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

it can be said, by an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent swirl which included great social and technological change: assassination...

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

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

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

is direct without being trivial in his analysis of the events he covers. This direct approach however serves the topic and the st...

in the trenches, casually mentioning the attention of their personal servant. In both cases, this suggests the lingering presence ...

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

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...

possible to the party, so he changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party" hoping "that the word National would...

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

alliances played an extremely important role in the occurrence of World War One (Kwong, 1999). The reasons for these alliances wer...

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

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 ...

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...

(Q Branch, 2002). There is the dagger pen which, "When clicking on this pens head in Moonraker, instead of a nib being revealed, y...

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 "...

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...

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

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...