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The War's Effect On American Culture

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Although the war was fought in Europe, it had a definite effect on the culture of the US. Most turn of the century writers wrote with long, complex, and formal sentences. As the war progressed, writers like Ernest Hemingway turned to a more direct style using short informal sentences that sounded more like telegraph

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