On the other hand Alice Kemps writes in Prologue Magazine that Americans are taught what are healthy foods vs what are harmful foods by the government (2). ... Kemps writes about how the government installed healthy eating as a national priority in the years surrounding World War II. ... A Food Habits committee formed by the national research council and headed by cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, was established to "discover the links between culture and diet", though the task proved to be much more difficult than she originally thought (2). ... The culture of each decade ha...

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Oe was only 9-years-old when his father and grandmother both passed away, his father died fighting in World War II (par.2). ... The story begins with a group of juvenile delinquents and talks about how they are essentially disowned because of their behavior. ... The book describes how the young boys were brought up and the Japanese hierarchy of power. ... He will also be remembered for being able to write numerous books during his career and keep writing until he was 78-years-old. ... Winning a Nobel Prize for Literature is also no small task that Kenzaburo Oe has achieved which he earned fo...

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Her grandfather was gassed in World War 1, her uncle sustained shrapnel wounds in World War 2, and her father was a U.S. ... "Without him being in my life, I wouldn't be able to write the way I do. ... , Collins was inspired to write her own children's books herself. ... Given that Collins has two of her own children, she is faced with the difficult task of writing about children in difficult situations, from The Underland Chronicles to The Hunger Games. ... I try and think of how i would tell a particularly difficult event to my own children. ...

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It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my history Class. ... Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce an atomic bomb first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein, a famous scientist during that time, to use his influence and write a letter to president FDR, pleading for support to further research the power of nuclear fission (Badash 237). ... General Groves' initial task had been to select a scientific director for the bomb project. ... Robert Oppenheimer (Wood 2). ... On December 2, 1942, the first self-sustaining chain ...

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They had to fight against the notion that they made "poor combat soldiers" and "their presence in units would threaten morale and discipline" (2). ... Psychiatrists advised military officials how to "manage the homosexual dynamics of military life without eliminating homosexuals" (66) but military officials were still set on homosexuals not being mentally or physically able to serve in the armed forces. ... I did not have to deal with a psychiatric screening when I enlisted April 2, 2007. ... " (30), since I had joined during the "Don't Ask, Don...

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She owes them the very joy in their lives of which she stripped and with the lovers themselves dead, she has no other way to make amends for her mistake than document the survival of their love. 2. ... It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point" (350-351). ... How can one honestly justify giving birth to a story so inexperienced and unreal without at all crediting the reality from which it is based? How can one preserve that which is fake and not that which is true? ... The big question here: How can Briony truly ascend to atonement if the one that determines wh...

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And, since it was not clear how to defeat the Japanese since they were so devoted to their country (recall the Kamakasi), Roosevelt wanted Russian involvement in the war. ... The British prime minister was understandable anxious to engage France in the task of occupying and controlling Germany in the general to rebuild French power with a view to help offset the Soviet military presence in Central Europe. ... This opinion was underlined by FDR when in a telegram to Churchill he stated that "You know, of course that after Germany's collapse I must bring American troops home as rapidly as t...

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The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "a terrible thing, but it had to be done" (Holmes 2). ... " This huge army would have withstood a Normandy-type amphibious landing on the beaches of Japan that "might be expected to cost over a million casualties to American forces alone" (Walker 2). ... Without the use of the atomic bomb, who knows how long the Pacific War would have continued, bringing a large death toll with it. ... Author Thomas Holmes, who writes educational journals, explained in one of his articles that "the former [Hiroshima] w...

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Tom Clancy's insight into history allowed him to write a very realistic and therefore believable plot. ... How can this be? ... How? ... How long has the Los Angeles been trailing us? ... All the military weapons are used appropriately for the tasks assigned providing sea support to the characters. ...

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