1939

His relevance as a strategic leader is achieving consensus for and organizing, resourcing, and directing the readiness and mobilization of the United State’s (US) armed forces across a vast enterprise to ensure the viability of the United States from 1939 through 1945. Most senior leaders working at the strategic level maintain a network of professional and personal relationships, but it is hard to imagine that Marshall valued personal relationships; rather, he tolerated them. His aversion of…

The Perception of Monsters in Film Horror, as a genre of film, has grown and expanded from its beginnings in the 1930s when the term was brought about. Horror films, according to Noël Carroll, are paradoxical in the fact that they provide the viewer with something in the film that they can find to be both disgusting and pleasurable. This paradox of horror is further described by Carroll as being necessary in order to achieve the cognitive pleasure provided by the narrative of the film.…

and thoughts. In more recent time, art has been used as a way for architects to create designs of buildings that feel more integrated with their environment. Frank Lloyd Wright executed his designs beautifully in a house design that he created in 1939. Fallingwater, built in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, was a marvelous accomplishment for an architect, even during Wright’s time. The design of this house would become a textbook design for rural houses in the years to come. Wright’s Fallingwater…

Written and published in 1939, John Steinbeck’s novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ captures the despair, almost frantic, nature that American society had become after the Wall Street crash of October 29th, 1929. The characters within the novel are attempting to make their way westward across the country – following in the footsteps of many American citizens who, prior to this time period, were pioneers attempting to follow the ideals of Manifest Destiny. During the ten-year-long depression that…

Adolph Hitler lead the Nazi Party and rose to power in 1932 after being appointed chancellor by the German president. People in Germany were upset by how they were being treated under the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler exploited the increasing ethnic nationalism and the suffering that Germany was experiencing caused by the Great Depression. He promised to conquer territory and give the land to impoverished Germans justifying this by promoting the idea that citizens such as Jews and Slavic people…

“The Girl in the Lavender Dress” is a new version of “Resurrection Mary” therefore both stories have akin plot incidents. For example both stories contained a ghost that had an encounter with a live person. In “The Girl in the Lavender Dress” Carol could not cross the river so she proceeded to get a ride from grandma and Herbert; "Claremont." That was all she said at first.She had a light, breathless voice, like it took a whole lungful of air to say that one word."You're lucky," Herbert said.…

Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a terrible place. Most people who were put into concentration camps did not survive. Everything was terrible about the camps including the journey to the camps and the living conditions of the camps. First of all the journey to the camps people were packed into cattle cars. There was so many people packed into a cattle car they could not sit down or lay down. They would stand packed into these cattle cars for multiple days sometimes for up to two…

the Germans, but also the Soviets?” Therefore, my topic will be to compare and contrast the genocide and mass slaughter conducted by the Germans and the Soviet Union on the people of Poland, following the fall of Warsaw and the division of Poland in 1939. As a way of explanation, I plan to discuss the relocation of Poles into— and deplorable…

Carolyn, and father N.C. Wyeth. He was a dominant force in the household and guided his son’s artistic abilities. Andrew Wyeth was a 20th Century painter. He is known for his realism in portraiture and pastorals, as seen in Christina’s World. In 1939 Andrew Wyeth had his first showing at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia. The following year he had his debut one-man show at New York City’s Macbeth Galley, where all his pieces were immediately sold. Christina’s World was garnered major…

Defining Nazi-Soviet Relations by Political Philosophy Communism and Fascism, at one glance, seems to be similar in the philosophy of collectivism and anti-democracy. However, the two philosophies cannot coexist due to the striking differences in loyalty and social roles. Both philosophies agreed on two major ideas that people should blend into their communities and that capitalism was unfair and harmful. However, Communism believes that the people are loyal to their social class, so they are…