... he simply indulges his own personal view of the broken images of a modern world. Critics disagree whether poems like Prufrock or The Waste Land are socially responsible pictures of the modern world or essentially private and personal pieces of self-expression. LANGUAGE NOTE Modernist Poetic Syntax One of the aims of Modernist poets was to articulate a representation of the world and of a way of seeing which expressed a profound sense of a spiritual and psychological condition which was ... Second Hymn to Lenin (1932) are highly significant as examples of the earliest left-wing poems, es...

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... been as strong as the British that does not mean they did not have the potential for their own land. As a result of Britain's self-centered mindset the idea of a free Arab nation had been destroyed. The promises made by the British directed to the Arabs were "dead paper" due to the Brits wanting to then split the free land wit France(2). This true proof of how selfishness impacts not ... only oneself, but the peers as well. In this ... case, Britain was center of attention when ... ...

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... I am a soldier of the German army in WW1. I can say one soldier told me one time shortly before he died that, "there is no escape anywhere." I figured out what he meant when I first encountered war. Machine guns were first used then so the amount of dead was enormous. I saw waves of company's slaughtered within seconds, body parts everywhere, and blood red water and land. I regret ever enlisting ... in the war. I don"t care what side you fight on; they"re both a big amount of people trying to kill each other for the same reason and that is domination over each other. I never ... knew t...

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... a horrific event. The number of known dead has been placed at about 10,000,000 men. The main method of combat during the first world war a.k.a. the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the main reasons so many men died. It was a ruthless system of warfare, in which lines and lines of men were repeatedly mowed down, one after the other. Life in the trenches, on the daily, was ... any direction, and remained in stalemate for the majority of the war. Thousands of men died for square meters of land. A separate, but related event to trench warfare was the great infl...

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... their art and their culture," he jests. "But you'd think the money, at least, would have moved them." Certainly, the paintings are moving -- depictions of the sufferings of man, the indignities and horrors of war. There is Eric Kennington's The Conquerors, formerly named The Victims, a portrait of dead and living soldiers marching among shattered ruins on the bones of their fallen comrades. Over the Top, by Alfred Bastien -- Image from Canadian War Museum And ... along several themes, including art, war history, and the role of women and the homefront, all the while keeping the focus on...

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... Wilson the president of the United States, David Lloyd George, Minster of Great Britain and Georges Çlemenceau, Prime minister of France. These three agreed on some terms of how to deal with Germany but disagreed on many others. France was of course the one who was the most vengeful against Germany as they had suffered most of the war losses both in large areas of land destroyed and so many of their people dead, they ... wanted to bring Germany to their knees in a way that they could not rise again, They also were the most afraid of Germany because of their proximity to their land and b...

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... footballs into no-mans land to launch the assault on enemy positions. The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atypical of the type of censorship that existed ... of the sources, but the one of the three which tells us absolutely nothing about the conditions at the front, but as a source, it tells us a great deal about the establ...

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... leave there and their mental state of mind would be gone from all of the horrible things they saw and faced. It showed how a soldier would pack up and move to a strange land they had never been before and have to cope to their surrounding and live there for a while. Paul, the narrator of the book, went to the war alongside of some of his friends Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, and ... some others. Paul and his friends were told that the war was a great and heroic thing but when they finally ... and that he no longer fit in anywhere. At the end of the book even though he out lasted everyone he w...

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... out in no man's land dying by inches. The sheer numbers for the death counts are staggering. The descriptions of the cemeteries that of course appeared instantly are horrifying. So many died and were buried, and then suddenly the burial sites themselves were destroyed by the great damage that was inflicted on the land itself by the seemingly endless battle. Today the battle line is marked by cemeteries of the dead with some of the graves marked, while ... most are buried in large mass graves. Gilbert presents General Douglas Haig as a man whose original plan was to simply wear down the ...

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... no job and had a hungry bleak future. The return of such soldiers also reminded Italy of the human cost of the war, it had left 650,000 dead and 1,000,000 injured. Although the war had improved Italy's power status within Italy being victorious, the Treaty of Versailles did not justify this fact. They had suffered a mutilated victory. They did not receive land that had been pledged in 1915 when they ... had entered the war and the Liberals failure to question the ... ...

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... with a harsh treaty, so that there was no chance of any future attacks. Clemenceau also wanted Germany to pay war reparations for the land damage in the north-east of France caused by the trench warfare. The French public were also putting enormous pressure on Clemenceau to get revenge. During WWI over two thirds of the French army were either dead or injured and they felt Germany had a lot to ... answer for. David Lloyd George was the British Prime Minister at the time, and he represented Britain ... at the conference. Lloyd George knew that the British empire was mainly threatened by...

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... between Germany and Russia March 1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - The Bolsheviks signed a separate peace treaty with the Germans. This was very one sided with the Russians losing nearly half of Russian's European land, but this was the price Lenin was willing to pay to secure the future of the Bolsheviks. The Military Impact of World War One on Russia The Russian Army was not match for the Germans. Russians - old fashioned, ill equipped ... first year - approaching 4mil soldiers dead, captured, missing Casualties at the end of war - 2.8mil wounded, 1.8mil dead, 2.4mil captured. Russia's...

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... reforms. For the working class, this meant socialism. In 1919, the socialists won about a third of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The movement grew increasingly radical: in 1920, the socialist and anarchist workers seized scores of factories, most in the metallurgy sector, and tried to run them for the benefit of the workers themselves. In the countryside, many peasants had no land at all, ... or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right. Fascism is also a movement of the radical right because the defeat of socialism and feminism and the c...

