section of the Treaty of Versailles is Article 231‚ famously known as the ‘War Guilt Clause’. Amos Hershey apprises the popular German opinion of the time stating‚ “The acknowledgement of guilt in Article 231 [of the Treaty of Versailles] seems to me like a smarting wound which burns in the soul of the German people" (653-654). The War Guilt Clause blinded the Germans with anger and pushed them towards Hitler’s intent for war. Although the Treaty of Versailles is responsible for the economic instability
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countries. War reparations were created to lock down Germany’s economy so it could never recover‚ which in turn lead to the great depression. Because the Treaty of Versailles caused the great depression‚ it allowed Hitler and the Nazis to take advantage of The War Guilt Clause was a significant political factor that took place from the treaty of Versailles. It forced Germany to take the blame for causing the first war‚ and that it had fix what was caused. While the Aliens considered the Clause a mundane
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should have been represented in the Treaty of Versailles and the War Guilt Clause should have been left out. One quote I have always admired was “forgive but not forget.” The allied nations did not forgive at all. The War guilt put all the blame on an already deprived germany. The war left land destroyed‚ families torn‚ and the economy in europe devastated. The pressure of chaos and anarchy was on all European countries backs. The War Guilt relieved the pressure off of the allies‚ but made the life of
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The alleged misunderstandings were that the War Guilt Clause was to prevent Germany from any counter-arguments and asking for reimbursement. However‚ it was later associated with Germany and its "war guilt". This illustrates that "In politics‚ perception is reality" because despite the true purpose of the War Guilt Clause‚ the perceptions of the Allied nations of Germany’s role in World War I became reality for them. Not only did it become reality‚ it completely altered their perception and believed
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CLAUSES Seminar paper Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. Independent clauses 3 2.1 Declarative clauses 4 2.2 Interrogative clauses 4 2.3 Exclamative clauses…………………………………………………………………………….. 6 2.4 Imperative clauses 6 2.5 Non-clausal material 7 3. Finite dependent clauses 7 3.1 Complement clauses 7 3.2 Adverbial clauses 8 3.3 Relative clauses 8 3.4 Comparative clauses 9 3.5 Peripheral clauses 9 4. Non-finite
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CLAUSE A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. Some clauses are dependent: they can’t stand alone and need an independent clause‚ or sentence‚ to support them. These dependent clauses can be used in three ways: as adjectives‚ as adverbs and as nouns. This article focuses on noun clauses. NOUN CLAUSE A noun clause is a dependent clause that acts as a noun. Noun clauses most often begin with the subordinating conjunction that. Other words that may begin a noun clause are if
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ADJECTIVE CLAUSES/ Relative Clauses An adjective clause is a subordinate (dependent)` clause used as an adjective. Like single-word adjectives‚ adjective clauses describe and modify nouns. The following relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses. Who refers only to persons. The man is a police officer. He lives next door. The man who lives next door is a police officer. Whom is the objective form of who and refers only to persons. He is one police officer. I respect him very much
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The Guilt 1. present the text (genre‚ title‚ author‚ year of publishing) The Guilt is a short story written by Rayda Jacobs‚ it was written in 2001 2. short plot summary (exam: approx 5 lines max‚ now: may be longer) Lillian is an old widow who lives alone in South Africa on a big property surrounded by ten feet high wall. She has two Alsatian guard dogs. One day a young man‚ William comes to her gate asking her for a donation. She gives him money‚ but he insists on working for the money. She
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“Guilt” and “This Day in History” – A Comparison In her lyric‚ free verse poem “Guilt”‚ Leona Gom creates a powerful and clear connection between her readers and an emotion that they are all familiar with—guilt. The simple one-word title offers a straightforward preview of the subject of this piece and implies the associated meanings that the term carries—a heaviness‚ a weight‚ a burden. The poem is structured in two stanzas – the first one establishing ways in which guilt infiltrates
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Exercise on Relative Clauses (Contact clauses) 1 Relative clauses - defining or non-defining? Study the situations and then decide whether the following relative clauses are defining or non-defining. defining – no commas non-defining – commas 1. I have three brothers. [pic] My brother who lives in Sidney came to see me last month. [pic] My brother‚ who lives in Sidney‚ came to see me last month. 2. I have one sister. [pic] My sister who is 25 years old spent her holiday
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