Total war

WWII was the last total war of the modern era. Total war can be described as a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, civilians, territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. The war changed the world of work for women, when men went to fight women were called upon to fill their jobs and this included many jobs that were previously thought of unsuitable for women. Women played a key role in war industries…

World War I Prior to the onset of the first world war, there was tension building in Europe. The leaders of these European states had their eyes on technological gains, imperialistic aspirations, social and economic issues. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the spark to ignite the growing flame of what seemed to be required conflict. There was hope that this conflict would solve a large portion of the issues that plagued the European leaders, but what the conflict manifested…

Sherman once said, “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” This quote of his rang especially true during his march through Georgia, where he garnered most of his military fame and accolades with the sacking of Atlanta, and the subsequent march from there to Savannah, which served to break the military back of the Confederacy once and for all. Sherman invented a form of warfare that would come to be known as “Total War”; it was brutal…

the Civil War between the Northern Union and Confederate States of America, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman implemented a strategy of total war. The concept of total war called for expanding military targets to include civilian economic resources. General Sherman executed his strategy of total war in his infamous “march to the sea” in 1864. Total war had a devastating effect on the people of the South during the Civil war because it demolished their homes and livelihood. Total war mainly…

After reading Daniel Sutherland’s “Abraham Lincoln, John Pope and the Origins of Total War”, Sutherland describes how Sherman/Grant may have carried out a dominant plan in successfully ending the war, but that John Pope deserves the majority of the credit for originating it. One of Sutherland’s points he tries to get across to the reader is how the Lincoln’s 1862 summer is pushed towards making drastic, yet rushed decisions on the lasting conflict between the north and south over slavery.…

Explain the impact the law of diminishing marginal returns has on both marginal cost and average total cost MARGINAL COST Marginal cost is a total cost to the company to produce one more product. This cost changes depending on how many products the company aims to produce. Changes in production may increase or decrease the marginal cost due to the marginal cost including all costs such as materials, labour, infrastructure. Marginal cost diagram has a U-shaped curve as a result of increasing…

The firm was set up by Lewis Llewellyn and Dai Armstrong, the two close friends in a local cycle touring club. They produce traditional upright cycle, which imitate the 1940’s and 1950’s. In 1990s, the company expanded to meet the demand and they bought a 15,000 square feet warehouse with 2,000 square feet of office accommodation. The high quality hand- made bikes brought them good reputation and maintained high sales though they did not advertise much. However in 2010 the company has trouble as…

Written Assignment Unit 3 Please note: Wikipedia, wiki’s, Answers.com, Ask.com, online dictionaries, or online encyclopedias may not be used as research sources for this project. As a senior level student you are responsible for independent research and for veracity of source. A search engine is not a source but a tool used to find the resource. For any internet article or information an APA reference must include the full and complete web address that will take the reader directly to…

We can express this mathematically by stating: p = TR - TC The term on the left represents the change in revenue from producing one more unit, which is called marginal revenue. The term on the right represents the change in total costs resulting from producing one more unit, which is marginal cost. The firm 's profit will be maximized at the level of output whereby the marginal (additional) revenue received from the last unit produced is just equal to the marginal (additional)…

4. Storage and inventory management 4.1. Chicken: Chicken inventory is for 15 days. Chicken is not stored in the warehouse, in fact there is a separate cold storage area is built for chicken right beside every warehouse in each region. 4.2. Sauces: Inventory for Sauces are stored for around 25 to 30 days depending on the expiry dates and forecasted sales. 4.3. Spices and Herbs: Inventory for spices and herbs are stored according to forecasted sales and the lead time given by the procurement…