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Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

Australia and the Effects of World War I

them with a spirit of determination and adventure. During the first few weeks, an excess of 20,000 men volunteered to serve and u...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Strategy and Leadership in World Wars I and II

end to the long bloody affair and to consequently save countless US and Japanese lives that would have been lost if the war had of...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

Capital Flows into Developing Counties and International Financial and Monetary Systems

place between the developed wealthy countries. Another form of capital flow is that indirect investment. This has been seen in m...

Eastern Europe after WWII, Nationalism, Ethnic Violence, Anti-Semitism

This research paper considers issues such as nationalism, ethnic violence, and anti-Semitism in regards to Central and Eastern Eur...

Church's Perspective on War

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

Why It was Different from Previous Wars, WWI

This essay pertain to World War I and discusses how it was different from all previous wars. Four pages in length, four sources ar...

World War I Journal

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

War of the Worlds/H.G. Wells

This essay provides analysis of War of the World by H.G. Wells. The writer asserts that Wells' perspective conforms to the princip...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

A Review of Issues in Economics by Robert Guell

in depth the basics of theory. The section starts out with the more basic ideas of economics, first there is a chapter on opportu...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

World Wars and Changes in Technology

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Using Neo-Aristotelian Criticism to Evaluate Bush's Speech

This 3 page paper uses neo-Aristotelian criticism to analyze one of President Bush's speeches, the one in which he "made the case"...

Ozu/Tokyo Story

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...