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ideal for battle. In the late Middle Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the c...

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

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

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

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

well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...

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 ...

at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...

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

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

example, are real-life characters. Rivers was a well known psychologist during the war. Serving in Scotland and England he treat...

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

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...

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...

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

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

Radclyffe Hall, making it difficult for heterosexual women to carry on wearing fashions which were to become associated with lesbi...

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

them with a spirit of determination and adventure. During the first few weeks, an excess of 20,000 men volunteered to serve and u...

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

War proves that there are still fresh and compelling interpretations of the causes of the Great War" (120). Indeed, there is much ...