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- 151: The Battle of Midway in the Pacific
- ... supply. The explosion destroyed 400,000 gallons of aviation fuel, and also damaged the distribution system, forcing the defenders to refuel planes by hand from 55- gallon drums. All the while the Marines continued digging gun emplacements, laying sandbags and preparing shelters on both islands. Barbed wire sprouted along Midway's coral beaches. Shannon believed that it would stop the Japanese as it had stopped the Germans in World War I ... and Simard got some good news. The Japanese attack would come between June 3 and 5, giving them another week to prepare. That same day, the light cruiser St. Louis arrived, to deliver an eight-gun, 37mm anti-aircraft battery from the Marine 3rd Defense Battalion and two rifle companies from the 2nd Raider Battalion. On May 26, the ferry USS Kittyhawk arrived with 12 3-inch guns, 5 M-3 ... the tanker Akebono Maru, killing 13 sailors and wounding 11; the transport Kiosumi Maru lost a few crewmen to strafing. June 4 began for Midway's defenders at 3:00 a.m. with reveille. All gun positions on both islands were manned as pilots and aircrews stood by their planes. At 4:00 a.m., six F4F Wildcats from Major Floyd B. "Red" Parks' VMF-221 took off on combat ...
- 152: Facism
- ... to organize an organization led mass movement in an effort to capture the state power. When the power is in the firm grip of the ruler, or IL Duce, the government will be used to control the population and everything in it so the community will be benefited. Fascism's ideal government would be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work for the benefit of the ... obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after he took control of Italy. Despite their two different angles on the use of Fascism Hitler and Mussolini both worked similarly on how they established their principles in the same basic manner. Their principles came from basic responses ... was ready for a new political aspect, was the birthplace of fascist ideology. Benito Mussolini was the man who brought this ideology to Italy. Mussolini had been looking for the perfect opportunity to take complete control of the country and now was the time to do so. Mussolini said "Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary_does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal" (Nazi Fascism ...
- 153: Facism
- ... to organize an organization led mass movement in an effort to capture the state power. When the power is in the firm grip of the ruler, or IL Duce, the government will be used to control the population and everything in it so the community will be benefited. Fascism's ideal government would be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work for the benefit of the ... obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after he took control of Italy. Despite their two different angles on the use of Fascism Hitler and Mussolini both worked similarly on how they established their principles in the same basic manner. Their principles came from basic responses ... was ready for a new political aspect, was the birthplace of fascist ideology. Benito Mussolini was the man who brought this ideology to Italy. Mussolini had been looking for the perfect opportunity to take complete control of the country and now was the time to do so. Mussolini said "Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary_does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal" (Nazi Fascism ...
- 154: Fascism
- ... to organize an organization led mass movement in an effort to capture the state power. When the power is in the firm grip of the ruler, or IL Duce, the government will be used to control the population and everything in it so the community will be benefited. Fascism's ideal government would be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work for the benefit of the ... obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after he took control of Italy. Despite their two different angles on the use of Fascism Hitler and Mussolini both worked similarly on how they established their principles in the same basic manner. Their principles came from basic responses ... was ready for a new political aspect, was the birthplace of fascist ideology. Benito Mussolini was the man who brought this ideology to Italy. Mussolini had been looking for the perfect opportunity to take complete control of the country and now was the time to do so. Mussolini said "Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary_does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal" (Nazi Fascism ...
- 155: 1984 4
- ... most, rats eating his face. After being completely rehabilitated by O'Brien, Winston now loves the establishment and the government. He is set free. Big Brother is the figurehead of a government that has total control. The Big Brother regime uses propaganda and puts fear in its citizens to keep the general population in line. "Big Brother is watching you is just one example of many party slogans that puts fear ... fact, the party can't comprehend his disbelief and must change his thoughts through torture and brainwash. O'Brien represents the core of communist or totalitarian rule, making the victims suffer by using brainwashing to control them. O'Brien also tells Winston what he should feel about Big Brother when Winston is at his lowest point mentally and physically. O'Brien's speeches to the broken Winston n Smith in the ... totalitarian country, because it has ways to scare its citizens. People guilty of crimes are erased from having ever existed. The actual purpose of the Ministry of Truth is to spread lies and to have control over its citizens using memory erasing techniques. These same control techniques are used by totalitarian nations that seek control over there citizens. The Ministry of Truth is a complete contradiction of itself. A Ministry ...
