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- 1661: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... and to different degrees. At the beginning of the novel, on page 12, we see through Paul Bäumer s comments regarding Kantorek that he and his friends were taught in school of the glory of war. Bäumer stated, they taught that duty to one s country is the greatest thing Since Bäumer and his friends respected and trusted Kantorek, they hardly gave the prospect of not going into war a second glance. On pages 84-85, the conversation between Bäumer, Müller, and Kropp reveals that practically everything they were taught in school is of no use to them anymore. All of the knowledge they ... seen clearly on page 21, where Paul describes his and his friends enlisting to the district commandant. They had no plans for the future, having only vague ideas regarding life in general, giving to the war an ideal and almost romantic character . He describes a movement from what is important, before and after his experience in war. He learns that a a bright button is weightier than four volumes of ...
- 1662: Poetry
- ... have been in a constant struggle to survive. Whether you are a man or women, black or white, rich or poor, the hardships of life have seemed to bind us together in a very cruel world. Many poets write about poverty, envy, and the outcome of war which are just a few of the many battles people fight everyday. Poems such as “Women Work”, “Richard Corey”, and “The Sad Children’s Story” define the different meanings of life. “Women Work,” a poem ... fields. The only solace, the only redemption, is when she will become one with nature. She has no material goods to show for her hard work, but she has peace in the fact that the world around her is all that is hers. She says, “Shine on me, sunshine, rain on me, rain, fall softly, dewdrops, and cool my brow again.” The rain and the dewdrops symbolize tears falling on ...
- 1663: Women In Nationalist Movements
- ... countries thought that the nationalist movement would provide them with the opportunity to advance in the public sphere. In Turkey, Mustapha Kemal recognized the “courage and militancy of Turkish women during the Balkan wars and World War I.” (Kemal article) This time allowed women to obtain new jobs, such as nurses and factory workers. Algeria also had a similar emergence of women into the public sphere. During the Algerian War women who fought in the war were known as moudjahidines. These female fighters were willing to take any risks to advance the nationalism of their state. In one particular example, Farida “gave a gun ...
- 1664: Analyse The Influence Of Nevil
- ... back towards prosperity with a policy of low interest rates and easy credit. However Chamberlain's years as Prime Minister (1937-1940) and his appeasement policy of accommodating the European Dictators in order to avoid war, gives us the opportunity to analyse his influence on European International Relations. To many Chamberlain's era was the beginning of Britain's appeasement policy of avoiding war with aggressive powers such as Japan, Italy and Germany. However the origins of appeasement can be seen in British Foreign policy during the 1920's with the Dawes and Young plans. These policies tried to ... Foreign Secretary 1931-1935) Sir Samuel Hoare (Foreign Secretary June-December 1935) and later Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary 1938 - 1940) were convinced of the righteousness of their policy. They believed it was essential to avoid war, which they believed, would be likely to be more destructive than ever before, to them the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) had more than demonstrated this. Economically speaking they believed that Britain was still ...
- 1665: Women In The Police Force
- ... including secretarial work or as specialist in juveniles." (Cohn.pg.188) These were the main role that women police officers were historically given. However this has changed over the years. It was not until after world war two that women began to be hired by police departments voluntarily. Women had proven that they could handle themselves in situations that dealt with high stress level. "World war two provided convincing evidence that women were valuable auxiliaries within all-male organizations." (LeBeuf & McLean, 41) This was a start in their quest for equality and fairness in a male dominated police force ...
- 1666: Cryptography
- ... enough to be memorized, and the table was useless without the key. This cipher wasn't totally safe but no totally sure method to break it was developed before early in the 20th century. During World War I, American troops used native Indians to send messages over the radio, which could only be understood by other native Indians, and absolutely nobody in Germany could understand it. Also in World War I (most cryptographic algorithms are developed for wars), the Playfair algorithm is developed by the Allies, the key, like in the Vigenere cipher, is based on a little table and a short keyword, ...
- 1667: The Stuggle For Europe
- ... this student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; yet, they allowed the Soviet Union to overtake Eastern Europe and block the Atlantic Charter from taking effect in those ... Stalin's victory. Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power. Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the war up to the surrender of Germany. In this process Wilmot touches on Hitler's alliance with Mussolini, Hitler's conquest of France, the Lowlands, and the Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in ...
- 1668: El Salvador
- ... People and cities 5. Map- location of El Salvador 6. Map- general map of El Salvador General Information El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, is one of the largest coffee exporters in the world. It is the most thickly populated country in the Americas. It has a tropical country, with rich forests and fertile farm lands. The name El Salvador is Spanish for “The Savior”. Its products, besides coffee ... with the ports and with other Central American cities. Postal, telephone, and telegraph systems serve most of El Salvador. Radio broadcasting stations have been established. Several commercial air lines connect the republic with the outside world. Topic 1- Climate and Land type Sub-Topic: Rivers & Lakes The main river of El Salvador is the Lempa, which flows into the Pacific. The magnificent Lempa river valley, north of the main plateau, is ... Central American republics had reluctantly granted recognition. Martinez ruled fairly well for thirteen years, but at the price of blood- shed and violence. El Salvador was the only Central American republic which didn't declare war on Germany during World War I, but it opened its ports to United States war vessels. In December 1941, El Salvador declared war on Germany and Japan. In 1944 Martinez was overthrown and driven ...
- 1669: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... interests. Despite this the UN has done a commendable job with the missions that were sent to Haiti to restore order following the US pull-out. The international lending organizations, led by the IMF, the World Bank and USAID, have also played their part in the furthering of US interests in Haiti and have been for almost twenty years. They have moulded the future for the country through their actions which ... the class structure are at the roots of the current crisis in Haiti. In August, 1791, the slaves of the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted against their enslavers and after twelve bloody years of war they created the world's first black republic. This was the only successful slave insurrection in history.(3) The new Haitian elites, composed primarily of the grown children of mixed marriages between French plantation owners and black slave ...
- 1670: Brazil 2
- ... Latin American governments worried that investors would not differentiate between Brazil and the rest of the region, slowing down access to the foreign capital needed to meet their own borrowing requirements. The rest of the world grew fearful of "contagion." For the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the U.S. Treasury (and ultimately the American taxpayer), which gambled in November 1998 that a huge $41.5 billion package of multilateral assistance ... into this sorry state? Who or what was to blame? The fall from grace was dramatic, to say the least. Only a year before, this vast South American nation of 167 million people, with the world's eighth largest economy, had seemed firmly set on the path to a more prosperous, modern, and even equitable future. It was led by a polyglot, internationally minded leader of high intelligence who was hailed in European capitals and in Washington as the archetype of the new Latin American leader who would pull the region firmly into the new world envisioned by the "Washington consensus"-a world of free trade, open markets, privatized state corporations, and flourishing democracies. Beginning in late 1994, Brazil had broken the old pattern of hyperinflation by the skillful introduction ...
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