The Destructors - A Literary Analysis Graham Greene's portrayal of human nature, as seen in his 1954's literary piece "The Destructors," conveys the idea that people have the instinctive ability to distinguish, and make a conscience choice, between what they believe to be good and e...

Was war or was science to be blamed?? (Fermi, p.10), in the past fifty years this question has been asked about a numerous amount of times. The invention of the atomic bomb was one of the most defining moments of the human civilization. It ended the second world war, lead to the creation of the cold...

On January 1,1999, the world witnessed a change never seen before: eleven nations of the European Union fixed their currencies to each other and established the world's first common currency, the Euro. The creation of a single European currency will be the most important development in the int...

The creation of the Atomic bomb was one of the most profound military, as well as technological achievements of the twentieth century. Nuclear technology has made it possible to have dependable electricity in our, as well as many other countries. It also acts as a war deterrent in some ways, this is...

The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century. The belief that freedom and democracy would die under communist rule caused the United States to start a conflict that would last for decades. The decisions made by the U...

In January 1919, the leaders of America, Britain, France, and Italy met at the Paris Peace conference to decide on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that would be presented to Germany to pay for damages and, this treaty officially ended the most horrific war up until that point in history. At th...

Following the Second World War, many European countries were wiped out. The result of the activities of the Third Reich had left Europe\'s political system of nation-states dismantled and devastated, and most importantly, the European economy lay disrupted in ruins. In result of this, there was a wa...

Electronic music Now, we are living in the 21st century. Most of the things are become electronic, such as the most music we listen today also become electronic. What called this music is electronic music. The mean of electronic music is music produced by machines that genre sound using electr...

- Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. - Born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. - He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. - In 1908 he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland. - His work was naturalistic, incorporating successive i...

Nationalism In studying nationalism, two selections where read. The first was from the Upshur text: "Nationalism: An Emerging Global Force", and the second was from the Johnson reader: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. From "Nationalism: An Emerging Global Force" two views ...

Creation to Destruction The atomic bomb ended a war of massive death and destruction, but began what is now known as the Atomic Age. At the time of the disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb appeared as a promise of peace to the entire world. It had ended a costly and gruesome war, beginning ...

How and Why Political Systems ChangeSince the creation of mankind the world has been continuallychanging. With each day, man develops, countries grow andpolitical systems change. A political system is an important setof social institutions. Political systems have many functions.Political systems cre...

1. The United Nations is in large parts the creation of the World War America. It was the project of subsequent presidents, starting from Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, a project that, due to the misfortunes of the historical circumstances, failed to pass the Senate's vote in the late 1920s, to...

The League of Nations On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, the armistice is signed effectively halting the war. The final Treaty of Versailles, is signed on June 28, 1919. The League of Nations, a former international organization, which was established by th...

In the system of international politics almost everything is strategic. Even the most basic analysis of international historical events can seem like decoding the rules to a complex board game. This is most evident when analyzing grand wars, such as WWI and WWII. Although states and state leaders ma...

Sparta and Communism: Government and Military, It could have been more. Societies have developed a pattern over the centuries of creating a government system of communism. Choosing this selection of government has allowed military machines to be born and reflect the civilization that created th...

The decision to drop the A-bomb was based on the thought that it would destroy our enemies but in reality it created more enemies that we have to deal with today. The three excerpts that were given in class were based on the fact that our enemies will be defeated but if the three writers had known ...

Einstein's theories all came about from his curiosity as a child, he could not imagine what sitting on a beam of light would be like, and so he continued to imagine different possibilities until he came up with one that stuck true. His perseverance to find knowledge allowed the world to unders...

As a result of the costs of World War One, industrial business generally became exceptionally more profitable in America based on the U.S. entry into the war and the concurrent increased demands on basic resources and industrial goods. Incentives offered by the government convinced most U....

During the First World War several world leaders such as President of the United States(U.S.) Woodrow Wilson and South African Prime Minster Jan Smuts, advocated the need for an international organization that preserved peace and settled disputes by arbitration. When peace negotiations began in Oc...

During the First World War several world leaders such as President of the United States(U.S.) Woodrow Wilson and South African Prime Minster Jan Smuts, advocated the need for an international organization that preserved peace and settled disputes by arbitration. When peace negotiations began in Oc...

Fashion and Society Before the modernization of the fashion industry, trends and styles did not change as often as they do today. Styles remained the same for several decades at a time, but after the Industrial Revolution fashion began to evolve quicker bringing significant changes with each...

The invention of the radio has affected nearly every person on this planet. Not a single day goes by without coming in contact with this device at some time. The history of this instrument dates back to the late fifteen century. At that time the brightest scholars weren't even aware of the p...

The Merriam- Webster Collegiate Dictionary defines opportunism as "the art, policy, or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances often with little regard for principles or consequences." An ideologue is defined as "an impractical idealist" or "an often...

The relationship between the United States and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has been very unstable. With most of the international conflicts that occurred during and after the Cold War, the United States has constantly found itself on the defensive with the U.N. and other nations. Wh...