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Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Visual Imagery in 2 German Films

red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Tank Technology between the Wars.

First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end ...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Post World War II Great Britain and Immigration

also the issue of the many displaced nationals from Europe, with the Surrender of France to the Germans in 1940, for a while Brita...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

World Wars II and II and the Ideological Connection That Exists Between Them

a part of the WWI time period and inherent in Europe. Also, Fascism was something that was fought ideologically. In order to proce...

UK Post World War II Comprehensive Education Development

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

Marshall Plan and Defensive Realism

the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...

UK Foreign Policy and Germany During the Thirties

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

Construction and Military Operation of the Bismarck German Battleship

secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Global Stratification and Dependency Theories

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

War Peace and the Presidency by Henry Paoluccis

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

The Philippines and Economic Conditions

in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

1914 to 1975 American Foreign Policy

In five page the post First and Second World War foreign policy of the United States is examined in a discussion of such topics as...