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//Realism//: sought to potray life as faithfully and accurately as possible, focusing on ordinary people suffering the harsh realities of everyday life

//Naturalism//: portray ordinary people's lives, but suggest that environmental, heredity, and chance, or forces they could neither understand nor control, determined people's fate

Loyalty: a strong feeling of support or allegiance

Patriotism:a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.

Both authors wanted to defend country even though didn't agree.
 * felt obligated

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100604Y.shtml

From: RH To: mike@michaelmoore.com Sent: Monday, July 12, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Iraqi freedom veteran supports you

Dear Mr Moore, I went to Iraq with thoughts of killing people who I thought were horrible. I was like, "F--- Iraq, f--- these people, I hope we kill thousands." I believed my president. He was taking care of business and wasn't going to let al Qaeda push us around. I was with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry division out of Fort Stewart, Georgia. My unit was one of the first to Baghdad. I was so scared. Didn't know what to think. Seeing dead bodies for the first time. People blown in half. Little kids with no legs. It was overwhelming, the sights, sounds, fear. I was over there from Jan'03 to Aug'03. I hated every minute. It was a daily battle to keep my spirits up. I hate the army and my job. I am supposed to get out next February but will now be unable to because the asshole in the White House decided that now would be a great time to put a stop-loss in effect for the army. So I get to do a second tour in Iraq and be away from those I love again because some guy has the audacity to put others' lives on the line for his personal war. I thought we were the good guys.

Lee privately ridiculed the Confederacy in letters in early 1861, denouncing secession as "revolution" and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders. The commanding general of the Union army, Winfield Scott, told Lincoln he wanted Lee for a top command. Lee said he was willing as long as Virginia remained in the Union. Lee was asked by one of his lieutenants if he intended to fight for the Confederacy or the Union, to which he replied, "I shall never bear arms against the Union, but it may be necessary for me to carry a musket in the defense of my native state, Virginia, in which case I shall not prove recreant to my duty."[18] After Fort Sumter fell on April 14 it was obvious that Virginia would quickly secede and so Lee turned down the offer on April 18, resigned from the U.S. Army on April 20, and took up command of the Virginia state forces on April 23.

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