Sentences with phrase «of war veterans»

After his injury he is shocked with the treatment of war veterans but quickly learns the truths to the war as he fights for peace.
I had high hopes as I started the book, and was open to its PTSD themes and the contrast between the experiences of different generations of war veterans.
This report was a sort of manifesto for the era of mass education that began with the return of the war veterans, and it indicates the direction that higher education would go once it became essentially a consumer product, largely controlled by government.
He saw a science documentary on the Discovery Channel (no relation to this magazine) that told the story of a war veteran in Cincinnati named Lee Spievack whose fingertip had been severed by the propeller of a model airplane.
Brain scans of war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder have led researchers to an area of the prefrontal cortex that appears to be a good predictor of response to treatment with SSRIs — the first - line drug treatment for PTSD.
The film, which has just been acquired for release in the US by Amazon Studios, will tell the story of a war veteran who rescues women who have been trafficked into the sex trade.
It inelegantly infuses a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming - home odyssey.
This study — part of an initiative that investigates the brain of war veterans since the 1980's — included 94 war veterans with penetrating TBI and 28 controls that also served in combat in Vietnam but had no history of brain injury.
After World War II, it was home to an influx of war veterans.
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression.
The ongoing purges of scores of Mnangagwa allies have widened the rift between the Mugabes and various groups of war veteran leaders.
As many as 20 percent of war veterans return from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, according to a 2008 report from the RAND Corporation.
Foregoing subtlety, an ungainly grand reveal, which is neither savvy nor a surprise, detracts from whatever worthwhile intentions Montiel intended regarding the experiences of war veterans abroad and at home, something further aggravated by meager genre dressing of a post-apocalyptic America cheaply administered with garish CGI.
Had the film been just about Jackson and his family's inability to function, Home of the Brave might have stood a chance at being a worthwhile drama for people who aren't already in families of war veterans.
Which gives a lot of hope for Last Flag Flying, which promises to be a sentimental but hopefully well - earned story about a trio of war veterans who reunite to help bury the son of one of them, who died in military service of his own.
Running underneath the usual puerility are darker intimations: the mental anguish of war veterans, body dysmorphic disorder, violent undercurrents in pornography, and support group addiction.
Instead, he keeps his distance from horse and boy and allows the latter to learn from his mistakes, as he gets caught dining and dashing, accepts the discomfiting hospitality of a couple of war veterans and falls foul of a drunken drifter.
One of the supplemental materials on facial disfigurement is accompanied by a photo of a war veteran with a horrible injury.
First of all, fans will be relieved to know that the controls have all but been retained so God of War veterans will have an easy time easing themselves to the gameplay.
Santiago Sierra's third solo exhibition at Team Gallery, Veterans, displays nine photographs of war veterans standing in corners.
In his exploration of social boundaries and socio - cultural inequalities, Santiago Sierra places a succession of war veterans, from varied past conflicts, standing facing one corner of a 5 -5-meter room and instructed to only move from their post once solemnly replaced by another veteran mimicking the changing of the guard.
A chromotherapy - based installation at VCUarts» Anderson Gallery brings attention to the mental health of war veterans.
High poverty levels and large numbers of war veterans have led to higher rates of mental illness in the Arlington area.
Plymouth Moor View MP Johnny Mercer is an ex-Army captain who picked up The Spectator's speech of the year award for his maiden speech focusing on the treatment of war veterans.
But we're mostly stranded with Eastwood and Roeck's inelegant attempts to infuse a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming - home odyssey, which includes the usual, unconvincing Native American and damsel - in - distress clichés.
The treatment of war veterans was also the subject matter for Mercer's memorable maiden speech, for which he was applauded across Westminster.
Conservative MP Johnny Mercer has picked up The Spectator's speech of the year award for his maiden speech focusing on the treatment of war veterans.
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