Furthermore, female expertise in regards to fashion opened up new avenues of professionalism for women "the dress salon became a place where women's professional competence was unquestioned. ... Fashion is one of the few areas where Marling's book depicts the "growing generational divide" of the 1950s, and the "sack dress" was at the center of that divide (41). ... What better place and time for Walt Disney to introduce his theme park? ... 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 n...

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(Bodley p. 9) One of the objectives of the book is to look at the problems of the world through an anthropological perspective in order to get a good look at what is happening to our society. ... In recent years, outsiders have attempted to introduce permanent agricultural development schemes and have permanently destroyed the forest, leaving rain-leached, impoverished, rock hard soils and scrub thorn forests in their place." ... (Bodley p. 43) We use too much of fossil fuels, paper and produce entirely too much waste, which is a boon to technological progress, but is destroying the plac...

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The image that many civilians had about camp life, according to Bristow, was that of military camps being a place corrupted and diluted by drinking, prostitution, profanity, and fighting. The book shows how that image reverted back from the Civil War... The Draft act of 1917 called for the registration of black and white men alike, allowing African Americans to serve in the First World War. ... I believe, though, that one of the reasons why the commission was so successful in the first place, however, was its emphasis on the model of the real man during the war. ... Bristow's book was ...

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Most gay men tried to imitate the manliest man in their unit in order to avoid being called a "queer" or "sissy" and get bullied. ... "Coming Out Under Fire" hit close to home for me. ... Bérubé declared his homosexuality at the beginning of the book. This could make it seem like he is biased due to his sexuality, however, his book is very well researched and documented in the 96 pages at the end of the book. ... I definitely loved this book. ...

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This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. ... The invasion of Poland would be what Hitler would refer to as expanding the German empire and providing what he called "Lebensraum". ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) Streicher was also responsible for the publishing of the well-known Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer as well as a children's book series Der Giftpilz. ... In the children's book the Jews are described as a "poisonous mushroom...

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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "poured down shell-holes." 4) The postcard in source E, is atyp...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." ...

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