Oscar Hammerstein II

“What contribution did your leader make to the revolutionary situation?” Tsar Nicholas II was the last Autocratic monarch of Russia under the Romanov rule. His reign, 1864 to 1917, was plagued with misfortune and disaster. It is undeniable that some of the events were entirely out his hands, however majority of Tsar Nicholas II actions led to the Revolutionary Situation in 1917. The decision of fighting in the Russo - Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, Bloody Sunday, the October Manifesto and…

I chose this artwork because it represents the largest Asian war to occur in the 20th century. This war was called the Second Sin-Japanese War, and it occurred in 1937 between China and Japan, and lasted for eight years until it ended in 1945. This piece of artwork was made in Shanghai, and it was named The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda. This art piece shows the aspect of the war by the drawing of the tanks, planes, etc. The Sin-Japanese War occurred because of a decade-long Japanese…

over the land from the impact of heavy artillery, smoke tainting the air. This is what the second world war was like, and in all of the fighting, all of the death, America left the war changed forever, and most importantly for the better. World War II was the sole war that spurred the greatest change in the United States of America than any war it had experienced, in its past and the future. During the war, the United States had many weapons and military advancements that were created due to…

will continue to affect the world until their government is stopped. How Did the Genocide Happen? Who started it? It is well known that North Korea’s government is very different than the United States’, but it was not always this way. After World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided into North and South; Kim Il-sung came in to power. He started to make a “cult of personality” around him and his family, so that people would worship him. The government replaced the previous religions—like…

Negative emotions are feelings that are continued throughout the emotional development of a character. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden continuously describes that he is feeling depressed, no matter what situation he is in. Throughout Holden’s adventure in New York, it is made clear that he has suppressed his emotions regarding the death of his brother, Allie, and the times where these unresolved feelings surface is when he is alone. A specific moment in Holden’s story where he describes…

Over the many years and wars that Canada has gone through. The identity of Canada has been shaped differently, from each of the topics that I have researched I believe that Canada 's identity has been shaped in a positive way. Dating back to when the women from Manitoba have shaped Canada 's identity they have greatly shaped it when they were able to win the right to vote in January 1916. Winning the right for women to vote was a great accomplishment for women 's rights in Canada. When the…

Chief Justice Harlan, Dissenting Opinion This Supreme Court decision did not help form a more perfect union as it made segregation legal and did not bring the races together to form a better country. Double V Campaign The United States was in World War II, and blacks were still not getting equal rights back home in the country. The Pittsburgh Courier started the Double V Campaign in an effort to promote the fight against the Axis Powers, and to help fight discrimination and racism in the…

“Clash! Bang! Ting ting!” are the sounds bombing in factories as the overpowering bell signifies the restless men to return home. These same sounds are the very ones that would reflect the upcoming years for many countries during the early 1900’s during the Industrial Revolution. However, the Russian Industrial Revolution was one of the most impactful and controversial industrial transformation to this day. As World War I came to a conclusion, many nations were left in the Great Depression,…

Taylor Foxx Mr. Martin Period 5 Forty million deaths, forty million families broken in a span of six years and a gruesome war. World War II created an epidemic of destroying nations, their military, and even innocent bystanders who died just because of where they lived in the world. An astonishing thirty four million civilians were brutally murdered because of what their countries and the military were fighting for. Disturbingly there were more civilian casualties than there were military, and…

The cold war has helped to shape and develop the modern world that we know and live in today. The cold war started after the Second World War and was a time of political conflict between mainly the US and the Soviet Union with propaganda and threats being more prominent than direct warfare. The cold war was a time of rebellion, reform and communism in which many new ideas were formed, country relationships were created and destroyed, and new technologies were developed. The cold war is an…