These policies pursued by Eisenhower added to the tension and apprehension the American public was already feeling in regard to the Soviet threat, and added to the relative conformity and strict social rules of the time. ... Resulting in lost reputation and in the case of many members of Hollywood, lost work due to blacklisting, this phenomenon revealed the paranoia of the time period. ... The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. ... Similarly, the appellant Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and wa...

• Word Count: 3509
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Know as the Progressive era, Bristow attempts to deal with the complexities of this time, a time in which morale and decency prevailed. ... The CTCA was formed in April 1917 to supervise the cultural life of the military service men. ... As a result, men from all walk of life where thrown together as they moved from state to state, country to country, while being trained. 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 Commission provided the m...

• Word Count: 1179
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What makes his work so effective is that he appears to have shared with millions of other Americans a particular set of assumptions about life in the United States, and he has blended his skills as an illustrator with a wealth of careful observation to bring the consequences of these assumptions to life. ... Unlike other painters of his time who used postimpressionism and modernism; Rockwell created images of Americans and is said by some to be the only true American realist (Schorr). ... In the later years of his life, Norman Rockwell started to take a stand against bigotry by drawing picture...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Muller outwits him by the help of an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveria de Figueria and Caption Haddock who reaches with the Emir's soldiers just in time to recover the prince. ... Comic books are widely regarded as children's books and Brussels-born author Georges Remi, mostly known as Hergé, who did not have any children, enjoyed entertaining them through his writing skills. ... In fact it is Abdullah's ink gun which helps to catch Müller with which he attempts to take his life but fails and finally gets arrested. ... By the time the story was published yet a...

• Word Count: 1962
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is also know for his many other books that are along the themes of spy, espionage, government and social and moral conflicts within and among states. ... Jack Ryan is placed inside of the US hunt sub, causing some frustration for its captain as they were in pursuit of the Red October at the time they were told to surface. ... The book ends with the loss of life of one of the senior crew members who desired to see Montana, and now to be buried there. ... Time is of no issue when freedom is concerned, it is the obtaining of the freedom that is key and not how long it takes to attain or to ...

• Word Count: 1089
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"A nation can be maintained only if, between the State and the individual, there is intercalated a whole series of secondary groups near enough to the individuals to attract them strongly in their sphere of action and drag them in this way, into the general torrent of social life" (Durkheim 1964: 28). ... Industrial capitalism being the traditional "job for life" deal where the "bread winner" in the household went to work every day to the same job, then came home to a family and community with strong social bonds where each individual knew what was expected of them within their social role,...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People are concerned about what would happen If the polar ice caps were to melt, but that event is so far into the future that we would have plenty of time to deal with the situation by the time it occurs. ... One of the books primary objectives is that "We can learn a great deal about the nature of present world crises by carefully comparing our own situation with related aspects of primitive culture." ... Hunters were healthy, and had long life spans. ... (Bodley p. 31) Within the oceans, there have been problems with DDT, which has been proven to slow photosynthesis in marine plant life...

• Word Count: 2109
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the television at the center of this new visual culture, Marling contends, "Life in the fifties i! ... What better place and time for Walt Disney to introduce his theme park? ... Americans also used leisure time to take advantage of the hobby mania that swept through 1950s America. ... 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. ... Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book emphasized such time saving devices. ...

• Word Count: 2184
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this time from 1933-1938 Germany poured massive amounts of money into the industrial war preparation economy. ... The propaganda machine was also hard at work during this time in order to further solidify this idea that the Jews were a massive problem that must be taken care of if the preservation of a true German state was to be. ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) The following is an excerpt from one of the books: "and then the Jew approaches her. ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298; Der Giftpilz, Streicher, 1933) It can be seen the clear anti-Semitic values that were placed on the Ge...

• Word Count: 4395
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The iconography of Band Of Brothers such as the wartime music, 1940s clothes and uniform, German and American tanks and war time weapons, the majority being originals dating back to 1939, all reinforce the idea or realism and help associate it to the war genre. ... It's a powerful true-life story of a man who became the saviour of more than one thousand Jews in wartime Poland also used the ideology of brotherhood, banding together to survive. ... To make Band Of Brothers even more realistic, Simon Atherton, armourer, and his crew read books, interviews, journals, and anything they could f...

• Word Count: 1821
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. ...

• Word Count: 6124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal o...

• Word Count: 5589
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate