In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... So I suppose this is how human nature works; someday, our paranoia will overcome us, and when that happens, let's hope for the best. ...

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For years these nuclear weapons have been contaminating our environment by discharging harmful contaminants into the environment, but yet they still seem to be the backbone of our nation being built and tested every single day (Armstrong, David, 1). ... Although it has not gone unknown, many have recently become much more aware for concern of the environment, not only in their town, but in others as well. ... We are the smartest of beings on the planet and thus, have a responsibility to use our knowledge to our advantage. ... How good can nuclear weapons be in order to be built every day at...

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However the great bridges of our nation were not built today. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal of the great depression put millions of people back to work and built our nations infrastructure, as we know it today. ... Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts. ... Our abundant industrial and technical capacity was spent in the production and distribution of luxury goods and gadgets (what economists and sociologists call "unproductive" goods and services). ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small ...

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During the eighteenth century, largely in response to the Dutch East India Company's strict regulation on their lives, many settlers slowly moved away from Cape Town and established a dispersed, pastoral and patriarchal frontier society. ...

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Dismayed by the growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried to counter the resistance by creating a major motion picture to, what he says, "Tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans." ...

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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. ... Contrary to our expectation of two films about a same topic to be similar, or at least not so different from each other, the dramatic licenses that American and Japanese filmmakers took into their movie went into two opposite directions. ...

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While Rua Kenana's legacy is often be a neglected part of our New Zealand history, his unwavering resistance during World War One significantly impacted Maori at the time and also helped to New Zealand's culture and identity to this day. ...

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In addition, Washington noted that "After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and interest to take, a neutral position. ... It has destroyed hundreds of towns, it has widowed millions of wives, it has brought in its train the inevitable consequences of war, pestilence, and famine. ...

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The reason this attitude was enforced during World War 2 was because the Japanese one by one took over a huge number of countries in the region, right up to Australia's doorstep, and even ended up bombing a lot of towns and cities in northern Australia such as Darwin. ... The most obvious place was to Asia and since then our major trading partner became Japan and to this day still is. ...

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The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons of the sea, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or village, or devastation not justified by military necessity" (Nuremberg Principles). ...

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Whole streets of friends joining up in "pals" battalions, which, although exceptionally successful in promoting recruitment, though were disastrous on days like 1st July 1916, where whole towns lost the flower of their manhood for an entire generation. ...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial expansion in Asia not unlike that of Genghis Khan's Mongolia or Julius Caesar's Rome but the question remains whether Hirohito played an active role in that expansion. Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and ...

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