... modern poetry, believing it to be characteristic of much poetry in the early twentieth century. Logopoeia occurs, in particular, when different layers and levels of vocabulary are mixed in a text. Here is an example from the first stanza of a poem by Thomas Hardy,After a Journey: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost; Whither, O whither will its whim now draw me? Up the cliff, down, till I'm lonely, lost, And ... of the Newly Dead, 1926, and several other volumes, until Collected Poems 1921–1951). He is also remembered, with his wife Willa, as the first translator of Kafka into Engl...

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... dead,"" said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here. Your dad won't know, nobody don't know - -. Piggy's feelings of loss and hopelessness echo those that Golding himself felt during the war. Because of Golding's loss of faith in mankind, the boys experience the harsh realities of the human condition. "Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man's heart -. The boys fall from innocence represents the loss of innocence of ... notes "If it had been light, shame would burn them at admitting these things."" Golding is able to show that in the presence of a ...

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... relentlessly fired at these people. The next morning, tanks and artilleries entered the city and killing of people continued. Dead bodies covered the two major streets of the city. The streets became "streets of blood" as a result of the two-day annihilation. III MASS EXECUTION OF CAPTIVES A large number of Chinese soldiers had already been captured in the suburban areas before the Japanese entered the city. The rest of the Chinese soldiers scattered inside the city and changed into civilian ... clothes. After the "City-Entering Ceremony" on the 17th, the Japanese arrested ... ...

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... was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. The biggest one was the Treaty of Versailles, which left Germany in financial ruin. As a result ... policemen lay dead from this massacre. Hitler was sentenced for high treason for 5 years. While he was in prison he wrote Mein Kamp a book that stated his beliefs, and his plan for Germany in the future (Shirer 12...

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... them when they were getting ready to fight back. From this day forward American lives were changed forever. Women in the service were generally nurses. These nurses played a huge part in the turmoil of the attacks; and they worked under tremendous pressure during the aftermath of the raids. The Japanese "left 2,235 servicemen and 68 civilians dead" (Women in WWII). Because there were only 82 army nurses serving in ... the Harbor that day, they were extremely understaffed and overwhelmed. The people keep coming in massive numbers and the supply was running short. Unfortunately 2-3 nurses...

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... . I suffered acutely from this ignorance . . .Oh, what bitter days of retreat, of weariness, boredom and anxiety!(85). In his works, Eye Deep in Hell, Ellis describes the account of an infantry man who described marching as some of the worst aspects of fighting, "This (marching) is the kind of thing, more than battle or blood which harasses the spirit of the infantry man and composes his life each man becomes a mere ... to read because we can only imagine how much Bloch would love to forget the events of that day. As his regiment slowly advanced he encountered wounded men, machine gun fi...

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... more vicious than himself. Because he lost his revolver when he fell into the trench, Paul is forced to listen to this soldier gasping for breath. He spends the final minutes of this French soldiers' life consoling him and apologizing for his actions. In the after death of the French soldier, Paul swears to the dead man that it will never happen again. He understands that he is ... not much different from the man he just killed except that this man had a wife and ... his teeth for two hours to keep from bleeding to death. The battle they fight only allows the French to take a few hundr...

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... ;It wouldn't matter to me." (Miller 44). It is this abandonment of expectation and financial concerns that ultimately frees the couple from the obsession that engulfed Joe Keller and was the ultimate downfall of Ann's own father. Kate, Joe's wife still clings to the hopes that Larry, her son, is alive despite having been dead for three years. Her remaining son Chris has to convince her ... of Larry's death to pave way for his marriage to Ann, a former fiancé ... , who by any means is dead, is shown to be strong when she asks a neighbor to determine the favorability of her son's day...

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... 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 establishment of censorship, the length it reached and so forth, the prohibition of additional information helping to explain the general context of censorship during the war. The lack of information even about the nature of the soldiers injury makes the postcard into a mockery, basically only telling the family that he was not dead ... , which although obviously of some help or use, does not go anyway near what ... ...

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... would take months for anyone to travel across any ocean or continent. However, with the space age, the world could be annihilated in a matter of hours. In today's world, the United States no longer has to worry about land hungry European powers. One could argue that the original Monroe Doctrine is dead and has no use. They could say that America, as a world superpower, has no ... crisis, or perhaps conflicts with drug lords or private corporations may lead to the rejuvenation of the Roosevelt Corollary. The Monroe Doctrine is aging, but it is far from dead. Listed as one of the most inf...

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... him to question why he survived and why some of his other friends died. This guilt often causes the veteran to question what he could have done in order to help change the outcome of the events that lead up to the death of his fellow comrade. In some cases the soldier that survived will try to imitate the life of the dead soldier, if he would be living. Even though these ... types of behavior are not existent in every soldier's life, all Vietnam Veterans still have to deal with some ... issue from the War, be it great or small. The USA really did fight against itself ... ...

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... 350 miles away from the Japanese homeland of Kyushu. The Japanese, Okinawans, and the Allies all knew of Okinawa being the final stepping-stone for an invasion of the Japanese homeland. The Japanese had fortified Okinawa from the beginning of the war. The Allied forces in the Pacific had the understanding that Okinawa would provide the most hardship of any battle in the Pacific of the Second World War. Thus, they assembled the greatest amphibian assault force the world had seen to ... the Japanese by the Allies during World War II. At some battles, such as at Battle of Iwo Jima, there h...

