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- 991: The Manhattan Project
- ... power brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became interested in this topic because of my interest in science and history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were always taught to me with some opinion, and I always wanted to know the bomb itself and the unbiased effects that ...
- 992: 1984- A Valid Prediction
- ... antiutopian novel, the people of society are viewed as sinful and untrustworthy. A serious of devices are used to monitor the citizens in this government run society. The novel gives a sad vision of the world of the future. When Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, a strange coincidence, Europe was in the middle of World War II. "The war was unquestionably an important part of his [Orwell's] writing" (Williams 8). Orwell used his novel to speak out against socialism and classism. In a society ruled by a character named ...
- 993: George C. Marshall
- George C. Marshall was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1901 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. During World War I he was stationed in France and won acclaim for his direction of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Before the offensive, Marshall was responsible for; the withdrawal of 200,000 men, and replacing them with 600 ... were hospitals to treat the sick and wounded, moving more than 3,000 cannons and 40,000 tons of ammunition, all the while hiding these movements from the Germans by moving only at night. After World War I he was a high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army ( ...
- 994: Fire or Ice? How Will the World End?
- Fire or Ice? How Will the World End? Some say the world will end in fire, some in ice. Some have even gone as far as to say the world already has ended - once in fire and once in ice. With the coming of the new millennium, hordes of paranoid doomsday "prophets" jam our newspapers, radios and TV's to warn us of an ...
- 995: Justification of Violence
- Justification of Violence Violence and the justification of it has been an issue for as long as the world has been in existence. There are many conflicting opinions on the subject, many in favor and many opposing the idea. I am personally split on the issue; I believe that in some cases, violence can ... teaches them that violence is okay if you're trying to teach someone a lesson, so they carry this over into their lives when they get older, and the chain of violence is never broken. War, in general, I believe, is ineffective. I think that it totally uses the wrong reasons for countries to agree to compromise. It's amazing that before war, countries are totally against one another, yet after blowing away half of each other's population, they're willing to talk. It makes you think. I think that if countries would talk out their ...
- 996: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... Greek mythology. Helen was the daughter of Leda and Zeus, sister of Klytemnestra, Kastor and Pollux and wife of Menelaos. Before her marriage she was abducted by Theseus her abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War. In the Iliad, 3 she is depicted watching the Greek army from the walls of Troy, identifying the leaders for Priam, later in the same book, when Aphrodite wants her to go to Paris she ... imitate the voices of all the wives of the Greeks while they waited inside the Trojan Horse, she is also in possession of an Egyptian drug which removes all sorrow. Helen's role in the War is ambiguous. In the Iliad she is critical of herself and of Paris (and of Aphrodite), while the Trojan horse episode seems like an attempt to trick the Greeks and save the Trojans. After Homer ... in the well-decked ships Nor did you reach the citadel of Troy.... The alternative story was that Paris took a phantom off to Troy while the real Helen spent the whole period of the war in Egypt. This story is told in Euripides' Helen. Helen (often called "Helen of Troy") was the daughter of Leda and Zeus, and was the sister of the Dioscuri and Clytemnestra. Since Zeus visited ...
- 997: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... to certain aspects of his life. These correlations are best examined in terms of each influence. One of the most significant influences from Vonnegut's life on his personal philosophy has been his participation in World War II. During the war, Vonnegut served in the American army in Europe and was captured by German soldiers. As a prisoner of war, he witnessed the Allied bombing of the city of Dresden, in which more than 135, ...
- 998: Atom Bomb
- The United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb was intended to intimidate and keep the Soviet Union from invading Japan, but was also to end the war. Even without the atomic bomb, the Japanese empire would have collapsed. The United States, however, did not want to let the Soviet Union enter the war and invade Japan in order to spread communism. Before the atomic bomb, the US had already developed plans for the invasion of Japan. Therefore, there is great speculation that the bomb was dropped for diplomatic ... empire was crumbling. atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were on the verge of collapse. The American island-hopping had drained Japan of much of its natural resources, preventing them from carrying the war on much longer. When the question of whether the bomb should be dropped arose, people knew that the bomb was not necessary for a victory. The American Government knew, that Japan was essentially defeated ...
- 999: History Of The Original Teddy
- ... further develops. Most importantly, toys keep children happy which is an essential emotion for growth and development. (See illustration 1) Primitive toys served the same purpose; they taught children the skills necessary to survive the world outside their parents' protection. In essence, toys exist based on the instinct of self preservation. Primitive toys and games taught manipulation of weapons and warfare which instilled invaluable coordination, manual skills and mental agility. A ... same basic toys have emcompassed one society after another with their evolution dependent upon the technology of the era. Today's toys are merely yesterday's upgraded replicas enhancing with each new discovery. The toy world is vast but separable. It's four partitions include adaptations for infancy, early chilhood, late childhood, and adolescence/adulthood. Characteristics of infant toys include soft or plush fabrics and stuffings, movable parts, noisemakers, and even ... bonds an owner to his teddy bear. A stuffed animal fulfills the basic needs of most humans thus creating that impassioned attachment. It provides something to touch, and it focuses a person away from the world of self. Attentive and sensitive to its owner's moods, the stuffed animal is a confidante and will never repeat anything told sub rosa. Being a stuffed animal, the teddy bear brings all such ...
- 1000: A Separate Peace
- A Separate Peace: Friendship, Conformity, and War We have all experienced friendship in our lives; some of these bonds were lasting and others were not. A Separate Peace is a book that deals with the friendship of high school boys. These boys ... Suicide Society of the Summer Session but he never does. When the other boys are shoveling snow off train tracks to help a train with soldiers get to the Army Base this "really brings the war home." Instead of helping the other boys with the war effort, Leper goes cross country skiing to Beaver Dam. Leper does this to get a separate peace from the reality of war. Although Leper is the first to enlist in the army, he receives ...
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