League of Nations

During World War 2, Romanian women started to increase their participation in war industries and as nursing units on the front line. The women in Romania played a part in helping the war effort but appear to be exclude from the nations ministry of defenses war commemoration propaganda works. The ministry ignored the experiences of women during the war because their stories did not fit a traditional concept of “heroism, patriotism and the proletariat struggle.” In contrast, Polish…

Nihilism: a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless (Merriam-Webster). The origin of the word is from the early 19th century, where the Latin root “nihil,” meaning nothing, was combined with the English suffix “ism.” (Merriam-Webster) While the word “nihilism” was first heard in the 19th century, it is generally associated with the Lost Generation or the Roaring 20s in America. After coming home from the Great War, now know as…

Throughout war, death, and defeat, millions of words are spoken and the majority are damaging. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the language are gut-wrenching. The protagonists undergo great changes throughout the story. This is shown in Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man who left his mother for safety from Nazis. While in Nazi Germany, he undergoes challenges. During this time, he learns to be thankful. While spending his life in silence and hiding from the world. Hans Hubbermann is a…

The War On War Author Haruki Murakami once said “Listen up- there’s no war to end all wars.” For as long as people have lived on earth there has been war, whether it is over food, land, or supplies. Every human has greed and eventually it will come out. Ever since the invention of chemical weapons and automatic weapons, war and terror has become much more of a evident problem with World War Two causing around 60 million deaths. In the book Interface Text by Joan Green she asks the…

Life is a series of conquests and compromises. Battles are fought between countries, groups of people, or even within the self. Control is the goal of these battles, the state of having power over other people or even just power over oneself. After battling is ceased, a winner is declared in most cases, making them the ones who managed a conquest. This aura of superiority glorifies and gratifies its host. Compromise is a shared conquest and defeat of the parties involved in the battle.…

Humanity has had several instances falling upon hard times, whether it is war, plague, or natural disasters, and undoubtedly, WWII was one of these instances. It was an ugly 6-year war, where there were an estimated 40 million casualties at minimum. WWII left victims of the Holocaust, veterans, and countries physically and mentally shattered. For a while, Great Britain was one of them. Although they had been part of the Allied force, fighting against Italy, Germany, and Japan, the war left them…

Remarque succeeds in giving brutal imagery throughout the novel. The reader surely understands the dynamics of this marvelous work. How changed are these young men. Change into veteran soldiers of war with no more foolish thoughts of patriotic bravery. How can they have such thoughts they ask since their former innocence no longer exists and now these words have no meaning if they ever did. The psychological condition of the men preparing for the next battle is made the more real when visiting…

In Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath, he proposes the idea that what we may consider a setback could be the very thing that makes us successful based on how we respond to it. He uses the terms “direct hits,” “near misses,” and “remote misses” when discussing the Blitz in World War I, but those terms can also be applied to our everyday lives and difficulties. Gladwell applies those concepts to a few other interesting situations in the book while discussing the topic of “desirable difficulty”…

and in the years after WWI, the other was defined not only as immigrants, but also as African Americans. The Birth of a Nation also bolstered male dominance and authority during the teens and 1920’s just as Mildred Pierce did in the 1940’s (Bederman 47). However, while Mildred Pierce illustrated why mothers should be dependent on men in a male dominated society, The Birth of a Nation spewed propaganda about a white male dominated society (Sklar 58). White women were helpless against outside…

The perceptions of war were changed when confronted with the realities of World War One. This statement is significantly true as viewpoints of war were dramatically alternated which can be seen through primary sources from before, during and after World War One (herein known as WW1). The poem ‘Young Chivalry’ written by Alan Gross in 1914 is a source that represents the perception of war before the outbreak of WW1. Next, a letter written in 1915 by Vernon Keyworth Boynton to his sister,…