Essays 361 - 390
mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...
had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...
stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...
noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...
foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...
Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...
having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...
control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...
indelible scar on Wells psyche, which eventually led the young Darwinist to embrace the "cosmic pessimism" offered by the philosop...
Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...
hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...
see that even within the scope of one war the geography and the type of battles that are faced are of incredible importance. Imag...
Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...
the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...
of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...
also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...
private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
also the issue of the many displaced nationals from Europe, with the Surrender of France to the Germans in 1940, for a while Brita...
very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...