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- 311: Women In World War I
- Women In World War I Women of the United States gained status in their lives both job/society oriented as well as in their influence on governmental influence in World War I. Throughout the United States before World War I, women were viewed as a lower "class" of people, as the inferior of men, however, during the war when women were needed to do the jobs of men who left for the war, ...
- 312: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- The Disillusionment of Hemingway with War Hemingway uses certain repetitive themes and ideas in his book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which relate to the grander dogma that he is trying to teach. By using these reoccurring ideas, he is able to make clear his views on certain issues and make the reader understand his thoughts. The most notable of this reoccurring theme is that of war. Hemingway uses the war concept as paradoxical irony in this book, to tell the reader what the thinks about war. It is even more interesting to note that rather than this theme being derived from this war theme, ...
- 313: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War? In 1945, the first atomic bomb in the world was dropped on Hiroshima. There is still discussion that the dropping was really necessary or unnecessary. I think that America should not have dropped the atomic ... bomb because I can not understand the necessity of the dropping of the atomic bomb for America.Then, why did America invent the atomic bomb? The reason had very much to do with the World War?. America was the first country that succeeded inventing this weapon, and that invention was epoch-making at that time. In fact, the able doctors in Germany, which was the enemy of the Allied Forces including ... with drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by America. Therefore we must think about propriety of that drop of it again. In addition to that, more than fifty years have passed since the World War ? ended. There seem to be many young people including me who have not thought about the atomic bomb dropped on Japan, but we have to learn the history of our own country and have ...
- 314: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas. In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific (1941-42) but returned to Capitol Hill when Roosevelt recalled members of Congress from active duty. Johnson continued ... to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil rights legislation until 1957, he developed excellent personal relationships with powerful conservative Southerners. A hard worker, he impressed colleagues with his attention to the details of legislation and his willingness to compromise. In the ...
- 315: St. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Law Theory; Just War Theory
- St. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Law Theory; Just War Theory Natural Law is a set of morals, based on what are assumed to be the everlasting characteristics of human nature, that serves as a standard for evaluating conduct and civil laws. It is considered essentially enduring and astronomically relevant, because of the double meaning of the word nature, the meaning of natural varies. Thus, natural law may be considered an ideal to which humanity aspires or a general fact, the way human beings usually act. Natural law is contrasted with positive law, the enactment's of civil society. Christians found the natural law ideology of the Stoics quite compatible with their beliefs. The teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas on the natural law is the most widely known. Aquinas called the rational ...
- 316: The Invention of the Telegram
- ... was sent from Germany to the German minister in Mexico. This message, later to be known as the Zimmermann Telegram was the final piece to a German plot to embroil the United States into a war with Mexico, Japan or both in order to cripple Allied supply lines fueling Allied operations in Europe. The actual telegram was translated to as follows: "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted ... warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the united States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal or alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you. You will inform the President of the above most secretily as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative , invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. ...
- 317: Walt Whitman
- ... poet of American democracy. He was known as the "Son of Long Island," and he loved his country and everything about it. (Current, Williams, Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived during the time of the Civil War; a fact that increased his patriotism. Whitman was considered one of the most important American Poets of the 19th Century. (Encyclopedia of World Biography- page 249). He influenced the direction of 20th Century poets such ... had one sibling who was insane, one who was severely retarded, one who died at infancy, one who died of alcoholism, one who died of tuberculosis, and one who fought and almost died in the Civil War. These things directly effected the writing of this poem. (Lowen, Nancy- page 6). "Song to Myself" spoke of his childhood and how it directly affected the fact that he was going to reject ...
- 318: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen World War One, or the Great War as it was sometimes known, took place between 1914 and 1918. During this time there were many emotions shown by people of all walks of life. Emotions, which could only be brought out by ...
- 319: Diad Germany Cause WW1?
- Did Germany cause World War 1? Although in the Treaty of Versailles Germany was to accept full responsibility for World War 1 this in not necessarily the case. Many factors have to be taken into account when considering the cause of World War 1. Germany may have been primarily responsible for the war but the other major powers must accept some of the blame for failing to prevent it. The conflict resulting from the assassination of Archduke ...
- 320: A Horseman In The Sky
- ... story takes place in Virginia in 1861. A soldier, Carter Druse, has fallen asleep at his post on a sunny autumn day. Because the story takes place in 1861, the soldier is serving in the Civil War. He was happily living in Virginia with his parents, when a Union regiment came to the town he was living in. Although he was being a traitor to the south he joined the Union army ... on without you.” He was very tired, and the sun soothed him to sleep, so he slept, knowing that if he was caught he would be shot. Ambrose Bierce wrote this story with an anti-war theme in mind. He wrote his anti-war satires empathizing the brutality and human wreckage of war. He hated war. In 1861 he responded to the first call for war volunteers by enlisting in ...
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