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

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end ...

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

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

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

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

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the post Second World War creation of the Japanese Employment System and how it is currently ...

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

the country based on more equality, not further separation (Lewin, 2002). Russia at this times was quite literally in "the thro...

the economy develops in the way most economic forecasters expect this will rise to between 250,000 and 380,000 by 2003. However, ...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

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

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

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