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	Encyclopedia: Shell shock
		Shell Shock was a term used during the First World War to describe the psychological trauma suffered by men serving on the war's key battlefronts - France, Flanders, along the Isonzo and in Gallipoli.
		First of all, it is unsafe to assume that the percentage of men suffering from shell shock in the British army is the same as that in the French, German or Belgian armies.
		This practice did not stop on the 11th of November 1918, although some doctors realised the stigmatising nature of a shell shock sick diagnosis and knew that their knowledge of the problem in fact was too limited to come up with adequate diagnoses.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shell-shock (587 words)

	BBC Inside Out - Shell Shock
		In the early years of World War One, shell shock was believed to be the result of a physical injury to the nerves and being exposed to heavy bombardment.
		Shell shock was generally seen as a sign of emotional weakness or cowardice.
		Some shell shocked soldiers were shot dead by their own side after being charged with cowardice.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/extra/series-1/shell_shocked.shtml (1138 words)

	Pat Barker's Regeneration -- Critical Contexts -- Shell Shock
		To prevent shell shock from crippling the patients, Craiglockhart emphasizes the value of therapy, a theme in the novel, as a way to fight back against the mental battles.
		The term shell shock was first coined in 1915 by C.S. Myers in The Lancet to describe the disorder found on the battlefield in soldiers who had been exposed to an exploding shell (Spiller).
		The symptoms of shell shock were numerous and varied from soldier to soldier.
	www.k-state.edu /english/westmank/regeneration/shellshock.heck.html (1138 words)

	Winner of the 2004 WFA-USA Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Essay Award to Annessa Stagner
		The governments' views of shell shock due to their actions in denying it legitimacy or helping to prevent and treat it can be fairly simply defined.
		America's attitude towards shell shock shifted once again in the summer of 1922 with a surge of instances in which shell-shocked soldiers were seen as violent and harmful.
		28 Norman Fenton, Shell Shock and its Aftermath.
	www.wfa-usa.org /new/shellshock.htm (3927 words)

	Shell Shock Fireworks for professional uk fireworks displays and international fireworks events
		Shell Shock were commissioned by Live Communications Ltd to design and fire a display in order to produce spectacular images and TV footage for the 10
		Shell Shock fired three major firings within the stadium using high precision pyrotechnics and also fired an intense aerial barrage from 13 firing locations in a arc outside the stadium.
		Shell Shock also provided displays for the Ipswich Scouts, Norwich City Council, Mercedes on the Thames in London, Firecracker at Purfleet and a private client at Cliveden.
	www.shell-shock.co.uk (367 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Shell Shock
		At first shell shock victims were believed to be suffering from the direct physical effects of shell blasts, or from a form of monoxide poisoning.
		Symptoms varied widely in intensity, ranging from moderate panic attacks - which sometimes caused men to flee the battlefield: a crime which was invariably regarded as rank cowardice and which resulted in a court martial for desertion - to effective mental and physical paralysis.
		Reliable figures relating to the total number of shell shock sufferers are not available.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/shellshock.htm (280 words)

	The Repression of War Experience, by W.H.R. Rivers
		British estimates are that shell shock in the Great War affected 7-10 percent of the officers and 3-4 percent of other ranks.
		By 1916, over 40% of the casualties in fighting zones were victims of shell shock and by the end of the war over 80,000 cases had passed through British Army medical facilities.
		In all armies shell shock also led to an unknown number of suicides, not to mention the innumerable soldiers who suffered the rest of their lives.
	www.greatwar.nl /rivers/rivers.html (1453 words)

	ipedia.com: Post-traumatic stress disorder Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Post-traumatic stress disorder, formerly and colloquially called shell shock, battle fatigue, and operational exhaustion during war, is a term for the psychological consequences of exposure to stressf...
		Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), formerly and colloquially called shell shock (this is a World War One term), battle fatigue (World War II), and operational exhaustion (Korean War) during war, is a term for the psychological consequences of exposure to stressful, life-threatening and traumatic experiences.
		Shell shock is a mental condition in which the individual involved is perilously close to a break from reality, usually by succumbing to any of several neuroses or psychoses.
	www.ipedia.com /post_traumatic_stress_disorder_1.html (781 words)

