While Americans were stuck in post war disillusionment, the younger generation created a phenomenal change on the moral beliefs of the older generation. ... The politics and dealings that went on throughout the 1920's were virtually ignored by the uprising voters and future leaders of the younger generation. ... The older generation was against literature, music, motion pictures, and anything else that encouraged the younger generation's revolt. ... The younger generation wanted more and more of the things the older generation were against. ... These radical changes on th...

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A) Introduction: Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, was a book of moral reflection and great insight. ... Brokaw's 'greatest generation' covered both the despair of the war, and the glory of the returning Americans. ... All who have exemplified qualities of a great generation. ... C) Summary of the plot concept: The idea of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation is to introduce the reader to a "generation almost forgotten." ... They had learned to accept the future that played out one day at a time. ...

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The case of the baby boom generation provides a useful way of understanding the complex of factors that shape demographic change. ... To understand the baby boom generation we need to examine a whole host of factors. ... What is clear, however, is that it carries the future of the nation's economic and social security along with it. ... They will affect decisions that in turn will be the basis on how society will live in the near future. ... Future careers of people will also be impacted by their retirement; people will get jobs that are related directly or indirectly to the needs of...

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These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ... When children of today's generation think of war they can hardly relate to the devastation that it brings. ... The events of September 11 were catastrophic for all involved; however there was much to be learned by the new generations and older as well. Generations of today learned first hand what war could do to a country, which in most cases brings...

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Many of the events that occurred during this time inspired and molded the future of an entire generation. ... An entire generation would be created in a very short period of time. ... This generation is currently the majority of the population in the United States, and because of this fact, things are going to change. ... So, again the effects of trends of the past will change the present and future for generations to come. ... Every generation and every time period presents opportunities for America to grow as a collective whole and become even greater. ...

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The Lost Generation Let us see if we cannot make a fine game of it that we shall be all the better for having played out to the end. ... This great war left entire cities and country sides in ruins and along with them an entire generation of men. ... "For Germans the focus of the war was directed toward the future"(Eksteins, 118). It was too be a future of physical and spiritual unity. ... The future of any society lies in its children. ...

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Czmerda Honors English 10 Poor Boys In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the French girl's remark, "the war- great sadness- poor boys" is true of the events described in the novel in many respects because of the future hopes and dreams the men lost, the youth and innocence that was taken away from them, and the families and friends that were removed from their lives for good. First, the young soldiers in World War I were a lost generation. ... In the preface of the novel, Remarque maintains that, "a generation of men...were destroyed" (Insight 202). ... He recognized t...

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The book so elaborately portrayed three horrendous themes: the destructiveness of war, alienation of a solider, and the hopelessness of a lost generation. ... Albert complains about the future awaiting him after the war, "That's just it. ... (Mory The Destructiveness of War 2) Finally comes the devastating portrayal of the "lost generation". ... It could, and has been said that Paul's generation grew up, unintentionally, too fast. ... (Remarque 87) Those of this generation who the war didn't kill or slaughter, it crippled, shattered, or used up. ...

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It nurtured the hatred from Germany to the World, but World War 1 was necessary, though it was avoidable, it was a War that future generation can learn from the mistake. ... There is a good in the bad and the bad in the good, we are living in a world where by we sit by and watch the previous generation slowly stealing bits and pieces of our future away without able to do anything. ...

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Now I know that there was and still is no way to predict the future, still, through out the conflict when our goal wasn"t being accomplished, anytime would"ve been perfect to pull out. ... The chemicals poisoning water and food sources of the people and altering their DNA causing future generations to be born with horrifying birth defects. ...

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One being written, the other visual, their protagonists both portray the generation of young men who were lost to World War I, never realizing their potential. ... Each being a promising representative of a lost generation of young men, the respective protagonists of 'All Quiet On the Western Front' and 'Fly Away Peter', Paul and Jim, are both swept up in the celebratory attitudes of the people around them as they prepare for war. ... Paul likewise casts aside his future as a promising writer, another Goethe or Schiller according to Professor Kantorek, his mother observing ...

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When we die we leave younger generations of children and grandchildren to repeat the cycle. ... We have had this option for generations. ... Using generations as their premise, they suggest that one-generation and its particular leaders and decision makers may experience an intensive war, and by remembering its horrors and mishaps, avoid similar conflicts. ... Even further, I believe that in an attempt to predict and categorize future implications these are the foremost compilations. ... Nonintervention As the title entails, Michael Roskin's shifting paradigms of intervention and no...

