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This article by time highlights the horrors the American prisoners of war faced when in Japan. The POWs were constantly starved, beaten, and abused just like in Unbroken. This article gives an in depth view of the treatment of POWs and explores the reasoning behind why Japan has not apologized for it yet. Unfortunately, although attention has been drawn to this topic it is unlikely to go away as one is prone to change when given a position of power.

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The U.S. POWs Still Waiting For an Apology From Japan

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POWs are still owed an apology from the companies that ran Japanese labor camps in WWII, among them some of Japan's best-known firms.

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This ted talk explains what happened to the native Lakota people and how they are essentially prisoners of war. Their living circumstances are drastically worse than that of the average American citizen and they are limited to a small plot of land on their reservation. This shows what can happen when a person in power abuses it and how it can hurt even a whole culture.

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Transcript of "America's native prisoners of war"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson.

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This painting shows what goes on in the head of a soldier suffering from PTSD. The many thoughts crowding around in his head prevent him from focusing and often leads to a drug addiction to help relieve the thoughts. This piece of art can elevate the conversation about unbroken as we can ask why most veterans suffering from PTSD get addicted to drugs.

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my mind struggles against its own illusion
nightmare tumbles out into still morning
light is heavy,
a fog of echoes...
and I am caught
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day dreams the sunlight
dreams light the day
and I am caught in between
mourning echoes...
like a stillborn ghost
who can't take a breath in the present

This poem talks about the struggles of PTSD and how the person feels trapped. This is the same as how the main character feels in unbroken after he is released from prison. This poem elevates the conversation about the book by considering what can happen after one is mistreated by a person in power. It also can make one wonder what one can do to relieve themselves from their ptsd.

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This connection highlights what happens to one when given a position of power in a prison setting. This experiment was extremely influential in the world of psychology as well as in the justice system. I believe this experiment could explain why the prisoners of war were treated so badly. This connection expanded my understanding of my book as it changed my view of the prison guards and gave an explanation for their behavior.

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Stanford Prison Experiment | History & Facts

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Stanford Prison Experiment, a social psychology study (1971) in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment. Intended to measure the effect of role-playing, labeling, and social expectations on behavior, the experiment ended after six days due to the mistreatm…

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Laura Hillenbrand is a celebrated author with two bestselling nonfiction books. Born into a middle class family in 1967, Hillenbrand enjoyed a comfortable life up until her college years when she contracted chronic fatigue syndrome, which she is still struggling with now. she married Borden Flanagan however they divorced after 8 years. She is currently living in oregon with a new boyfriend and still writing books. I hope to learn how she deals with this illness and what motivates her to keep going.

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Laura Hillenbrand on writing, chronic fatigue syndrome and moving on

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World War two, a war involving the axis powers and the allied powers, more or less affected the entirety of the world. Taking place in the 1940s, the world fought to prevent the axis powers from taking over most of Europe. Although many talk about the great battles and sacrifices soldiers made, they mostly forget the people that suffered the most, the prisoners of war. Even though rules were made to prevent the mistreatment of prisoners, many countries ignored those rules and treated the prisoners horribly, leaving them with severe PTSD and trauma when they returned after the war. I believe the author wrote this to highlight what happens after the war and what happens to the prisoners. This could allow us to dive deeper into the book by exploring the concepts.

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September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945

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World War II, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939-45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers- Germany, Italy, and Japan-and the Allies- France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.

Along with World War I, World War II was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It resulted in the extension of the Soviet Union's power to nations of eastern Europe, enabled a communist movement to eventually achieve power in China, and marked the decisive shift of power in the world away from the states of western Europe and toward the United States and the Soviet Union.
(Read Sir John Keegan's Britannica entry on the Normandy Invasion.)

Axis initiative and Allied reaction

The outbreak of war

By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland, for its part, had guarantees of French and British military support should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler intended to invade Poland anyway, but first he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist the invasion of its western neighbour. Secret negotiations led on August 23-24 to the signing of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in Moscow. In a secret protocol of this pact, the Germans and the Soviets agreed that Poland should be divided between them, with the western third of the country going to Germany and the eastern two-thirds being taken over by the U.S.S.R.

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Having achieved this cynical agreement, the other provisions of which stupefied Europe even without divulgence of the secret protocol, Hitler thought that Germany could attack Poland with no danger of Soviet or British intervention and gave orders for the invasion to start on August 26. News of the signing, on August 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistance between Great Britain and Poland (to supersede a previous though temporary agreement) caused him to postpone the start of hostilities for a few days. He was still determined, however, to ignore the diplomatic efforts of the western powers to restrain him. Finally, at 12:40 pm on August 31, 1939, Hitler ordered hostilities against Poland to start at 4:45 the next morning. The invasion began as ordered. In response, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, at 11:00 am and at 5:00 pm, respectively. World War II had begun.

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World War II | Facts, Summary, History, Dates, Combatants, & Causes

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World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939-45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.