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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A wing commander took the initiative to contact pilots and demanded that they stop the bombing after hearing the report of numerous shorts. ... Once in contact he received reports of conflicts and how many of the objectives had been captured. ... When the allied commander received the report from Mortain he was informed that the Germans were mixed throughout the allied line. ...

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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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In the book A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, author Michael Hunt stated that, "Since 1977, Hollywood has been succeeding where Washington consistently failed: namely, in selling Vietnam to the American public."3 Hunt is referring to the fact that the government did a horrible job gaining the support of the American people during the war, and as a result, Vietnam was a failure for the United States military. ...

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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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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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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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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. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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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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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 ...

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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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