- 156: Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
- ... Dick, his life is slightly more complicated, torn between his desire to be autonomous, his desire to cure Nicole, and his fear that a cured Nicole will no longer need him. Dick’s desire to control others is representative of his desire for order which is shown by his voice that ‘promised that he would take care of her [Rosemary]’, and she also saw him as a ‘model of correctness’. Dick ... some idea of himself’ with which to counter a life which had become ‘confused and disordered.’ Order and chaos pervade ‘The Great Gatsby’, with Nick declaring his belief that codes of conduct are needed to control human behaviour. He wishes for the world ‘to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever’, and Gatsby also seems to be lost in the world of parties he has created, and not quite in control, despite his efforts. Gatsby does not need to control his parties, but he does his life, which he has desperately tried to map out in his own way, despite what others may say (Nick ...
- 157: Alcohol And Drug Control
- Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Control Program ADAPCP The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program (ADAPCP) is a substance abuse treatment program used in the Armed Forces. The DA's policy on alcohol is that "abuse or excessive use of alcohol will not be condoned or accepted as part ... are available for this service. This program is necessary to protect Army and unit combat readiness and personnel's health and welfare. There are seven functional areas of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program. they are as follows: prevention, education, identification, rehabilitation, treatment, program evaluation, and research. There are nine objectives of ADAPCP: · Reduce the abuse of alcohol and the availability and abuse of other drugs within ...
- 158: ... the people of Argos and even controls their thoughts and actions. Sartre, being an existentialist, condemns this idea, and ultimately reaches a point in his play in which it is realized that each person has control over his actions, and no authority figure can govern a person’s free will. In the beginning of the play, Electra, daughter of Clytemnestra and the late Agamemnon, is introduced. At this point, Electra is ... falls prey to the power of the gods. Orestes however, in recognizing humans’ capability of deciding their own fate, is able to do with his guilt as he wishes. If he chooses to let it control his life, so be it. Nevertheless, this choice will be his own, and not that of the gods. The second idea of authority confronted in the end of the play develops out of this idea ...
- 159: The Negative Portrayal Of LSD
- The Negative Portrayal Of LSD Despite the negative portrayal in mainstream 1960s media, justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation, education and experimentation under government control of LSD were rational and valid arguments. Sex, drugs, protests, war, political upheaval, cultural chaos, and social rebellion; the many comforts TV dinner eating, republican voting, church going, suburbia conformists tried to escape through conservative ... the nation a new counterculture of rebellious teenagers, unfamiliar narcotics, and a wave of promiscuity. Among the many issues and events molding our nation into a new decade, came the question of government and mind control. For some it was the next step into human evolution, a potential tool for mind control, a liberator of human kind, but for most LSD helped define 1960s counterculture, in which it was deeply rooted. LSD has proved that the mind contains much higher powers and energies, beyond the average10% ...
- 160: Hitler And Gleichchaltung
- ... constitutional order that inhibited his exercise of power. The foundations were the constitution, the federal structure of the Reich, the Parliament, the Reich President, the civil service, and the courts. The final stage involved gaining control of the Army. Success at each stage was very crucial for Hitler to construct his total dictatorship over the German people and country. It was alarming how swiftly he was able to achieve co- ordination ... the excuse that they were making sure that the civil servants were acting in accordance with the principles of the new regime. A good example of this was in a town called Thulburg. With virtual control over the administration of Thalburg and Thulburg County, the Nazis undertook the first and most obvious task: cleansing the city and county offices of actual or potential opponents. The law "for the reconstitution of the ... the civil service but rather its intimidation and political levelling. Political purges, persecution of Jews, threats, and revenge coalesced. Much of the same thing happened to the judiciary. Here, too, "co-ordination" was energetically begun. Control over legislation already meant an indirect "co- ordination" of the legal system, and the organization of National Socialist Lawyers' Association, in which membership was by no means voluntary,offered ample possibilities for influencing and ...
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