Wars of the Roses

Karen Abbott’s book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, tells a story about four women who risked their lives to become undercover spies in the Civil War. These four women were, Belle Boyd, Emma Edmonds, Rose O’ Neal Greenhow, and Elizabeth Van Lew. Belle Boyd, also known as the fastest girl in Virginia, she was born on May 4th, 1844. She was the oldest child of her parents and had a great childhood, she called herself a tom boy quite often because would always play like the boys. Even though her…

During World War II, countries, including Germany, Italy and Japan, intensified nationalistic beliefs, leading to a desire to expand. Germany in Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy in Africa and Greece, and Japan in Asia and the South Pacific are one of the many examples that reveal such needs of expansion.1 This development between many worldwide conflicts over expansion and power, particularly the battle between Japan and the United States, strengthens. Events that were known as the most…

examine how Tricia Rose describes the current condition of hip hop. The paper will also discuss many arguments argued by both critics and defenders. The main focus of these arguments relate to issues within the hip hop culture. Not only will it discuss the arguments, but it will also debate them. Overall, from this paper one will see that there is a purpose for these arguments, but that does not mean that they are always the best arguments. To begin, in Tricia’s Rose’s Hip Hop Wars, the author…

The Versailles Treaty was a document that put an end to the first world war but started World War 2. The Treaty of Versailles was made to punish and weaken Germany and it’s army. The first topic in the Treaty of Versailles is about the military. In document B, Article 160 states that…”after that date the total number of military troops in Germany must not exceed one hundred thousand men, including officers.” Germany felt overwhelmed because their army was nothing compared to everyone else. In…

to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Cromsky. In other words, ignorance is to democracy as violence is to dictatorship. At the end of World War 1, totalitarianism, a form of rule in which the government attempts to maintain total control over society, including all aspects of the public and private lives of its citizens, began to rise. These totalitarianism states rose to power due to numerous political and economical conditions while harsh, but effective, methods of enforcement were used by…

In Rose period paintings expressed the submission and lead him to live in artistic spirit of his life. Therefore, he changed his personality to experimental style that made his subjects obscure, outcoming in an artistic shape of a person, rather than a person (“Pablo Picasso’s Rose Period”). As an example, Seated Female Nude is the type of person is cognizable, not a person itself (“Pablo Picasso’s Rose Period”). The subject is not portrayed, but reconstitution. His color periods also inspired…

Before World War 1, militarism was highly appreciated in Germany, and surrounding European states; this allowed the European states to create alliances. In addition to military advancements and the rise of terrorist groups in Serbia, tensions were felt all around Europe. The group: Black Hand, also rose due to the fact of the immense tensions. After WW1, and Germany being the falling state they were entitled to pay reparations for all of the damage done to their surroundings. In order for all of…

The White Rose Resistance Movement of World War II During World War II, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi government, attempted to destroy the Jewish community. Some people disagreed with what the Nazis were doing, and tried to go against them. One of the first resistance movements of World War II was the White Rose Resistance Movement, a non-violent group of activists. While many believe the resistance movement to be a failure, it achieved one of its main goals by influencing many European…

of war are personal and impossible to show through a single person. War is very… damaging both mentally and physically. Your enemy changes based on what side you are on. The horrors and afflictions of war are personal and impossible to show through a single person. Kurt Vonnegut uses the psychological lens in Slaughterhouse Five as a tool to show the horrors of multiple soldiers pain in the war and is converted into Billy to create a deeper and easier understanding of PTSD and horrors of war.…

Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” tells the story of a woman named Emily Grierson that has a mental illness to which she lives in the South where a rigid lifestyle will determine the expectations regarding a person’s behavior and the way society will them. Miss Emily is the daughter of a wealthy upper-class gentleman who is influential to the community. Many accommodations are made for Miss Emily’s extraordinary behaviors due to Mr. Grierson’s standing within his community. Miss Emily’s marriage to…