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... at a lower wage than an American worker was earning. The oppression of women in American history is an excellent example of non-wartime discrimination. Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal ... power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights ... . Even after women...

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... live in ghettos, pay special taxes, and were not allowed to own land or have certain occupations. Kristallnacht, or night of the broken glass, occurred November 9th, 1938. This massive attack on Jews happened due to the assassination of a member of the German Embassy who was killed by a young Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan. During the attack synagogues, shops, and other Jewish buildings were burned, destroyed, or robbed ... in charge of the twin experiments, was known as the " Angel of Death." Mengele examined the twins from head to toe. After all of the information was obtained ...

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... and bombs were dropped by both sides. The noise was deafening and explosions of fire and debris came from all directions. Wounded men would be left to die in the space between the opposing trenches which came to be known as "no mans land"3. Soldiers quickly learned that the war wasn't glorifying or exciting it was devastating. The conditions in the trenches were terrible often very muddy and ... soldiers were always cold and wet. There were dead corpses everywhere ... . Most nations were servilery in debt in one way or another. Further the destruction to the land and major cities meant ...

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... father, who taught her how to shoot a riffle and harvest the land. She was often admired by the local schoolgirls who thought, "she was something of a heroine. A part of the war effort, doing a man's work when she"d rather be in London, painting, going to parties and exhibitions" (Pg. 130). Similarly, the reader learned of another strong female character, named Mrs. Sally Davenant, who volunteered ... lawyer and his family belonged to the German upper class, however, "as far as everyone in Upper Street ham was concerned, the only good German was a dead one" (Pg. 137). Many laws prohibited...

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... sent to Cuba to fight. Under the direction of Leonard Wood, Theodore chose 1000 men, out of the over 23,000 that applied, to be part of the regiment. Training in San Antonio, the group came to be known as the Rough Riders. They were one of the first regiments to land in Cuba, and their greatest victory was the taking over of San Juan Hill, that would later ... , such as a food shortage, difficulty managing the boats, and Teddy's leg becoming injured and infected. When he returned to the United States in late 1918, he was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism and the infections from his l...

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... Princip to shoot dead the Austrian heir. Nationalism greatly blew up the tension and had an influence in causing WWI. Another cause of WWI was imperialism. Imperialism is the desire of nations to own colonies and form an empire. European countries had been taking over colonies throughout the world since the fifteenth century. From 1870 on there was an unwritten competition to take over parts of the world they had ... Persia, but were both worried that Germany would take land in the Middle East. Imperialism had an important side effect that explains why the "Great War" became a world war...

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... soon be sent away) and carrying Kat to what he believed was safety only to find out that he had been hit by a splinter in the rear of the head and has died on the way. Paul finds himself nearly unable to go on at this point, ending his time with Kat and saying, "Do I walk? Have I ... trained to do so, Paul has learned to hide his emotions and only now do they pour out. From the initial questions that mother asks to Paul of the war he hides. He cannot find the words to describe what he has seen nor does he feel right in doing so. With every question asked ... leather boots in tip-top co...

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... war depression. However, some countries, like Canada, experienced great economic recovery. Canada also experienced cultural development after the war as the 1920's began. The 20's started off great, but they the ended terribly with the start of the depression. Canada's economy in the 1920's is described as a roller coaster ride, starting with post-war depression then rising up with economic ... about rural dwellers living in cocoon suspicious of anything unfamiliar to them. The Group of Seven, painters, painted scenes of Canadian landscape. They believed that, "an art must grow and flow...

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... acknowledges Mussolini's overall failure as a leader, but he gives credence to the fact that he did drag Italy in to the twentieth century. A few of the good things he did were, he ended the cold war with the catholic church, by the Lateran Treaty, it gave the Catholic Church the Vatican as a sovereign state, he also created a land reclamation project which improved Italy's roads and railways. This is why I believe ... stop the rise of socialism. Mussolini used violence as the main way to stop the spread of socialism. His initial campaign of violence against the Socialists led to 200 de...

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... about the same time, the greater was the prize on speed. Thus, the rivalry among the colonizing nations reached new heights, which successively strengthened the drive for preventative occupation of land in addition to attempts to control territory of use for the military defence of existing empires in opposition to rivals. The impact of the new increase in rivalry is a good example in the case of Great ... war that had arisen after 1789-1815 were significantly weakened. The old conservative belief that established governments had a heavy stake in peace for fear that revolution would ove...

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... 1 million dead. Since the United States came into the war 3 years later than anyone else they only lost 115,000. For the first time in history, there were as many deaths as armed forces After World War 1 there were many changes. The territory's in the central powers has changed. Germany lost a lot of land to Poland. Austria-Hungary lost a lot of land to Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia now takes up most of the Balkans ... . Russia lost a lot of land to the west. They lost land to Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. Ottoman Empire got the worst penalization. They lost their whole nation to Turkey. ...

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... Owen is talking about the dead, not himself but about the other dead bodies surrounding him. The line "The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking gasp", says it all. The men that are told to retrieve the dead bodies from no-mans land. Also the line "All their eyes are ice", says that the bodies are frozen and lifeless. Also in the poem "Exposure", the certain last line of "But nothing happens" ... is repeated. I believe this line is to give the impression of a waiting game for the soldiers. Also I believe the line is used to add ... suspense to the poem, and to the stanza th...

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