History raves about the heroics of men in war...but few instances are mentioned in which female courage was displayed. ... Soon after this the Revolutionary War began. ... Deborah thought often about this because growing up her family was influenced by war. "Deborah in a sense was born to war. ... Deborah's company was given the job to assist in halting those attacks. ...
To divert himself from the office work he found tedious, he swam, boated, pursued feminine company at fashionable places, and began to write. ... The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, 1870-71, a conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism. (Franco-Prussian War Encarta Encyclopedia 2001. ... War affects everybody. Guy de Maupassant is one of those authors that was affected greatly by the war of his time as we are affected by the war of our time. ...
Why though did this type of marriage expand dramatically during the period after the Second World War and what was the cause of its demise a short thirty years later? ... World War II set the stage for the economic conditions to be exactly what was needed. ... The U.S. economy was more than able to put all the men returning from the war to work at wages high enough to allow them to buy the new products that were needed by the populace such as cars, washers, refrigerators, and so much more. ... Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-c...
Americans are just recovering from the affects of the great depression and the Second World War. ... He knowingly supplies faulty engine parts to the military planes against the advice of his company manager, Steve Deever. ... Of course, the war is a strong undercurrent in this play, and the effect that it has had on its characters is of great interest. When Keller defends his actions, he argues that everything and everyone has been dirtied by the war, asking his son "Who worked for nothin' in that war? ... It's dollars and cents, nickels and dimes, war and peace, it's nick...
Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...
Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ... When he was released back to the outside world he maintained two jobs working in an aerospace company as a computer programmer, as well as teaching at the University of Wisconsin for co...
