Contrary to our expectation of two films about a same topic to be similar, or at least not so different from each other, the dramatic licenses that American and Japanese filmmakers took into their movie went into two opposite directions. ...
I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest . . . would [have] laid the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they had been matchsticks, and of course set them afire in the center. ...
August 1914 one of the most historic events in history began. This was the beginning of the First World War, a war that had never been seen before. It involved every major European nation as well as North America and Japan. There was nothing that could have prepared the world for this war it chan...
Discrimination is an act or a decision that treats a person or a group of people negatively for reasons such as their, race, age or disability. Discriminatory traditions, policies, ideas, practices, and laws exist in many countries and in every part of the world, even in ones where discrimination is...
The Burma Campaign of WW2 was held in 1942, Burma the country formally known as Myanmar is a country almost the same size and land mass as the state of Texas. The country sits down low in the bottom of southern Asia between China and India. Along the northern, eastern, and western borders of Burma a...
In 1946 Japanese exports totaled two billion yen but by 1949 Japanese exports increased from two billion to 170 billion yen (Iriye, 94). 1949 saw a change in the way that Japan exported its goods, in 1946 more than half of Japanese goods were being sent to America but my 1949 Japan realized they needed to switch directions with their exports. ...
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...
The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising ...
