... the harmful effects of stress. Some of the symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, sleep abnormalities, extreme distress resulting from personal "triggers", and emotional detachment, but symptoms vary from case to case (Wikipedia online). Memorable film footage documenting shell-shock cases at Craiglockhart hospital showed the extreme fits patients would fall into. One man had such a great convulsion while sitting in his chair ... people either. It is estimated that about 9% of those exposed to traumatic conditions will experience some symptoms and 30% of those that suffer will go on t...

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... her humiliation and swore revanche against Germany, "The war embittered Franco-German relations for decades to come, contributing to the European rivalries which would erupt in World War 1" (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War) The next major conflict was the Moroccan Crisis in 1905 caused again by economic rivalries. Germany was upset of French dominance of Morocco, so the ... ...

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... home. His joy and relief are such that he cannot speak; he can only weep (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 140). When he and his mother greet each other, he realizes immediately that he has nothing to say to her: "We say very little and I am thankful that she asks ... son's lingering death. Moreover, in this conversation, we see Baumer rejecting yet another one of the traditional society's foundations: religious orthodoxy. He assures Kemmerich's mother that her son "'died immediately. He felt absolutely nothing at all. His face was quite calm'" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 160). Frau Kemmerich does...

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... their home in the Hoboken shipping port situated across the Hudson River from New York City. Her father ran a thriving law practice in Hoboken while her mother, a former librarian, raised Dorothea and her younger brother, Henry Martin. At a young age, Dorothea's grandmother, Sophie Lange, was convinced her granddaughter ... as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She spent hours poring through books of photography and art and hung copies of...

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... their home in the Hoboken shipping port situated across the Hudson River from New York City. Her father ran a thriving law practice in Hoboken while her mother, a former librarian, raised Dorothea and her younger brother, Henry Martin. At a young age, Dorothea's grandmother, Sophie Lange, was convinced her granddaughter ... as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She spent hours poring through books of photography and art and hung copies of...

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... was once a madman and a po-litical genius. Adolf Hitler was born on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1889, in the Austrian village of Braunau. Hitler's mother Klara Polzl was a nice simple girl, twenty-three years younger than her husband, Alois Schicklgruber. Klara was the maid to Alois's children when she got pregnant by ... out at age sixteen. Hitler had only spent ten years in school. Adolf was inspired to paint, it let him be a different person with his creativity. His mother, who had a lot of faith in him becoming a artist, gave him enough money to go to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Wh...

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... was once a madman and a po-litical genius. Adolf Hitler was born on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1889, in the Austrian village of Braunau. Hitler's mother Klara Polzl was a nice simple girl, twenty-three years younger than her husband, Alois Schicklgruber. Klara was the maid to Alois's children when she got pregnant by ... out at age sixteen. Hitler had only spent ten years in school. Adolf was inspired to paint, it let him be a different person with his creativity. His mother, who had a lot of faith in him becoming a artist, gave him enough money to go to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Wh...

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... vowed solemnly to Weary that he would find and kill Billy Pilgrim. When the scalding water turns on, Billy leaps back to when he was an infant. His mother has just finished giving him a bath. He then leaps forward to a Sunday game of golf, played with three other optometrists. Then, he leaps in time ... things he saw and did in the war. He is the man who introduces Billy to the science fiction of Kilgore Trout. Billy is enduring one of his mother's dreaded visits. She is a simple, religious woman. She makes Billy feel worse just by being there. Billy leaps back in time to the POW camp. ...

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... get involved with the war, or get out of my house". When the news breaks, Jim's father all of a sudden becomes his biggest fan, however, Jim's mother is less then ecstatic about her son's decision. In Hearts of the World, a 1918 film, there are also examples of how patriotic men were promoted and acknowledged. This ... a woman to do so. As the film progresses, the two most important women in Boy's life, his mother and Girl, are clearly pro-war. While on her death bed, believing that her eldest son is dead, Boy's mother's last words to her younger sons are "be brave". In this statement, s...

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... was born he was baptized Roman Catholic. Adolf's father, Alois, was now 52 years old. Throughout Adolf's early life his mother feared losing him, even though he was very healthy. His mother lavished him with an abundance of care and affection. Adolf had the nickname of Adi and when he was five-years-old in ... 1893, his mother gave birth to a brother, Edmund. Then in 1896 she gave birth to a sister, Paula ("The Rise of Hitler"). In May of 1895, ... former teachers and neighbors viewed him as a lazy uncooperative student only interested in reading fictitious books and drawing. Adolf was a...

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... spread her legs, she did both without argument. She was then stabbed in her vagina until the bayonets came through her neck. The prime minister's husband and mother were also killed; her kids did manage to escape (Berry 14). "We were pretending to be dead. They took stones and smashed the heads of the ... pulled them out and finished them off . They killed my family. I saw them kill my papa and my brother, but I did not see what happened to my mother."" --Valentina Iribagiza, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda(Hentoff 36) "They took one person out of the group and cut off his head....

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... by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. He time-travels to 1965. Billy is now forty-one years old visiting his mother in a nursing home. He blinks and finds himself at his son's Little League banquet in 1958. He blinks again and opens his eyes at a party ... shower. Among the prisoners is Edgar Derby, a forty-four year old teacher from Indianapolis. When the water comes, Billy time-travels to his infancy. His mother has just given him a bath. Then he is a middle-aged optometrist playing golf with three other optometrists. He sinks a putt, bends down to pick it ... next...

