Can states be relied upon to protect the life and dignity of individuals during times of war? States cannot be relied upon to protect the life and dignity of individuals during times of war. ... This paper will proceed by first defining the concept of an armed conflict, and its impact on the life of civilians in our modern times. ... This proves that states cannot be relied upon to protect the life and dignity of individuals during times of war. ... This indicates how states are not reliable in protecting their citizens' lives when it comes to maintaining the power of their governments. ...

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The War destroyed the long-established concepts they'd always modeled their lives on " loyalty, honor, and integrity. Without these beliefs, the men and women affected by the war began to rely on irrelevant and escapist activities to fill the void left by the beliefs that had previously given their lives meaning. Their lives become seemingly aimless, without a belief in any solid notion or a psychological or moral purpose. ... It numbs Jake and his friends to a bitter realization that their lives now lack purpose. ... The only thing accomplished by their drinking and dancing is a ...

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In both books, we are given lessons about how others interpret life and how it can be different for anyone. ... Reading Tuesdays with Morrie, the reader gains knowledge about Morrie's perspective of life, and how we shape our lives by doing the simplest of things. Morrie discusses many different topics presented to him by former student, Mitch; although, Morrie is currently suffering and on the road to death, he is not afraid to talk about the most freighting of topics faced in life. ... Love, a passionate affection, is something people experience if their lives can is harder to explain t...

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The human ego, as we know it, leads us to mistrust individuals in our daily lives. ... Life can be regarded as a battlefield with no man's land in the middle and trenches at the end of both extremities such as in the first world war. ... Life, once again, can be regarded as a race track where everyone intends to reach the first place. ... Deep within them, human beings, wether they are close relatives or not, despise the fact of seeing another individual rise into the esteem of social life. ... Life is a race track with various racers, each one having advantages and disadvantages, a...

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It circles around a young woman named Briony Tallis who aspires her entire life to shine the light of true redemption to right and rewrite the countless wrongs of her youth, as to finally succumb to the guilt which haunts her state of mind from her journey of childhood to adulthood. ... A world could be made in five pages with all the life they contained...... She owes them the very joy in their lives of which she stripped and with the lovers themselves dead, she has no other way to make amends for her mistake than document the survival of their love. 2. ... In the same way of which Briony e...

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Humans have always had the ambition to improve their lives. They desired their civilizations to grow and advance, so they initiated methods to make their lives easier. ... Many breakthroughs of inventions and discoveries have been made by many great scientists whose purposes were to make our lives better than before. ... Besides the breakthrough of inventions like the Gothic Cathedrals and the compass, advances in space exploration have changed the life of modern man today, as man has dreamed for centuries. ... The benefits of space exploration have impacted us in almost all aspects of life, a...

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Apart from the fact that Japan had been suing for a peaceful end to the war, there were a number of alternative routes of action that the Americans had at their fingertips, and could have taken advantage of at a moment's notice, which could have possibly saved a lot of lives, both American and Japanese. After analyzing the amount of damage and the amount of lives lost as a result of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, it becomes evident that dropping the bomb was not worth a quick end to the war. ... Due to the effective air, sea, and land blockade that was in progress, Japan was unable to "...

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By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict. ... It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... His job, and his life depended on the fact that he had to keep Soviet Ideals in place, and that he allow the Russian military to support him and his government. ... Because they lived in Afghanistan their entire lives, they had a much...

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This refers both to those who lost their lives in the First World War, and also to those who lost their moral and spiritual compass. ... The characters of the novel alienated themselves from their family and home, where they can not return to a stereotypical former life. ... After analyzing some moments in the novel, it was concluded that the Spanish Fiesta really attracted characters with the aim to find themselves in the atmosphere, similar to the war, in order to experience certain emotions, because in their daily lives' the characters have lost a true perception of the reality. They ...

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Wholly unprepared for the horrors and sheer loss that is incurred around them, the protagonists do not shy away from adversity but rather sacrifice aspects of their own lives in order to confront it. ... He leaves an idyllic life and a purposeful job that he adores in his wake. ... The protagonists leap from the promise and safety of their previous lives, into the depths of war and go as far as reaching their own deaths in an effort to attain peace. ... Malouf bestows a vital hope upon Jim in the form of the appearance of migratory birds, and also explores the cycle of life. ... Imogen'...

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After World War II, American lives changed drastically from the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression and then entering World War II. ... The Perils of Mass Culture that emerged in 1950's and are still with us to this day created the American stereotype The Veterans who are returning home from World War II felt the need to get married and have kids to pass down their name and life lessons. This created the baby boom generation; in 1959 the population of kids under the age of fourteen was over fifty million and that significantly impacts society in many area of life. ... Cars we...

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Although life in 1850 was very different than life in 1950, many of the events that occurred in or after 1850 helped spark the events that occurred in 1950. Life in 1850 was filled with revolutions, advancements in medicine, technology, economic growth and imperialism. ... Life in 1950 was similar to life in 1850 up until the first and second World Wars. ... Women were finally liberated, and oral contraception such as the "Pill" were developed to give women even more control of their own lives. ... Their life would be constantly changing, with the popular concept of Mass Society evo...

