I am proud to be an American, proud of my country, and its leaders. ... This plan was not a very popular plan. ... To add to the problems that planners did not foresee was the low land would flood from the heavy rainfalls. ... These are not just numbers. ... As a soldier, I feel proud each day. ...
Hitler made people proud to be Germans again, made them proud to go to work each day. ... How could any decent person look upon a few races with such vile contempt as to wish them death and suffer? ... Though not widely accepted and certainly not acknowledged, medicine advanced at a record pace after the rein of terror of the Holocaust was over. The knowledge gained from the Nuremberg trials propelled modern medicine in directions previously not thought possible. ... With that stated, one would be equally remiss to not at least acknowledge that Adolph Hitler was a very unique and talented ind...
The Canadian government was not consulted about going to war. Many Canadians were strong supporters of the British at this time and proudly went to war by choice. However Francophone Canadians were not interested in fighting for a British affair that had nothing to do with Canadian interests. ... This six year war resulted in the deaths of 14 million people. ...
Princip joined Unity or Death, a terrorist group commonly known as the Black Hand. ... We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death is hunting us down-now we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves, to save ourselves and be revenged (113).... Also, countries such as Italy and Japan did not get as much territory as they wanted. ... Countries were struck with the largest war death toll ever recorded during that time. ...
The Actions of The German people: With the German people being a very proud race and civilization being an older one there are many traditions they lived by, as most people in the world the Germans where scared of change and losing what they have. ... Hitler used many propaganda tactics to play from the weakness of the people resulting in a nation of proud worthy followers willing to do anything there leader asked of them. ... When they knew that the person they told on would be put to death, he even convinced children to give up there parents if they did anything of the sort. ... The phrase "...
This piece not only shows paternalism, but can also have a critique on the pompousness and pride of those in a position to view themselves as paternalistic. After Gawaine confronts the headmaster that the word 'Rumplestilz' has no magic in it, the headmaster proudly proclaims that in a fit of his own genius. The headmaster is being good in helping Gawaine by giving him a "magic word," but Gawaine, as an untried youth, looked up to the headmaster for proper guidance, not for a leader to sugar coat inspiration. Sending Gawaine off to fight more dragons as a self-reassurance, inst...
Canada's Effort Overseas World War Two was a horrific event that lasted many years and it left a legacy of death and destruction. ... It brought suffering and death to families, races and nationalities. ... We, as Canadians, should feel proud because many of our Canadian Troops gave up their families, their friends even their lives to give the countries that needed them, the freedom that Canadians had. ... German leaders had given orders to capture these vehicles because they did not yet stick in sand and mud like German manufactured war vehicles. ... Some people would argue t...
As the city was booming, a cholera epidemic killed more than 8,600 deaths. This could have been prevented were it not for the "slums- which had people living in close quarters with bad plumbing, etc. ... This ball is world renowned because the ladies, not the men choose partners, and there are telephones on every table. ... Although I don't always get into the "Diskos und Opernhauser-, I would still be interested in visiting some of the docks, and "Kirchen- that Hamburg proudly displays for all to see. ...
There were two siblings that died in infancy from unknown causes, but probably from the condition known as "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" today. ... If her mother could not find her all she had to do was look up the nearest tree. ... They were not drastically affected by the Great Depression. ... She just did not know if it was good or bad. ... It makes me proud of my past to know about my uncle and his Purple Heart and to know my grandpa risked his life for our country. ...
The book is not a novel, but more of a historic documentary. It is not about the war, but the people that were in it. ... After reading the book, I will not be one to argue. ... However, those who faced death and crushing sorrow every day for four years keep their remorse or pride silent. ... I think that the soldiers that never made it home would be proud of the way they have been represented in American culture. ...
Holmes married a white woman during his days at Doehler Jarvis and they stayed married for thirty-eight-years until her death. ... He wanted the reader to feel these experiences, not just "read" about them and he wanted their stories remember. ... D) Importance of time and place: Without the setting this would not have been much of a book. ... Many men at the time felt that women were not as strong as men and shouldn't be in the war. ... Although Johnnie Holmes faced racial segregation in the war and even after it, his battalion had a lot to be proud of. ...
Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... Hitler promised the people of Germany a better life in which they would be proud to call themselves German. ... A fascist government does not tolerate any questioning of the government, if caught doing so would be punishable by law.8 On April 7, the first anti-Jewish law removed all "non-Aryans" from any and all government jobs. ... He ordered the SA leaders, including Ferdinand von Bredow, Georg von Detten, Karl Ernst, Hans Hayn, Edmund H...
