Winston Churchill

Agnes de Mille's career was a very long and successful but also hard journey through the world of 20th century American theater and ballet. Born in 1905 in New York City, she was the daughter of William Churchill de Mille a very popular playwright and Anna George the daughter of the economist and single tax advocate George. When Agnes was little her father followed his brother Cecil B. de Mille to California, to try for work in the new gold field of motion pictures. He went for a year's stay and…

lithium carbonate to stabilize mood swings and then supportive therapy if needed ("Mood Disorders Affect Millions"). Manic-depression, often is characterized by extreme mood swings unrelated to external events. For example, British statesman Winston Churchill, painter Vincent Van Gogh, and composer George Frederick Handel were all identified as…

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall The United States’ and Soviet Union’s victory over Germany at the Elbe River, gave an image of peace to the rest of the world, as two nations combined to defeat a power that did everything it could to rise up and control the rest of the world. Unfortunately, human nature has shown, previous to World War II, that the world can’t live in peace because only one can be the best and most powerful. When Germany surrendered in the spring of 1945, the peace-making…

Throughout history, humans have constantly held the desire to achieve more, to find more, to be more. Greed sparked this desire in humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj…

Elise Kunik Book Report- Hiroshima The incredible non-fiction book, Hiroshima, written and brought to life by John Hersey in 1946, discusses the truths of the attack and the long-lasting devastation, tragedy, and utter destruction caused by the United States atomic bomb dropping on the Japanese city, Hiroshima. Hersey’s primary intentions for writing the book were to provide a captivating, informative, and emotional narrative of the disaster that resulted from the bomb and give readers a…

The Germans despised the Treaty of Versailles because they felt that it put too many restrictions on them. Germany thought they had been betrayed so Hitler increased the German military. In 1938, Hitler was given the region of Sudetenland. Britain and France were hoping to dodge war so they negotiated with Hitler. Germany also occupied Austria and Rhineland because Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which stated that the two countries…

Can you imagine waking up every morning only to realize that it wasn’t a dream? Your family really does hate you. This is how poor, helpless David Pelzer felt every single morning. He woke up and there he was, staring death in the eyes. Dave and Mother used to get along just fine, but one day something in her snapped and David was just standing too close. Dave tried to get away, but the beatings just got worse with age. Although David and Mother don’t get along, Dave and his dad did. Dave’s…

Germany’s use of U-boats during the first world war is a very interesting and important topic. The U-boat, or undersea boat, was a very valuable weapon, the possessor of this weapon could virtually rule the waters. After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, persuaded Germany to cease unrestricted underwater warfare. By spring of 1917 Germany had resumed this unrestricted underwater warfare. Why was this path chosen? The U-boat was a…

In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler 's Nazi empire in Europe. Within just a few years, however, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle—military, political, economic, ideological—to prevail in a new “Cold War”. The Cold War was primarily caused by different political ambitions and the historical perspectives of the two superpowers: the…

War II on the Allied side, they continued to invade and occupy eleven more territories, including Hungary, Germany, Romania and Korea. At the end of World War II, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister gave one of his most famous speeches in which he declared that “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” (Churchill). The “Iron Curtain” Speech was delivered on March 5, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri. The entire continent of Europe was divided in two- those who were under the…