The key to their success could be attributed to a singular book, which was written around 500 BC. ... Born Sun Wu, he received an education and wrote a short book exploring a new way to look at war (3). ... Sun Tzu finishes his book with these sentences. ... Understanding the ideals in this book has guided multiple armies and nations to a successful future. ... These decisions, specifically, relate to the third and thirteenth chapter of the book. ...

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In the book The Lord of the Flies, William Golding relates the story of a group of English school boys stranded on an island. ... In addition to the author's experiences, the tone and theme for the book The Lord of the Flies come largely from the Cold War era. ... In his book, he contradicts the views that man and society are flourishing, instead mocking the "toy of democracy-. ... From the book, it can be inferred that Conrad did not have a very favorable view of this cultural exportation. ... In addition to the background, both of the books' titles lend a great deal to the book...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... He was never able to write the book. ... That night, he read a book by Erika Ostrovsky. ... Now, he presents us with his war book. ... This book, he says, is a failure. ...

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Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. ... Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. ... Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. ... Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. ...

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The Little Prince which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and was published in 1943 during the World War II, is my favourite great book. ... From review of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, This is a book that can be read by both children and adults. It has a message of love that is true and touching, and it is a book that has stood the test of time.1 Hence, how can The Little Prince obtain these good reviews and made a great effects even if it seems like only a book for children? ... The author wrote this book when he was an exile in the United States after the fall of France in World War...

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Esther shares her feelings with the readers throughout her book; she tells us what exactly felt like to be in a cattle car full of peasants who seemed to be handling the situation in a much better way than she and her family did. ... Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. ...

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There had always been events that played major roles for changing the balances in the world throughout history. Unfortunately, most of the time, these events were nothing but the cruel wars that resulted in the loss of millions of people and in waste of huge amount of money. Like every other war, World War 1 took many lives and money and changed the balances in the world. Actually, these big wars are usually emerging to change the balances because some sides don't like the world to stay as it is. In the Gallipoli War, which was a part of the World War 1 there were different sides whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ... Whitcomb in his book argues that the Truman Doctrine needlessly harmed the United States and Soviet Union relations. ... Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. According to Shlaim there is not question that the airlift of supplies into Berlin was necessary and Tr...

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In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting th...

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The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. ...

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World War II, the European front was a raging battle between the allied forces and Nazi Germany. The battle for the liberation of France began on D-Day plus 49, 1944. The allied forces had not made progress into France as foreseen. Instead, one and a half million allied forces were stalled from just beyond the landing beaches and out into the English Channel. The stall occurred just north of St....

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David Kaiser stated in his book, Politics and War: The South African war eventually demonstrated the costs of more serious economic imperialism "that is, of trying to secure economically significant areas with armed force. ...

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In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory under China's legal jurisdiction is in dispute or already controlled by other regional nations " (Saunders). ...

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The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany i...

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" (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" that looks beautiful, but should not be trusted and one should not be persuaded by its image. "This book taught German children how to attack the Jews in three anti-Semitic ways: by their physical appearance; by religious beliefs; and by moral values....

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John Keats, in his book The Insolent Chariots (1958), attacked the automobile industry stating that their products were "overblown, overpriced monstrosities built by oafs to sell to mental defectives." ...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens must overcome a number of problems before it can be effectively achieved. Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer the...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, that have some unexpected yet unde...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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In today's modern society we have very many things to fear from, like getting hit by a car, or just getting up out of bed in the morning is sometimes scary enough, because you just never quite know what is going to happen. So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. These countries have just acquired the capability of firing a nuclear missile and starting world war III. So now, every morning I wake up and turn on the news, praying that some upstart little country that I have never laid eyes on hasn"t sealed ...

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Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. However, the Vietnam War failed to provide the same stories of struggle and bravery that made films about World War I and World War II successful because the conflict lacked clear objectives and easily identified enemies. Therefore, Hollywood directors used myths to create dramatic constructions of the...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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Hitler did have a foreign policy program that he laid down, however sickening it was, in 1925 with the writing of Mein Kampf.(4) In this book Hitler described to all the world his three main foreign policy intentions. ... Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) This statement falls completely in line with his racial dogma and shows quite clearly that Hitler had always deem...

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• Grade Level: High School