Joseph L. Galloway

President Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945 after Franklin D. Roosevelt died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Truman, being thrust into a position that carries a lot of weight, was given the power to decide how the U.S. would operate with other countries. Some of Truman’s decisions like fighting against communism by manking the Truman Dcotrine and laying an anti-communism bedrock for foreign policy, trying to stop the expansion of the USSR and Manipulating…

Three particular traits were responsible for the majority of the atrocities during the World War II era; for example, in Soviet Russia, persecution lead to millions of deaths in Gulags, the Soviet government 's complete control of individuals and society lead to the deaths of millions of Ukrainian peasants, and the use of police and military terror was responsible for the deaths of millions of civilians during the Great Purge of Stalin. Persecution was a key trait of totalitarianism that lead…

Heart of Darkness Book Review Joseph Conrad, author of the novel Heart of Darkness, was born in Ukraine to Polish parents in the late 1850s. At the age of 16, Conrad began his mariner years. He sailed on multiple French commercial ships and traveled around the world. Later on, he joined the British merchant marines and went on to become a British citizen (“Joseph”). About nine years before writing the novel, Conrad was appointed to serve as captain of a steamer on the Congo River by a Belgian…

The Fascination in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad around the time of 1899. Apocalypse Now is a film inspired by Heart of Darkness and was released in 1979. Similar themes are displayed in both the film and novella. One main theme that they both have in common is “the fascination of the abomination” (Conrad, 7). Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now explore the theme of “the fascination of the abomination” through the setting of…

The Civil War was one of the first wars to be documented thoroughly with the aid of photography. Mathew Brady and his team of twenty-three men took great care to document the war thoroughly. Brady began his photography career in photography in 1844, opening a Daguerrean Miniature Gallery in New York City (Mathew Brady 's World - A Biographical Timeline). Brady gained permission from president Lincoln to follow the Union troops to document the war in 1861. Mathew Brady, his team and his…

became democratic. As time passed many new leaders were introduced, that believed in different ways of running a government. Some were seen as extremists, while others were seen as fair. Totalitarian leaders were extremist. Leaders like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rafael Trujillo, Benito Mussolini resorted to violent and extreme actions to run their government. Totalitarianism makes one of the most radical regimes because the government controls virtually all the elements of a society, this is…

Literature at its finest makes people think—it causes readers to leave the experience changed. Some literary authors are kind enough to answer the questions they pose; for others, their readerships are not so lucky. The latter is true for readers of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Ambiguous from the beginning to the end, Conrad raises many questions—is colonization ethical? are racial stereotypes correct? is Marlow biologically incapable of telling a good story?—but the first one, the one…

Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Germany and Josef Stalin 's Soviet Union were totalitarian systems that both had immense control over its country for a period of time. A totalitarian system is a dictatorship that exercises complete control over it 's citizen 's beliefs and actions through every aspects of society. These two systems, reflected in On Hitler 's Mountain and Animal Farm, achieved mind control among their citizens with the uses of propaganda, rewards, and threats or purges. On Hitler 's…

1 Introduction Entrepreneurship is a vital aspect of success in today’s business environment it allows for new concepts and ideas to be discovered and consequently finding new solutions for addressing future business problems therefore creating opportunities. Innovation is essential for economic growth innovations and inventions are the backbone of entrepreneurship which in turn creates new value by dedicating patience and perseverance assuming that with the associated risks and receiving the…

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were unarguably the two most powerful leaders to ever rule Russia and Germany. The pair spread terror across the Europe as they took power and aimed to consolidate it. Stalin was born in Georgia, which was then part of the Russian empire, and was the son of a cobbler. During his time as a student he began reading Marxist literature and it inspired him to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. He would often get arrested and…