Essays 361 - 390
in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...
Today the world is a different place, the EU is performing its tasks and biding countries together to war is unlikely. The global ...
them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...
with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...
was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...
so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...
Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...
contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...
Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...
past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...
however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...
participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...
in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...
Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...
over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...
had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...
having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...
living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...
the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...
is far more important from a battle standpoint for its residual impact it has long after war has ended. II. AMBROSE Ambros...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
he was concerned with. And, the issues he was concerned with came largely from personal experience with wars and turmoil. In man...
been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...
sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...
Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...
World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...
to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...
despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...