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- 2461: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- ... huge hatred for Jews and Slavs and became an extreme nationalist. He recognized that no form of government could ever last as long as the people of all different nationalities were treated equally. When the war broke out in 1914, Hitler immediately volunteered. He was accepted and served as a messenger. But Hitler was too smart to stay as merely a messenger. His knowledge of war and his extreme military tactics helped him to achieve the rank of corporal. After Germany’s defeat in World War I, the country went into a state of turmoil. When Hitler recovered from the shock of having lost the war, he joined a small political group called the German Workers Party. He quickly gained ...
- 2462: Heart of Darkness: Different Centers of Darkness
- ... the lures of man’s primal, animalistic nature, as the reason for colonial Kurtz’s shedding of civilization. However, it is the nebulous role of the American army in Vietnam, and the horrible attributes of war, that drive Col. Kurtz into a dark realization that war cannot be fought successfully, if one does not come to terms with the “horror and moral terror.” He disclosed the notion of civilization from war, thus becoming a ruthless, yet effective fighting machine. Nevertheless, it is this venture into gloom that ends up destroying Col. Kurtz. Finally, Dorall mentions that most critics see The Heart of Darkness as a ...
- 2463: The Odyssey: The Qualities That Gain Respect
- ... the Ancient Greeks interacting with the gods. The characters live their lives to please the gods because they fear them. The Greeks highly value good qualities such as intelligence, braveness, and being a mastermind of war. This is why Odysseus, a Greek man, is looked upon so favorably. Odysseus is a man with the good qualities of intelligence, braveness, and mastermind of war that the Greeks and the gods respect. One of Odysseus’ most favorable traits is his intelligence. Zeus, the most powerful god, once said of Odysseus that “there is no mortal half as wise” (3). Odysseus ... lash were seared; the pierced ball hiss broiling, and the roots popped” (156). The bravery of Odysseus saves his life in many situations. Another of Odysseus great characteristics is that he is a mastermind of war. Nestor, a wise old man, remarks to Telemakhos, Odysseus’ son, that “as to stratagems, no man would claim Odysseus’ gift for those. He had no rivals, your father at the tricks of war” (38). ...
- 2464: Decriminalization vs. Prohibition
- ... trying them, because once a person starts, they can't stop. It was a few years later that I heard the other side of the story. I learned that not only were we losing the war on drugs, but that the war had been corrupted. The government was wasting money on something without a cause, or hope. It wasn't long after that when I tried marijuana for the first time. I remember it well. I was ... articles about the sixties. I also casually talked to several people who had experience with drugs. It was through this research that I found out some interesting facts. First was the mere cost of the war on drugs. The federal government spends billions of dollars a year on drug enforcement and billions more on drug- related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for this war on ...
- 2465: Lord Of The Flies
- In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple who share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. This story takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This hardship results in a digression of values both morally and socially. The love that Brett and Jake share is symbolic of the general decline in values in that ... everything she does. Jake’s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the same: anything goes as long as you eventually come back to me. Jake is forced to accept living in this seemingly terrible way for more than one reason. He a weak person socially, but he is also physically disabled because of an injury that he suffered during the war. He suffered an injury that caused him to be castrated. The first hint of this is when he says to Georgeette ³I was hurt in the war (24) in refrence to why they can ...
- 2466: Hitler And The Nazi Party
- ... power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors. He was the right man at the right time to take advantage of the problems that had arisen in Germany in the post war years. In the post war years of the 1920's to the 1930's, the German people had many grievances. The biggest of which was the economy. The hyperinflation of the early 1920's, in January 1921 the German mark ... well-meaning men, representing the inflation impoverished middle class and business. They relied on chronic credit inflation (which put them more and more into debt. The Germans were also upset by the loss of World War 1, but the thing that made them the maddest, is the punishment enforced on them as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Such as redistribution of territory, reduction of Germany's fighting power ...
- 2467: Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies
- ... meeting places. They lived in scattered villages that were organized by a system of matrilineal clans. A calendar cycle of ceremonies reflected their agricultural, hunting, and gathering. The men hunted, cleared fields, traded and made war. The woman gathered various wild plant foods and tended gardens. They had a great agricultural economy. Their man crop was corn, but they also grew pumpkins, beans, tobacco, maize, squash and later on they grew ... in 1779. He greatly opposed land sales to settlers, but to gain his people's support he secretly sold land to keep esteem among the white people. When the Seneca were put into the Revolutionary War in support of the British, Red Jacket proved to be a very unenthusiastic warrior. He earned himself the name Red Jacket from wearing the British's red coat. During the War of 1812 he fought on the American side against the British. Cornplanter- Cornplanter was a famous Seneca Indian chief and statesman, who during the American Revolution led his warriors against the colonists in many ...
- 2468: Things Fall Apart 7
- ... clansmen. Okonkwo is a warrior by nature and whenever he [is] angry and [can] not get his words out quickly enough, he [uses] his fists. (4) He [is] a man of action, a man of war. Unlike his father he [can] stand the look of blood. In Umuofia s latest war he [is] the first one to bring home a human head. (10) This is in contrast to the rest of the clan who believe that the missionaries pose no threat. Okonkwo however, feels that immediate ... is] useless. Okonkwo s machete descend[s] twice and the man s head [is laying] beside his uniformed body. (204) Okonkwo [stands] looking at the dead man. He [knows] that Umuofia [will] not go to war. He [knows] because they let the other messengers escape. They [have] broken into tumult instead of action, (205) and he mourn[s] for the warlike men of Umuofia, who [have] so unaccountably [have] become ...
- 2469: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... both have different reasons for wanting Palestine and there have been many conflicts and wars between the two groups. Arabs The Arabs have had the area of Palestine for about two thousand years. After World War One the League of Nations said that the Jews should have there own state. But after WWII the United Nations gave the Jews an area of Palestine known as Israel. Now the Arabs are thinking ... Arab nation launched an attack hoping to overthrow Israel. The next year Israel beat the Arab nations and got some of Arab Palestine, some of those places include West Jerusalem and 'Akko. The Six Day War in 1967 proved to be a good win for Israel after that war Israel controlled The Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, All of Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. "Following the war the guerrilla organizations within the Palestine Liberation Organization carried out terrorist attacks on Israeli ...
- 2470: Political Criticism On The Eng
- From the war-torn wastelands of Europe to the exotic Cairo, The English Patient, is a reader's delight. This novel set in the twilight stages of the Second World War was created by Michael Ondaatje. Amongst Caravaggio, Hanna, Almasy and other minor characters, Kip is the only coloured character in the cast. Almasy, is the sick patient while Hana nurses him. Caravaggio is a thief who used to work for the Allies while Kip forages through the war torn regions of Europe, incapacitating unexploded bombs. The story revolves around a few individuals and reflects upon the metamorphosis of their lives, brought about by the war. However, while the story vitally revolves around ...
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