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had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

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...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

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...

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

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

number of lives lost as a result of the atomic bombs. This paper will seek to illustrate that there are, therefore,...

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

problems of their own. This eastern front, including Dieppe was would be a significant victory, and probably was a test for future...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

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

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

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

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

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...