted to go to war while he was still young enough to enjoy it. ... All were products of the devil, in his eyes. ...

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Of course, my parents were mad at me but I told them that I deserve a little break from the school. ... In addition, some people use their phones in the cars. They talk on their mobile phones while driving, and this can sometimes cause car accidents. ... However, in our modern time, when you enter the grocery store, your eyes are moving around in all directions trying search the necessary food. ... I think if there were no power station in the world, we would live in ancient era. ...

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Pope conveyed the participants of the "game" were admirable and those who sat on the sidelines shunned and disregarded. ... In the second line he goes on to say that the men are knock-kneed and compares their coughs to those of hags. ... Lines five to eight keep on with the tired, droning tone of those prior to them; they describe how the men were marching almost subconsciously, regardless of losing boots or small explosions in their wake. ... Like when they turned their backs to the flares, so they are, at least metaphorically, turning their backs on the bombs. ... It tells of how the dead ...

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All Nazi's were put to trial and some were hung. ... They blocked all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. ... In 1989, one of the most dramatic postwar developments began taking place before the very eyes if a stunned world public, German Reunification. ... While millions sat in front of their te...

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While war was tearing Europe apart seam by seam, America stood by watching and observing. ... People were threatened and terrorised into submission, against their will and freedoms. ... This enough was seen as a humiliation in the eyes of the Germans. ... Their previously existing monarchy was destroyed. ... The United States was a world power, and no country was going to forget that. ...

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Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. ... People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... "Plato told," stands by itself in a short spurt and draw the reader's attention, as if Plato is going to speak again. ... The poem develop...

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At the beginning of the war, Britain's military efforts were focused on France and the Napoleonic Wars; however, after their victory over France in 1814, they were able to send in more troops and thus began to fight Americans more aggressively. ... During the Battle of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key watched the British attack on Fort McHenry as a prisoner aboard a British ship. ... A main reason that James Madison declared war on Britain in June of 1812 was that the U.S. government was tired of watching its maritime rights violated. Madison agreed with Congress and believed that it was eith...

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However, black people were not represented. ... But why go through all these measures to keep in touch in the past and portraying it in future motion picture? ... He observes that the D-Day veterans who watched the screening of the series with him were in some cases shaken' by the experience. ... One could go further and argue that the conventions of narrative are to an extent exactly the same as the conventions of realism. ... It seems real because there's apparently nothing between you the viewer, and the stuff of the story- you are there, you are the story, its happening before y...

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