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- 681: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Maria Remarques novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel, the author uses excellent imagery and descriptive writing to portray the lives of several German school mates who are eventually destroyed by World War I. Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to show the mental anguish that the soldiers experienced during and after the war. He hoped to show the results of war on an ...
- 682: Managing Globalization
- ... technology, potentially harmful to the environment - and at the present, driven by only a few hundred multinational corporations. Lodge describes and analyzes the process on a truly global level, looking at the relationships among the world's economic, technological, political, and cultural aspects to provide more realistic insights than purely management-based books on the subject. Business in tandem with government must develop safe new institutions to manage global tensions. And communitarianism, or collective leadership among the world's peoples, he says, is the challenge of globalization." Introduction: "Globalization is a fact and a process. The fact is that the world's people and nations are more interdependent than ever before and becoming more so. The measures of interdependence are global flows of such things as trade, investment, and capital, and the related degradation of ...
- 683: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today By Aldous Huxley Prompt: Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today. For more than half a century, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an ...
- 684: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... president he achieved dιtente with the Soviet Union and opened relations with the People's Republic of China. His administration occurred during the domestic upheavals brought on by the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. He was re-elected in 1972 by an overwhelming margin, but less than two years later he was forced to become the first man to resign the presidency amid the scandal and shame of Watergate ... His applications were all rejected, however, and he was forced to go home to southern California, where his mother helped get him a job at a friend's local law firm. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nixon went to work briefly for the tire-rationing section the Office of Price Administration in Washington, DC, and eight months later, he joined the Navy and was sent to the Pacific as ...
- 685: Economic Policies Of Lenin And
- ... succeed in giving economic power to Russian people. The first solid economic policy instituted in Russia after the abdication of the Tsar and the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government was Lenin's policy of War Communism. War Communism was not a policy designed to promote economic stability in Russia. Russia was in civil war and war communism was a policy designed to get food to the soldiers fighting the Whites (anti-Bolshevik soldiers) and then next in line for food were the workers who supplied the soldiers. One ...
- 686: The Musee De Beaux Arts
- ... over the deaths in WWII. The soldiers of WWII were teenagers. To have 55 million children dead is an act of pure genocide. To Auden the fact that people let this happen means that the world is an ugly place. Art is a thing of beauty and humans don't deserve it because of the ugly things we do. Auden uses The Fall of Icarus to describe the way people behave ... everyone knew that massive amounts of people would die but they just turned their heads. This poem contains an approach to its subject different from many other poems. The subjects of many other poems -love, war, etc.- are recognized and commented on by the poets. This is not the case here, for Auden shows art's importance by his initial comment that "About suffering, they were never wrong, the old masters ... WWII. For Auden if no one is paying any attention to important things such as death what do they need art for. It is just like A Farewell to Arms all the people outside of war don't feel the suffering so they don't care. The world is terrible because everyone is so wrapped up in their on ideas they can't help the fellow man. When the army ...
- 687: Famous Last Words
- War is a horrific experience made worse by those who try to control it for their own advantage. In Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley creates a world of intrigue as he describes the tales of conspiracy and corruption for world domination. That made World War II far worse than it otherwise would have been. This is shown through the relationships of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Benito Mussolini. The ...
- 688: Taxation & Democracy
- ... fair taxes, and the need for economic growth are pressures faced by taxing authorities everywhere. As a result of these common forces, income, general consumption, and social security taxes have tended to go up since World War II both as a percentage of tax revenue and as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while property, corporation, excise, and a host of other smaller taxes haved tended to decrease." Next, Steinmo delves ... in a trilemma of a need for greater revenue, knowing those with political power did not want to pay taxes, and those with political power had nearly nothing to tax. In the era of Word War I, there was a growing need of every nation to increase revenues for defense. Consequently, the first income taxes on the wealthy and on corporations were introduced in nearly every industrial nation. However, income ...
- 689: Welafre
- ... older brother then worked as international reporters for their father. John spent his summers in England and much of the rest of his time at Harvard. The brothers often traveled to distant parts of the world to observe events of international importance for their father. The clouds of World War II were hovering over Europe at that time. Return to the United States and College The senior Kennedy was a controversial ambassador. His candid remarks about the progress of the war in Europe earned ...
- 690: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... that night and held him close, and related the things that I, too, wanted to believe. I reminded him it was just a movie. I told him this movie was made and seen throughout the world by satellite, and that persons of all nationalities and in many countries had seen it too. I reminded him of the reason the movie was made. The purpose was to warn us and remind us of the terrible way a nuclear war would affect each and every person on the face of the earth. If it bothered him so, then certainly it was having the same effect on the leaders of all the countries who had nuclear ... seemed to accept these explanations, and felt reassured by them. I was pleased these explanations eased his mind that night, but will they work tomorrow? Will they be sufficient for my grandchildren? Most of the world breathed a huge sigh of relief when the Berlin wall came down and with it the symbolic end to the Cold War. Soon after, the worlds superpowers agreed to stop aiming their missiles ...
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