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- 891: Ernest Hemingway
- ... words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest is shot in ... a hospital, tended by a caring nurse named Agnes. Like Frederick Henry, in the book, he fell in love with the nurse and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt ... being a man. They could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star. Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during the war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was destroyed. Hadley became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ...
- 892: Atomic Bomb 6
- ... first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction. Harry S. Truman appears to be perfectly confident in his radio ... that makes it unclear to many just how agonizing and belabored his decision was. While at the time, to the public, the dropping of the atomic bomb was perfectly justified by the horrors of World War II. However, looking at this subject in retrospect, the atomic bomb has been lowered from its savior status, and in some people s eye s ranks among the world s most horrible crimes of war. This debate has raged between historians for years, yet research and articles written in recent years how show the atomic bomb not only ended the war is a timely fashion but also, holistically, saved ...
- 893: The Spanish American War
- Introduction The Spanish American War marked the emergence of the United States of America as a world power. The war which lasted only 10 weeks between April and August of 1898 took place over the liberation of Cuba. In the course of the war the U.S. won Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands. A large aspect to the begining of the war was the explosion and sinking of the Maine on February 15 1898 at 9: ...
- 894: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest is shot in ... a hospital, tended by a caring nurse named Agnes. Like Frederick Henry, in the book, he fell in love with the nurse and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt ... being a man. They could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star. Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during the war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was destroyed. Hadley became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ...
- 895: Communist Containment In Asia
- ... Union b. China c. Spread V. Events leading up. VI. Why the United States decided to attempt to contain it. VII. Goals of the containment. VIII. The Truman Doctrine. a. Success IX. Conclusion. During World War II, Communism, combined with fascism, had proven to be very dangerous. Joseph Stalin had obtained absolute power in Russia as a result. The Communists saw their way to be perfect, and they had the idea ... the most from it. This is where the conflicts arise. Between 1945 and 1975, the number of countries under communist rule increased greatly. This is partly because of the way the victorious powers of World War II divided the world amongst themselves. This is also due to the fact that countries such as China and The Soviet Union pushed their beliefs tyrannically on other weak countries. The Soviet Union began its ... result, was organized in Shanghai in1921. Among its original members was Mao Tsetung. There was a large amount of conflict between communist and anti-communist powers in china. This eventually led to a full-scale civil war. Unfortunately, the communists would come out victorious. The United States was deeply involved in World War II when shocking news swept the nation. The president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had died. As a direct ...
- 896: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anti-communist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. "'I know that building' said Winston finally. Its a ruin now. It's in the middle of the street outside the Palace of Justice.' That's ...
- 897: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... became a leader in a difficult struggle, the Indian campaign for home rule. He worked to reconcile all classes and religious sects. Gandhi meant not only technical self-government but also self-reliance. After World War I, in which he played an active part in recruiting campaigns, he launched his movement of passive resistance to Great Britain. When the Britain government failed to make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of ... for nationhood, gave Gandhi complete executive authority, with the right of naming his own successor. A series of armed revolts against Great Britain broke out, culminating in such violence that Gandhi confessed failure of the civil-disobedience campaign he had called, and ended it. The British government again seized and imprisoned him in 1922. In 1930 the Mahatma proclaimed a new campaign for civil disobedience, calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign was a two hundred mile march to the sea, in which thousands of Indians followed Gandhi ...
- 898: The Fires Of Jubilee
- ... and hold them in suspense has earned him several awards throughout his lustrous career. Some of the awards that Oates has received are the Christopher Award and the Barondess/Lincoln Award of the New York Civil War Round Table. His work has gained worldwide notoriety and is currently translated in four different languages: French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The Fires of Jubilee took place in Southampton, Virginia and County Seat, Jerusalem during ... The Fires of Jubilee a true reference guide to American history, I would consider this to be a good reference for understanding how detrimental and harmful racism can be. After all, that was what the Civil Rights was fought for, to gain the freedom of slaves all across the nation, to try and give them back what whites had taken from them for so long, something in which they had ...
- 899: Malcolm X
- ... a country which claimed to be the champion of democracy yet denied that self-same democracy to its own twenty million strong black population. Although slavery had been abolished in America after the 1861-1865 Civil War, negroes were still treated as the lowest of the low, not only in the deeply bigoted South but also in the supposedly liberal North. In many Southern towns blacks were not allowed on the streets ... Red' because of his reddish hair, he got involved, first, in the gambling racket and then as a pusher in the thriving drugs trade which was sweeping America's urban centres. Throughout the second world war he sold reefers, provided black prostitutes for rich, white men and used endless quantities of cocaine and marijuana, sinking, in his own words, to the very bottom of the American White Man's society. ...
- 900: Jacob Stroyer
- ... event led to the freedom of all slaves. Northerners were against slavery and white Southerners felt that slavery was needed to continue their prosperous way of living. Conflict between the two regions led to the Civil War in 1861, and the country was torn apart. After four years and the loss of 617,000 American lives, the Union was saved and African Americans were promised the rights of citizens and slavery was abolished. After the Civil War, Stroyer and his family moved to Salem, Massachusetts. Here Stroyer served as an African Methodist Episcopal Minister. Unlike many other slave narrative writers who were taught at an early age how to read ...
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