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- 1031: Summary of All Quite on the Western Front!
- Summary of All Quite on the Western Front! “All Quite on the Western Front” is a novel about World War I and how it stole the innocence of the soldiers involved in the war. The main character in this novel is Paul. At the start of the war he is a nineteen year old teenager with no grasp of war. By the last chapter he has sawn more then any man should ever have to see in two life time. Paul is ...
- 1032: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel, the author uses excellent imagery and descriptive writing to portray the lives of several German school mates who are eventually destroyed by World War I. Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to show the mental anguish that the soldiers experienced during and after the war. He hoped to show the results of war on an entire generation; a loss of innocence in life which those who were once soldiers could never replace. Remarque's message came across very clearly. ...
- 1033: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- Road to Eternity It was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb through its hatches. The city went up ... fact that it killed one hundred thousand people instantly made the atomic bomb known as an instrument of terrible destruction, the fact that it helped bring about the Japanese surrender and thus ended the Pacific war made the bomb an effective deterrent of war. Even now, after almost fifty years since the “nightmare,” one only remembers the devastation after the A-bomb exploded, forgetting all the hard work it took ...
- 1034: ... to understand this wrathful reaction of Achillaes is to view it as an essential piece to Zeus’s broad master plan that includes suppressing human pride, sealing Achilles’ fate, and deciding the outcome of the war with the Achian victory. From the moment the story begins a conflict of power exists between Agamemnon and Achilles. The pride of these two kings endangers the fulfillment of Zeus’ will. When Kalchas the prophet ... Achilles and he knows that his own fate is sealed. But by growing wrathful he unknowingly cooperates with Zeus’ will and the sealing of his own fate. Achilles’ menis leads to the conclusion of the war and to the triumph of the Achains. By losing Achilles the Achians are at a disadvantage because he was their greatest fighter, and his curse threatens to destroy every last one of them. In addition ...
- 1035: Gulf War 2
- The Gulf War In the early morning of August the second 1990, Saddam Hussein and a fleet of tanks as well as 100,000 thousand troops invaded neighboring Kuwait with out provocation or warning. Iraq also had surface ... surface missiles to take complete control of Kuwait; this all took place just hours after Saddam Hussein had assured neighboring countries that there would under no circumstances be an invasion. George Bush entered the Gulf War for the sole reason of recovering the oil and Kuwaiti Boolean that Saddam Hussein had stolen. President George Bush’s goal in entering the war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraqi’s, and ensure that it continues to be sold at a reasonable amount by the Kuwaiti’s, rather than have the prices raised or even ...
- 1036: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
- ... John F. Kennedy's greatest triumph as President of the United States came in 1962, as the world's two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet premier of Russia was caught arming Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons. The confrontation left the world in fear for thirteen long days, with the life of the world on the line. In 1962 ... by the blockade. They could not promise the success of an air strike, however. It would be extremely difficult to bomb all the sites, and if even one site was missed, it might mean nuclear war. The Pentagon suggested a massive bombing to destroy all kinds of military equipment, and perhaps even Castro himself (Mills 238). Arguments were raised, and debate continued. Some felt an invasion was called for, while others ... States, requiring full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" (Mills 242-3). As the President began his speech, the Pentagon moved the military alert to DEFCON 3, the highest military alert short of all-out war (Hersh 355). The largest US force since D-Day was assembled in Georgia and Florida. Over one hundred thousand troops stood ready, bombers of the Strategic Air Command flew the skies, and 180 ships ...
- 1037: Nuclear / Particle Physics Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... is detonated, it has more than one effect. The effects of the atomic bomb are so great that Nikita Khrushchev said that the survivors would envy the dead (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1982). These devastating physical effects come from the atomic bomb's blast, the atomic bomb's thermal radiation, and the atomic bomb's nuclear radiation. An atomic bomb is any weapon that gets its destructive ... The blast from an atomic bomb's explosion will last for only one-half to one second, but in this amount of time a great deal of damage is done (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). A fireball is created by the blast, which consists mainly of dust and gasses. The dust produced in this fireball has no substantial effect on humans or their environment. However, as the gasses expand ... then in turn creates dynamic pressure. The static overpressure has the power to crush buildings. The dynamic pressure creates winds, which have the power to blow down trees (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1982). The blast pressure and fireball together only last for approximately eleven seconds, but because it contaitns fifty percent of the atomic bomb's latent energy a great deal of destruction occures (The Committee ...
- 1038: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... s short stories, " Soldier's Home," "A Cat in the Rain" and " A Clean Well-Lighted Place, in terms of their relationship to events and experiences in Hemingway's own life. His stories from World War I reflect deeping despairs, and a conviction that life ultimately was without meaning. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21,1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous real ... forbidden words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who saw him a phony. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Ernest was injured in his knee and recuperated in a hospital, tended by a caring nurse named Agnes. He fell in love with this nurse. When he returned to the U.S. he embellished his war stories he won a medal for bravery. The is similar to the character Krebs in Hemingway'' short story "Soldier's Home." When Krebs returned to the United States everyone had already told their war ...
- 1039: Red Badge Of Courage-henry Fle
- Growing Up Throughout the novel The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is in a constant struggle between his illusions of war and reality. When Henry first decides to enlist their is a perception of war that he has in his mind; he later finds out that war is not as glorious and courageous as his mind had perceived. As the novel progresses Henry comes to realize that his idealized notions of war and death, for his country, were all illusions he ...
- 1040: War Of 1812
- ... cargoes in European ports if they had first stopped in Britain. Collectively, the belligerents seized nearly 1500 American vessels between 1803 and 1812, thus posing the problem of whether the United States should go to war to defend its neutral rights. Americans at first prepared to respond with economic coercion rather than war. At the urging of President Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807, prohibiting virtually all U.S. ships from putting to sea. Subsequent enforcement measures in 1808-1809 also banned overland trade with ... demanded that the British ministry repeal the orders in council as a condition for resumption of Anglo-American trade. Britain refused to comply, and Madison summoned Congress into session in November 1811 to prepare for war. After months of debate, Congress declared war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812. Armed Conflict U.S. forces were ordered to invade Canada at points between Detroit and Montréal, but poor planning, organization, ...
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