His ideas on how a nation should be were instantly made into law and anyone who opposed would be sentenced to death. ... Throughout many battles and wars, Hitler managed to create a proud and strong Germany, making clear in would have never happened without his brilliant tactics as a "Fuhrer". ... When it came to Hitler's physical appearance, he did not seem to be the typical powerful ruler. ... Not surprisingly, Hitler also held an extreme fascination of death. Many of his major political and military decisions were based on his fear of death becoming closer. ...
In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. ... His desire to make India proud of itself through the resources and skills of the people drips into the hearts and minds of the masses. ... Not only that, it makes it seem more of a trouble then before. ... Both sides do not want either one to gain control over the other, forcing it to go against itself. ... However it does not cease until he is near death, and the people do so to save his life. ...
They were not fighting a war yet, though a war was going on in the very country that they were in. ... But soon, holding off the enemy was not so easy for the American soldiers, and more troops were sent in. ... All of these new, and newly perfected, weapons made the Vietnam War an unfamiliar territory for everybody as the death toll soared through the roof. ... This is not true, 91% of all living Vietnam veterans say that they are proud that they served their country, 74% would serve again knowing that there would be the same outcome, and 97% of them were discharged under honorable conditions...
These strong beliefs sometimes became obsessive as nationalists became so proud of their nation that they strived for it to become richer and more powerful than any other. ... As the Serbians denied this request, it is believed by some historians that the young operatives sent to kill Ferdinand were not only nationalistic students but also as scapegoats used by the Serbian government to carry out their dirty work. ... Within the Balkans, the Slavic people were rising up against Austria-Hungary who had annexed Serbia and not allowed the independent state that the Slavs desired. ... Frit...
They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-- Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride . . . ... With the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Victorian Age came to a close, and it was time for a new era and new thoughts to emerge. ... If not properly dealt with, these problems can bring on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ... Unfortunately, the young soldiers soon found out that war was not glamorous at all. ... The victim's lungs also slowly...
We are aware that we are dealing with issues of death and grief and that as educators we have ensure that while children can empathise with the experience of soldiers they are not traumatised by the same. ... It is then emphasised that in this program we are not thinking about their differences but what they had in common. ... Children say they are proud, sad, they know why it is important to remember, the soldiers fought for us and we shouldn't go to war again. ... They were happy because they knew they had been tried for the first time and had not been found wanting ... ... The A...
He applied to The Academy of Fine Arts twice and was not excepted. ... Hitler believed that he was making a better life for himself and was proud to serve in the German army of which he admired so much. ... Hitler not only had a second blindness but surprisingly enough cried for the first time since standing in front of his mother's grave in Leonding, Austria. He had endured the death of his comrades, injuries to himself, and blindness .....all in silence. ... When Hitler was released from Landsbury in December 1924, the Nazi Party and it's newspapers were disbanned and Hitler ...
The Battle of Okinawa was the final battle in the effort to defeat the Japanese combatants against the Allied forces. Okinawa was the largest island in the Ryukyu Islands and it was strategically advantageous being only 350 miles away from the Japanese homeland of Kyushu. The Japanese, Okinawans, an...
These sources definitely do not entertain the notion of defeat, let alone the horrors of warfare, which in prior conflicts had been considerable. ... However, the usage of female workers, due to necessity, not equality, together with the recruitment figures already mentioned above, help to prove more or less that source D, whatever its providence, (which is not at all clear) generally recruitment posters were fairly effective, the most famous being left out, Kitchner's finger insisting that "THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOU." ... The photograph may also have been staged; there are many other reasons...
Introduction When I first sat down and researched into American exceptionalism I discovered an idea that was complex in not just its definition but also its understanding. ... ", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic Greek figure with the strength to hold up the world, but also shows that there was an unwillingness from the American government, or at least the people, to engage in more international warfare. ... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their creator.15 This was a unique structure, where...
World War One is not often seen to most people as a battle between democracy and autocracy. ... The European allies were odd with democracy, offering some liberties but not others. ... Now obviously, everyone is not as dumb as I make him or her out to be. Not everyone will jump off the bridge if you tell them it's safe. ... He threatened a march on Rome unless he was not appointed Prime Minister of Italy and the King of Italy at the time, Victor Emmanuel III who would not dare back the current regime quickly supported Mussolini and his Fascists...
The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and to which he was to adhere until his suicide in the bunker. ... Hitler wished to eliminate this racial disparagement in phase one of his program, thus allowing for the supreme goal of attaining Lebensraum.(5) Through his reign he was of course subject to "forces at work, both in and outside Germany, conditioning the framework of Hitler's actions, which naturally, did not take place in a vacuum as a free expression of autonom...
