The Book Thief is about a young girl's life in Germany during World War II. ... She is taught by her adoptive father, Hans, by reading a stolen book titled "The Gravedigger's Guide.... In The Book Thief, Liesel sees this and engages in a primary method called praxis. ...
Historians have gone so far as to call this the atomic age for the way it has shaped and guided world politics, relations, and culture. ... The work Hiroshima, by John Hersey, first appeared as a long article in the New Yorker, then shortly after in book form. This book is a non-fiction account of the bombing of Hiroshima and the immediate aftermath. ... The book takes on a tone of sympathy and survival that these people were lucky enough to survive the blast. ... The book emphasizes with their plight while it also gives an American explanation for the bombing. ...
According to Donald Lopez, Senior Advisor to the director of the National Air and Space Museum, in his book Aviation a Smithsonian guide, people of that time tried to imitate birds. ... (Lopez, Aviation a Smithsonian guide, 1995, p 16). ... (Aviation a Smithsonian Guide, p 16). ... Each side worked hard to build powerful planes (Lopez, Aviation a Smithsonian Guide, 1995, p 49). ... (Aviation a Smithsonian guide, p 126). ...
Also we see in this book that war has evolved very much since the start of warfare. ... The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. ... (P 187) The book best shows the attitude of soldiers change in the time before the war and during the war. ... This book is a great one and I recommend this book to any person weather they are pro-war or against any type of war. ... Dictionary.com defines leader as: "One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. ...
Right off the bat the book Citizens of the Empire is provocative in nature, but Robert Jensen forces the reader to reevaluate everything they thought they knew about American foreign policy after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. ... At the end of his book, Jensen asks the reader a very critical question: "Do we have the courage to stop being Americans and become human beings? ... As I previously stated, Jensen's book is very proactive. ... There are three principals that Nearing used to guide his life and they are the quest "to learn the truth, to teach the truth, and to help build the trut...
Thematically, good will conquer evil, as Jack Carson's actions symbolically represent the United States and the Allied powers as he battles the the evil Colonel Helmut Von Toth, who represents Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers as a reflection of the events of World War II. Throughout Daniel Reed's no...
Generally, anti-heroes have faced some hardship or tragedy, internal or external, which guides their actions. ... During the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a number of comic book characters were created to reflect on the events going on. ... Leonard (1975) discusses how we are "a comic book generation; that is our heroes are comic book heroes, our ideas of justice and morality are comic book ideas, and their gods are comic book gods" (The Classics – Alive and Well with Superman, 406). ...
Davy stays with basically three jobs throughout the book, whereas Jack is influenced by the time, and therefore moves from job to job, until he gets a job in the Wimmera district. ... Sam Burlington's girl friend, Jess is murdered later in the book and this affects Davy profusely because the police arrest Sam for the crime, and question Davy. ... (Blurb) Societies" standards that guided the two boys into their adult lives would probably determine the way they later treated their children and grandchildren, and would ultimately affect the way those persons would bring up their offspring. ...
The book begins as the Soviet Union's ability to provide their own oil is cut off by a terrorist attack. ... Red Storm Rising captivates audiences with its techno-wizardry of smart bombs and satellite guided cruise missles.It was like an arcade game. ... His writing mechanics and techniques of reader manipulation keep readers filled with suspense and compassion for the characters until the book's end. ...
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language provides many explanations: "a person or thing that leads; a guide; one in charge or in command of others." The dictionary proceeds to offer such additional definitions as "a person who leads others along a way; a guiding or directing head, as of an army or political group; the head of a political party or organization; one who has an influential voice in politics." ... In his book "The Making of Popes, 1978," Andrew M. ...
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. ...
A leader is someone who uses his or her intellect to guide others. ... He wrote his book Mein Kamph, meaning my struggle. This book set out all of Hitler's ideas and strategies that he planned to go through with once out of jail. The main idea in this book was to get rid of all those who opposed to the Arian race and anyone who threaten the goal of the Arian race. ... The world had the opportunity to stop Hitler before he even started, but no one ever took the time to read the book. ...
The human race can be very interesting to the extent that even they don't know. There are times when they know what they want and there are times when they follow what they have been told even when their beliefs were intact. Those who choose their own path, however, are what can lead the earth to a ...
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...
Wells wrote in his book, The World Set Free, that atomic bombs were used in a war between the alliance of England, France and the U.S. against an alliance of Germany and Austria. ... U.S. policy of not classifying basic research has led to numerous publicly available technical papers that the technically astute could use as a guide in building a nuclear weapon. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...
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...
