... , and he had to be dragged back onto his feet. Another patient walking across the courtyard could only move slowly, his head thrashing up and down wildly. Yet another man's fits of jerking and twitching were so bad that it seemed some wild demon had possessed his mind. (The Century) Shell-shocked men might scream hysterically or laugh hysterically, might be frozen as if ... " Family Health 1468) When doctors finally realized that the disease was an emotional one, they returned to the idea of blaming the patients. Instead of speaking of the disease in medical terms it became known as a dis...

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... violence has always been a part of our human existence. It has been said that this is just human nature to destroy each other in a time of war. One theory behind this is that violent behavior is imbedded in humans because ancestors of humans were wild animals and humans have evolved to their present state as "sophisticated" beings. Yet the basic animal instinct is to kill ... in a time of war to protect themselves and their nation. There are those who are conscience objectors to war and killing their own species. These Pacifists ... Section and Hill 76) In the last part of the paper is...

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... still we can reasonably fear it.""9 The storm in this case was the war which left people in such a shock that they looked upon the future with great apprehension and uneasiness. The soldiers that served in the war were hit especially hard by the horror of war. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . [and] crouching like cats ... we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turning us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils.""10 The soldiers that managed ...

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