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The key of attachment parenting is to constantly join in the child's life. ... Too much concern would prevent the child to face challenges and autonomy in life, which helps children to grow as an independent individual. ... The children live their lives according to what works for  them (Shaw).   ... Children will always find a role model, someone to pattern their own lives after. ... In addition, homeschooling provides an opportunity for parents to pass on their beliefs into the daily lives of children.  ...

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One part of the conference that I found interesting was when all of the Allies agreed on the new governments that should be put into place over the old Dictatorships "The establishment of order in Europe and the rebuilding of national economic life must be achieved by processes which will enable the liberated peoples to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism and to create democratic institutions of their own choice. ... When the Cold War with Russia was going on we decided to not invade them because of the loss of lives due to ever growing capacity of both powers nuclear arsenal, but ...

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Later on, when they moved to Camp Minidoka in Idaho, Sone and her family started to adapt to their new life. Like their Nisei children, the Issei parents began to accept this new way of life and move on. When the US War Department recruited Nisei for the special combat unit, their life in the internment camp came to a violent end. ... First of all, it is the government's responsibility to repay those Japanese immigrant families who had their homes, their lives stripped away from their own hands. ... While most Nisei tried hard to adapt to the life in America, a significant proportion of A...

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"A nation can be maintained only if, between the State and the individual, there is intercalated a whole series of secondary groups near enough to the individuals to attract them strongly in their sphere of action and drag them in this way, into the general torrent of social life" (Durkheim 1964: 28). ... Identity: Postmodern theorists argue that individuals no longer have an innate self or a fixed identity from within which they would live out their lives, but today's fragmented society has made it so that we pick and choose who we want to be, change at any given circumstance, and ...

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It is at this point, age twenty-one, he feels that "he had been drawn out of that small town like a piece of metal and dropped under the vast arches of Union Station to begin his life once more." (59) Here, Patrick abandons his own up-bringing and accepts new ideals of what it means to be Canadian in relation to what he has learned from immigrants, particularly from Nicholas Temelcoff, a Macedonian, that he has worked with. ... Kip displays his acquiescence to this for a time and even jokes: "condensed milk was one of my favourite things about the British." (123) However, it is not long before...

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The Rosenberg Trial America had developed the ultimate doomsday weapon in the history of warfare, a weapon that was so powerful that it could destroy life as we know it on this planet. ... Love for their cause dominated their lives. ...

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Through A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki makes clear the life of each ethnic that makes up America from the period when the Viking settled to today. ... The Irish fled to American in the common pursuit of a better life away from British colonizers, as well as the potato famine that killed millions through starvation. ... When the Chinese came to America in search of the gold that would turn their lives around, however, found themselves replacing workers for cheap labor. ...

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This matter remains controversial to this day in many other aspects of life besides media. ... Comparing the loss of one scientist to millions who have lost their lives is quite absurd and the use of romance amongst the characters is as if it was intended as a form of propaganda. ... One inaccuracy found is of the specific leaflets that were dropped from above warning the citizens of a coming attack of a new weapon that was a means to save lives. ...

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However, one stands out more than any other and has greatly influenced the way we live our lives, Australia's ground roots, its European heritage. ... Two horrific wars have been fought and caused by European countries, in which countless lives of soldiers and civilians were lost. Genocide was attempted by the Germans on the Jewish race, in which the very worst atrocities against life were carried out, as an estimated six million Jewish people were murdered. ... When the Aftermath of the Great War and World War 2 was over and life started to return to normal, the European nations decide...

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In addition, I reminded he reason why he wanted to attend college, to succeed in life and to open his own automobile business. ... Long gave me the support to go on with my life by saying things such as "Does your father want you to live your life miserably and hurting yourself by not eating and crying." He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encourage me to live my life and accepted my father's death. ... Therefore, people become friends because they are useful to each other that they help each other from ruining their lives...

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This paper explores the deeper physical, social and psychological effects of war on the children and whether they can ever return to living a normal life. ... I believe that no individual should be exploited, especially children, when they have their whole lives ahead of them. ... Separation can have a devastating social and physical impact on the childs life (Unaccompanied Children). ... UNICEF families host children to help their integration into society and provide them with the supplies they need to return to living a normal life ("Unaccompanied children"). The psychological effects ...

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The costs of total war, mobilization, and the end to modernity ultimately led to drastic shifts in the perceptions of identity across the globe, which led to decolonization and the birth to new nations, and whether or not the assimilation and abandonment of old traditional ways of life, as is the case presented by Leslie Marmon Silko in the novel Ceremony. ... "She hated the people at home when white people talked about their peculiarities; but she always hated herself more because she still thought about them, because she knew their pain at what she was doing with her life. ... "...

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KIRSTY R DUNCAN " The notion that the Second World War must have had a profound and lasting effect on the lives of the British Women has continued to shape interpretative attitudes of the conflict." It has been noted by some historians that the war reinforced traditional values in women, on the other hand it is argued that such an experience must have altered the lives of the women on the home front considerably. ... Moreover he considers that there was a definite change in attitude exhibited by those housewives who were left at home doing traditional tasks. " In contrast to many other hi...

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