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control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

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...

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

(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 ...

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

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

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 ...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

caused by rival ideologies of fascism and communism and liberalism, nor good great ideals vs. bad evil Hitler,nor any blueprint fo...

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

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...