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    World War I, also known as the Great War, was a war of courage, glory, and selflessness. A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a recollection of his war experiences. The protagonist, an American Lieutenant named Fredric Henry, struggles to find the middle ground between his affair with the beautiful and radiant Catherine Barkley and pursuing heroism in the Great War. The lovers’ lives are turned upside-down once they realize they are infatuated with each other. Like Lieutenant Henry

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    Dissertation Rationale Why this particular Project? The topic I have chosen for my dissertation is “Dundee Fc and Dundee Hibernian The Impact and implications of World war one.” I intend to look at the Primary impact of the war if there were men that fought and look at if they were impacted by specific events during the war. Looking at similarities of between other football clubs such as the “Hearts of Midlothian or McCrays battalion”. I have chosen this topic because it is a subject that I

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    The Effect of the First World War on the Well Being of British Civilians When constructing an essay based upon the impact that the First World War had upon the wellbeing of British civilians, we primarily have to distinguish how, and with what criteria we will use to judge a Nations health standard and wellbeing. Throughout this essay, it is my aim to evaluate all of the different primary and secondary material available on the topic. Hopefully, this will provide

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    W.B Yeats wrote “Second Coming” which had reflected the effects of world war one and another war poet known as Welfred Owen wrote the poem ‘1914” which also discussed about the world war one which broke out in 1914. These poems had evoked the theme of fall of civilization and chaos in the world specially the European countries who were involved in the war. Both the Irish poets blamed the greed and irrational acts of the people whose immoral deeds had ensued in the inception of great destruction

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    From July 28th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918 World War One, also known as "The Great War," was fought. Over 19.7 million soldiers were injured. The youngest person to join the war was a 12-year-old British boy. Both In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway and Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy have to do with World War One. In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway is about wounded soldiers receiving a type of physical therapy, the narrator describes how he does not think of himself as a

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    World War One was a time of death, destruction and was in general a conflict of monumental proportions. However, as the cliché goes, there is a silver lining to every storm cloud. In the case of the Great War, the silver lining refers to the great leaps forward made in women's empowerment and involvement in society because of the advent of the war, which forced them into positions previously never considered by either gender. World War One provided women with the perfect opportunity to demonstrate

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    In the scientific world, sound has been used for many purposes. One of them is to find the depth of the sea using sound waves. Similarly, in the world of literature, sound or music is used to convey the deeper meaning of the writing. It takes the reader to a different level of understanding, which brings out the reality behind the words. Sound plays an important role in one’s life, and so it does in literature. Without sound or music, the literature cannot be properly expressed because it is lacking

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    A museum is a great way to preserve items and history for the future generations to learn and gain knowledge of the past. Similarly, on my visit with the honor’s class to the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial at Kansas City, I gained a valuable knowledge about the World War 1. The overall message that the museum convey about the Great War was to remember and appreciate the soldiers, men and women who served in World War 1. There was so many visual images all around the Museum that gave a better

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    his crew are seasoned soldiers who appear to have become numb and accustomed to the hardships, disease, and death. They fight to survive the skirmishes only to retire after a fight to realize that the reality of life is like a skeleton. In between battles, Baümer describes how the men find ways to entertain themselves and pass the time. Killing mice, playing cards, sneaking out to see the French women across the river are some of

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    In the 19th century, transcendentalism -- a religious and philosophical movement that developed during the late 1820s and '30s as a protest against the general state of spirituality and, in particular, the state of intellectualism -- was most ubiquitous. As time moved into the late 19th century and early 20th century, the transcentalistic time period evolved into the realism and modernism-- a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching

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