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Love and Squalor · 7 book, often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table. The training course lasted three weeks, ending on a Saturday, a very rainy one. At seven that last night, our whole group was scheduled to entrain for London, where, as rumor had it, we were to be assigned to infantry and airborne divisions mustered for the D Day landings. By three in the afternoon, I’d packed all my belongings into my barrack bag, including a canvas gas-mask container full of books I’d brought over from the Other Side. (The gas mask itself I’d slipped through a porthole of the Mauretania some weeks earlier, fully aware that if the enemy ever did use gas I’d never get the damn thing on in time.) I remember standing at an end window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking out at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger finger itching imperceptibly, if at all, I could hear behind my back the uncomradely scratching of many fountain pens on many sheets of Vmail paper. Abruptly, with nothing special in mind, I came away from the window and put on my raincoat, cashmere muffler, galoshes, woolen gloves, and overseas cap (the last of which, I’m still told, I wore at an angle all my own—slightly down over both ears). Then, after synchronizing my wristwatch with the clock in the latrine, I walked down the long, wet cobblestone hill into town. I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn’t. In the center of town, which was probably…

entire life. My fellow soldiers and I became, over time, more jealous of General Howe’s army, which, of 18000 men, was comfortably quartered in Philadelphia. Our hut, which consisted of 12 men, had no beds at all. The mud floor consisted of straw, providing an uncomfortable “bed” of sorts. I have decided to not re-enlist for three reasons which are: living conditions, disease, and family. 12000 men stayed in huts in Valley Forge in December, 1777. The men gathered around Washington were…

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The following recipe has repeatedly changed and remade over time in order to achieve the superior ingredients to create everyone’s favorite fruit pizza. My family often enjoys making the delectable dessert together. We often listen to music and dance around the kitchen consumed with laughter. My stepfather first introduced fruit pizza to me while attending a family cookout. He told my family, he made a special pizza for us. Fruit pizza, the first thought that entered my mind was pizza and fruit.…

p.101). Although there are also many worthy scientific technologies of American products and habit, many criticisms exist. During the introduction of American products and habits (Bacevich, 2012, p.38), the Chinese unavoidably received some traditions and culture of America, which will have negative effects on Chinese culture to some extent. Therefore, it is harmful for China to receive the products and habits of America indiscriminatingly. Firstly, some American TV series propagated hedonism,…

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