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late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

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

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

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...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

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...

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...

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

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

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

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 become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

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

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...

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

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

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

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

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...

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

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...

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...