	Chapter Five
		From 1915 on, the war produced significant numbers of casualties suffering from "shell shock." This new disorder, actually first seen during the Russo-Japanese War, produced a wide array of both physical and psychological symptoms, and during 1915 several major transitions were made in terms of the recognition and evaluation of the new illness.
		French physicians were the first to reach the conclusion that shell shock was essentially a psychological phenomenon, a response to the strains of terrifying and overwhelming battlefield experiences.
		In the first two years of the war cases of this kind were given the unfortunate name of "shell shock" in the belief that they were organic in origin and due to actual concussion caused by the explosion of powerful shells.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /library/randrep/marlowe_paper/mr1018_11_ch5.html (4249 words)

	Shell Shock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shell Shock is back online again, after being down for 3 days.
		A Game Server page has been added to this website, letting you know what Shell Shock is running and where.
		After more than a year of absence, Shell Shock is joining the great BZflag community again.
	shellshock.bzflag.bz (805 words)

	Shell Shock? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like any other shell, these companies look good on the outside (they have public stock and stockholders) but are empty on the inside, with no real business or operations.
		Those shells that have limited SEC reporting obligations are listed on the Pink Sheets at www.pinksheets.com.
		In June, it suspended all trading activity of 26 shells in an effort to stem the tide of "pump and dump" schemes.
	entrepreneur.com /Magazines/Copy_of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,317913,00.html (915 words)

	Shellshock
		These doctors argued that a bursting shell creates a vacuum, and when the air rushes into this vacuum it disturbs the cerebro-spinal fluid and this can upset the working of the brain.
		For the first three weeks, an officer was of little use in the front line; he did not know his way about, had not learned the rules of health and safety, or grown accustomed to recognizing degrees of danger.
		Shell-shock was brought about in many ways; loss of sleep, continually being under heavy shell fire, the torment of the lice, irregular meals, nerves always on end, and the thought always in the man's mind that the next minute was going to be his last.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWshellshock.htm (1640 words)

	Shell Shock Family Tree : MyFonts
		Shell Shock was inspired by stencil typefaces used on military tanks and ammunition boxes.
		Shell Shock Cloak is the ultimate add-on for Shell Shock.
		Put the 3 Cloak layers on top of Shell Shock and suddenly it’s camouflaged and you will hardly be able to find it.
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/characters/shell-shock/familytree.html (201 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shell Shock: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wendy Holden's Shell Shock is the companion to a major British television series on the psychological impact of modern warfare.
		The book focuses largely on the First World War, where the term shell shock originated and attempts were first made to understand the concept.
		Holden goes on to detail how the understanding of Shell Shock evolved during the World Wars largely due to the perserverance and hard work of a number of doctors who often experimented with nothing more than trial and error methods.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/075222199X (962 words)

	Shell Shock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Doctor has been rescued by a crab-like creature and taken to a beach on a nearby island, where he meets a community of genetically and technologically enhanced crab creatures and their human friend, Ranger.
		Over the next few days, however, more of the crabs turn up dead, their cybernetic shells cracked open and the meat within scooped out and presumably eaten.
		He participated in the initial experiments in which the brains of the planet’s primates were transferred into technologically enhanced crab-like shells, with organic connections to the Memory to turn them into soldiers.
	www.drwhoguide.com /telos08.htm (1757 words)

	Shell Shock
		I saw a man come running through that hell straight for me. The air was fairly sizzling with bullets but he kept right on, and then when he came close I saw it was Jack.
		I'd made quite a study of the disease since it first became known and as a consequence was more successful than most at treating it.
		Everything whirls in a constant feverish movement around you; the earth trembles and quakes beneath your feet; even the darkness is only an intermittent phenomena snatching greedily at the earth between the wane of one star shell and the bursting brilliance of the next; even the night is goaded into insomnia by the everlasting fireworks.
	www.eoneill.com /texts/shell/contents.htm (4650 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shell Shock: A Blue-chip Betrayal: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are refuelled with Shell aviation spirit every ten seconds.
		Shell Shock is an engrossing account which reveals details that have never been included in any company accounts.
		Shell Shock then exposes the company's appalling environmental record, notably in Nigeria and the United States, and reveals the possible ecological consequences of current plans to extract oil from Sakhalin Island, off Russia's Pacific coast.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/184018941X (674 words)

