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- 811: United States and Imperialism
- ... with the climax of the industrial revolution, the United States had become an industrialized and more sophisticated nation. The United States now had the resources, technology, and political organization to hold the status of a World Power. Consequently, the United States took on the role of an imperialist country; it had aspirations to put the American flag on as much of the globe as possible. During this exciting and innovative era ... heavily by idealism, or more heavily by self-interest. Those who argue that the most influential factor was idealism believe that the United State's goal in expansion was to literally help create an "ideal" world (in the United State's view). The United States felt a sense of duty to intervene when they observed the situations of different territories such as Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines around 1900. When intervening in these different areas of the world, the United States (supposedly) planned to idealize by imposing their civilized ways of society and religion on these crude populations of foreign people. This idealizing by the U.S. would also involve introducing American ...
- 812: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
- ... only people who did like the influx of immigrants were the rich because they represented a large pool of labour that cost next to nothing. America was very much separated from the rest of the world. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was still a big part of life in the United States Of America and politicians made sure that they did n not get involved in European affairs. They remained unchanged until the first World War when America joined in on the side of the Allies. This novel showed that most Americans were glad that they had joined. It created jobs for the poor and increased the wealth of many ...
- 813: Alcatraz
- Alcatraz Island has quite a distinct history. Many people know that Alcatraz served as a federal prison, but most are reluctant to know that this island served as fort. Built before the Civil War, it served two main purposes. First, that it was to guard the San Francisco bay area from enemy ships against a foreign invasion, and second, to hold hostage prisoners of war or POW's as they were called. In this report, I'll show you how this fortress came to be a federal prison, why it is no longer in operation today, and most importantly, to ... of Golden Gate Bridge. But with severe problems trying to build this other base, Alcatraz was to remain alone. "Out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the island of Alcatraz is definitely a world unto itself. Isolation is just one of the many constants of island life for any inhabitant on Alcatraz Island. It is the most reoccurring theme in the unfolding history of Alcatraz Island. Alcatraz Island ...
- 814: Winston Churchill
- ... Leonard Spencer Churchill Winston Churchill was one of the most influential people in this century. He held many offices, jobs, and positions that greatly affected the life of the British, and the history of the world. In Blenheim Palace at Woodstock on November 30th, 1874, Winston Churchill was born.1 He grew up as the first child of Lord Randolph Churchill.2 Lord Randolph Churchill held a seat as a member ... Army. He loved head-to-head combat, but rarely saw much of it at this time. He served in many places and with many regimens, but his love for active service never decreased. Throughout his war career Churchill went through many things, such as being captured by Rebel forces in Cuba. Churchill was sent to a POW camp, but after four weeks he managed to succeed in his goal of escaping ... devoted his time and energy to improving an already strong Navy. At this time, he also fostered what was to become the modern tank. The original contraption was nicknamed Winston s Folly. 15 In 1914 World War One started. Churchill had long foreseen the coming of this world disaster. Churchill had wisely set his goals on improving the British Navy so that it could sustain an attack, or deliver one. ...
- 815: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- Five Against the World There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif., it's easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets outside the Site, the recording studio ... pioneers Green River. When Love Bone singer/songwriter Andrew Wood died in 1990 of a tragic heroin overdose, Ament - the Montana-born son of a barber - downshifted, playing around town with a group called the War babies and returning to his other love, graphic arts. Gossard - a Seattle native whose father is a lawyer - barely put down his guitar, playing constantly, moving away from the trippy atmospherics of Love Bone ...
- 816: A Seperate Peace
- By: Stacy Farah Devon is a safe haven away from the rest of the world. A war is going on, but at Devon the boys are playing around a river and creating new games like blitzball and not worrying about the problems boys only a few years older than them are facing. Devon is at peace, separate from the fighting and loss many people in the world are facing while Finny, Gene, and other boys are forming a special club just for their group of friends. At Devon the boys know about the war and even have people coming to get ...
- 817: Thornton Wilder
- ... work at Princeton, where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1926. The Cabala was issued as a novel that year, but was largely ignored by the critics. "Although over-age when America entered World War II, Wilder sought military assignment...and served in Air Force Intelligence in the United States, North Africa and Italy" (Block and Shedd 959). America's involvement in World War II changed Wilder's perspective. "He had too clear an idea of man's limited possibilities..." (Papajewski 109). Wilder wrote, "When you're at war you think about a better life; when you' ...
- 818: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower who later became an Army officer and diplomat (147, Richardson). In Eisenhower s commission, he directed tank training programs for officers and recruits at Camp Colt, located at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After World War I, Eisenhower served as one of Brigadier General Fox Conner s staff officers. Conner s self-discipline and attention to detail impressed Eisenhower. Conner supported Eisenhower in his admission to the Army s leadership factory ... 1933, Eisenhower became an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, the Army chief of staff. Along MacArthur s side, Eisenhower planned the military defense of the Philippines and a military academy for the new government. During World War II, Eisenhower rose to prominence. In 1941, Eisenhower was appointed to plan the strategy for the Third Army in war games in Louisiana. The Third Army defeated an enemy force that included a ...
- 819: Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
- ... small town on the 23rd of April in 1919. By 1939 he had graduated from a Soviet military school and had been part of a group called Komosomol, meaning "young communists." He also went to war serving as a unit commander of an artillery unit. Penkovsky was decorated four times during his 1939-1940 tour of duty. After that tour he was injured and spent most of his time doing various assignments that took him between Moscow and the Ukrainian front for the rest of the Second World War. When the war was over, Penkovsky attended two military academies. One of the academies was the Frunze Military Academy and the other was the Military Diplomatic Academy. By 1950 he had married a woman ...
- 820: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was to lead him first to the secluded woods of ... in earlier years, centered around a character named Nicholas Adams, undoubtably an incarnation of Hemingway himself. Just as Hemingway before him, Nick Adams grew up around the Michigan woods, went overseas to fight in the war, was severely wounded, and returned home. Earlier stories set in Michigan, such as "Indian Camp" and "The Three-Day Blow" show a young Nick to be an impressionable adolescent trying to find his path in a brutally violent and overwhelmingly confusing world. Like most all of Hemingway's main characters, Nick on the surface appears tough and insensitive. However, "critical exploration has resulted in a widespread conclusion that the toughness stems not from insensitivity but from ...
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