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    percent was his personality making him survive. No matter what camp Louie was at he wanted the same things‚ food‚ to see his family‚ and the War to end. In Chapter twenty-eight‚ Louie was hurt‚ his ankle badly tore and he could no longer work. When the POWs in the camp could not work their food rations were to be cut in half. That‚ Louie could not have‚ so he begged for work‚ he ended up cleaning a pig’s cage without any proper tools. This proved that Louie would be willing to dig through pig feces‚ just

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    very important. Louie held endurance and needed it his entire life. In the novel of Unbroken‚ Louie does not have a part where he does not use it‚ such as his childhood‚ his olympic training‚ his time in the army‚ his time on the raft‚ his time as a POW‚ and his time with his new family. Endurance is highlighted throughout Laura Hillenbrand’s masterpiece‚ and manages to find unique ways of importance. Endurance is something more than ability to continue in a race or workout‚ endurance is about pushing

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    manly cowboy rides in on a horse‚ aiming his revolver at the villain’s head. POW! It’s hunting season. The deer hunter in his deer stand patiently waits for the right buck to carelessly wander under his deer feeder‚ then aligns his scope on the buck’s head. POW! It’s a dark city night. The members of the Bloods gang meet in a local park when rival gang Crips’ Cadillac pulls up with the window down and a Glock showing. POW! Why is it that something so closely associated with the death and killing

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    movie is three hours long and the first third of the movie takes place in Pennsylvania to introduce the situation. Only about 40 minutes of it took place in Vietnam. Only five minutes of that involved a war seen‚ 20 minutes of it took place in a POW camp where the characters are forced to play Russian roulette against each other‚ and the rest on the streets of Saigon. The last third of the movie involves Michael‚ played by Robert DeNiro‚ going back home alone to his old life. At the end‚ he goes

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    Camp Algona An often forgotten aspect of the home front‚ the United States detained more than 400‚000 Axis prisoners in rural camps during the war. According to the provisions as agreed upon by the Geneva Convention‚ POWs could work if they received pay and their employment did not contribute directly to the war effort. To help alleviate the severe shortage of workers in the United States‚ tens of thousands of the former enemy combatants labored on farms and in canneries and mills.31 In the

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    smiling” ironically implies their ignorant view towards the women. This is contrasted with the projected images of “Prime Minister John Curtain…quite distressed” and “emaciated male prisoners of war‚ starving” showing his concern for the dying male POWs. This shows an existence of sexism in which Misto positions us to become aware of this issue‚ raised during wartime.

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    power of artistic form. A comparative study accentuates the distinctive contexts by the shift in perspective on the value of truth. Virginia Woolf Highlights the power of fiction to speak the truth. She’s able to encapsulate through her form‚ the linear logic of the patriarchy‚ melded with the creative feminine form of fiction‚ thus creating an incandescence of an androgynous mind. Her polemic commences with the dismantling of the male truth‚ demonstrated through her mocking tone to their “nugget

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    Can they do it? If so‚ what is the least number of moves it will take them to switch? How do you know this number is the least? If it is not possible‚ explain why not. The board looks like this: Process To solve this POW I read over exactly what it was asking and what the rules to solving it were. The easiest method to solve it was by using a picture of a 3x3 chess/checkerboard. I started out with drawing a 3x3 square and marking the positions on the board where the

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    understanding‚ and took prudent risk to succeed. The raid was conducted at a Japanese-run Prisoner of War (POW) camp beside the small town of Pangatian; it is now more commonly referenced by its proximity the larger Cabanatuan city‚ in central Luzon. The following events took place during World War II‚ from planning on

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    courageous‚ and easily gave up through hardship. But Louie‚ astonishingly kept on going‚ and enduring the most of it all‚ reaching to the end. This theme has its show throughout the entire story‚ from surviving crashes‚ living with sharks‚ surviving in POW (prisoner of war) camps‚ and dosed with PTSD. FOr example‚ a major event that leads Louie and some of his friends to being captivated is the Green Hornet crash in the Pacific. As Hillenbrand states‚ “Sensing the ocean coming up at the plane‚ he took

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