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- 1481: Killer Angels 3
- ... that they strayed from their family life to help the cause. Even men who were not willing to participate were taken from their women and children, for the sake of fighting someone else's battle. War and the killing of others did not interest General Robert E. Lee and he felt sympathy for the Union. Lee had inconsistent feelings towards war and says, He was not only to serve in it but he was to lead it, to make the plans, and issue the orders to kill and burn and ruin
he could not do that (Shaara 263). The author says Lees reason for fighting the Civil War was,He found that he had no choice
Lee could not raise his hand against his own. And so what then? To stand by and do nothing? It had nothing to do with ...
- 1482: The Secret Service
- ... service is a service that many people do not know about. In addition to guarding the president, the secret service has been used for many other tasks since its creation. At the close of the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created as a bureau under the Department of the Treasury to ... Secret service. During these early years the Secret Service investigated cases as well. These cases included the Teapot Dome oil scandals, the Ku Klux Klan, Government land frauds, and counterespionage activity during the Spanish- American War and World War I. In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York. Since this had been the 3rd president killed in a span of 36 years, the secret service was then ...
- 1483: Ku Klux Klan - The History
- ... promote white supremacy. They have been in the shadows for over 130 years and continue to thrive in America's society today. The Ku Klux Klan began almost accidentally during the reconstruction period after the civil war in the Southern United States. The southern people had suffered greatly from the effects of the great war. Many of them lost their homes and plantations. Many also lost friends and loved ones to the war. The people needed a release from the sorrow of everyday life. In 1865, six men from ...
- 1484: Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Private Ryan War cannot be faced. It is too dreadful. It is the great emptiness that stands before life, transforms itself into a million shapes of unutterable horror, then returns to mocking silence. It is the nightmare from ... apart by a three-inch piece of flak. "Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret ... Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage." For those of us who never went to war, and learned of its horrors only through the reports of those who did or the representations of artists, it is easy to keep the nightmare hidden away. Maybe not so easy with the war closest to many of us, Vietnam. Thanks to our disillusionment with it, and the work of journalists like Michael Herr and filmmakers like Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola, Vietnam flickers in and out ...
- 1485: Nostradamus and a Grim Future
- ... of an atomic bomb 1. European and western countries intervene 2. Crazed leader bombs Europe 3. The stage for the Antichrist is set C. The wargame mishap D. Alien crash resulting in plagues V. World War III A. Nuclear confrontation in the Middle East 1. Radioactive fallout and its effect 2. Political boundaries redrawn B. Current president's involvement in War C. New York bombing 1. U.S. spots a bomb sent by the Antichrist and his ally 2. France retaliates for the U.S. VI. Conclusion A. Can the future be changed? B. The validity ... you a deep insight into the possible and most widely recognized apocalyptic future filled with extremely advanced technology that cannot be controlled, thus causing physical, social, and political catastrophes leading ultimately to the third world war. But who is Nostradamus? This is a frequently asked question today. Some say Nostradamus is a witch, others say he is a master of the stars. Regardless of these proposals, Nostradamus must be looked ...
- 1486: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... to ban marijuana, it remains a widely used drug. Use has decreased, but 50 million people have tried it at least once and only a small percentage of those people are addicts (Ending Nightmare). The "War on Drugs" drains our country of much needed money and resources for the seizure of marijuana, and yet, marijuana is still plentiful (Ending Nightmare). Sixty percent of prisoners in federal prisons are drug users, mostly ... 359 million every year (Prison Crowding). If marijuana, most of these drug users would be free and there would be more room for convicts of violent crimes like rape and murder. The goal of the War on Drugs is to seize illegal drugs like marijuana, and prevent importation and sale of them. Every year, more money is spent, more drugs are seized, penalties for drug use increase and become more severe, and yet, illegal drugs are still legal (Ending Nightmare). It is clear from this that the War on Drugs has failed, or if it has not failed yet, it will in the near future. Marijuana users who have tried the drug at least once in their life has reached 50 million ...
- 1487: The Stuggle For Europe
- ... student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; yet, they allowed the Soviet Union to overtake Eastern Europe and block the Atlantic Charter from taking effect in those ... Stalin's victory. Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power. Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the war up to the surrender of Germany. In this process Wilmot touches on Hitler's alliance with Mussolini, Hitler's conquest of France, the Lowlands, and the Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in the ... In order to give the Soviet leader his second front in Europe, FDR also put the Japanese problem in the Pacific aside. By providing the reader with first-hand quotes and writings from the Nazi war machine's hierarchy, Wilmot looks at the external and internal workings of the German Wehrmacht in meticulous detail. The U-boat campaign, the inadequacies of the Luftwaffe, and the shortcomings of the Panzer divisions ...
- 1488: All Quiet On The Western Front
- All quiet on the western front, by erich maria remarque, shows some very powerful views toward the Great War. The main character , Paul Baumer, goes through an incredible metamorphsis from an innocent dreamer to a hardened and somewhat cynical veteran. Paul's views started out as being slightly against the war, but not very strongly against it. He didn't seem to mind staying at base camp and hanging out iwth his friends very much. However, after some time fighting the war, he comes to realize that most pre-war society doesn't understand the Great War for what it was. They don't understand the suffering and misery that went witgh wars, and especially trench ...
- 1489: Ku Klux Klan
- ... promote white supremacy. They have been in the shadows for over 130 years and continue to thrive in America's society today. The Ku Klux Klan began almost accidentally during the reconstruction period after the civil war in the Southern United States. The southern people had suffered greatly from the effects of the great war. Many of them lost their homes and plantations. Many also lost friends and loved ones to the war. The people needed a release from the sorrow of everyday life. In 1865, six men from ...
- 1490: Labor And Unions In America
- ... Yet most American workers were generally better off than workers in Europe and had more hope of improving their lives. For this reason, the majority did not join labor unions. In the years following the Civil War (1861-1865), the United States was transformed by the enormous growth of industry. Once the United States was mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900, it was a nation of growing cities, of coal ... of Labor in the president's Cabinet. Most important of all, Congress passed the Clayton Act of 1914. Its purpose was to halt the use of antitrust laws and court injunctions against unions. During World War I, organized labor made great advances. The federal government created the War Labor Board to settle disputes by arbitration. Generally the Board was favorable to wage increases, the eight-hour day and collective bargaining. ...
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