	BBC - History - Shell Shock during World War One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the end of World War One the British Army had dealt with 80,000 cases of shell shock, including those of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.
		He had been taken from the battlefields and deposited in the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital suffering from 'shell shock'.
		In his words, his breakdown was related to witnessing 'a terrible sight that I shall never forget as long as I live'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwone/shellshock_01.shtml (325 words)

	village voice > news > 'A Prey to His Primitive Instincts' by Ben Shephard
		"The effects of severe shelling," The Times [London] reported early in 1915, "tend to show themselves in a dazed state which may on the one hand be developed into complete unconsciousness, on the other lightened till a condition comparable to neurasthenia is observed."
		But it soon became clear that soldiers were quick to respond to the Army Council's invitation and were seizing on the advantages of shell-shock.
		"Shell shock should be abolished," Myers was told.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0315/shephard.php (438 words)

	Mega Blocks Shell Shock sets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The space left by the absence of most of the front panel is occupied by the turtle shell shaped storage case.
		(The two Shell Shock sets and the Combat Lair set.) The packaging is certainly original and stands out even in the building block aisle with its ever increasingly creative packaging.
		The shell is hinged on one side so that it can be set on any flat surface and opened with the top section forming a background for the set.
	www.tmnttoys.com /reviews/megablocks/shellshocks.html (1812 words)

	Moviefone: Shell Shock Movie: MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Synopsis: Shell Shock is a title occasionally dusted off for low-budget war pictures.
		Since the name of the eponymous affliction was coined during World War 2 (they called shell shock "nostalgia" during the...
		Shell Shock: find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1031636 (252 words)

	village voice > news > Shell-Shock and Awe by Joy Press
		[The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling." Delivered from on high, "shock and awe" was supposed to eliminate or disable the bad guys, leaving invading ground troops the feel-good task of rounding up grateful Iraqi soldiers and basking in the warm welcome offered by an overjoyed populace.
		While some of these practices retain an aura of rationality, many have the whiff of quackery or cruelty: insulin-induced comas, shock treatment, lobotomy.
		Shephard describes a shell-shocked WW I soldier who'd "been strapped in a chair for 20 minutes at a time while strong electricity was applied to his neck and throat; lighted cigarettes had been applied to the tip of his tongue and 'hot plates' had been placed at the back of his mouth."
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0315/press.php (1767 words)

	Shell Shock [Story]
		Instead, they said that shell shock made him behave as he did.
		Or perhaps this truly was a case of shell shock, of an unknown type, that released its grip on him only many months later?
		Before we parted, I thought of the consequences of his shell shock, and of the operator cooing hot lust and desire into my ears while Be'eri sat beside me, singing and playing holy Hasidic nigunim.
	www.artvilla.com /porat/sllsck.htm (4634 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Turtles Can Fly'
		Refugees squat in tents, near a junkyard of broken tanks and shell casings.
		Or is it an attempt to give a son a name that invokes the power of a land mine, in the same way people might have once named a child Lion or Tiger?
		Still, most of Turtles Can Fly is brave, shocking and easy to comprehend—or, rather, as easy to comprehend as war ever is. Latif is unforgettable as the young, doomed Agrin.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.13.05/turtles-0515.html (762 words)

	Sticker Shock over Shell Shock
		The US government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers.
		Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
		While their mainstream media is not really allowed to report on it, so somebody has to keep them informed.
	www.canadiancontent.net /forums/about6841.html (442 words)

	shell shock - LinuxQuestions.org
		i am in shell shock after learning the so many shells present.
		The most widely used shell in the Linux world is bash, so that's probably wise to get used to.
		On pretty much any Linux system you will find bash and that's another upside of bash, plus it is very versatile (writing scripts is very straightforward) and easy to learn (compared to the more esoteric shells).
	www.linuxquestions.org /questions/showthread.php?postid=953643 (312 words)

	Shell Shock font family : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shell Shock is a Characters font family with 4 styles priced from $20.00.
		Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family.
		• Characters: Shell Shock Cloak Sample PDF (English)
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/characters/shell-shock (250 words)

	Shell shock definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Shell shock definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Shell shock: The World War I name for what is known today as post-traumatic stress, this is a psychological disorder that develops in some individuals who have had major traumatic experiences (and, for example, have been in a serious accident or through a war).
		The person is typically numb at first but later has symptoms including depression, excessive irritability, guilt (for having survived while others died), recurrent nightmares, flashbacks to the traumatic scene, and overreactions to sudden noises.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5474 (244 words)

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		Shell Shock : The Psychological Impact Of War.
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