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- 3211: Conscription Crisis Of 1917
- The year 1917, was a time of worry and despair. As there was not enough people in Europe to fight in the war. Ideas of conscription floated through the minds of members of Parliament. Before WW1 began, the French and the English were already having disagreements over Regulation 17, which was introduced by the Ontario Department of Education ... French Canadians were beginning to have serious doubts about the need to go and fight against the "Prussians" Tempers flared at both ends of the school debate. An angry Henri Bourassa declared that the real war was not in Euope but in Ontario. The bitterness towards the English weakened support for the war in Quebec. Men were desparately needed on the battlefield. Prime Minister Robert Borden travelled to Europe to see for himself how the war was going. He knew that there was no way Canada would ...
- 3212: The Causes of the French Revolution
- ... two main ways. The French had suffered big defeats and therefore had lost men and supplies. They also had failed to gain any territory; in fact they often lost a lot of it. The worst war was the Seven Years War as this war drained the most out of France and this was when France lost most of her colonies toBritain. The peasants had many grievances. One of the main grievances was the seigniorial system. This system allowed ...
- 3213: Congresswoman Rep. Maxine Wate
- ... International Operations documented the extensive role of the CIA in creating, operating, maintaining, and directing the Contra operations. Among the conclusion of its 1,166-page report, the committee reported: ¨ "Drug traffickers used the contra war as their ties to the contras as a cover for their criminal enterprises in Honduras and Costa Rica. Assistance from the drug lords was crucial to the contras, and the traffickers in turn promoted and ... The stylistic device Climax was used to raise the importance of the government involvement in drug trafficking. " The notion that a U.S. government agency know about the drug-tainted resources that were funding a war in Nicaragua, and idea that those involved allowed a major infusion of cocaine onto the streets of America because of its blind devotion to win a war - a war which was at the time being conducted secretly - is among the more devastating assertions one could make this government"(Letter to Henry Hyde). How could a government use its own people as ...
- 3214: Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X
- ... re not ready to get involved with either one of those, you are satisfied with the status quo. That means we'll have to change you." (Malcom X) While Martin Luther King promoted non-violence, civil rights, and the end to racial segregation, a man of the name of Malcom X dreamed of a separate nation. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation. A Southerner, a black man ... separation and injustice, he wrung his eloquent statement of what America could be. (Ansboro, pg.1) An American clergyman and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, he was one of the principle leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950's and 1960's, helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King became the symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. ("King, Martin Luther, Jr.," pg. 1) In 1964, Malcom X founded an ...
- 3215: Early Roman Religion
- ... but he contained his own characteristics that made him distinct. Jupiter was usually represented in art sitting on an ivory throne and holding a sheaf of thunderbolts. In Roman mythology, Mars was the god of war, of agriculture, and of the state. He was the son of Juno, the husband of the goddess Bellona, and the lover of Venus. He was originally Mars Sylvanus, a god of spring vegetation. As Mars Gradivus, he was identified with the Greek war god Ares. His festivals in the month March (March named after him) and October marked the opening and closing of the military campaign season. As Mars Quirinius, god of the state, he was the father ... aspects of the life of women, most particularly married life. She also watched over the finances of the Roman state. In Roman mythology Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, of arts and crafts, and of war. Originally, Minerva had been an important Etruscan deity of the dawn. She was the daughter of Pallas, a giant, whom she killed when he tried to rape her. After the Romans identified Minerva with ...
- 3216: Japanese Animation
- Thirty-five years ago, Japan’s entertainment industry found an answer to its problems. Still developing in the aftermath of defeat in World War II, and the subsequent restructuring plan instituted by the United States, Japan was without surplus resources. There was no money for the production of films. American films soon began invading the Japanese entertainment industry. Yet ... subjects as historical nonfiction. A recent example of one such animated film is “Barefoot Gen,” an animated feature documenting the horrific experiences of a young survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II (Matsumoto, 72). The plot of the film is set entirely in the aftermath of the bombing, and concentrates on telling the mental and emotional experiences Gen has as the only surviving member of his ... features unseen at all in American animation. For instance, concepts seeming bizarre in relation to American animators’ subjects, and American entertainment in general such as “genetically engineered telepathic, techno-organic viruses that plague post-apocalyptic war-torn societies, in addition to complex personal relationships between the main characters” (Ledoux, 27) are made manifest in anime. Japanese animation is the only medium in which diverse topics are typically followed within the ...
- 3217: Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... The Life of Castruccio Castracani, a narrative essay on the life of man, who founded the state of Lucca in Tuscany, in the fourteenth century. Machiavelli published seven books in 1521 entitled The Art of War. The seven books contain Machiavelli's ideas on war tactics and the superiority of national troops over mercenaries. The Medici family used Machiavelli's services again in 1525; they commissioned him to write The History of Florence. A year later in 1526, Pope Clement ... Mixed troops are better than mercenaries or auxiliary troops, but native troops are incomparable. Machiavelli blames the foreign domination of Italy on the use of mercenaries that were hired to stop Charles VIII in 1494. War is the great equalizer, it can allow a prince to maintain his princedom, and can raise an average man to a seat of power. A prince should study the history of war, imitate the ...
- 3218: Existentialism And Theatre
- Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan ... world, since "if the world were clear, art would not exist". "The Myth of Sisyphus" became a prototype for existentialism in the theatre, and eventually The Theatre of the Absurd. Right after the Second World War, Paris became the theatre capital of the west, and popularized a new form of surrealistic theatre called "Theatre of the Absurd". Many historians contribute the sudden popularity of absurdism in France to the gruesome revelations of gas chambers and war atrocities coming out of Germany after the war. The main idea of The Theatre of the Absurd was to point out man's helplessness and pointless existence in a world without purpose. As Richard ...
- 3219: Existentialism In Film
- ... time. Two films, Detour and Force of Evil, are often called the definitive film noir. A host of others like them would follow the example. Detour was terribly controversial in its day, depicting a returning war veteran who aimlessly wanders around the country and eventually is involved in a murder scheme. It was shot on a low budget, and in only six days' time. The censorship board refused to allow its ... never punished for his crime. A final scene in which he is picked up by the police had to be added. The film capitalized on the historical situation emerging in the United States after World War II. Men were returning home to find America very different from how it was when they had left it. Behind the façade of the suburban middle class was the seedy world of the disenfranchised. The ... philosophical in a medium accessible to thinking individuals who may not be formal students of philosophy. Whereas the "existential" films prior to Bergman and were inspired not so much by existentialist thought but by post-war shifts in culture, the "existential" films that follow Bergman and Fellini are not necessarily inspired directly by existentialist thought, but are certainly inspired by Bergman and Fellini and by what existentialism in part stands ...
- 3220: Cassablanca
- ... known to date. That movie, Casablanca, based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick's", still captivates audiences around the world. The setting of the movie is Casablanca, Morocco during the second world war. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America, but refugees must obtain a fairly costly exit Visa to get onto the plane. In the middle of all this is ... till the last few moments of the movie but despite all that, it made it bigger than any other movie in it's time. The movie took place in 1942 and was based around world war II which in reality was taking place as they filmed. It was because of the war that Rick and Ilsa were separated, and this was an idea that was not so far fetched and something that the audience could identify with. This was important because it captivated the audience and ...
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