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Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Language and Understanding the World

language can prove to be difficult when seeking to correlation language and the development of a wider understanding of the world ...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

War by Luigi Pirandello

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

The War of 1812

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

An Overview of the Battle of Dunkirk

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

Why Do We Fight Wars?

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

Australia and the Effects of World War I

them with a spirit of determination and adventure. During the first few weeks, an excess of 20,000 men volunteered to serve and u...

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...

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...

Greek War God Ares

In seven pages Ares and his passion for war and brutality are examined as is the God of War's love affair with the married Aphrodi...

Analysis of Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum

One of the chapters of this text is analyzed in terms of its discussion of the lives prior to the First World War of the protagoni...

Death of a Salesman and Family Values

In five pages Arthur Miller's social drama is analyzed in its portrayal of post World War II family values as they existed in the ...

World War I and its Causes

In eleven pages this paper presents a literature review on the underlying factors that led to World War I with military buildup, t...

How Warfare was Changed by the Airplane

In five pages this paper examines the impact of the airplane upon warfare dating back to the First World War. Four sources are ci...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Changing Times

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the many changes that occurred after World War I and the ways they manifest themselves in the inc...

The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore

yet they did not refrain from those actions. Lafore seems to shed light on how the threat to Austria and Hungarys integrity was a...

EUROPE, POST WORLD WAR II AND TODAY

and East Germans shot for trying to take the route west. In Germany, at least, the post-war years well into the 1970s and 1980s co...

The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Spanish Explorers in the New World

The first exploration that is often noted is that of Christopher Columbus which was supported by Queen Isabella I.6 "In 1492 the ...

Reorganization Of National Security, Post-WWII

took the lead to coordinate at least their own departments in an effort to decide what diplomatic activities and what military act...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

The War in Iraq

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...