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. ...
In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting th...
As the last bomber turned and headed home, it seemed that the kick off to Cobra was a success after a slow start. ... Moral began to drop due to the lack of sleep and the constant fighting. ... The dedication of the soldiers to drive on through hunger and sleep depravation was what I believe to be the result of positive command influence. ...
"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...
(The Century) But as the war dragged on, the subject of going home became a ghastly joke. ... Some of the symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, sleep abnormalities, extreme distress resulting from personal "triggers", and emotional detachment, but symptoms vary from case to case (Wikipedia online). ... (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. ...
But there are expected cultural differences, simple things like, taking shoes off in homes and restaurants where you sit on the floor, placing chopsticks at the side of the dish or resting across the top of a bowl when not using them, not blowing your nose in public, and not littering. ...
Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial expansion in Asia not unlike that of Genghis Khan's Mongolia or Julius Caesar's Rome but the question remains whether Hirohito played an active role in that expansion. Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and ...