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Unfortunately, in a turn of events that would prove disastrous for the future of the world, President Wilson's ineptitude and stubbornness led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles. ... He had grand plans for the future of Europe. ... (Document A) Wilson's description of the future under the League of Nations was not a pleasant one: "[The founders of the Government] thought of America as the light of the world as created to lead the world in the assertion of the rights of peoples and the rights of free nations." ... Despite the faults of Germany, the victors of the war ha...

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Hitler recognised that he would have limited success in winning over every adult and that the youth of the country were central, if not fundamental, if he was to achieve the future Germany he had planned. ... He also did not trust the churches or families to bring up Germany's future children to become good Nazis. ... Girls and boys were educated separately and taught subjects that reflected their future role in society. ... The sole purpose of this educational structure was to create a future generation that was blindly loyal to Hitler and the Nazis Hitler's economic policy was p...

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Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, termed this popular public sentiment as the "Lost Generation". The term was used to describe the generation of men and women that came of age either during the war who were "lost", meaning their generation was characterized by lost values, obsolete morals, lost belief in human progress, and a mood of despair and disappointment as a result of their war experiences ("Lost Generation"). Ernest Hemmingway portrays this "Lost Generation" through the words of his fictional character Lieutenant Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. ......

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Americans began to work fewer hours, earn higher wages, invest in the stock market and buy more products than the generation before. ... Future generations would look back on the 1920's as one of the most influential times in fashion history. ...

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The survivors of the bombing were faced with difficult situations that crippled them for generations. ... These malformations popped up randomly and stayed in families for generations. ... The atomic bomb devastated Japan and left many with serious problems in the future. ...

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Eric can be considered in the same light as Sheila, together they represent the younger generation, well, at least the thinking and intellectual of the younger generations. ... In the same year, Britain had a socialist government in the shape of Clement Atlee's Labour Party- there was real hope for the future socialisation and even communism was very much in vogue with the middle class and there was a feeling that we were moving out of the selfish, profit-driven world of capitalism (with it's emphasis on the individual as opposed to the collective good), towards a more caring, sharin...

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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. ... As a group, they were the wealthiest, most active, and most physically fit generation up to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time while they may have been born during the Great Depression giving in to the financial wants of their offspring to give them what they couldn't have. ... The baby boom generation began to introduce materialism, a peril of mass...

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It could be said that the entire generation of young and middle age, especially communities of African-Americans and Latin Americans, joined the war protest. ... Large numbers of young men refused to register for military service and some left the country to avoid it, including young Bill Clinton, the future 42nd President of the United States8. ...

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Thanks to the strength of our military we can feel secure about ourselves and our future, unfortunately this desire to serve our country has been diminishing up to the point where teenagers need to be reminded about registering for the draft when they turn eighteen! ... By putting this policy to work we would give the feeling to all of our men and women that they have put their lives on the line to preserve the rights on which they grew up as well as their next generations will. ... We must think and analyze all situations and not feel too confident in our future defense force to avoid a w...

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The SSA insured the older generation that they would have enough money to survive and spend throughout their lives. ... Even though Roosevelt introduced several acts to improve the country's instability, it still did not end the Great Depression as the outbreak of the second World War ended the Depression; however, Roosevelt's New Deal gave restored people's confidence in the government, ultimately giving them hope for a brighter future....

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It is at this point that she begins to glimpse a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. ... This is another glimpse of the generational shift as Briony, surrounded by mangled bodies, realizes that the bodies are so easily torn and so hard to mend after all. ... Besides using the characters to depict generational and societal change, McEwan uses the setting to underscore these points as well. ... The generational shifts, the moving from one time to another, from one level of knowledge to another, are all indicative characters in the book. ...

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Some immediate effects of the war were :It left behind a generation of Europeans that were killed or wounded. ... There was an entire generation of Europeans lost. ... The World War continued to haunt the future generations, it helped ignite one of the most significant events of the 20th century such as the Russian Revolution. ...

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Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ... "The laboratory, which may Kanellis 4 represent the nation's military-industrial complex, is blamed for not only contaminating the environment but also breaking the chain of family tradition, the hunting culture that has been passed from generation to generation" (Anaya, Rudolfo, 487). ...

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