... a soul of its own, transcending the individuals who composed it. The third was militarism. Nations that did not expand would eventually wither and die. Fascists believed that war ennobled man and regenerated sluggish and decadent peoples. Mussolini began to rebuild Italy in accordance with these principles. The first ... imprisoned, but was soon rescued by German forces. Until the end of the war he headed the German puppet Salò Republic, in which Fascist die-hards attempted to implement Fascism in its 'pure' form, whilst engaged in armed struggle with a mass resistance movement. ...

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... all these individuals must have the same idea and objective to allow the State to progress. The individual must fight and be willing to die to preserve the State. Socialism seeks to benefit the Working Class on an economic level by instilling a regulated government that denounces unfair capitalistic ... have the right to autonomy and require each individual to refrain from aggressing against each other. An anarchist can have several perspectives on how to achieve this autonomy. They can advocate for revolution to free the individual or they can expect the State to eventually diminish du...

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... by the allies once again. As one German Field Marshall named Hindenburg put it, "In the event of a resumption of hostilities we can . . . defend our frontiers in the east. In the west, however, we can scarcely count on being able to withstand a serious offensive . . . The success of the operation as a whole is very ... doubtful, but as a soldier I cannot help feeling that it is better to die honorably than accept a disgraceful peace." Since the Germans did not ... deal with the consequences set for them in the treaty. The point made by Hindenburg shows how many other Germans felt as w...

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... based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". It is a dream of the young, helpless soldier Owen watches suffocate and die during a sudden attack after the men were retreating: "Flound"ring like a man in fire or lime I saw him drowning". What makes this death so alarming ... all together in the last few lines. In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country." Owen calls this a lie by using good diction, vivid comparisons, and graphic images to have the reader feel disgusted at what war...

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... by Wilfred Owen set during world war 1 written in 1917, and talks about the trials and hardships that soldiers went through. The persona tells of how he and his battalion are attacked with mustard gas and one of the soldiers not putting his gas mask on in time, suffers from the effects ... government of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier in war and honourable to die for the cause. Owen uses poetic devices such as the imagery of the soldiers face as he dies, similes that contrast the stereotypical image of ... ...

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... in the decline of Maungapohatu and the loss of Rua's leadership. Furthermore, Rua's death in 1937 significantly affected both his tribe and the government. Just before he was about to die, Rua predicted that, like Jesus Christ, he would be resurrected three days after his death. While his resistance during World War One and subsequent jail sentence meant he had lost ... and scorched earth warfare employed on the Tuhoe Tribe. By passively resisting against the Government during the First World War, Rua created a platform that enabled generations to come to understand how the Tuhoe tribe,...

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... people in a fatherly manner especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities, towards the characters in the story. The characters articulate against the paternalistic practices, and how the usage of it in real life is as devastating as applications of it in stories. The protagonist of the story, Gawain le Coeur-Hardy, is a knight in training who ... is very isolated from the rest of society. Since Gawain was most likely to end in expulsion due to his lack of self-confidence, the headmaster says "we must consider the greater good. We are responsible ...

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... Australian identity. Actually this is absolutely different to the traditional identity where Aborigines were suppressed and not integrated in the identity at all. As we heard in the lectures and as I analysed in my second diary assignment about the film Rabbit Proof Fence from the beginning of white settlements ... culture I consider as really important point because after all these years of suffer they deserve respect and compensation. How Australians will define themselves in the future will probably shift more towards some kind of multicultural identity. Some of the traditional aspe...

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... on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt 2029). However, Gurney is criticized for such use of imagery to negate nationalistic propaganda of the war, ... poems like "The Silent One," Gurney evinces sentiment and concern for the untold truths of the war, which when we look at his biography and broken poetry, suggests how the war tormented him; leaving his mind and memory fragmented up until his death (Greenblatt 2028). "The Silent One& ... then his later poems...

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... to the soldiers. "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knocked-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge." This shows how these heroic soldiers have suffered. The use of phrases like "bent double" and "old beggars" graphically show how these men no longer look like fit young men but withered old men which emphasises the harsh consequences ... The application of the simile "coughing like hags" also continues the trend of portraying these soldiers in a painful and wracked condition. To round this up it shows how these human lives are reduced and degraded by war and so revea...

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... accounts written in newspapers published both accounts, a particular example being the First battle of Gaza (a British defeat) that Murray announced as a victory "we inflicted heavy losses and have taken upwards of 900 prisoners owing to the fog and waterless nature of the country, Gaza fell just short of a ... to trench warfare, and highly skilled in writing brilliant anti-war poetry (The Redeemer, Attack- which ends "O Jesus make it stop" and How to die.), Sassoon using creative, figurative language manipulatively in order to portray the trenches through his eyes, at least. The "mora...

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