Another British vet, Donald Hodge, remembered, "We thought it was going to be a tremendous lark to knock the Kaiser off his throne, you see." ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... (The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." ... Tens of thousand of shell-shock victims had been diagnosed by the end of the war, but doctors hardly...

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This is what the advocates of an "empowered United Nations are really after. What is most disturbing is that they have nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them."" ... Winston Churchill himself said it best: "The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. ... If it were possible, as a planet, to spend money where it is most urgently needed, the world may eradicate vario...

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Men who went out to battle, grim and glad; Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad... These trenches were characterized by being filled with mud and thick water, teeming with disease. ... This disease will cause the flesh to rot until the surgeon removes the infected, gangrenous foot in order to save the leg. ... Being constantly exposed to germs and disease coupled with not being well nourished, made the soldiers more susceptible to catching dangerous illnesses such as typhus. ... "What was remarkable about the Great War of 1914-1918, was that while it should have changed so muc...

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Harry is self pitying and views his present diseased state as the culmination of poor choices and false, convenient values. ... Harry then becomes infected with the disease called gangrene. ... Therefore the theme is don't put off what you could have done today to do tomorrow. ... You may not always know one's true background and what is really happening in their life. ...

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"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ... He asks reader about their vision of Kurtz "Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation - Conrad's goal is to make the reader see' Kurtz. ...

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When you add up those men plus their helpers, you had very much an allied army of 25,000 men marching into Cameroon . ... Also benefiting the Germans were the diseases of malaria, dysentery and other tropical diseases that fell numerous allied troops . ...

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Their destinations were unknown and their future was also unsettled for they did not know what would await them. That is exactly what happened to Esther Hautzig, the writer of The Endless Steppe, when she was just a little ten-year-old girl. ... We have to imagine what it was like and how bad it would be if something of such impact would be happening to us. ... 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. ... Nobody knows what it feels like unless they went thought it themselves. ...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with ...

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For decades, people have engaged in wars as a motive to bring about peace. However it has proven to do nothing but disturb and hurt the lives of millions of civilians around the world. It is an unjust and necessary evil into our society. Civil wars exist to end disputes over land, over throw religio...

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British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response t...

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