Rejection and exploitation of the Vietnam Veteran by the US caused the veterans to fight a different war, PTSD when they returned home. ... Therefore the war became a rather solitary war, where one soldier was sent alone, and then proceeded to return back home alone. ... Confusion as to what would happen next tore at the joy that he felt in being alive and going away from the war, back to his home where he belonged. ... When someone finally did leave and go back home his buddies would be left behind in the field without his skills and he would return home with mixed feelings of joy and gui...

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This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. Women then became willing to follow the leanings of society and remain at home. ... This dissatisfaction at work, unhappiness at home, and separation between husband and wife led to men joining clubs and lodges and also led to the proliferation of prostitution as men looked elsewhere for the companionship they were not finding at home (Demos 71). ... The majority of women of course did not result to this procedure but the fact that many did is an astounding implication on...

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The War Advising Board worked hard to convince civilians that investing in war bonds were of great patriotic acts (Home Front America). ... ", "Grow More and Can More! Can All You Can! ... The government would target military wives at the home front to grow these gardens and to can and preserve any kind of grown food (Creating Rosie). These gardens gave Americans a feeling of involvement by being able to participate from their very own homes to help military conflict. ...

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This change was brought about by the total national readjustment and the mobilization of the home front. ... We do not know what will come forth: still we can reasonably fear it.""9 The storm in this case was the war which left people in such a shock that they looked upon the future with great apprehension and uneasiness. ... They are depicted as strong, proud, reliable, and hard workers who can indeed "do it- all.13 Dressed in her work uniform, Rosie the Riveter characterizes all the women who assisted in the war effort through their contribution on the home front. ... In order for countr...

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Any act of promotion can be propaganda only if, and when it becomes part of A deliberate campaign to induce action through influencing attitudes. ... The duty of the father is to protect this from happening to their kids and the only way this can happen is for the man to fight. ... "One young woman remembers her Father, Robert Smith being given a feather on his way home from work: That night he came home and cried his heart out. ... Conscription was still in place, so atrocity and home front propaganda became more important. ... In Jan 1940 the Home Intelligence Division was set...

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It has been noted by some historians that the war reinforced traditional values in women, on the other hand it is argued that such an experience must have altered the lives of the women on the home front considerably. ... They are important to consider as even when the conflict was at its highest, in terms of the volume of woman power involved, there were 8,777,000 women working at home. ... Many supporters of mandatory labour for women, suggested that it would allow class divisions to be submerged, and that that work of the home front would be deliberately spread amongst women from all ranks...

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By proving this, Yossarian will be able to leave Pianosa and return home to America. ... His insanity is a mask in order to fool the people around him so that he could be sent home from the war. ... He continues to appear insane to the other people around him in his attempt to go home. ... He is not concerned about winning a war, his concern is going home. ... He can no longer keep his mask completely intact. ...

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As rationing had ended, the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line fell dramatically and soldiers returned home with the dream of a house and car of one's own. ... Much of the rise of the automobile and the rise culture associated with it can be attributed to the automobile styling that began to take place at mid-century. ... The Styling Redesign Much of this mid-century styling redesign can be attributed to Harley Earl. ...

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If he could maintain a supposed belligerent foe and keep socialism firmly in place at home, he would have no problems contrary to Marxism-Leninism. ... He sought to achieve these goals through his policies both at home and abroad. All of these policies however, can be summed up in Gorbachev's `New Thinking' which spread its influence throughout the Soviet Union, Soviet satellites, and the rest of the world. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the worl...

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He died July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and was buried in Ketchum. ... He returns to Africa simply because he had once been happy there, and he thinks perhaps there he can work the fat off his soul. ...

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The design of the diner is directly related to a time in American culture and the architecture of it can reflect how Americans were using certain materials and styles in a post-World War II world. ... Whatever the reason, it is clear that architecture of the diner can be studied and looked at to further understand America after World War 2. ... His design for a barrel roof was like seen before, but added a central entry through the form of two sliding glass doors, which can be seen in figure 3. ... These diners were boxy-looking with monitor roofs and simple exteriors, which can be seen in fi...