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... has only one main competitor in military weaponry, the M16. The M16 was developed in the late 1950's and has one of the most turbulent histories in firearm history. After the Korean War the United States Military found that they needed an answer to the enemies' AK47, which came in the form of the M16. In 1957 the United States Army approached the Armalite Division of the Fairchild Aircraft Corp to develop a lightweight, select ... unique weapon. Two major studies also helped to steer him towards the direction of the M16: the Hall Report and the Hitchman report. The first of these repor...

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... communist forces had pushed the Americans back below the 38th parallel once again."" Little success followed the assistance of the Chinese, and a stalemate dragged on until 1953, resulting in 140,000 American dead and wounded. The Korean War escalated at a time of "rising insecurity about America's position in the world and intensified anxiety about communism."" The 1950s were the climax of the anti-communist hysteria, and made possible the rise of one of the most important political ... figure of this time. Joseph McCarthy, an undistinguished politician ... ...

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... death occurs, it also appears to be like the death of Jesus. The author describes the situation as, "The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (154) and enables the reader to compare it to something angelic or ... its influence fades, so does all law and order. As time passes the boys' reaction to the sound of the conch becomes much slower and Jack argues the need for it. As most of the boys no longer feel the need...

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... , in many ways most "developed" among communist political economies (CPEs), if only the symptoms of its disease had advanced furthest. For the first-time visitors in the 1970s and the 1980s, the dinginess of the streets, the cramped housing, the lack of palatable food in the shops, the sallow complexions of the inhabitants, the smoke-filled skies, all looked familiar. The more literary-minded may have thought of the Bleak House: there was indeed a more than passing resemblance between ... shown privately owned, market-coordinated economies to be incomparably more robust and dynamic than ...

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... Seminole Indians when, in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This act authorized the use of the military to remove the named tribes from east of the Mississippi to a designated spot west of the river. The infamous "Trail of Tears", among many other atrocities occurred as a result of this act, with the Cherokees paying the highest toll losing roughly 55 percent of their entire population along the march for one reason or another. Along with ... died, his men retreated and sailed across the Gulf to Mexico. In total, the dead Indians equaled about ten thousand, which is small co...

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... come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence. The ideas first presented by Darwin and later extrapolated to include human society and ethics by Spencer, took a distinctly anti-religious tone in the writings of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Infamous for his decree that "God is dead," and ... that religion is no longer useful, Nietzsche also questioned established morality. He proposed that morality is determined by each indivi...

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... history"1. This statement by Offitzer in "Diners" gives a nice description of how not only diners became an important part of American history, but the architecture of the diners were just as important. The design of the diner is directly related to a time in American culture and the architecture of it can reflect how Americans were using certain materials and styles in a post-World ... approach allowed stainless steel to appear tough and durable (which is was), and after the boxy designs of the 1920s, the polished and clean look of the 1930s took over. The Sterling Streamline narrowed th...

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... to writing to explore the loneliness deep in heart. 4The Little Prince started the plot from the author's memory of childhood. The masterpiece of the author in his childhood was a picture of a boa (a type of snake) constrictor digesting an elephant. In western culture, the Christian characterization of the snake and its identification with the Devil is quite apparent in the story of the fall of man in the Bible. 5Therefore, snake has symbolic meaning of evil, tricking and slick ... . In Christian symbolism the elephant is an icon of temperance, patience ... ...

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... reform within its own country; therefore, China was not worrying about what was going on in the rest of the world. However, in the 1990's after the Berlin Wall fell and Russia became a Federation with its first President in 1991, China began to look towards the rest of the world. Under the leadership of President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji, China's economic growth rate rose to almost 12% and ... claim to that same territory, then you are going to lose it. This is only being said after China's large claim of the ten-dashed line. Many nations protested the claim and said how some ...

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... unsolved in many Southern countries under the mode of development that the international system provided. Even though the original and most claimed goal of the funding of WB, IMF and a series of investment programs is to reduce poverty and boost modernization in Southern countries, the fact is that the world market system continues to see a flow of wealth from the South to the North. The huge gap between the economically wealthy and poor countries have ... were yet in predicament. Its long-time raw-material-exporting relied economy, and the legacy of exploitive colonial regime, the unde...

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... happen. He had planned that the smoke from the Chesapeake's guns would cover the decks of his ships, but the decks of the Chesapeake would be open for his sharp shooters. This was exactly what happened and it resulted in the deaths of all but one of the officers on board of the Chesapeake (Beach 103). Lawrence, and the Chesapeake proved that preparation was the key in winning naval battles of the Napoleonic Era. He was unprepared ... to fight the Shannon, and this resulted in his death, and the death of many other sailors of the American Navy. The British Navy would go on to win a few ....

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... say in the matter whatsoever. Three of the Allied leaders met with representatives of Germany to witness the signing. The leaders were David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of the United States.(1) The purpose of forcing this treaty upon Germany was the hope that the treaty would bring peace to Europe, which had just endured the bloodiest war of history. Even the choosing of the building as a setting for the signing of the treaty suggests ... more of an air of revenge ... ...

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... the sounds of the war overcoming the sounds of the death ceremonies. In the second stanza, Owen focuses on sights. He uses the words "candles," "shines," and "glimmers" to imply sight. He asks, "What candles may be held to speed them all" (9). He answers "Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes / Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes" (10-11). Owens answer compares the candles of the ceremony to the tears in the eyes of the ... youths loved ones. His answer is that they will be remembered with sadness, but the war will continue to kill more youth and cause more sadness. ... (15-1...

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