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    Youth at War The reader immediately recognizes the youthful idealism Dana Sachs describes in her analysis of Le Minh Khue ’s short story "The Distant Stars." Khue ’s short story is an account of three girls who reminisce about childhood joys in their beloved Hanoi as they go about the dangerous business of filling craters and detonating bombs along a trail. The teenage girls‚ Nho‚ Thao‚ and the narrator Dinh‚ are filled with such idealistic and patriotic zeal that the constant threat of death

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    When Fowler first meets Pyle he involuntarily likes him. He is quiet (unlike most of the Americans that Fowler comes into contact with)‚ thoughtful‚ and naive. Pyle’s intentions in Vietnam are ernest: “He was determined – I learned very soon – to do good‚ not to any individual person‚ but to a country‚ a continent‚ a world.” (Greene 32) Pyle is obsessed with an author called York Harding‚ an American who writes about the virtues of democracy and especially about a “third force” in Vietnam. The third

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    hard fact of life. George faces various challenges throughout the novel‚ and Steinbeck¡¯s vivid descriptions made his character come to life. George¡¯s distinguishing personality traits which he displays in the book are compassion‚ cleverness and idealism. George¡¯s compassion played a major role in helping him overcome his challenges. Shooting Lennie for George is a difficult task for they had shared so much together‚ but he‚ is as aware of the necessity of Lennie¡¯s untimely demise as much as

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    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herm.-J. Blanke International Organizations Winter 2008/09 W ORKING PAPER 02 Theories of International Organizations (The realist‚ institutionalist and idealist school) The realist school Classical realism (Carr 1964; Morgenthau 1993) starts from the premise that the state is not only the major‚ decisive actor in international politics but also one that is unified and self-contained. Thus‚ in realist analyses of international politics societal actors are left out‚ as are

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    following: Idealism is perhaps the oldest system of philosophy. From ancient times until the modern era‚ idealism has been a dominant philosophical influence‚ and even though that influence has waned at times‚ it is still a major philosophy and stands as an alternative to our contemporary materialist culture. Generally‚ idealists believe that ideas are the only true reality. Idealist starts with idea and ends with a thing. Idealism deals with ‘mind and self. Idea is the real thing. Idealism applies

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    In American Shaolin‚ Matt‚ the main character has a defining characteristic of being idealistic. To be idealistic one has to be merely honest. The concept of idealism is to act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form. This idealism is rapidly seen in first chapter of book one‚ Matt develops a list of things wrong with him‚ he annotates the following‚ “Things that are wrong with Matt: 1.Ignorant 2.Cowardly 3.Still a boy/not a man 4.Unattractive to the opposite sex 5.Spiritually confused

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    in which different artists and literatus expressed themselves and the way they viewed the world around them. Romanticism is evident in many forms like paintings‚ music‚ dance‚ literature‚ and poetry. In this paper I will be describing to you the idealism of romanticism in these specific forms; literature‚ dance‚ and paintings. In this paper I will show you that romanticism is something that was set before our time and yet still very profound in this time. Romanticism concerning literature could

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    harsh realities of war and fighting. They began to see war from a new perspective. Erich Maria Remarque said‚ "The ’boys’ may have escaped the shells but he war destroyed their lives." The German soldiers suffered an emotional transformation from idealism to disillusionment throughout the course of the movie. German soldiers were extremely excited to head off to war in the beginning of what would be the most emotional journey of their lives. They had been programmed to believe by society

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    The corrupt and ignorant society that has shaped the world today can either be ignored by those who follow in the footsteps of the diminishing culture‚ or noticed and opposed by those who encounter the “real world” and seek to remove themselves from it. Materialistic matters can blind those who obsess over a perfect society‚ leading people farther away from a natural truth. Though he grew up in a household that worshipped materialistic items on top of lavish‚ temporary objects‚ Christopher McCandless

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    In this world‚ there are many attitudes towards life that one can possess. This attitude can range from nihilism to ignorant idealism depending on the human being. The works entitled "Dead Poets’ Society" and "The Catcher in the Rye" hold a variety of stances on life. However‚ the novel‚ "The Catcher in the Rye" mainly paints the mind-set of idealism because it is about an adolescent named Holden Caulfield who is highly idealistic. The novel goes on to tell about how Holden cognizes that the reality

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