The new respect could bring more rights and a better life after the war for all Native Americans. ... Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. ... She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. ... Much like Jeanne, the bombing of Pearl Harbor changed Ira Hay's quiet life in Arizona. ... Jeanne and her family lived in squalor and made do with the few remaining possessions they had. ...

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REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created himself. ... THEMES In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Harry himself regards his life as a failure. ... Always have courage and face your fears in life is the lesson from "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber-. ... Later on Macomber has the chance to live up to his fears again which he does, by facing a buffalo and his wife (when he realized she was in Wilson's tent one night). You may not always know one's true background and what is really happening in their life. ...

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Time goes by, we gradually lost our patience about our life. ... There was a tippler lived in the third planet the little prince visited. ... The most precious thing in life always be the uncountable thing. ... "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.... So they lived alone, they had no one to talk and became busy every day, doing some so called ma...

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The shadow of blood and death darkens their life. ... Nevertheless, perhaps the past is too heavy a burden, perhaps life is too daunting to live; he at last consciously chooses to take the transorbital lobotomy rather than live soberly in the world. ... Even if where they live is as crude as a cell in prison, the door guarded and the only window barred, they do not want to get out. ... However, this action leads to such a sad fact that he was excluded by both nations and had no sense of belonging for his entire life. His sorrow and grief are the permanent theme of his music, as if it is an acc...

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Cummings" early life inspired his writing from his college days all the way until his last words. ... Despite popular belief of the United State's post-World War One nationalism, soldiers didn't live a picturesque, glorious life. ...

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For the rest of Stalin's childhood, Joseph and Yekaterina lived in the home of a priest named Father Charkviani where the hard-working woman attempted to make sure that her only son would be educated enough to escape the drudgery of a lower class life. ... The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. ... Thereafter his father was never a strong presence in Stalin's life. ... Smallpox had left Stalins face scarred and pitted for the rest of his life, and a case of blood poisoning caused his left arm to grow shorter tha...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. ... If only a small portion of the worldwide military spending was diverted to other places where it would be needed most, the world would be a better place to live. ...

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Adolf attended school at the age of six and his family lived in several different villages around the town of Linz, east of Braunau. By this time Adolf had a young brother who lived until the age of six. ... He continued to live in places such as youth hostels full of prostitutes, cranks, outcasts, and transients. ... Being gassed during a British attack had a significant impact on Hitler's life. ... He then made a statement that would forever change his life and the lives of people throughout the world...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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They lived a happy and stable life until they were claimed to be "capitalists and therefore enemies of the people." ... Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. ... (Kimel) People were treated as though they weren't human and didn't deserve to live on the earth. ...

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But on the battlefield, the DEROS date was revered and looked upon as a day that will take everything from the war away, and life would return to normal (Goodwin 1989). ... Those with the shortest time left in the country were praised by others and would lead their peers on a fantasy excursion of how wonderful and carefree life would be as soon as they returned home. ...

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The German Nazi or National Socialist political party was the platform used by Adolf Hitler to create a dictatorship that would, in one decade cause the German people enormous misery and shame. This fanatical political system was to gain popularity in the Old German Empire that was defeated in Wo...

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Many of the reforms were resented by the Boers who had become accustomed to their way of life, especially those who lived deep in the interior. ... In 1890 Kruger's government restricted the Uitlanders vote for presidential elections to only naturalized citizens who had lived in the republic for fourteen years. ...

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There was very little done by the Jewish communities to help their brethren, and their feeble attempts were not supported by the nations in which they lived. ... The details related here disclose a grotesque flaw in historical character, it brings to light the complete disregard for human life which nations harbored. ... There was very little done by the Jewish communities to help their brethren, and their feeble attempts were not supported by the nations in which they lived. ...

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As married couples sought out a life independent of kinship by moving to centers of community where employment allowed them to make a better life for themselves the good provider emerged as a predominately male role. ... This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... Because masculinity was tied to the ability to be a good provider, a man's status in the community was also tied to this assumption causing him to spend more time at work than he might possibly have done had his job not been expected to be the most...

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After the destruction of New York's Twin Towers, most people who live in westernized countries have taken a viewpoint that Muslims, in general, are anti-American, vengeful, devious and dangerous. ... Although non-Islamic people groups have legitimate reasons for suspecting Muslims of a unified hatred for the United States, the facts point to a different conclusion: the average Muslim is not a terrorist or resentful of those who live in a free society. ... Granted, that was in the past, and the actions of the U.S. to end the Japanese attack on the U.S. in World War II can't really b...

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Arizona and the U.S.S Utah remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, also, they are both reminders of seemingly how easily the attack was carried out and of how America, the world's big brother and perhaps the most powerful nation in the history of the world, was caught with 'its guard down.' The attacks are also similar in that, generally, those who lived through them divide time: time before the attack and time after. ... Both attacks were turning points in American history; they ...

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The industrial revolution was such a turning point in history because almost every aspect of daily life was affected in one way or another. ... Before the Internet, if someone wanted to see a musical they would have to buy tickets, and see it live. ...

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With the production rate growing exponentially, the automobile was taking over the way Americans live. ... Businessmen of all different backgrounds and ideas saw this new approach on life, and took the diner as a way of harnessing that ideology and creating a place that was both public friendly and profitable. ...

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"The Silent One," 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). ...

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Men lived and fought in trenches dug in the ground. ... Robbed of all humanity and courage and everything else that makes life worth living, really, they descended to something less than human." ... Septimus relived the moment in his life when his best friend was blown to pieces by an artillery shell. ...

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Question Why did the European Empires collapse in such a short amount of time? Response When studying the history of the European Empires, it must be assessed as to why they collapsed in such a short amount of time. This essay will give detailed analysis on the reasons that contributed towards their downfall such as the rise in nationalism, the Second World War and arguably the First World War, the rise of the US and other such factors. By analysing these factors, a clear and concise argument shall be given as to why these empires collapsed in such a short amount of time. One factor that mus...

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Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life, in 1916, this disability will prevent him from joining the Russian army). Nevertheless, he is described as having been in excellent physical shape as a teenager; throughout much of his life he was muscular and well built. ...

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The stories The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies, through their dark, hopeless, and horrible descriptions of life, present the common theme that man, at his heart, is an evil, violent, and "fallen- being. ... During the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth Century many westerners believed that they lived in a society governed by ultimate views of law, democracy and religion.... Conrad lived during the Age of Colonization, in which the various European nations colonized large parts of the world, including huge chunks of Africa. ...

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Roosevelt talked about in his speech statements about Germany's plans to engulf the world during World War II: " The Nazi masters of Germany have made if clear that they intend not only to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Europe and then to use the resources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world."" ... America lived by that precedent until World War I when the US felt it was legitimate to mediate the situation in Europe. ... The Depression made life even worse for the Germans who had a difficult time rebuilding after the war. ...

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