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According to a very credible textbook, The Decision to Drop the Bomb, which is used to educate young adults on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "Japan had an army of 2 million strong stationed in the home islands guarding against invasion.... More than 60 of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American Navy, and the Soviet Union entered the war by attacking Japanese troops in Manchuria" (1). ... Truman also knew that after V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) occurred, every U.S. soldier wanted to return home from duty...

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This former solider was in the Angolan armed forces and explained how soldiers burst into his home one night three years ago and took him away. These children were abducted from their homes, separated from their families, even drugged and forcibly trained to fight (Shepler, 2005). Francisco stated, "All these years, all I have wanted to do is go home. ... These women fought to live and did whatever they had to in order to maintain their homes and feed their families. It has also been stated that even after the war ended there was an on going threat of sexual violence in the homes, streets, and...

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After the war, the narrator went home, married, and had kids, all of whom are grown now. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ... Billy is in bad shape: he looks like hell, can barely walk, and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. ... He cruelly beats Billy, who is in such a state that he can only laugh. ...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest for blood that would be "po...

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Much of this can be seen in movies such as The Patriot. ... Furthermore, when the king decided to discipline the unruly Americans by forcing them to keep British soldiers in their homes, they protested that he had given them no choice in the matter and were met with more hostility. ...

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The involvement in these wars drastically changed the way of the war and changed the home front and society of America during these times. ... During the war efforts at the home front had to be made in order for the war to be a victorious one for America and the Allies. Women had to work in order to keep things running efficiently at home. ...

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Hence under no circumstance can it be neglected" (Tzu 9). ... Next, During WWI, the intelligence agencies began to use counterintelligence at home. ... 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. First, these connections can be drawn from the decisions made by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. ... The next chapter can be compared to decisions made in the Revolutionary War is the thirteenth chapter, labeled "The Use of Spies". ...

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ACLU (1997) the full extent of the effect of the sexual revolution upon the Supreme Court can clearly be seen. In fact one can trace, through these cases, the ever growing influence of the changing sexual morality within the US, from the infancy of the revolution, through its adolescence and finally through to its full maturity. ...

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While many states have been developing their own courts, should their citizens want another court to go to they can go to an international court, such as the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. ... Extensive poverty can be found everywhere in Latin America and Africa. ... These children are ripped from their homes and put into great danger on a daily basis. Many children fall from the camels and break arms, legs, and necks, which can and does result in death. ...

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(The Century) But as the war dragged on, the subject of going home became a ghastly joke. ... (Fussell 73) Such extremes led to one of the most stressful environments one can ever encounter and, as described much later by the Holmes and Rahe theory, when stress builds up, people are likely to break down. ... (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. (Hansen 52) If not treated quickly, shell-shock can develop into a chronic disease. ...

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Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. ... "Jewish women and men experienced unrelieved suffering during the Holocaust" and we can understand it better by reading the books that survivors of that horror wrote, sharing with us all they went through (Ringelheim 26). ... Only by doing so we can prevent things like this from happening again. For example, the American Slavery and the genocide of Native American Slaves were also events of great anguish that happened in our society and that have some aspects that can be related to the Holocaust, such ...

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He invaded Ethiopia and Albania to distract his country's people from their problems at home. ... Why America Entered World War II The Allies dismissed the aggression of the Axis, which consequently led to more aggression because the Axis then believed they could "walk on water- as they say for people who think they can do whatever they want and not get punished. ... "When can we go to war and win?...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." ... Although not completely inaccurate, noble-grunt films can manipulate the viewers understanding of the Vietnam War by displaying its history as an emotional drama. ... However, a film can be an excellent movie in spite of its use of myths and inaccuracies about the war and the soldiers. ... After putt...

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No words can better express this desperation than those of an anonymous RAF pilot on September 28th 1940: "Now the pilots, you could see that they had enough of it at times, as some started to stutter, and others got a twitch; it didn't matter if you were a damn good pilot, it was pure luck if you came through it at all." ... Promoted again in 1910, Churchill was made Home Secretary. ... In 1914, he strongly backed the Irish Home Rule by threatening rebellious Ulster Protestants with the Royal Navy. ...

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