The impact of total war on the home fronts of both Germany and Britain required each of the governments to implement controls that would enable an effective conduct of war while maintaining social and economic order. ... These developments helped in maintaining the war effort on the home front in that focus was place upon efficient production through striving for a maximum number of workers to be employed, as well as taking action to secure labour in the workforce. ... The severity of the decline in living standards on the German home front can be seen in Source G which exemplifies the means...

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A new disposition towards form over function led to fluctuating trends in the market, including drastic yearly changes in items ranging from clothing to automobiles to home appliances. ... Artists such as Grandma Moses assured the American public that "anyone can paint if they want to." ... Society still equated food and home cooking with happiness, home and love, but a fear of failure and lack of time caused women to utilize new time saving devices and foods, such as canned soups, minute rice and cake mix. ... How can this be related to the 1950s automobile craze? ... The Ed Sullivan show bro...

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The War Advising Board worked hard to convince civilians that investing in war bonds were of great patriotic acts (Home Front America). ... ", "Grow More and Can More! Can All You Can! ... The government would target military wives at the home front to grow these gardens and to can and preserve any kind of grown food (Creating Rosie). These gardens gave Americans a feeling of involvement by being able to participate from their very own homes to help military conflict. ...

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It has been noted by some historians that the war reinforced traditional values in women, on the other hand it is argued that such an experience must have altered the lives of the women on the home front considerably. ... They are important to consider as even when the conflict was at its highest, in terms of the volume of woman power involved, there were 8,777,000 women working at home. ... Many supporters of mandatory labour for women, suggested that it would allow class divisions to be submerged, and that that work of the home front would be deliberately spread amongst women from all ranks...

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By acknowledging the past atrocities and faults of our lands past, Americans can live to accept each others differences and come together as a community of one. ... As colonizers expanded its land, they pushed the Indians further westward out of their homes. ... Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... Irish women worked their way up the money ladder from maids to domestic servants in American's homes. ...

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Korean immigration to the United States can be divided into mostly two phases- before 1965 and after 1965. ... So like the Japanese, they sent their pictures back home in hope of finding themselves a "picture bride". In order to find themselves picture brides, the Korean males sent home a picture of themselves, and through a matchmaker the pictures were shown to a number young women. ... Congress passed the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, thus allowing more Korean family members and entire family groups to enter the US, Korean Americans could once again provide their extended famil...

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This paper will discuss how soldiers in WWI and WWII changed the way English was formed with particular focus on the letters they wrote letters to their families back home. ... For instance, the way some sentences were structured in WWI can be associated to older forms of English while WWII English is more related to the present-day English. ... " Going by this new structure, it can be deduced that Lubbock's question could now read "is a kid's sorrow not a very real and great grief when it loses its doll?... By the letters the soldiers wrote home and those that they receive...

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Bias can be defined as someone's personal view of the world as shaped through their experiences and opinions. ... Sometimes it can be altered for negative influence and sometimes for positive influence. ... Although the author accounts these growing dangers in the natural beauty of the Maine countryside and coastline, he points out that Maine truly is home to the "unchanging" cities. ... He claims that it is welcoming and a "home away from home". ... These beliefs can be very generally summarized as "people are bad", and "our country is good". ...

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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. ... When troops trudged home after the war, they're also tainted with the images of war, much like Gawaine trudged home with the knowledge that the magic word had no effect on slaying dragons. ...

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The novel illustrates the soldiers' physical and psychological effects during the war, and how they are unable to re-attach to ordinary civilian lifestyle once they return home from the front. ... For the first time in three days we can oppose him; we feel a mad anger. ... Paul experiences these effects as he travels back to his home. ... With Paul returning home, he has the chance to recapture aspects of his old life, but his tainted humanity makes him realize that he is unable to connect to civilian society. ... " can be directly linked to the long term and short term consequenc...

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The parents can choose the best curriculums, since they are aware of their child's weaknesses and strengths. ... The benefits of home schooling as it provide the best possible opportunity for healthy relationship parent-child relationship. ... A strong home-school connection will set the stage for a child who will grow up with a love for learning. ... "Proponents believe the stern home environment and strict demands motivate children to perform their best. Tiger parents claim they only expect so much out of their children because they know they can meet their expectations. ...

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As rationing had ended, the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line fell dramatically and soldiers returned home with the dream of a house and car of one's own. ... Much of the rise of the automobile and the rise culture associated with it can be attributed to the automobile styling that began to take place at mid-century. ... The Styling Redesign Much of this mid-century styling redesign can be attributed to Harley Earl. ...

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Many did not understand why the US involved itself in the war in Europe but these four paintings helped bring the war closer to home and American related to the war better. ... Rockwell places the people close together so one can imagine the closeness of the family something which many desire because their loved ones were either recruited to fight in the war or have left home to find a decent job to help support the family. ... He wants Americans to feel that they have it good in this country and that Americans should lend their men and army so all the people in the world can experience the s...

