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- 3021: The Rebellion Against Victoria
- ... the climate of change in the English culture and its expressions. The changes occurred in two separate and distinct time periods. These time periods are the turn of the century from 1890's to World War II. The second period is WWII to 1970's. The new century brought about an end to the old and stuffy Victorian life-styles. The social stigmas of women and their behavior was challenged and ... of Lords would be flooded with liberal Middle class citizens. The referendum was then passed and the deadlock broken. This shift of power was crucial in the infrastructure of the political system of England. World War I left a tremendous impression of reality on the English. Their confidence was compromised due to the ineffectiveness in combat and their dependence of United States aid for victory. This is the true end of ... all of the glory held by the British Empire. The English were left with a tremendous national debt totalling at $7 billion dollars. England would never be a hegemon in the international community again. World War II brought a feeling of unity back to England. "The Battle for Britain" with the inspirational radio speeches of Winston Churchill inspired national pride to the British. The period of decline enhanced by WW ...
- 3022: Auschwitz
- ... world’s largest and most feared empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the British Empire. The most overwhelming and terrifying aspect of the Second World War has got to be the ghettos, concentration camps and of course the death camps. The camp that stands out in everybody’s mind has got to be Auschwitz. Out of the 6.8 million killed ... later on the experiments in the basement of Block 11 and later in Gas Chamber and Crematorium 1, Hoess said: “ At the time I did not think about the problem of killing Soviet prisoners of war. It was an order and I had to execute it. However, I will say frankly that killing that group of people by gas relieved my anxieties. It would soon be necessary to start the mass ... concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors-700,000 annually-had passed through the iron gates that bear the cynical motto Arbeit macht frei (work makes one free). German war interests required the maximization of economic benefits from this cold-blooded murder. Before the bodies were burned the victim's hair was cut off and fillings and false teeth made of precious metals were ...
- 3023: The French Revolution
- ... the constitutional monarchy, while the radicals distrusted the king and wanted a republic. These were the causes of the French Revolution. Many peoples' lives were changed during this time. Peoples' ideas also changed. After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred. When Louis XVI and his wife fled to the Legislative Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for a national convention to write ... would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerful nations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very hard for France. This war caused many deaths at home due to starvation. At this point in the Revolution, some people thought that the Revolution had gone too far and should be ...
- 3024: Max Planck
- ... up Einstein's theory of relativity. After he retired as a physicist which was around the time Hitler rose to power Planck focused on philosophical and questions of faith in his writings. During the World War I he stayed in Germany to preserve as much as he could of German physics. The later part of Max Planck's life is filled with sadness. In 1909 his first wife died after twenty ... in 1916 and then one year later Margarete one of his daughters died in child birth. Two years later, Emma his other twin daughter died the same death as her sister. As if the first war hadn't damaged him enough World War II destroyed his house completely and his younger son was painfully killed by the Gestapo for trying to assassinate Hitler in 1944. By the time the war ended Max Planck lost the will to ...
- 3025: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... doors". The Fleming family earned their social stripes with service and blood. Ian's father was a service-oriented land-owner in Oxfordshire and a member of Parliament. When Valentine Fleming died in the Great War, Ian was almost nine. Winston Churchill wrote the obituary for the Times. Fleming's mother, Evelyn St. Croix Rose Fleming, inherited Valentine's large estate in trust, making her a very wealthy woman. The trust ... time assistant to the director, taking the rank of Lieutenant, and later Commander. Fleming became the right-hand man to one of Britain's top spymasters, Admiral John Godfrey. During the last year of the war, Fleming traveled to Jamaica for a Naval conference. The trip, though brief, revealed the lush island to Fleming. Here there was no war, no rationing, no food shortages. Fruit lay rotting on the trees and fine rum flowed from the plantations. Every person plans to run off to some tropical isle, but few do. Real life, family, ...
- 3026: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ... her husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick. Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war. Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany. He witnessed first-hand the bombing of Dresden by the British and Americans. He uses Slaughterhouse-Five to show that the human race ...
- 3027: John Maynard Keynes
- ... the University of Cambridge. Keynes began his career at the India office of the British government. During this time in his career he wrote a book called “Indian Currency and Finance” in 1913. During World War I he worked in the treasury in which he represented at the Paris Peace Conference 1919. Keynes decided to resign his position in office because he disagreed with economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles ... prescription was that the government raises its spending and/or reduces its taxes in order to increase the economy's aggregate demand curve and put the unemployed back to work. As Great Britain entered World War II, Keynes went and published another book called, “How to Pay for the War”. In this book he talked about how people should automatically take out a portion of their income and invest it into government bonds. Because of this idea he was made a baron. A little ...
- 3028: John Paul Jones
- ... behalf. Because of this he fled to America and changed his name to John Paul Jones of which he was called for the rest of his life. He arrived in America just as the Revolutionary War was starting and joined the revolution effort. He was made a first lieutenant on an American ship and gradually, through his almost unbelievable successes, became captain of his own ship. He successfully completed many missions ... at first that they were some sort of convoy heading toward Leith from London but as he gazed upon his prey he noticed that two of the ships had pendants hoisted, classifying them ships of war. All of the ships except the two that appeared to be armed headed for shore by some sand bars which would be hard for the Americans to attack, while the remaining two made way for ... and informed Captain Jones that they were armed British merchant ships. In addition, they told him that a King's frigate was nearby and that they perceived the Richard to be an English Ship of War. Captain Jones went along with the deception and managed to lure the other merchant ships out into the bay. Very quickly, the British ships realized who Bonhomme Richard actually was, and the Pallas was ...
- 3029: Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System
- Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System I. FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS A. 63,000 civil cases filed by inmates in 1995 1. one-fourth of all civil filings in the United States 2. prisoners don’t pay court costs B. Prison food lawsuits 1. Lawrence Bittaker suit a) soggy sandwiches b) broken cookies C. Abuse by prison officials 1. brain implant transmitted ... cast themselves as the victims rather than the offenders and take revenge against society. (Van Atta, 67) Every time an inmate sues, it costs taxpayers thousands of dollars. In 1995 alone, more than 63,000 civil cases were filed in federal district courts by inmates, one-fourth of all federal civil filings in the country. (Van Atta, 66) Unlike most U.S. citizens, inmates most often do not have to ...
- 3030: John Locke 3
- ... Locke was very famous for his thoughts throughout history in many countries. He was one of the first people that thought that Religion and state should be separated. Locke published anonymously his two treaties of civil government in 1690. He had worked on this for many years. The first treaty attacked on views expressed in "Sir Robert Filmers Patriarch." The second treaty takes Locke's own positive contribution to political philosophy ... social philosophy was very great in his whole career. According to Locke most people neglect their understanding and consequently fall short of what they could attain in a life time. Locke's two articles on civil government first appeared to the public anonymously in 1690. Only in his will did Locke acknowledge authorship of the works he had written. It is generally assumed that the first article was written in the ... any questions concerning the nature of human beings. Locke's Social and political philosophy is based upon certain assumptions concerning the origin of government. The primitive condition of human beings and the steps by which civil society was established. According to Locke people live in a state of prior to the formation of the government. Locke insists that people are naturally equal in the sense that no one has natural ...
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