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    enemies causing war to happen. The Alliance system was when the leaders wanted to make treaties with other countries to expand their power. For example the Three Emperors’ League (1873 Ger‚ A-H‚ Rus.)‚ Dual Alliance (1879 Ger. & A-H)‚ and the Triple Alliance (1882 Ger‚ A-H‚ It). Imperialism only made Colonial Rivalries in Africa worse (1914). Mass politics was used to make people join the war and help fight for their country. They used Intellectual Context in such a way they made the war look good

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    described as propaganda. Wartime propaganda was made to lure people into contributing to the war in different ways. Propaganda takes on many different forms. Movies would be shown to people in movie theaters. Brochures were handed out to people walking by on the streets or in crowded places. There weir public speakers at gatherings or public meetings. Statements would be announced on the radio about the war. People would go to the movie theaters to watch the news and they would see newsreels. Posters

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    novel focusing on Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. The novel shows the physical and mental traumas inflicted by the war on the soldiers. Apart from the main war‚ the novel also addresses the internal ’wars ’ in Britain‚ based on class‚ gender‚ father and son relationships‚ the ’sane ’ and the ’insane ’‚ the soldiers and the civilians. While men aspired to gain glory from war and become heroes‚ Regeneration effectively conveys that not all of war was glorious .The horrible mental

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    “In pre-war times‚ this outpost was considered the most remote on Earth. Situated near the planets southern geomagnetic pole‚ atop the four-kilometer ice crust of Lake Vostok‚ temperatures here have been recorded at a world record negative eighty-nine degrees Celsius‚ with highs rarely reaching above negative twenty two. This extreme cold‚ and the fact that overland transport takes over a month to reach the station were what made Vostok so attractive to Breckinridge “Breck” Scott.”(Brooks 55). There

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    War of the Worlds’ novel illustrates the occurring situation in detail. War of the Worlds’ 1938 radio adaptation offers the listener a sense of being present while the chaotic events occur. The collection of distressed voices heard during the radio adaptation instill fear of the unknown‚ before figuring out the contents of the cylinder. Chapter Four provides the reader with frightened side characters and the possible death of one. They don’t back away immediately‚ though. Instead‚ they move once

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    Stave September 29‚ 2008 Casablanca The movie‚ Casablanca‚ based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick’s‚” still captivates audiences around the world. This movie was a pleasurable afternoon of great movie watching. The setting of the movie is Casablanca‚ Morocco during the Second World War. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America. I think that all four factors of a setting have an affect on this story. The temporal factor‚ along with the

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    opposition‚ from the use of their snipers and bomb shells. The idea of trenches was not an original idea for the war‚ before the 1st world war it was used in the US civil war‚ and other wars close to the time. “Trench war fair” in World war 1 was said to have started in 1914 in september and ended in 1918 when the Allies had a large attack on the enemy. Massive armies in 1914 continuously fought the war‚ and during that time many trenches were built just for protection and to home soldiers‚ until the day when

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    Wilfred Owen 1 ) To this day Owen is thought of as the lead­ing poet of World War I. 2 ) Owen’s poetry was on the hor­rors of WWI‚ espe­cially trench war­fare and gas warfare. 3 ) Owen’s poetry dates back to 1903 when he was 10 years old. 4 ) The poetry Owen wrote was influ­enced by Keats and Shel­ley. Later on‚ his friend and fel­low poet Siegfried Sas­soon also had a pro­found effect on Owen’s poetic voice. 5 ) Owen never saw his own worked pub­lished other then two magazines. 6

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    I. History of Poland After the Partitions of Poland (1772-1795)‚ which had decreased the size of the country‚ giving most of the land to Russia‚ Prussia‚ and Austria-Hungary. The First World War provided a practical chance for Poland to restore its independence. The powers‚ which had separated the country more than one hundred years earlier‚ were fighting on opposite sides. Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the Central Powers) fought Imperial Russia allied with France and Great Britain

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    courage to fight the super power of the world and take charge of an unstable colony. Patriotism gave him courage. Patriotism is why America leads the world. Men and women have a deep will to work and succeed. This disease is why Neil Armstrong stepped onto uncertain ground. He wanted to show the world that his nation had accomplished something no other had. He took the leap onto the moon to prove his patriotism. In the Second World War‚ there was a shortage of workers

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