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... work: That night he came home and cried his heart out. My father was no coward, but had been reluctant to leave his family. He was thirty-four and my mother, who had two young children, had been suffering from a serious illness. Soon after this incident my father joined the army." Another argument against the white feathers came from a Compton McKenzie ... looking at this poster was to show the sacrifice that women were making also throughout the war. It would seem to show a mother and her young daughter who is probably not that long married, both have sacrificed love the mother her hus...

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... or their breasts chopped off. "Comfort women" were kept as sex slaves in wood cabins to service the Japanese soldiers throughout the day. In one incident, a mother, two teenage daughters, and a one year old baby were raped in their own home. The family was raped and killed on their own tables and beds. When ... or their breasts chopped off. "Comfort women" were kept as sex slaves in wood cabins to service the Japanese soldiers throughout the day. In one incident, a mother, two teenage daughters, and a one year old baby were raped in their own home. The family was raped and killed on their...

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... Alois Schickelgruber (who later adopted the last name Hitler) and Klara Hitler. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth, who was described by a maid as a strict but comfortable man. His mother Klara was a simple housewife who loved her son dearly, and for good reason. Young Adolf Hitler was the first of his three would be siblings to survive. One died shortly ... years later in 1905 Hitler himself suffered from a less severe case of lung disease from which he fully recovered. He used the medical mishap as an excuse to convince his mother to let him drop out of school (Heyes ...

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... parents. During this period of courtship orcalling?, women held the power over courtship. The entire calling system was controlled and regulated by women and took place in their sphere.? The mother would decide which men could call on her daughter, and later the daughter could invite men she had met at dinners and dances. It was considered very inappropriate for a man ... to force his attention on a lady by initiating contact. The young man was only allowed to pay a call if the mother of the young woman or the young woman openly invited him to pay the call. Beth L. Bailey, author of Fro...

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... the duration" because products using rubber or cloth were not readily available to those at home at that time. Many children felt the effects due to the fact that their mother's were now working in factories on war supplies. Books were printed with narrow margins and small spaces between lines of print to conserve paper. Everyone saved their pennies and bought ... a blue star was changed for a gold one when a visit from a Service Representative informed a family that their loved one had paid the supreme sacrifice for his country, and then a mother became a "Gold Star Mother." But, despi...

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... Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the ... young boy to Tiflis to work alongs side him in a shoe factory. Vissarion, Stalins father wanted this to be a permanent career for his son, but his mother intervened and succeeded in bringing her son home to Gori. Thereaf...

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... on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children, Ida and Gustav. However they both died in infancy. Adolf attended school at the age of six and his family lived ... didn't work to help out the family or formally study. Nevertheless, he gained an interest in history and politics as well. Alois Hitler died when Hitler was 13 and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. Klara died when Hitler ...

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... . Il rapporto affettivo che lo tiene legato diventerà sempre più per il giovane una catena fisica e psicologica, condizionandolo fino a rovinargli completamente l'esistenza. Later in his life, Lawrence felt that his mother had prejudiced him against his father and against the working class. He grew to believe that people like his father had a vital, whole personality that was lacking in middle-class ... a vivid symbol of social and class shifts as a result of the war. Increasingly, in Lawrence's work, death comes to be associated with genteel culture, the middle-class world of his moth...

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... and with it being an empire of non-integration, the aim was to rule over a colony that did not have to be allied with the culture and traditions of the Mother country itself. With this, it is understandable as to how nationalist leaders could easily influence the colony to break away from the imperial rule since the British were lenient with ... the progressive system of self-government in the colonies and to the decolonisation process in which British control was still maintained but, had no direct influence however, still remaining the Mother of the Empire and Commonwealth. Ceylon is ...

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... war. Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. Jeanne had a typical American middle class childhood; her father owned a small fishing boat and her mother worked in a cannery. She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. Jeanne ... war. Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. Jeanne had a typical American middle class childhood; her father owned a small fishing...

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... Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the ... murderous, extreme. In order to combat the Nazi threat, Stalin was forced to draw on nationalism of his own, as he turned World War II into a "Great Patriotic War" for "Mother Russia," an idea totally antithetical to Marxist ide...

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... . It arrived at 1:56 pm, six hours too late. But why would Roosevelt want Japan to attack Pearl Harbor? In order to be reelected in 1940, Roosevelt promised the American mother and fathers: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again and again, your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign war." Roosevelt ... word for it...ask any of the 3,581 innocent victims that died that infamous day in December. Bibliography A. DeWeerd, H.A. "Pearl Harbor Disaster." Collier's Encyclopedia. 1991 ed. B. Willey, Mark. "Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies." Online....

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... abused their portion of Germany. They did not want the influence of westerns and also they were stripping the land of all available resources and sending them back to the mother country. In essence their part of Germany was a colony to the Russians. The Russians made a move that many people still cant not believe. That action was the building of the ... 12, 1961 the building of the Berlin Wall started. This wall "destroyed virtually all contact between members of the same families, close friends, sometimes even between husband and wife and mother and sons" of those who were on opposite ...

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