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- 541: War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
- Then novel War and Peace was written by a famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1865. The novel describes the war with Napoleon in which many countries were involved such as Russia, Austrian, Prussia, Spain, Sweden, and Britain. The novel mainly focuses on Russia. It reflects the different views and participation in the war of Russian aristocracy and peasants and also shows Tolstoy’s negative viewpoint on the war. Showing the war, Tolstoy describes Napoleon’s attack on Russia, the battle of Borodino, the slow retrieval of the ...
- 542: World War I Propaganda
- World War I Propaganda The United States used propaganda to control what people thought and to create positive feelings towards World War I. The newspaper was used to release information that had sometimes been altered to glorify the war. Music and motion pictures were used to try to help the people understand why America was in the war and what was going on overseas. The Committee on Public Information was formed to educate ...
- 543: Barbed Wire By Mary Emeny
- Mary Emeny’s poem, “Barbed Wire,” depicts war as a negative force, destroying every decent aspect of human existence. Written during the Vietnam War, the work displays Emeny’s negative views on war. In one way or another everyone experiences and identifies with the presence of war. Although some wars are fought for justifiable reasons, every war tears into the lives of those undeserving. The tragic effects ...
- 544: Hong Kong
- ... Great Britain. Much foreign exchange comes from the expenditures of the more than 6 million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year. Government Hong Kong is governed with guidance from Great Britain. Paramount military and civil authority is vested in an appointed British governor representing the Crown. The governor presides over and is assisted by a 14- member executive council and a 60-member legislative council. The highest tribunal of the ... pirates and opium smugglers. Britain first used the island as a naval base during the Opium Wars with China. By the Treaty of Nanking (also known as Nanjing) in 1842, which ended the First Opium War, Hong Kong was ceded to the British in perpetuity. After a second conflict in 1860, Great Britain acquired Kowloon and Stonecutters Island and in 1898 obtained the New Territories under a 99-year lease. Hong ... marked by antagonism toward all foreign countries, and a Chinese boycott from 1925 to 1927 denied British shipping access to the ports of southern China. When Japan seized Manchuria in 1932 and the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, China turned to Great Britain and other European countries for its military supplies, and diplomatic relations between the British in Hong Kong and the Chinese became friendlier. Throughout 1937 hundreds ...
- 545: The Killer Angels
- ... Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine which makes up for the lapse. It is safe to say that no other novel has so closely allowed the reader to understand the peculiar madness of this civil war. After reading this powerful, exciting novel one assumes that whenever cultures clash, there will be a final conflict. By showing the reader what the principals of this great battle were (and may have been) current ... is so compelling that the story seldomly deviates from the movie. The movie illustrates Mr. Shaara's ability to tell a complex story with clarity. The novel shows a great depiction of the tragedy of war, like in the part when Armistead races into battle, even though he is fighting his best friend (Hancock), and they both get shot. It really shows the views of each side, and what each ...
- 546: The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess it created. He set fourth his political philosophy in a book called Leviathan, published in 1651. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings in the ...
- 547: Western Films
- ... the James Brothers, the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Billy the Kid). Westerns are often set on the American frontier during the last part of the 19th century (1865-1900) following the Civil War, in a geographically western (trans-Mississippi) setting with romantic, sweeping frontier landscapes or rugged rural terrain. However, Westerns may extend back to the time of America's colonial period or forward to the mid-20th ... Beery who memorably portrayed a Mexican revolutionary in Viva Villa! (1934), Barbara Stanwyck as the famous gunslinger in Annie Oakley (1935) and Randolph Scott in an early large-scale version of the French and Indian War (during America's colonial period) in the film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1936). Cecil B. De Mille's stylish but historically imaginative The Plainsman (1937) starred Gary ...
- 548: Battle Of Gettysburg 2
- There is a lot of controversy as to why the U.S. Civil War started. Historians believe it was merely a difference in the two cultures. The U.S. Civil War was mainly started because of a difference in these two cultures. The South had an agricultural economy, and the North had a manufacturing economy. Because of such different ideals, both areas were fighting ...
- 549: The Killer Angels
- The Killer Angels Most people think of the Civil War as a military battle between the North and South. Without studying the subject, they do not appreciate the facts that make up this historical event. When one reads the novel, The Killer Angels, the reader will have a much better perception and understanding of what actually happened during the war. The Killer Angels, which is written by Michael Shaara, tells the epic story of the great battle of Gettysburg, which left 50,000 Confederate and Union soldiers dead, wounded, or missing. The tale is ...
- 550: German Unificatio
- ... beginning of the Congress of Vienna. The Congress was called in order to restore the balance of power in Europe and also to ensure that France could never again expand outside of its original pre-war borders. The countries that had participated in the coalition in the battle of Leipzig (Russia, Prussia, Britain and Austria) were the major players at the congress. Lands that were originally parts of the French empire ... he was even willing to trick William in order to accomplish the very things that William sent him to do. Bismarck believed in power. In a famous speech, he declared that "iron and blood" (meaning war and industry) would gain unification, not speeches and declaration as in the revolution of 1848. His campaign called for an active foreign policy, and emphasized that Prussia had to keep its power together at all ... s liberalism, but at its power. "I want to play the tune the way it sounds to me or not at all...my pride bids me command rather than obey" - Otto von Bismarck Germany At War Bismarck knew that to achieve his goal of a unified Germany under Prussia, he was going to have to get the people on his side and stop other countries from forming a coalition against ...
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