... a rational decision in the irrational world but his existence is dependent on his decisions. In the end Holly who is naive and good natured is unable to overcome the moral ambiguity in the 20th century as illustrated through the final scene fading out into black. The darkness reflects the disenchantment of the time. This creates a discordant effect and positions the responders ... and the complexity associated with ethics in WWII. The cynical nature of the film as it begins with a symmetry and ends with a symmetry emphasis the death of ethical certainty over ambiguity. The film delibera...

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... criticism of the United Nations has been simply that, that its birth into such an insecure international forum has lead to ambiguity surrounding its existence and failure to adapt as the world progresses away from the post war conditions: "the ambiguity of its specific world role, and the failure to change that role as the world has changed." One of the fundamental ... ...

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... pray you'll never know, " in Suicide in the trenches expresses the miserable aspect of war-death, but not in the form it would be thought but rather suicide. The ambiguity adds to the fact that the soldiers families thought of them as dead in battle and praised everyone of them as heroes of war. War was not like that at ... ...

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... authentic film. It also marked his first cameo appearance, which later became a trademark of his films. The theme of the film is simple; a man wrongly accused of a crime. The moral ambiguity that frames the film gives it its true Hitchcock style. Its great success launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in ... ...

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... come to him and not wanted to talk. But here at home it was all too complicated. He knew he could never get through it all again." Here is a significant ambiguity: "it all" may well connote the whole process of being and ceasing to be a lover, and "again" suggests that Krebs has been through this process before. Descriptions of Krebs' lack ... ...

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... authentic film. It also marked his first cameo appearance, which later became a trademark of his films. The theme of the film is simple; a man wrongly accused of a crime. The moral ambiguity that frames the film gives it its true Hitchcock style. Its great success launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in ... ...

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... had not taken place. This would therefore indicate that the integration by threat' statement is a little presumptuous as they were fighting up to and beyond the period in discussion. General ambiguity, but especially from Great Britain, towards European integration makes the integration statement look misguided. Britain's interests lay with her special relationship with America, which had grown to new heights under ... ...

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... idea that religious people cannot truly call themselves people of God unless they have found love. In his poem "love is the every only god," Cummings attempts to define the ambiguity of God's identity. To achieve this, his poem melds love and God into one body of power and compassion, and not merely an icon that obligates us to attend mass ... ...

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... Owen is a brilliant use of diction, as in the simile "like a devil's sick of sin". Besides emphasizing the evil nature of the consequences of war, the comparison exploits the potential ambiguity of words. In the mentioned case, the word "sick" is one with a strong negative connotation. But this negativity can be interpreted in a physical or a mental sense; or even in both ... ...

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