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- 1071: History of the American Drug War
- History of the American Drug War The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that ... and jails throughout the US At least 24 states are under Federal court orders to relieve prison overcrowding. Prison population had been relatively stable from about 1926 to about 1970. From that point, Nixon's war against drugs, then the Reagan and Bush war against drugs, caused a dramatic increase in the number of prisoners. The estimated 30 - 40 million people who have used an illegal drug in the past year, would fill a prison holding the populations ...
- 1072: Privateers
- ... force behind almost all of their expeditions, and a successful privateer could easily become quite wealthy. In times of peace, these men would be common pirates, pariahs of the maritime community. Commissioned in times of war, they were respected entrepreneurs, serving their purses and their country, if only incidentally the latter. However vulgar their motivation, the system of privateering arose because it provided a valuable service to the country, and indeed the Ame rican Revolution might not have been won without their involvement. Many scholars agree that all war begins for economic reasons, and the privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants. It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain. In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was ...
- 1073: Why Were the Japanese so Successful After World War II
- Why Were the Japanese so Successful After World War II The question of why Japan was so successful can be said have boggled many. Have you ever thought of the surge Japan? The Japanese have soared from a time of crisis to an economic super power. Well there are many reasons to which how Japan was got to the place it is today. After World War II Japan was in terrible shape and the country was in need to reform. The Japanese became determined to reform its country. The Japanese had emphasized economic growth ever since World War II and had made it a religion.1 It remained a religion until the1960s where it became less popular. During this time modernization of the economy and society was made. The upper middle class, ...
- 1074: Rise of Superpowers After WWII
- ... of Superpowers After WWII It is often wondered how the superpowers achieved their position of dominance. It seems that the maturing of the two superpowers, Russia and the United States, can be traced to World War II. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power and, related to this, a strong national ideology. It was this war, and its results, that caused each of these superpowers to experience such a preponderance of power. Before the war, both nations were fit to be described as great powers, but it would be erroneous to say that they were superpowers at that point. To understand how the second World War impacted these nations ...
- 1075: New Weapons and Technology In World War I
- New Weapons and Technology In World War I I researched the topic New Weapons and Technology during W.W.I. there were many new weapons and technology during W.W.I such as tanks, ships, airplanes, guns and trench warfare. The tanks ... it was the standard military aircraft employed by the RFC (Royal Flying Corps). It was slow but stable. The design of this plane was constantly being revised and there were 5 different versions during the war. It was improved by the tail and the wing design. It had good cockpit protection and more refined controls. In 1915, it was replaced by the BE-2C, it had a modified engine for extra ... of climb which made it a popular fighting plane. It had racks for 4 - 25 pound bombs installed under the fuselage. The Bristol F-2 Fighter Biplane was developed because of the outbreak of the war. The first plane was ready for action April 1917. The first few weeks were a disaster when 4 of the first 6 planes were immediately shot down. Once the pilot learned to use the ...
- 1076: The Surprising Aspect of Sex in Heller's Catch-22
- The Surprising Aspect of Sex in Heller's Catch-22 Joseph Heller's humorist-war novel, Catch-22, has many surprising passages and themes. The part that is most surprising to me in Catch-22 is the amount of sexual connotation in a novel based around World War II. The question which has to be raised is, Is Catch-22 really about World War II? While this book is a fictious war novel, you get a different look into the lives of the soldiers. Their lives are filled with sex, whether it is a quick stop at a ...
- 1077: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... denial. Hemingway became the chief reporter of what became known as the “Lost Generation”. This phrase is attributed to Gertrude Stein, a friend of Hemingway’s, who meant youth, angry with life itself after the war; drowning themselves in alcohol; sleeping away the days and sharing their beds with a new partner each night. Thus, Hemingway depicts America as a society with a profuse amount of twisted values. A constant theme ... hostile age. Their love story, which starts in a field hospital where the lieutenant is being treated for severe leg injuries, ends with Catherine’s death. She dies in childbirth but it is actually the war that condemns them both to destruction. After the Italian defeat at Caporetto, the lieutenant becomes a deserter. He flees with his now impregnated lover to Switzerland, but they cannot escape the despair and horror of the war. Their attempts to wipe it out by consuming bottle after bottle of alcohol has only ill effects. This novel is a drawn out definition of Stein’s generation. It is the story of a ...
- 1078: In Flanders Fields
- ... poppies growIn Flanders fields. John McCrae’s "In Flanders Fields" as a Canadian Cultural Artifact The poem, "In Flanders Fields" written by Canadian John McCrae remains one of the most important and memorable pieces of war poems ever written. John McCrae came from a respectable family and became a soldier/ doctor/ author/ teacher. Though he wrote textbooks on medicine and numerous poems he will be forever remembered as being the voice ... academic performance. In 1899 he moved to Montreal to accept a fellowship in pathology and to study at the McGill University School of Medicine. Although McCrae was devoted to his medical career; when the Boer War erupted he was one of the first volunteers who wished to go and contribute to the defense of the Empire. John McCrae had been brought up to cherish the duty of fighting for one’s country and was eager to do his part. The Boer (in 1899) war was his first experience where his military skills as a soldier came before his role of doctor. When Britain declared war in 1917 and joined forces with the Allied powers, Canada followed suit immediately. ...
- 1079: Archetypes
- English 12 4tH Quarter Paper 5 / 7 / 2000 There are many archetypical symbols used in hundreds of works, new and old. Some of these symbols include: war, peace, love, nature, birds, mountains, and darkness. These symbols have deep meaning which help embellish a certain work. They also help the reader to better understand the theme or plot of a work. They are used freely and abundantly in most modern and pre-modern works. The archetypical symbol of war is used symbolically as a sense of conflict or tension. It may express disbelief, or trouble. In a sense it is used to draw the reader in close. War is never looked at as a positive thing. When we think of war, we think of violence, death, destruction, heartache, cold and bitterness. This is usually what is intended by the author. Usually peace ...
- 1080: A Separate Peace 2
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep what little sense of peace they know, even though there is a war going on all around them. Gene Forrester, the narrator of the story also struggles with an inner conflict of his secret resentment of his best friend Phineas (Finny). Phineas struggles with the disbelief that he can never be of any use to the war efforts with a busted leg. Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that ...
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