... defeat in military action against Quemoy and Matsu. The defeat of a large military action campaign against Quemoy (i.e. invasion) could lead to a renewed sense of strength on the part of the Nationalists and a further strengthening of Quemoy and other offshore positions. If the PRC attempted and failed at ... State officials, that if Quemoy and Matsu were lost the road would be open to further communist aggression in the region, with a new sense of strength and superiority over the western powers, with the whole free world collapsing in 10 years from the concessions that would ensue by ....

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... enlighten those who embrace the image of wealthy Americans, E.E. Cummings wrote "Buffalo Bill," to point out American's tendency to fulfill the accepted perception of high class. From the origins of our nation, the United States has always seen the upper class as superhuman; even our fore founders ... will search for in their lives. The poem develops an image of a wind that breezes through the problems of our society, and blows a sense of truth into its witnesses. First, the poem "blows king to beggar and queen to seem," 12 and later "blow[s] friend to fiend: ... the same time, sparks ...

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... eugenics, where society or the government should intervene to assure the procreation of the strong in order to produce the "superman." Although these ideas were rather extreme, they did foster a sense of nationalism based on the idea of the superiority of a race. This is especially true concerning the alleged superiority of the Aryan race. Sigmund Freud, a contemporary of Nietzsche, contributed ... Britain, which was not a formal treaty, but rather a series of agreements which intertwined British and French interests, especially concerning defense, until after the war. At this point, it m...

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... man for whom there is still wonder in many commonly known things, a man whose judgements must be dredged out of experience and a peasant-like common sense. A man among men' (Miller 5-6). This element of Keller's nature, his lack of education, is something which appears more than once during the play ... in (Miller, 20). Chris then reads aloud the letter, which had been sent by Larry in the presence of Keller. Keller digests the sense that all the pilots killed in the crash, which he caused by supplying faulty parts to the military equals his son Larry. He dashes ... his status and enco...

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... just "a mile deep and three and a half miles wide" (official Dispatch to Haig). Source H contrasts with the other strongly patriotic, pro-war pieces, it ironically giving some humour, in a sick sense, clashing source G's "the game" (i.e. team sports e.g. rugby) with the actual feelings of the soldier towards playing as a team "My plan was to walk alone not get bunched up with the ... by the piece, in which "a pair of hands (are) stuck out from the soaked soil one hand seemingly pointing at the sky in an accusing gesture." Source I creates a rather lame sense in comparison, the war being...

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... , the father is asking the male audience how they are going to answer this in years to come. The fact the kid is asking the first question is reinforcing the sense of duty. Children are seen in this poster and they played a huge part in this type of propaganda. Often pictures of boy scouts helping out in the war were used ... "sub human" to be able to do such a thing. The motif common in such propaganda was of good versus evil. I "The British stereotype of the Hun came to personify a particular perception of the quintessential immorality of Prussian mitiliarism and provided Allied propag...

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... , and was therefore less inclined to hate the Poles.(8) This seems possible but short-sided because it does not give Hitler credit for being a masterful, if quite insane, statesman. Hitler's perception of the quality of the Polish people meant nothing, as would be seen on 1 September 1939, when compared with the power political needs of Germany. Not only the general isolation ... stellar support in Paris, and feeling itself threatened by Stalin's Russia, Poland quickly came to a settlement with Hitler. This pact may seem incredibly opportunistic for Hitler and Germany, and in a sense it ...

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... . It is so short and jumbled, he explains, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. On the way to Dresden, Vonnegut spends a night in a Boston hotel, where his perception of passing time becomes distorted, as if someone were playing with the clocks. He reads about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the bedside Gideon Bible and likens himself ... of time. His twenty-one-year-old daughter Barbara is distraught by his behavior. She arrives at his house with the newspaper in hand, unable to get Billy to talk sense. Billy describes his entry into the army, his train...

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... Berlin and other dealings with the Soviet Union. Kennedy certainly did not want to go to war, but he was fully aware of the importance of the public and worldwide perception of the crisis. If the United States succumbed to the Soviets threats and bullying, then Communism and its nation allies would triumph over the free world. On a less magnanimous level ... easily understood. Human beings are infinitely more complex and indecipherable. Unlike machines, they faltered, made unreasonable demands, and gave more consideration to their political prestige. In this struggle to make sense of th...

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