... more interesting now as the papers have just published today that Labor leader Andrew Fisher declared at Colac that Australians will defend Britain "to our last man and our last shilling". And two days ago dominion governments were advised by England that war was imminent. Jeremy and Alexander are very excited about this ... war was and how men were going off to die. I guess they just do not understand the concept of national pride. Have they no respect for our mother country England? Yours, Amelia Evans 29 October 1914 I haven't been very regular in my posts but that is not of great imp...

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The Influenza of 1918-1919 Influenza is one of humanity's oldest scourges and still remains our most challenging communicable disease. The disease, commonly known as the flu, is an acute respiratory illness. It occurs all over the world and causes significant morbidity and ... but nothing could keep people in their houses when news came through that their soldiers were coming home. On one occasion on November 14th, 1918 in the town of Monessen, Pennsylvania, ten thousand people filled the streets to watch a parade celebrating the end of the war. Many of the people of the ... town went home ca...

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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of short stories set in the obscure, hick town of Winesburg, Ohio. Every story contains within it a character with an obsession that labels the character grotesque. This grotesqueness is exhibited through odd behavior, such as self isolation, lack of ... named George Willard who, for unknown reasons, connects with the grotesques of the community and listens to their tales. After involving himself with many strange characters, George Willard realizes the town's peculiar nature and goes west in hopes of beginning a "normal" life. The themes o...

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... both countries were in the process of building more battleships. (17) Each country had its own excuses for increasing the size of their navy. Sir Edward Grey of Britain stated "Our navy is to us what the German Army is to Germany" (Cited on 17) In the Navy law Germany states that its navy was "to protect the Empire's sea trade ... a result of the First Balkan War and each was backed by major power. Albania was backed by Austria-Hungary and Montenegro was backed by Russia. There was a dispute about the town of Scutari which lay on the border between these two countries. The allies of Rus...

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... Hemingway, and after he was born they moved back to Paris. (www.lostgeneration.com)-(7) Between 1925 and 1929, Hemingway produced some of his most important pieces of writing including In Our Time (1925), The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927), and A Farewell to Arms (1929). A Farewell to Arms became known as one of the best war novels. (www.lostgeneration ... war. In this story, the main character, Harold Krebs, has just come back form World War I in Germany. Harold came back two years later that the other guys in his town because he liked the freedom in which he had over ...

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... nations. Another method of foreign policy is that of being a loner or isolationist. Isolationism is the idea that we keep to ourselves and our own western hemisphere rather than venture into the affairs of the eastern world. This was basically the accepted perspective taken by the United States up ... world. We journeyed into a time of Internationalism after the second world war but it was many earlier events that led up to this, particularly our interaction with Latin America. Back when the United States was just breaking away from Britain and starting as a nation, President James Monroe...

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... and sorrowful, but overcoming hard times is what the United States is best at. The following pages will describe how major events in our history shaped our society today and how we live. After World War I, unemployment and inflation sky rocketed. The Army discharged six hundred thousand soldiers ... , which set them more independent and started in motion movements that gives them equal rights today. This era flourished with changes that make our lives better today. The prosperity of the 1920's soon came to an end when the stock market crashed. Stocks dropped to all time ... couldn't pay...

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... were a well-connected group of women who used their influence to try and persuade powerful men to take up their cause". This, and all our other gathered evidence in this factor clearly shows that this campaign did effectively contribute to how women gained the vote in 1918. A further reason for ... office work where they were skilled secretaries. By the year 1900 women had managed to gain the right to vote, and the right to be elected in town and pariah councils which is in complete contrast to 1850 were even then, women were still seen as a man's property and only earned a third of .....

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... as I read this part that I begun to try to imagine how different life may be for some very close friends of mine in the very near future. With everything that "our" world is going through right now and being at their age, I can't even begin to imagine life as they have it. Then I look at friends of mine training in ... the Naval Academy and realize that this is it, this is the age, this is the time, and this is "our" world as we know it changing before our eyes. After receiving just over 2 weeks leave, Paul finds life even that much harder. He returns to his hometown, everything looking ...

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... together represent the younger generation in society. Their progression is from "immature" and "ignorance" to that of "knowledge". Gerald Croft is described as the "easy-well bred young man about town" who basically portrays the hypocrisy and deceit of the higher class. In the opening scenes, the audience is given a further impression of some of the characters by giving references to ... by Priestly for a number of reasons. Dramatically, it leaves the audience on tenterhooks and makes it a gripping drama. Politically, Priestly has put forward the query to our consciences as whether this...

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