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When large, multinational corporations such as Dell Computers, British Airways, and America Online are in search of quality labor at a low cost, workers can be found in developing third world countries. ... World peace can be achieved through globalization. ... The worldwide web is the ideal place for intercontinental communication: "No one owns the internet, it is totally decentralized, no one can turn it off, it can potentially reach into every home in the world -(62). When information can be reach so easily by so many people, the ability to learn about a wide range of topics surfaces. ....

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The characters of the novel alienated themselves from their family and home, where they can not return to a stereotypical former life. ... In the beginning of the fifteenth chapter in the description of a cafe, the analogy of the War's battles can easily be recognized: "The marble-topped tables and the white wicker chairs were gone. ... They are not able to stay away from the terrible episodes of the War, always emerging in their mind, and they can not stop comparing every single event that appears in their life with the War. ... It might be concluded that in the novel there are so many ...

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Secondly, in the yard, the mother burns not only letters, but also some souvenirs and housewares bought from home country years ago, such as silk kimonos, Japanese opera, the Imari dishes and so forth. People use to send greetings and cares through letters to their friends or relatives when they are far away from home just as the father does to their children in the camp. ... The family can still retain them for the use. ... After suffering from four years' miserable detainment, the father finally comes back home thin and worn, and then answers the accusations of being a threatening enemy...

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One may think there is always only one truth to be told and remembered, but in cases where truth can be used to serve a certain purpose, would what people tell us still be one singular truth? ... On the other hand, Children of Hiroshima's story is driven by an ordinary kindergarten teacher, named Takako, through a trip back to her home town which sheds light on the distressing aftermath of the atomic bomb. ... This effect can be seen clearly in the scene of the bomb being dropped. In the American film, we can hardly see any fatality and casualties, except for the burning ground without an...

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You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won't say that you"re mad- Siegfried Sassoon, "Does it matter?" ... From this, we too are shocked as the effect of the war on soldiers is finally brought home to us thorough the use of such comparisons and through the use of many others involving words of ugly texture, for example "blood-shod", which reflects the angry tone and illustrates his emotions in as much detail as he possibly could go into. ... Moreover, on looking at the draft copy of this poem, one can see that Owen chose to change the adjective "clauring" to "haunting...

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Throughout the novel, the racism shown toward the Japanese can be seen with vivid clarity during the scenes take place in the court room. ... When Japan goes to war with the United States of America, many of the Japanese people were abused by the police, stolen from, taken from their homes, and sent to camps, and many went to go fight in the war. ... Throughout the novel, David Guterson uses the trial for the murder of the local fisherman in order to show exactly what racism and prejudice can do to a person. ...

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Meanwhile, back home, women experienced a revolution of their own "with husbands and sons off in battle, females had access to jobs that had never been available to them before, and the staunch, determined attitude personified by "Rosie the Riveter-, their mascot, defines how important this movement became. And Hollywood, who had before been ridiculed for its works, now began producing pro-war films and propaganda, helping enormously with the "home front-, maintaining civilian confidence and keeping the country afloat in times of war. ... Most clearly, it is a prime example of how history...

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Yet, Remarque was the only one to actually acknowledge this fact in writing, having witnessed the epic chaos of the front for months before sustaining injuries serious enough (from grenade splinters) to warrant sending him home. ... Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. ... He captures their frustrations completely in the following passage, in which one soldier is responding to another's assertion that the "State- and the "home-land- are inseparable: " just you consider, almost all of us are simple folk. ...

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But this does not mean that restrictions can never be constitutional. On the contrary, they can if applied to the most rigorous level of scrutiny. ... This idea that the president can act unilaterally on behalf of the entire executive branch forms a school of thought called Unitary Executive Theory4. ... This is essentially legalese meaning that military commanders can designate areas from which certain groups are prohibited. ... Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. ...

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"Australia has undergone enormous changes since the Commonwealth came into being on 1st January 1901."1 Since this time its population has increased four-fold, as Australia is now home to one of the world's most diverse societies, with almost every culture and religion being practiced within our land. ... Europe can be given credit for the birth of democracy, dating back to the Greek polis in the fifth century, and the fundamental concepts achieved by the Roman's still remain the backbone of modern law. ... However, today we can see a complete reversal in trading with Europe and A...

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If he could maintain a supposed belligerent foe and keep socialism firmly in place at home, he would have no problems contrary to Marxism-Leninism. ... He sought to achieve these goals through his policies both at home and abroad. All of these policies however, can be summed up in Gorbachev's `New Thinking' which spread its influence throughout the Soviet Union, Soviet satellites, and the rest of the world. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the worl...

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Elsa highlighted to Marechal and Rosenthal when they first met that the portraits in her home were of her brothers and husband who were unfortunately killed during the skirmishes of the Great War. ... Firstly, we see Renoir drawing a humane imagery of the Germans, who did not mistreat the POWs, but even allow them to receive care packages that are filled with food and alcohol from home. ... The German is portrayed to be like any other human, who can be compassionate and understanding. ...

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