Sun Wu agreed, became a general, and changed his name to Sun Tzu, meaning "Master Sun" (Clavell 4). ... Sun Tzu compares an army to water. ... Sun Tzu finishes his book with these sentences. ... Each moment and intelligence related decision in the history of the United States, whether it be in wartime or peace, can be connected to Sun Tzu's teachings in The Art of War. ... This intelligence operation had weakened the British defenses by nearly six thousand troops, without having to fight or kill any one of them (History). ...

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Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his Chinese counterpart Mao Zedong both seemingly utilized Sun Tzu's tactics throughout the two state's tense relations. ... The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... Perhaps the Soviets and Chinese leaders...

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One of his poems: Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. ... If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. ... I quote Crown Prince Wilhelm :Each of us must keep himself fit for arms and also prepared in his mind for the great solemn hour when the Emperor calls us to the standard - the hour when we no longer belong to ourselves, but to the Fatherland with all the forces of our mind and our body; for all these faculties must be brought to the highest exertion, to that "will to victory" which ha...

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"Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. John Hersey, from Hiroshima, p8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United S...

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Although an expatriate, through his life and works he touched upon the feelings and needs of countless Americans that were lost in history. ... Hemingway's first book, "The Sun Also Rises," was a masterpiece that elaborately depicted Hemingway's "Lost Generation" through fiction. ... He is without a doubt as pure and ideal a character as there has ever been in the history of literature. ...

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"I can only write about it [the past] by bringing it in some relation to my present-day thoughts and activities, and then this writing of history, as Goethe once said, brings some relief from the weight and burden of the past," (The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru). The aforementioned quote will satiate your thirst why we are concerned about history and why Huq has found history as the background of his finest creation, Agunpakhi. ... Pointing to the history the novel refers to the hardship caused by both war and famine. ... These communal riots were such infectious that it did not even ...

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As Jack approaches with his choir from the darkness of the forest, he cannot see Ralph, whose back is to the sun. Jack is symbolically blinded by the sun. These two are very obviously intended to recall God and the Devil, whose confrontation, in the history of Western religions, establishes the moral basis for all actions. ...

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Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising sense of crisis, (Bradbury 13). ... The lines in the poem: Since we believe not otherwise can kind fire burn; Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. ...

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Hopkins' four periods of globalisation, it is evident that globalisation has occurred prior to 1500, evolving over the different periods and effectively shaping each into fundamental stages of history through economic innovation. ... He believed that "the Earth revolves about the sun", despite "such propositions" as "contrary to the bible" and others of his time. ... The Revolution greatly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of theocracies and absolute monarchies, replacing them with republics and democracies. ...

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Introduction Since her day of commencement, the USS Indianapolis had a great career, leaving her mark forever etched in American history. ... The USS Indianapolis was the last major American warship to be lost at sea, and has become known as the greatest sea disaster in American naval history. ... For the next 4- ½ days, the remainder of the Indianapolis crew drifted without food or water, and little hope of rescue, succumbing one-by-one to the largest shark attack on record, and for those that survived the relentless attacks, they were still yet faced with the heat of the sun during t...

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What became evidently clear was that by the end of the conflict, Allenby achieved one of the greatest victories in the history of the Great War in terms of strategy, efficiency and in the number of casualties. ... Sun Tzu puts it quite nicely in his famous text "The Art of War " by stating that "All warfare is based on deception". ... Sun Tzu's ideology had a striking resemblance the Allenby's mindset. ...

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This fireball was a hundred times brighter than the sun and was 250 feet in diameter. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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After the atomic bombs were dropped, Harry Truman responded to a letter from Irv Kupcinet of the Chicago Sun Times. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... For the first time in human history, there are weapons that can destroy all of the human race....

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The December 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was one of the great defining moments in history. ... Truman made the following statement after the bomb had exploded, "The force from which the sun draws its power had been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." ...

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Although history does not like to remind people that this was done, many military units and civilian targets were totally wiped out of existence. ... The sphinx gazes blankly and "pitiless as the sun" (15). ...

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Memoirs of a Geisha, published in 1977, is a historical novel written by Arthur Golden. He had received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. Therefore, he was capable of producing a beautifully written novel about a geisha in Japan during the times of before and after World War II....

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Only the words of General Thomas Farrel, present at the site, could fully explain the magnitude of the situation; he wrote: [The] whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. ... He wrote in his diary: We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. ...

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The assassination of Achduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 28 June 1914 and the so-called 'blank cheque' given to Austria by Germany on 05th July 1914 promising 'full support' even if should mean war with Russia, the traditional protector of the Slavs, have been considered the crucial milestone that changed the human history. ... Europe's newest nations, Italy and Germany, considered themselves cheated in the imperial stakes and demanded their 'place in the sun'. ...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan's ...

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" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... In this survey 80% of Americans agreed with the statement "the United States has a unique character because of its history and Constitution that sets it apart from other nations as the greatest in the world.... It may have taken root as a way of giving Americans the sense of their place in the sun, after the struggle for freedom....

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1) A Terrible Tragedy The human tragedy of the Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. The adversity of this persecution influenced not only the European arena, but also peoples from all over the globe and their ideas. The impact caused b...

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Arizona and the U.S.S Utah remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, also, they are both reminders of seemingly how easily the attack was carried out and of how America, the world's big brother and perhaps the most powerful nation in the history of the world, was caught with 'its guard down.' ... Both attacks were turning points in American history; they had and will have profound effects on life after them. ... It didn't mean anything to us until a large group of planes came n...

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By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ...

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