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War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

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...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

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

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

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

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...

'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...

Cinematic Neorealism

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

Second World War Atomic Bombs Usage Justifications

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

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

'D Day' June 6, 1944

obstacles hindering the advancement of troops up the beach and into the French countryside." Austein said, "The sky was so full ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

First World War Military Career of Adolf Hitler

This paper examines the military career of Adolf Hitler during World War I and how it shaped the 1930s' emergence of the Nazi part...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Regulations and Rent Control

In five pages this paper discusses the rent controls put into place during the Second World War and the regulations that are neces...

Post Second World War and Development of Sexual Liberalism

a middle-aged Indiana University professor of entomology who had a compulsion for collecting enormous amount of data (McLaren 144)...

Second World War German Warfare and the Blitzkrieg

In ten pages this paper examines how during the Second World War the Germans employed blitzkrieg tactical campaigns. Nine sources...

Were Japan and Germany Treated Differently by the United States During the Second World War?

This paper consists of five pages and considers the U.S. treatment of adversaries Japan and Germany during the Second World War an...

Experiments in Second World War Concentration Camps and Nazi Doctors

In eight pages this research paper examines the 'death camps' of Nazi doctors during the Second World War in a discussion of the m...

Ho Chi Minh, the United States, and the Vietnam War

In nine pages this paper discusses the politics of Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the US involv...

Story of the Japanese 'No No Boy' in the U.S. During and Following the Second World War

In five pages this paper examines a young Japanese man's struggles in the United States during and following the Second World War ...

Second World War Submarines

The biggest challenge to those interested in perfecting the submarine was in finding fully practical propulsion. This was done by...

Post Second World War 'Long Boom' of Australia

In eight pages this paper examines the prolonged economic prosperity Australia enjoyed from after the Second World War through 197...

New York Life During the Thirties

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and His Legacy

This paper consisting of five pages examines the legendary U.S. political figure in terms of the actions he took during the Second...

Movies on the Vietnam War

Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A goo...

A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

As well see in this paper, globalization is not a new concept; typically, for globalization to happen, a series of political, econ...

Towards A New Architecture by Le Corbusier

In five pages this paper discusses the rhetorical aspects of this architectural text and argues that it is the most significant ar...

Nursing Profession Past and Present

In seven pages professional autonomy is one of the topics discussed in changes between present day nursing and during the period o...

Japan, the U.S. Presence, and the Bushido Code

In one hundred pages this paper discusses the U.S. presence in Japan during the Second World War and how this impacted upon the mi...