Nancy Pelosi once said "Women are leaders everywhere you look-from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. ... Women made a breakthrough in 1914 during and after World War 1, where they gained some equality between themselves and men. ... Also, because of their help in the war, it gave men and others alike a new depiction of women. ... In cause of this women were regarded as a force to be proud of by the middle of the war (Martin, 2009). ... Seeing both the pros and the cons of their work in the war effort, women faced confl...

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Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... "To His Love" is a monologue in which one soldier (perhaps Gurney), speaks to the girlfriend of a dead soldier about morning the loss and regretting they will both never enjoy the soldiers company again (Greenblatt 2028). ... In his earlier poems the persona speaks of the war with resentment and attitude, subjects that show his firm take on the war that are structured with soft ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers...

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First, the Federal Trade Commission authorized to order companies to cease and desist3 from engaging in unfair competition. ... Determined to avoid entering World War I, he rigorously pursued neutrality. ... Keeping America out of the war proved to be an extremely difficult, and eventually impossible, job. ... In the end not even Woodrow Wilson could keep the United States out of World War I. ... In April 1917 Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. ...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... For many Germans hyperinflation caused more suffering than the war, which resulted in festering anger and resentfulness. The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflation by its borrowing trend. ...

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