On The Beach This powerful fiction doomsday novel is set in Australia in the aftermath of the nuclear disasters in the northern hemisphere. Someone, somewhere, started World War III. The last survivors of humanity helplessly await the atomic rain and dust headed their way. This is the poison th...

In the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hosp...

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again By General James h. "Jimmy" Doolittle This book is about a famous pilot in World War II named Jimmy Doolittle. When Jimmy was 14 he had a taste for boxing. To encourage Jimmy to quit boxing his mom bought him a motorcycle. So he boxed professionally under the ...

In 1939 and research into atomic energies was progressing at a frightening pace, and the world was in turmoil. At this time in history the imagined immediate and long term consequences of allowing an overtly aggressive regime to gain such a powerful technological advantage lead Albert Einstein to dr...

The setting of the story is mainly in Italy. This is where all the action of the story takes place. Fred is in Italy at the beginning of the war and he joins the Italian army. The city that Fred is stationed in throughout most of the book is Gorizia. Frederic Henry meets a beautiful English nurse n...

55 years on, memories of World War 2 World 2 is one of the most tragic event ever occur in the human history. Fifty-Five years has past since, today we look back into history with Mr.M.Blakeney James who was eleven at the time of war and now seventy years old retired aerospace engineer. War was ...

The setting of the story is mainly in Italy. This is where all the action of the story takes place. Fred is in Italy at the beginning of the war and he joins the Italian army. The city that Fred is stationed in throughout most of the book is Gorizia. Frederic Henry meets a beautiful English nurse...

Many heroes rose to the top during the era of World War II, two such heroes waged an epic battle both directly and indirectly against each other during this time frame. These two soldiers were considered by many to be the best of the best for each side of the struggle; one the son of an ordinary Pro...

Charles Kingsford-Smith was born in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton, Australia, on February 9, 1897, the youngest of seven children. He graduated from Sydney Technical College as an Electrical Engineer at age 16. When he was only 18, he joined up as a soldier in the First World War and later became ...

Social Mores Victorian social mores were originally strictly enforced, but as WWI developed, women began to reject the social mores to find work. Victorian social mores were paid less attention to by women in the years of the war, for women were needed to work and manufacture supplies for the wa...

In the years following World War Two, Canada displayed its newfound role as one of the leading nations of the world. The conclusion of the Second World War created a time of remarkable economic prosperity throughout the country. Canada's economy boomed as it shifted from being primarily resourc...

Changes within the Iron Curtain of Soviet Russia varied greatly based on the individual in power. Stalin represented a conservative and nationalist regime, which was later de-Stalinized by Nikkita Khrushchev. Yet this change was also reversed in some ways when Loenid Brezhnev took power and began...

"We can do it!" proclaims the most popular image of "Rosie the Riveter' from World War II. (A Call to Arms, 2002) When men left to fight overseas, women were needed to work defense plants. The image of "Rosie" shows a woman flexing her arm, as if symbolizing America's strength. Her hair, pres...

In the time period of 1939 to 1945, the world was involved in a crisis known as World War II. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese armed forces bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii resulting in the decision of the United States to enter into the war. ("Depression", 1) The United States was effecte...

World War I started due to a culmination of several long and short term factors involving aspects of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, alliance systems, and physical conflicts occurring over a forty year period. The industrial revolution brought around a radically different Europe than there ha...

Book Report Paradis, Adrian A. The Hungry Years. Philadelphia. 1967. There were few changes that could be seen; for the most part the revolution was quiet. Never before had so many people of the United States held in their hearts despair, panic and want. Yet out of the fear...

Book Report Paradis, Adrian A. The Hungry Years. Philadelphia. 1967. There were few changes that could be seen; for the most part the revolution was quiet. Never before had so many people of the United States held in their hearts despair, panic and want. Yet out of the fear...

factories and steel mills, left behind to perform the jobs once carried out by the soldiers who were abroad fighting the war. After World War II, immigration to the United States increased once again. Many people who had survived Nazi persecution in Europe fled to the United States. Additionally, ...

QUESTION 1 Explain what is meant by "globalisation". Is it really a myth? Globalization is the free movement of capital, goods, services and labour around the world, by big commercial companies, which have massive control of the world's economy, transcending the boundaries of state and cou...

Georgia Odyssey Most people believe that Georgia was founded by nothing more than criminals, but James C. Cobb tells us how he took great offense to that fact or not when actually there was not very many criminals that sailed to Georgia when Oglethorpe received the charter to settle Georgia. Short...

Foosball has come a long way since it was invented back in the 1880's. "Foos" short for Foosball is a game that most everyone has played and can relate to. Most people know foosball as a game to play while socializing with people. Some people take foos more seriously then others. ...

Throughout history, nothing has been more devastating and as destructive as war. Poverty, pain, depression, isolation, starvation and death have been some primary consequences. World War I is an example of these consequences. Although one can say that there were many causes of the war such as Na...

The motivations behind imperialism imposed by the growing superpowers include strategic and cultural imperialism, nationalism, economic considerations, and the idea of "survival of the fittest". Strategic imperialism is the concern of a nation for the control of key waterways, ports, an...

South Korea South Korea, officially known as the Republic of Korea, country in North eastern Asia that occupies the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is bounded on the north by North Korea; on the east by the Sea of Japan; on the southeast and south by the Korea Str...

The Presidency of FDR In 1932, Americans realized that they had an increasingly great financial problem on their hands, and tried to correct it by centralizing power. The President acquired so much power that the nation almost became a communism, especially with Roosevelt's in...