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...bloodletting, the site has also become an important educational tool for some U.S. university students. Christopher White, assistant professor of Latin American history at Marshall University in West Virginia, has brought students to El Salvador for the past four years, and says the Route of Peace has had a profound impact on them. "The students become immersed in the civil war, which means that they leave informed about the ability of our government to determine whether people will live or die at the hands of our allies in poor countries. They talk to former refugees who fled the scorched-earth...
...presentation proved to be moving as Gates described the profound loss of his mother who he attributes much of his success...
...these bizarre elements combine to form the profound “Attempts on Her Life,” which asks some of the most prevalent questions of the modern world in the most uncommon ways...
...want. Obviously we need food and shelter, but we classify other items as "needs" as well. What is a need, really? We have physical and emotional needs. There is a relationship between material stuff and emotional sense of satisfaction. A material thing could have (and often does have) a profound influence on our daily lives, and can be defined as a need...
Beevor is not a writer much given to profound reflection. His big-picture take on D-day could be summed up as, It could have gone better, but it's amazing that they did it at all. Yet with its rigorous research and its wealth of human detail, D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women. Which is serious praise...