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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...

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

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

indelible scar on Wells psyche, which eventually led the young Darwinist to embrace the "cosmic pessimism" offered by the philosop...

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

"What really needs explaining is not Hitler, but the historical context which brought him to prominence and power, and convinced h...

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

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 ...

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

see that even within the scope of one war the geography and the type of battles that are faced are of incredible importance. Imag...

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

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

the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...

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

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

begins by saying that "Francis Fukuyamas vision of a world governed by capitalism and democracy, we can anticipate an earlier, if...

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

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

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

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

another of not abiding by the rules, the WTO provides the forum where such cases can be settled ("The Banana," 1999). If the inte...

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

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

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...

of the Labour Party and Kok was also the Prime Minister (The Economist, 1998). His opponent was Frits Bolkestein from the Liberal ...

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

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