Also we see in this book that war has evolved very much since the start of warfare. ... The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. ... (P 187) The book best shows the attitude of soldiers change in the time before the war and during the war. ... This book is a great one and I recommend this book to any person weather they are pro-war or against any type of war. ... Dictionary.com defines leader as: "One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. ...

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(In her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique," women's rights advocate Betty Friedan argued that the suburbs were "burying women alive.... For example, some used them for billing, inventory control, hotel reservations, and guiding satellites....

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Thematically, good will conquer evil, as Jack Carson's actions symbolically represent the United States and the Allied powers as he battles the the evil Colonel Helmut Von Toth, who represents Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers as a reflection of the events of World War II. Throughout Daniel Reed's no...

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Davy stays with basically three jobs throughout the book, whereas Jack is influenced by the time, and therefore moves from job to job, until he gets a job in the Wimmera district. ... Sam Burlington's girl friend, Jess is murdered later in the book and this affects Davy profusely because the police arrest Sam for the crime, and question Davy. ... (Blurb) Societies" standards that guided the two boys into their adult lives would probably determine the way they later treated their children and grandchildren, and would ultimately affect the way those persons would bring up their offspring. ...

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The book begins as the Soviet Union's ability to provide their own oil is cut off by a terrorist attack. ... Red Storm Rising captivates audiences with its techno-wizardry of smart bombs and satellite guided cruise missles.It was like an arcade game. ... His writing mechanics and techniques of reader manipulation keep readers filled with suspense and compassion for the characters until the book's end. ...

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language provides many explanations: "a person or thing that leads; a guide; one in charge or in command of others." The dictionary proceeds to offer such additional definitions as "a person who leads others along a way; a guiding or directing head, as of an army or political group; the head of a political party or organization; one who has an influential voice in politics." ... In his book "The Making of Popes, 1978," Andrew M. ...

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The human race can be very interesting to the extent that even they don't know. There are times when they know what they want and there are times when they follow what they have been told even when their beliefs were intact. Those who choose their own path, however, are what can lead the earth to a ...

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Wells wrote in his book, The World Set Free, that atomic bombs were used in a war between the alliance of England, France and the U.S. against an alliance of Germany and Austria. ... U.S. policy of not classifying basic research has led to numerous publicly available technical papers that the technically astute could use as a guide in building a nuclear weapon. ...

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Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ... Whitcomb in his book argues that the Truman Doctrine needlessly harmed the United States and Soviet Union relations. ... Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. According to Shlaim there is not question that the airlift of supplies into Berlin was necessary and Tr...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, that have some unexpected yet unde...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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Hitler did have a foreign policy program that he laid down, however sickening it was, in 1925 with the writing of Mein Kampf.(4) In this book Hitler described to all the world his three main foreign policy intentions. ... Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) This statement falls completely in line with his racial dogma and shows quite clearly that Hitler had always deem...

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• Grade Level: High School