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- 1921: A Seperate Peace
- ... his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the somber story of a young man's struggle to escape from himself and his world; to achieve a special and separate peace. The primary setting of A Separate Peace is at the Devon School. The exact location of this school is not known in terms of a state, but it is identified as being in the South, sitting between a freshwater and a saltwater stream. The bulk of the story takes place in the years of 1942 through 1944 at the same time as World War II, but the beginning and end of the book consist of Gene looking back on his years at the Devon School 15 years after he had attended it. A Separate Peace considers two conflicts: ...
- 1922: Literature: Tool For The Masses to Grasp and Form Opinions on A Subject
- ... For The Masses to Grasp and Form Opinions on A Subject Over the centuries, one of the most important tools available to protesting groups was literature. Some of the most famous protest literature in the world has its roots in American history. For example, some great American authors of protest literature include Thomas Paine, Thomas Nast, John C. Calhoun, and Martin Luther King. Through eloquent, sometimes subtle means, these authors became ... Magazine. He published a series of minor essays, but his first important work was an essay written for the Pennsylvania Journal in which Paine openly denounced slavery. This was Paine's first foray into the world of protest literature, and it clearly whet his appetite. Paine soon became fascinated with the ongoing hostility in Anglo-American relations, and, much to the dismay of his publisher, could not seem to think of ... the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business...and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity" (Coolidge 31). While Paine was working on Common Sense, the war had changed theatres into New York. Paine felt it his duty to fight in the cause he wrote so valiantly for, and thus enlisted in a Pennsylvanian unit in August of 1776. After fighting ...
- 1923: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... there were few federal crimes. The Bureau of Investigation primarily investigated violations of laws involving national banking, bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, naturalization, and neutrality violation. With the April 1917 entry of the United States into World War I (1914-1918), the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage acts, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. When the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act was passed in October 1919, by ... with the passage of a federal kidnapping statue. In 1934, many other federal criminal statues were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms. During the period of World War II, the FBI's size and jurisdiction greatly increased and included intelligence matters in South America. War for the United States began December 7, 1941, when Japanese armed forces attacked battleships and military ...
- 1924: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... Daiichi Kangyo, and Sanwa (the latter three are centered around Japan s largest commercial banks. Together, these six corporate groups account for a quarter of total Japanese business assets. History/Background Prior to the Second World War, several large monopolistic companies dominated Japanese industry. They were known as zaibatsu the dominant four were Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda. During the post-war Occupation the holding companies of the zaibatsu that controlled member firms were dissolved. Many firms subsequently regrouped to create the keiretsu we see today. Types of keiretsu: Vertical and Horizontal Vertical keiretsu are arranged ...
- 1925: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... control without any intervention from other liberal or moderate parties. He decided to concentrate on improving military strength and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world. In order to obtain the immense amount of money needed to maintain his militia, he began a series of five year programs which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end ... the state subsidize all of the production. This system, aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime. Such suffering was magnified during an anti-war treaty that Stalin had signed with Hitler's Germany in an effort to avoid a confrontation with the Nazi military. However, Hitler violated this treaty in an effort to dominate all of Europe and was ... the majority of industry was made property of the people, which meant the majority of the means of production was controlled by the government. Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Czarist military system and established institutions in government. During this period, and in fact throughout the majority of the Communist rule, censorship and the subordination of interest groups ...
- 1926: History of the Automotive Industry and Ford Motor Company
- ... prosperity had ended. WWII During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When Hitler invaded France and started the war, the United States was quick to respond. The United States started producing many different pieces of war equipment. The auto industry was the first to respond by reopening many of there shut down plants and producing troop transport vehicles, tanks, planes and just about anything else the government wanted. Under the direction of President Roosevelt, Ford Motor Company built a huge assembly plant in Michigan to produce B-29 bombers. The war pulled the United States out the great depression and jump-started its economy (Chandler 25). The 1950s and 1960s The war ended in 1945 and brought a fallen country back to its feet. With ...
- 1927: Frederick Douglass
- ... sent back to Maryland. Douglass didn't care and wanted his story printed. He did not care if Thomas Auld and every southern slave catcher learned who he was. He also wanted the rest of world would to hear his story too. In May of 1845, 5,000 copies of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips wrote introductions ... that he encountered so little racial prejudice among the British. In the summer of 1846, Douglass was joined by William Lloyd Garrison, and they traveled around England as a powerful team of antislavery lecturers. The World Temperance Convention that was held in London in August 1846 was were Douglass gave his most controversial speech. After bashing the American temperance movement he was ready to go home. Luckily for him 2 English ... the 1860 election. Lincoln won and then South rebelled. The North was fighting to preserve the Union and the South was fighting for the right to have slaves. For Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists, the war was a battle to end slavery. Douglass continued to fight with his speeches and newspaper editorials, they continued to say, "the aim of the war must be to abolish slavery and that blacks must ...
- 1928: George Brenard Shaw
- ... spokesmen. Between 1889 and 1901 he wrote many pamphlets for the society including The Fabian Election Manifesto in 1892, and Socialism For Millionaires in 190. He also took the position as a political activist during World War 1, writing pieces such as The Rights of Man, and Common Sense About the War. Shaw was also a great believer in Marxism and was able to visit Russia and meet Stalin in 1931. In 1938 Shaw received an Oscar for Film of the Year, with Pygmalion, which was ...
- 1929: Frederic Douglass
- ... sent back to Maryland. Douglass didn't care and wanted his story printed. He did not care if Thomas Auld and every southern slave catcher learned who he was. He also wanted the rest of world would to hear his story too. In May of 1845, 5,000 copies of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips wrote introductions ... that he encountered so little racial prejudice among the British. In the summer of 1846, Douglass was joined by William Lloyd Garrison, and they traveled around England as a powerful team of antislavery lecturers. The World Temperance Convention that was held in London in August 1846 was were Douglass gave his most controversial speech. After bashing the American temperance movement he was ready to go home. Luckily for him 2 English ... the 1860 election. Lincoln won and then South rebelled. The North was fighting to preserve the Union and the South was fighting for the right to have slaves. For Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists, the war was a battle to end slavery. Douglass continued to fight with his speeches and newspaper editorials, they continued to say, "the aim of the war must be to abolish slavery and that blacks must ...
- 1930: A Short History Of Anti-semiti
- The Second World War has left an unmistakable impression on the whole of Europe that will never be forgotten. Whether visible to the naked eye, or hidden in the consciousness of its people, the war has scarred Europe indelibly. Historically, the foremost recognizable perpetration against Europeans was Adolf Hitler s Final Solution to the Jewish question . This sophisticated operation of systematic mass execution was calculated, organized, and carried out ...
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