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- 1251: Communism
- ... program which called for an immediate peas, the transfer of land to peasants, and control of factories to workers. But the provisional government stood in conflict with the other smaller governments and the hardships of war hit the country. The provisional government was so busy fighting the war that they neglected the social problems it faced, losing much needed support (Farah, 580). The Bolsheviks in Russia were confused and divided about how to regard the Provisional Government, but most of them, including Stalin, were inclined to accept it for the time being on condition that it work for an end to the war. When Lenin reached Russia in April after his famous sealed car trip across Germany, he quickly denounced his Bolshevik colleagues for failing to take a sufficiently revolutionary stand (Daniels, 88). In August of 1917, ...
- 1252: Computers And The Military
- ... worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was quick to see the destructive potential in computer technology and to try to exploit it ... fire their guns. Warfare is now totally dependent on sophisticated computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain and hopelessness of war. So far I've never seen a computer game capable of expressing the negative and painful side of fighting and killing. It is pure entertainment, ...
- 1253: Cuban And Chinese Revolution C
- ... them and focused on the communists. Many students and intellectuals protested Chiang's cowardice. Dissatisfaction spread, and the army turned on Chiang. They kidnapped him and released him only when he promised to end the civil war to form a united front against the Japanese. War broke out with the Japanese, leading to World War II. While the Nationalists' backs were turned, the CCP had plenty of time to expand and begin social revolution in most rural areas. By the ...
- 1254: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... Smith; shortly after that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by a group of Puritans known to us today as the Pilgrims. Because of uneasy and hostile relations with the nearby Pequot Indians, the Pequot War soon started between the colonists and the natives. Needless to say, the colonists won, but it was at the expense of several dozen of their own and thousands of Pequots. But despite Indian conflict, exposure ... distinctions became sharper and the poor grew in number. Citizens were put into work houses for debt and occasionally rioted against the wealthy. More and more though, the anger turned from being just a class war to being a war of nationalities. Impressment and other British policies distracted the colonists from being mad at the bourgeoisie to being mad at their mother country. At the end of chapter three, tension is mounting, pitting the ...
- 1255: Computers And The Military
- ... worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was quick to see the destructive potential in computer technology and to try to exploit it ... fire their guns. Warfare is now totally dependent on sophisticated computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain and hopelessness of war. So far I've never seen a computer game capable of expressing the negative and painful side of fighting and killing. It is pure entertainment, ...
- 1256: Black Rain: Reader Response
- ... greatly such as his constant wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would you help your community? I think so. The theme that is very meaningful to me is that war hurts two different parts of a country. The first is the military, which was not really talked about, and then there is the civilians. The civilians must ration food so that the military can eat ... dropped was not meant for any military base but to destroy and kill a city. The theme is clear in meaning that it hurts the civilians much more than it hurts the military and that war is very, very cruel. The people that were rationing had very little to eat and that amount became smaller as the war continued. People were forced to grow carp in small, and search for mussels in ponds in order to get any type of meat. By the end of the war there were no mussels left ...
- 1257: Early Flight
- ... called his airplanes "Aerodromes". Samuel P. Langley was born on August 22, 1834, in Roxburry, Massachusetts. Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics fanatic who helped with solar phenomena related to meteorology. Langley practiced civil engineering and architecture in Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he went back to Boston and received an assistantship at the Harvard Observatory. He later went on to teach mathematics at the U ... full-scale aerodrome shortly thereafter. Langley did end up building a full-scale aerodrome, and the U.S. Government had played a big role in Langleys decision, because in 1898 the U.S. declared war on Spain. Also a big part in Langleys decision came from the President of the United States himself, President McKinley. Alexander Bell also played a role in the decision, he had been enthusiastic about the aerodrome flights and wrote outstanding reports about Langley. Because of the war, the U.S. Government authorized fifty thousand dollars for Langley to construct a large man-carrying aerodrome. In December 1898, Langley accepted the invitation by the war department to build the giant aerodrome. This ...
- 1258: Book Report on Tim O'Brien's Vietnam
- Book Report on Tim O'Brien's Vietnam Vietnam was a horrible time for many Americans and a lot of them paid for it in many ways. Until we understand how and why this war could have been prevented then we are in danger of repeating this all over again. In this book Tim O'Brien describes just how bad of an experience it was for the soldier's that ... not. I can relate to this book very much. It is interesting to follow the author during the book as he tries to figure out what courage was and also what heroism was during Vietnam War. . This war was very similar to other war's that there has been in the past and on the other hand it is not. One thing is for sure, a lot of lives were taken in ...
- 1259: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... Smith, shortly after that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by a group of Puritans known to us today as the Pilgrims. Because of uneasy and hostile relations with the nearby Pequot Indians, the Pequot War soon started between the colonists and the natives. Needless to say, the colonists won, but it was at the expense of several dozen of their own and thousands of Pequots. But despite Indian conflict, exposure ... distinctions became sharper and the poor grew in number. Citizens were put into work houses for debt and occasionally rioted against the wealthy. More and more though, the anger turned from being just a class war to being a war of nationalities. Imperilment and other British policies distracted the colonists from being mad at the bourgeoisie to being mad at their mother country. At the end of chapter three, tension is mounting, pitting the ...
- 1260: Carthage And The Punic Wars
- ... in a lightening fast campaign sacked both Selinius, and the large Greek city of Agrigento. The Carthaginians failed in their attempt to siege Syracusa. After the siege upon Syracusa, the Syracusians built many weapons of war, including the catapult. They then sacked the important Carthaginian city of Moyta. For over the next one hundred years the Carthaginians battled the Syracusians. Rome and Carthage allied and eventually defeated the Syracusians army at ... of the central Mediterranean Sea of that time. In each of these wars Carthage lost. These wars lasted off and on from 246 BC to 149 BC, with Carthage eventually being destroyed. The First Punic War started in 264 BC and lasted to 241 BC. In the first half of the 3rd century BC Carthage held many territories that made it easy to control and dominate the western Mediterranean Sea. However ... from Rome and Rome came to aid. The fear of a powerful neighbor was only one out of several motivations, next to the promise of glory that got Rome to aid in the fight. This war was fought mainly at sea around Sicily, and Carthage was by far the strongest of the two in this field. This superiority was met by a large scale Roman construction of the navel fleet ...
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