As married couples sought out a life independent of kinship by moving to centers of community where employment allowed them to make a better life for themselves the good provider emerged as a predominately male role. ... The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... As time progressed so did assumptions. ... Because masculinity was tied to the ability to be a g...

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These policies pursued by Eisenhower added to the tension and apprehension the American public was already feeling in regard to the Soviet threat, and added to the relative conformity and strict social rules of the time. ... Resulting in lost reputation and in the case of many members of Hollywood, lost work due to blacklisting, this phenomenon revealed the paranoia of the time period. ... The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. ... Similarly, the appellant Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and wa...

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The two books share a great deal in common, especially in tone and theme. The stories The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies, through their dark, hopeless, and horrible descriptions of life, present the common theme that man, at his heart, is an evil, violent, and "fallen- being. ... At the same time, it also reinforces the theme of the story, that because man is evil inside, he cannot help but release that evil. ... At the same time, he describes the messenger from the station, who leaves every week for the coast. ... In addition to the background, both of the books' titles le...

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MY COMMENTS: I've read several Kurt Vonnegut books in the past, including this one. ... He wanders from moment to moment in his life, experiencing chronologically jumbled events one right after another. ... We move to the first time Billy gets unstuck in time. ... Weary repeatedly saves Billy's life, mostly by not allowing him to lie down in the snow and die. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ...

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The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. ... Thereafter his father was never a strong presence in Stalin's life. ... Smallpox had left Stalins face scarred and pitted for the rest of his life, and a case of blood poisoning caused his left arm to grow shorter than his right. ... The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. ... After Stalin began making his first speeches he took the name of Koba who was ...

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During this time from 1933-1938 Germany poured massive amounts of money into the industrial war preparation economy. ... The propaganda machine was also hard at work during this time in order to further solidify this idea that the Jews were a massive problem that must be taken care of if the preservation of a true German state was to be. ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) The following is an excerpt from one of the books: "and then the Jew approaches her. ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298; Der Giftpilz, Streicher, 1933) It can be seen the clear anti-Semitic values that were placed on the Ge...

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Time goes by, we gradually lost our patience about our life. ... Adults always use amount to measure their life, such as salaries, marks, even how many children they have. ... The most precious thing in life always be the uncountable thing. ... "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.... He was an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. ...

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The life savings of the middle classes and the working classes were wiped out. ... In despair the German people turned to the numerous and varied political parties that come forth during this time of social upheaval who said they had answers to the complicated problems and questions the people had about the economic depression. ... The Reichstag at this time consisted of a total of 491 seats . ... The burning of the Reichstag was a serious insult to the people Hitler used this common protest to get Paul Hindenburg (the ineffective and senile president of Germany at the time) to sign a ...

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By this time Adolf had a young brother who lived until the age of six. ... He extensively read newspapers, pamphlets, secondhand books and information from coffeeshop talk. ... Being gassed during a British attack had a significant impact on Hitler's life. ... He then made a statement that would forever change his life and the lives of people throughout the world... During this time frame, Hitler also created...

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At whatever time there was an allied victory in WWI, that particular area of Europe would become an annex to Liberal Democracy in Europe. At whatever time the Germans had a victory it would lead to any democratic ideals to be snuffed out. ... Unemployment levels were also quickly rising in Italy during this time, which led to further civil unrest. ... With the current environment and situation of Italy and Europe of this time, help could be found within Communists and slowly people began to support Communism and it's popular ideals. Now at this time, Mussolini, seeing the situation he...

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Cummings" early life inspired his writing from his college days all the way until his last words. ... Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might seem extreme, and almost b...

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They lived a happy and stable life until they were claimed to be "capitalists and therefore enemies of the people." ... Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. ... "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). ...

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"Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf."" ... New York, NY: Villard Books, 1989. ... With the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Victorian Age came to a close, and it was time for a new era and new thoughts to emerge. ...

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"4 Some scholars such as Seymour Lipset state that exceptionalism refers only to America as a unique nation but not necessarily a better one.5 Whereas others such as Ceaser feel that packed into exceptionalism is the belief that the American people have a mission to better the world and spread their greater way of life.6 For my essay I went with the definition provided by Ian Tyrell ; "American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty.... When developing my research I came across th...

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The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal o...

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