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Essays 121 - 150

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Tone Setting Early 20th Century Conflicts

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

Palestinians as Victims of War in Paradise Now, Making Of, and Palestine

acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...

Civil War Photography

If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

Second World War and Casablanca Film

to matter little, since the war upon which the story was based also, at that time, had no end in sight. In order to ensure the sc...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Comparing Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons of the 1930s Through the 1960s

Warner Bros. cartoons, with their emphasis on bringing imaginative impossibilities to life, took animation in a totally new direct...

U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

The Life and Career of Charles Chaplin

This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...

War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

A Personal View of The End of Victory Culture

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

Review of the Post World War II Film The Bicycle Thief

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

A Three Part Historical Paper

In this paper consisting of five pages and three part the first portion discusses Europe at the conclusion of the nineteenth centu...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

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...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

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...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...