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- 3221: George Bush Biography
- ... of the baseball and soccer teams, and also played varsity basketball. After graduating prep school in 1942, his original plans of attending Yale University had been delayed due to the U.S. interest in World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. National Reserve where he received flight training and became the Navy's youngest pilot. In 1942, he flew the U.S.S. San Jacinto in the Pacific Ocean ... S. Finback, a U.S. submarine. Bush was recognized for his brave, heroic efforts by receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, and after recovery served at the Oceana Naval Air Station until the end of the war in August of 1945. Shortly before the end of the war, George Bush married Barbara Pierce, a lady he once met at a Christmas dance. His marriage did not stop him from furthering his education though; George had entered Yale in the fall of 1945. ...
- 3222: Comparison Of Hitler And Stali
- During the period leading up to World War II, there were two men who were on opposing sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each triumphant in their rise to power in their countries and they were very ... that what they were saying was the absolute truth. Using this power, they would get people to do anything for them, which proves their amorality. Since their countries were still trying to recover from World War I, they desired to restore the power back in to their countries. These three reasons will prove that Hitler and Stalin were similar in many ways. The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous ... further themselves. With Hitler and Stalin being such amoral people and willing to do anything, they would do what they could to benefit their countries. Each of their countries had suffered great losses in World War I and were still trying to recover when they came into power. Restoring the power back into their countries was of great importance to both men. After World War I, Russia had 9,150, ...
- 3223: The Torpedoes
- The Torpedoes The pre-war issue torpedo had the disadvantage of leaving a visible trail of bubbles on the surface on its way to the target. The standard torpedo of the war suffered from early problems with its internal depth-keeping equipment, and its firing pistol, but these were solved after the Norwegian Campaign. In mid 1942 an improved version was introduced with an increased battery capacity ... to be an escort-killer, it achieved some early minor success only to be countered by the allied Foxer noise-making decoy. It was scoring hits against escort and merchants to the end of the war though. The weapon was designed to lock onto the loudest noise after a run of 400m from its launch. This often proved to be the U-boat itself and standard issue-orders were to ...
- 3224: The Concept And Antilogy Of Ne
- ... short stories tied together by a common theme, examines the many facets of necessity and poses a question of just how valuable the things we hold to be necessities really are. During the confusion of war, the definition of necessity becomes rather slippery in the minds of the soldiers and in such desperate situations, a soldier may find himself holding on to all he can. Despite the fact that these objects ... s soldiers necessities, comic books and drugs are placed in the same paragraph. They are masked as necessities and placed on almost the same level as food and weapons. This defines the intense pressures of war on men. Perhaps the men feel emptiness which drives them to think that they need the extra accessories, which have nothing to do with survival, in order to fill the emotional void caused by the atrocities of war. The entire first chapter consists of the objects and emotions that these men would carry on a daily basis; things that they would bear, no matter how ironic they may be, in order to ...
- 3225: Thomas More's Utopia
- ... disadvantages. Politically there were many problems. For example, the kings abused the power they had, not only politically, but in other aspects of society as well. Most Kings were "more interested in the science of war...than in useful peacetime techniques." Much time was spent forming armies and the forming war plans. In addition, the Kings displayed difficulty in changing tradition and old ways of governing. It would be mentioned by the Kings when questioned on policies, "This was good enough for our ancestors, and who ... they'll always give a verdict in his favour." Problems are created when the ruler of a nation abuses his power. Problems existed in the case of the military as there was more focus on war than solving peacetime concerns. The military consisted largely of veteran soldiers. In actuality, "they put so little faith in raw recruits that they deliberately start wars to give their soldiers practice." This is clearly ...
- 3226: Heinrich Himmler
- ... president, a former tutor to the princes of the Bavarian court, and a headmaster by profession. Himmler originally intended to be a farmer and in fact acquired a degree in agronomy. He fought in World War I at the every end, and afterwards drifted into one of the many right wing soldier's organizations that were so prevalent at the time. It is here that he came into contact with Hitler ... the concentration camps, which up to that time housed prisoners of the state. Himmler's men staged the phony border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS - the Waffen SS - began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, culminating in Himmler's being named Minister of the Interior in ...
- 3227: D-Day
- ... of the Seine River. This is believed by some as his most fatal mistake. Today we know this colossal invasion as D-Day. Midsummer 1943, Nazi Germany was at its zenith. Their Blitzkrieg or lightning war tactics had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushed US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston ... Germans. Plans though always fell through due to lack of numbers and insufficient military craft. Britain however, began to conjure theoretical plans to return to the main land. Then on December 11, 1941 Hitler declared war against the United States. This caused military officials to begin planning their own timetable. The two then sternly pressed for an early invasion. Initially, wishful thinking set an attack in 1943. George Marshall, chief of ... these air attacks were to deceive the Nazi into thinking landings would be made more north-east than what the actual plan called for. In what might have been the most catalystic event in the war, Allies were able to decode encrypted transmissions of where the counterattack forces would be stationed. The Allies then created a phantom army to be purposely found out about. Superior technology allowed the Allies to ...
- 3228: Gregory (Panos Ionnides)
- ... liberation from British domination continues for every cypriot living in Cyprus at around this time. This story Gregory by Panos Ionnides is the direct result of Ionnides' first-hand experience as a soldier during the war when he and a former cypriot, Guerilla, were guarding a british soldier. The soldier was executed in restitution for a violent act played on by the British. Also, the late 1950's was a time ... can assume this based on the fact that he carried out headquarter's task of executing despite how gruesome he may have founded it to be. Also, we can't forget that this was a war. The executioner posessed the typical signs of honor and discipline a normal soldier would have towards his/her higher chief. After all, if there was the slightest bit of betrayl sensed on the behalf of ... is headquarters. In the end, he killed Gregory. He had to, it was his job. He HONORED his job, he honored headquarters. Afterall, it was either Gregory's life or his own. Logically during a war, the task at-hand is to stay alive. Obviously the executioner didn't want to die so he sought-through his job. But it was interesting how after he killed Gregory, the intensity of ...
- 3229: Helen Keller
- ... with such lyric power," (Notable 390). Also, a collection of socialist essays entitled, Out of the Dark, was published in 1913. Helen became active in politics once again when the President relinquished neutrality in World War I (Notable 391). She was against war and supported the Industrial Workers of the World once again. Helen also began to support many other movements during this time such as the abolition of capital punishment and child labor, the birth control movement ... in 1932. In 1935 she helped enforce Title X in the 1935 Social Security Act. This recognized the blind as a group to receive federal grant assistance. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War II, Helen supported President Roosevelt's decision to join with the democracies. She showed her support by touring military hospitals. After 1960, Helen retired from her public speaking and traveling. Her health was beginning ...
- 3230: Existentialism
- Existentialism 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 ...
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