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From 1914-1918, Americans were concerned with the war in Europe and the United States’ eventual involvement in 1917. Prior to 1917, Americans did not want to be involved with WWI just as Americans didn’t want to be involved in WWII in the early 1940’s. Despite America’s desire to remain out of the war (Leuchtenburg 12), German attacks on U.S. ships in both wars forced the hands of the Presidents. Charlie Chaplin’s, Shoulder Arms (1918), came out at the end of WWI and made the U.S. public aware…

During Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia, communism was the main political movement that was at its peak during Stalin’s rule. George Orwell portrays this exact same situation in his novel Animal Farm. In the novel, Orwell basically depicts this exact same scenario but with animals as symbolic representations of real people in Stalin’s Russia. In Orwell’s novel, the animal that is the symbolic representation of Stalin is a pig named Napoleon. Orwell was very clever in this selection of…

In the book, Cancer Ward, a clear villain is never fully identified, however, the book uses symbolism to described the omnipresent fall of the U.S.S.R and the state under Stalin's rule. This is represented by the character named Pavel Rusanov, which is emitted into the cancer ward and forced to undergo treatment. Rusanov is both a standard worker for the state, as well as an informer working for the secret police. This unnerves Rusanov, as recently a man he helped arrest over eighteen years ago…

In the book “Virtually Normal” by Andrew Sullivan published by Vintage Books, Sullivan talk about different political parties and their views on homosexuality. Andrew is in no means justifying the views of homosexuality in terms of political viewpoints, in fact, he himself is a gay man.This book shows the political views of prohibitionists, liberationists, conservatives, and liberals. Prohibitionists believe that homosexuality does not exist, Liberationists believe that homosexuals should be…

by leader for any reason without having to ascertain simply cause for termination and abruptly. If Drake and Keeler are acknowledged as workers at will, the workers are denied any claim for loss ensuing from dismissal. Since there's no mention of a union contract or employment contract that guarantees employment to the worker for a amount of your time, the leader has the power to lay-off a worker at will. This can be one defense that the employers of Drake and Keeler could use. The legal…

Fifth Theory The fifth theory that has been introduced by Sun Zi in chapter 3 is “The next best strategy is to attack his relationships and alliances with other nations”. Sun Zi stated that, in the diplomatic battle of ancient time, a country should uses diplomatic skill to collapse the alliance of the enemy. At the same time, it expands and strengthen its own allies, and also isolates the enemy in order to force its enemy to surrender. (严锴, 2014) Nowadays, this theory can be applied in business…

Medieval castles were built in the middle ages in europe and the Middle East as a structure to provide protection. Castles shouldn't be confused with the “Palaces” that we are familiar with today, Medieval castles weren't made for comfort although they were great for protection. Castles were drafty, gloomy and damp. The fireplaces typically smoked up the rooms. The only light besides was from flickering torches. The floors were either bare stone or covered with animal furs. What furniture they…

The Normandy Invasion one of the most iconic moments in the twentieth century. Operation Overlord also known as D-Day was the turning point of World War II. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. D-Day was authorized to free the France from Nazi control. Did you know? That D-Day’s original date was June 5, 1944 instead of June 6, 1944. However, inclement weather was predicted by weather meteorologists. Many of you may not think weather was important but it definitely was. The…

During the Roman era, there were inflexible rule against adultery, but it was only applicable to sexual intercourse with a married woman. In the early Romanian era, the jus tori belonged to the husband. It was therefore not a crime against the wife for a husband to have sex with a slave or an unmarried woman. In 18 B.C., the Emperor Augustus turned his attention to social problems at Rome. Extravagance and adultery were widespread. Among the upper classes, marriage was increasingly…

Unit 5 Written Assignment 1. There is much criticism that modernization theory is Eurocentric. Introduction. “Modernization theory proposes that there are natural stages of economic development that all societies go through from undeveloped to advanced,” (Little & McGivern, 2013, p.560). One of the criticism of the modernization theory is that, “ widely varying degrees of development observed globally have less to do with natural stages of development and more to do with relations of economic…