... seems dying. (lines 35-39) suggest that the soldiers believe that only by fighting and winning the war will innocent and goodness be restored to the world. However, the ironic ambiguity of last line, 'for love of God is dying, is Owen's way of questioning the nature of that love of God', which is supposed to inspire their civilization and justify ... the war' (Breen 184). The aforementioned lines are also Modernistic in content because of the ambiguity in the final line in the stanza. which proposes several theories that remain unanswered. The reader wonders if Owen is stating that that...

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... a rational decision in the irrational world but his existence is dependent on his decisions. In the end Holly who is naive and good natured is unable to overcome the moral ambiguity in the 20th century as illustrated through the final scene fading out into black. The darkness reflects the disenchantment of the time. This creates a discordant effect and positions the responders ... and the complexity associated with ethics in WWII. The cynical nature of the film as it begins with a symmetry and ends with a symmetry emphasis the death of ethical certainty over ambiguity. The film delibera...

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... nature and were marked by a distrustful, fatalistic view of the world. Despite their darkness, or probably because of it, they were fascinating and hugely entertaining, providing catharsis and acknowledging the ambiguity of an uncertain world. In the postwar boom years, the cynicism ran much deeper; we had been though a horrible war and won it, our enemies were vanquished, order was being ... classic film noirs reflected this. And in a way, it comforted Americans to know that they weren't alone. The primary moods of classic film noir are typically melancholy, alienation, disillusionme...

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... both novels, solidarity is lacking, concerning the cafoni and the Jews. It appears that after exploring both the texts that there is a substantial level of ambiguity concerning the portrayal of the individual and the collective. This ambiguity seems to be particularly evident in Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini. The Finzi-Contini family live separately from the rest of Ferrara and their children ... ...

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... criticism of the United Nations has been simply that, that its birth into such an insecure international forum has lead to ambiguity surrounding its existence and failure to adapt as the world progresses away from the post war conditions: "the ambiguity of its specific world role, and the failure to change that role as the world has changed." One of the fundamental ... ...

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... pray you'll never know, " in Suicide in the trenches expresses the miserable aspect of war-death, but not in the form it would be thought but rather suicide. The ambiguity adds to the fact that the soldiers families thought of them as dead in battle and praised everyone of them as heroes of war. War was not like that at ... ...

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... the actions of many early presidents. Polk sent soldiers to Mexico, Lincoln began the Civil War, and FDR assisted WWII well before a declaration of war . To combat this degree of ambiguity, the 93rd Congress of the United States passed The War Powers Act of 1973 . Among many provisions, this act mandated a 60 day period for the president to wage war. Beyond ... ...

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... the region without his expressed permission. These perceptions of the Chinese communist actions developed into the manner in which the US would respond to this aggression. In light of the ambiguity of the communists" intentions, the administration took one policy option, which allowed for several different responses to be implemented if the need arose. Eisenhower and Dulles decided not to play ... ...

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... authentic film. It also marked his first cameo appearance, which later became a trademark of his films. The theme of the film is simple; a man wrongly accused of a crime. The moral ambiguity that frames the film gives it its true Hitchcock style. Its great success launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in ... ...

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... come to him and not wanted to talk. But here at home it was all too complicated. He knew he could never get through it all again." Here is a significant ambiguity: "it all" may well connote the whole process of being and ceasing to be a lover, and "again" suggests that Krebs has been through this process before. Descriptions of Krebs' lack ... ...

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... authentic film. It also marked his first cameo appearance, which later became a trademark of his films. The theme of the film is simple; a man wrongly accused of a crime. The moral ambiguity that frames the film gives it its true Hitchcock style. Its great success launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in ... ...

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... : 28). There are undoubtedly other viewpoints. Tom Nairn stated that ""Nationalism" is the pathology of modern developmental history, as inescapable as "neurosis" in the individual, with much the same essential ambiguity attaching to it, a similar built-in capacity for descent into dementia, rooted in the dilemmas of helplessness thrust upon most of the world and largely incurable." (Nairn1981: 359.) Nairn sees ... ...

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... had not taken place. This would therefore indicate that the integration by threat' statement is a little presumptuous as they were fighting up to and beyond the period in discussion. General ambiguity, but especially from Great Britain, towards European integration makes the integration statement look misguided. Britain's interests lay with her special relationship with America, which had grown to new heights under ... ...

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... idea that religious people cannot truly call themselves people of God unless they have found love. In his poem "love is the every only god," Cummings attempts to define the ambiguity of God's identity. To achieve this, his poem melds love and God into one body of power and compassion, and not merely an icon that obligates us to attend mass ... ...

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... as effective as they would be if used in conjunction with traditional methods of conducting war. Attacks based on IW are also more difficult to plan for because of the ambiguity of the situation. How does a nation decide if it is just an isolated incidence of espionage or if it is fully engaged in an Information War? Also, as Mr. Latham ... ...

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... Owen is a brilliant use of diction, as in the simile "like a devil's sick of sin". Besides emphasizing the evil nature of the consequences of war, the comparison exploits the potential ambiguity of words. In the mentioned case, the word "sick" is one with a strong negative connotation. But this negativity can be interpreted in a physical or a mental sense; or even in both ... ...

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