Inventors, religious figures, political leaders and veterans who have survived wars are all considered to be heroes. ... In How to Tell a True War Story, Kiley thinks that Lemon died a hero because Lemon's spirits remain buoyant in the terrors of war. ... The "i" in the title is not capitalized, and this emphasizes how "i" is small compared to Olaf. ... This is seen clearly in The greatest Man in the World, where the media has to conceal Smurch's past, " the story of his life cannot be printed." ... We have images of how our heroes should look, what kind of houses they live in, wh...

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The same parents that preach about how lies are wrong slap their child when he tells them that he doesnt likes mathematics. ... Aristotle Story truth is different from happening truth. ... But a true war story is never moral. ... The story truth needs to establish a link with actual truth so that people could connect with the story. ... How beautiful it would be if all of us young and old, men and women, devoted ourselves wholly to truth in all that we might do. ...

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De Waal tells how Mencius believed that "humans tend toward the good as naturally as water flows downhill (666)". ... The holocaust, slavery, Stalin, Hitler, the Nazis, Caligula, and countless other events illustrate how dark are true nature can be. ... De Waal simply doesn't want to answer these questions; he avoids them with stories about dogs and other animals. ... Before World War 2, Hitler was Times man of the year, some one who was looked on as a great leader. ... The world even let Hitler have a country because we believed he would be happy and would not go to war. ...

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De Waal tells how Mencius believed that "humans tend toward the good as naturally as water flows downhill (666)". ... The holocaust, slavery, Stalin, Hitler, the Nazis, Caligula, and countless other events illustrate how dark are true nature can be. ... De Waal simply doesn't want to answer these questions; he avoids them with stories about dogs and other animals. ... Before World War 2, Hitler was Times man of the year, some one who was looked on as a great leader. ... The world even let Hitler have a country because we believed he would be happy and would not go to war. ...

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I read a story about the legendary Greek soldier Alexander. ... The monk's answer may be very strange but it is true. ... No body knows what will happen after death, and no body returns from there to tell people how it is like being dead. ... For what they did and how it affected them and other people. ... Yet history of human civilization is filled with wars and destructions which did not bring any long lasting peace and prosperity. ...

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In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. ... In Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, tells John the Savage: "The people are well off; they"re safe; they"re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they"re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they"re so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave" (Huxley 169). ... In 1958 he felt that the prophecies he made twenty-seven years earlier were coming true faster than he expected...

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