The official history of the Ming had described how the Portuguese used to boil and eat Chinese children. ... The Chinese themselves were drastically unprepared for an external war, the military was very underdeveloped and some of the methods they used were very primitive, such as stretching huge iron chains across the river to stop British ships from passing through. ...
Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...
He was the second of four children of David Gurney who was a tailor and Florence, a seamstress (Thornton & Walter 10). ... "To His Love," depicts the frustration Gurney began to experience, foreshadowing his fragmented mind that would torment him indefinitely: "Knew it, on Severn River/Under the blue/ Driving our small boat through," emphasizes two conflicting memories of Gurney as he struggles to remember a peaceful setting with a horrific one (Greenblatt 2028). ...
Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...
