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- 1791: Herman Melville Defined
- ... York. He was the third of eight children who lived in poverty throughout their late childhood. Melville grew up hearing tales of adventure, as his father was a world traveler and both his grandfathers’ Revolutionary War heroes. This prompted him to seek a brave, courageous life, and then put his experiences on paper. Allan Melville died when his son was only twelve. This forced Herman to quit school and find work ... one of their children took his life by gunshot. Still seeking financial comfort, Melville found a customhouse job. He continued to write, and composed and poem called Clarel. Melville also produced another poem despising the Civil War, called Battle Pieces. Hawthorne also despised the war, and was in total agreement with the piece. Nearing the end of his life, Melville finally combined his early adventure style that the public loved, with ...
- 1792: Australia's Future
- ... Russian revolution was very similar. Despite the relative prosperity of Russia in the early 1900s, a malcontented populace resolved to discard the old order for the promised utopia of marxism. The country was plunged into civil war by comrades who intended to improve the community by discarding the monarchy. Social chaos was only ended with the appearance of an absolute monarch, Stalin. A monster who proceeded to imprison, starve and murder the ... to their death in Russian prison camps in the name of communism. The same lunatics who created the killing fields in Cambodia and the same murderers who created the death camps during the last world war. Using the dreadful example of the Nazis as an excuse to enact radical legislation will not stop us repeating the crimes of the Third Reich. The lesson of the Holocaust is not that people ...
- 1793: Asian-Americans And Concentration Camps In WWII
- In the early 1940’s, there was evidence of Japanese-American loyalty and innocence, but the information was not always well known. This, coupled with the factors of war hysteria led to the legal upholding of concentration camps in Korematsu v. U.S. (1944). The injustice was clouded, most immediately by the war, and indirectly by racism at home. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor left a permanent indent on the way Americans viewed the Japanese. Indeed, it was this one act which thrust the isolationist U.S. into the middle of the world’s biggest war. The brutal attack, so close to home, was viewed as sneaky and underhanded. This, added to the fact that the Japanese were rumored to have an amazingly effective spy system on Hawaii and the ...
- 1794: The Advisory Opinion Of The IC
- ... there would be nowhere to hide. Everybody and everything would be destroyed. I remember the shock I felt, I could not understand why would somebody want to destroy me. This was precipitation of the Cold War in a remote village of Eastern Europe. With the end of the Cold War the whole international climate seemed to change fundamentally. The theory that there is no stronger basis to human coexistence than "genocidal fear" was weakened. The arms race ended and it seemed clear that we are ... and the imperfectness of the present regime of monitoring proliferation of nuclear weapons. The nuclear tests by France, India and Pakistan also showed that we are still leaving in a world of a possible nuclear war. The spread of the weapons of mass destruction to officially non-nuclear state mean also a higher risk that it is actually going to be used- intentionally or by accident. In this tense environment ...
- 1795: History Of Lacrosse
- ... team size, and the basic aspects of the game. The differences between the game of old and the one I play. These are some of the things I would like to know more about. The war aspect of the game is really interesting. How the aspects of war were incorporated into the game, and why, plus the rituals performed, were all closely interconnected. Knowing these facts and accounts of lacrosse, before it was changed will help me to understand the game I love ... a symbol of triumph for the Native American culture. Rick Hill Sr., Professor of Native American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo says that in design lacrosse sticks are descendants of war clubs (Conover 33). The sticks were elaborately carved on the butts and handles. The sticks were so important, then and now, to the players that they requested that they be buried with their sticks ...
- 1796: Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb
- ... and The Atomic Bomb As Vice-president, Harry Truman had not known about the development of the atomic bomb. On the day he assumed the Presidency at the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had spoken to him briefly and told him that the United States was working on a weapon of extraordinary power. Twelve days later, on April 25, 1945, Stimson and Maj. Gen. Leslie ... and advisors, but the decision on whether to use it would be his. Truman later said that he had no great difficulty in reaching the decision. The question before him was how to end the war and save lives. He regarded the atomic bomb as a weapon -- an awesome one, to be sure -- but still a weapon to be used. Roosevelt’s view, apparently, had been the same. According to Stimson ... address August 9. Truman said “the United States had used the atomic bomb against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying of war international laws of warfare, We have used it in order to shorten the agonies of war in order to save the lives of ...
- 1797: Dulce et Decorum Est: Analysis
- ... Est: Analysis In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” written by Wilfred Owen, we read of an experience which the poet had during his time as a soldier at the front during the First World War. Although the event described took place a long time ago, it is still significant to me because its essential message, that to fight for one’s country is not a tremendous privilege, is one with which I agree. Owen skilfully creates a clear statement of his disgust at the lies told to young men by the British government in order to encourage them to join the army during World War I. In his poem, Owen describes one particular incident which took place before his eyes, and which illustrates the horror of war. Owen and his platoon of exhausted soldiers were painfully making their way back to base after a harrowing time at the battle front when a gas shell was fired at them, and as a ...
- 1798: Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
- ... of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire's use of satire, and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men are meekly accepting of their fate. Leibniz, a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire's time, developed the idea that the world they were living in at that ... the wager. Another contrast to this "best of all possible worlds" is Eldorado. Voltaire describes Eldorado as an extremely peaceful and serene country. Eldorado, a place that is "impossible" to find, has no laws, jails, war, or need for material goods. Voltaire uses Eldorado as an epitome of the "best of all possible worlds." It contrasts the real outside world in which war and suffering are everyday occurrences. Another example of how Voltaire ridicules Pangloss' optimistic philosophy is the mention of the Lisbon earthquake and fire. Even though the disastrous earthquake took over 30,000 lives, Pangloss ...
- 1799: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945) The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber ... left "wretched" Vienna for Munich, a "true German town." There he drifted from job to job as carpenter, architect's draftsman, and watercolorist. Always he ranted about his political ideas. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he gave up his Austrian citizenship to enlist in the 16th Bavarian infantry regiment. He would not fight for Austria, "but I was ready to die at any time for my ...
- 1800: American Revolution
- ... s Empire was very wast and when the British saw that other nations were benefiting from what they should be benefiting from, they sought to take action, thus triggering the Seven Years’ (French and Indian) War. Known as the "Great War for Empire", the world’s uppermost nations became involved in a battle for control over North America. The British eventually won, gaining full control of the territories that had previously belonged to the French. Great Britain, reestablishing its status, began its conduct over the colonists. After winning the war, it felt it had the right to start controlling the colonies as it pleased. After all, the colonies were the possession of the British, and were entitled to them. Yet the colonists had a ...
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