|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1291 - 1300 of 1572 matching essays
- 1291: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... the de facto government, and the American Minister would immediately recognize them. Whip fooled Micah into wanting to get the United States to annex Hawaii, because he scared him with stories that Japan, England, or Germany might want to take over the islands. When the revolution began, the troops marched ashore. The sugar plantation owners immobilized the queens troops, and Liliuokalani abdicated the throne. But before the Treaty of Annexation could ...
- 1292: The Great Gatsby
- ... the quarter of the century. Historically, the book was correct. For instance, the fact that the Americans fought in World War I in 1917 and turned out to be a factor in the defeat of Germany and it's allies during the war was written. References to other aspects of the war were limited although there were the occasional mention of places and names that related to it such as the ...
- 1293: Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
- ... not li strangely 'confessed' to very serious crimes and were executed or sent to har prison camps. Eventually Stalin began trading with non-communist countries of western Europe, although he continued to be hostile to Germany. Then, in a shocking ab face in 1939, he suddenly signed a non-agression pact with Hitler. Not long afterward, though, Hitler broke this agreement and attacked Russia. In 1941 St was forced to enter ...
- 1294: Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
- ... at the time, the reader must keep in mind Golding wrote the Lord of the Flies in 1954, shortly after World War II. The boys were trapped on the island, as people were trapped in Germany, France and other countries politically and economically involved in World War II. What happens there becomes a commentary for the world at the time. Jack, represents a Hitler - like dictator, he believes in controlling the ...
- 1295: 1984: Summary
- ... s own citizens using a created villain named Goldstein.( It's interesting that this Jewish name was given to a villain in this novel written in 1947 by a Party modelled after Hitler's fascist Germany ). To keep it's economy going Oceania had to be in a constant state of war thus the Party's creation of Goldstein. This character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged ...
- 1296: An Analysis of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"
- ... begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden, Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135,000 to 250,000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the ...
- 1297: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... a little bit reform. I might none do let what Schiller did: he has the whole history of the Thirty Years' War between the two members of a separable verb in-pushed. That has even Germany itself aroused, and one has Schiller the permission refused the History of the Hundred Years' War to compose- God be it thanked! After all these reforms established be will, will the German language the noblest ...
- 1298: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
- ... this book was how even the simple immigrant could see how the United States Of America was becoming the police officer of the world and that without America's intervention in the first world war Germany would have won. Background On John Dos Passos: John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was the author of many dozens of books, including the U.S.A Trilogy. He is often referred to as "... the only ...
- 1299: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... Anti-Communist League. Now the book "Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lee's ...
- 1300: Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
- Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955) Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemburg, Germany and died April 18, 1955. Albert Einstein began his career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where ...
Search results 1291 - 1300 of 1572 matching essays
|
