During the First World War, people started realizing that campaigns and techniques of mass persuasion were working their way around the world. It was not the first instance of the use of propaganda, but it was the period in which it was relied upon heavily to manipulate the masses. In light of this ...

When most people look at war the first thing that they usually take into consideration is the destruction, anarchy and casualties, when in reality the most important aspect of war might be the theories of why the war happened instead of what went on during the conflict. These theories can show us m...

The Farm Security Administration was created in the department of agriculture in 1937. The FSA was a new deal program along with the RA (Resettlement Administration) designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the great depression. Many photographers were involved within the FSA includi...

MOTHER COURAGE: A LEGACY OF SURVIVAL Mother Courage is an unbraidable knot of contradictions: both fearless and feckless, wise and uneducable, maternally caring and emotionally aloof. A camp-following trader, she picks the bones of a war-withered economy to feed her fatherless children. Yet her ...

World War II was a time of death, destruction and sorrow. The events that took place during this period did, and still do appear quite unbelievable to many people. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki introduced for the first time the power of nuclear weaponry, and the attack on Sydney Har...

In this essay I will discuss the importance of these two associations, I will try to cover the main reasons for their existence and try to understand what this existence has done for society. Even though these two agencies were both set up to feed society with information using visual photography, t...

Why the United States dropped the Atomic Bomb: Persuasive Essay The atomic bomb is the subject of much controversy. Since its first detonation in 1945, the entire world has heard the aftershocks of that blast. Issues concerning Nuclear Weapons sparked the Cold War. We also have the atomi...

The Causes of World War I The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on the 28th of June caused the lead up to World War I. The Archduke heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in his car during a drive in Sarajevo. The assassination was the work of a terrorist group known ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the annual Townsville Poetry Association meeting for 2005. I'm quite sure everyone here reads poetry and subconsciously analyses and deconstructs each line and verse. You may even test yourself to challenge the dominant reading and look at the poem in a differen...

The Media and the Use of Propaganda in War In researching the existing literature pertaining to the issue of the media and propaganda, there must first be proper definitions for the terms 'propaganda' and 'media' in the context of politics and war. Next follows an analysis ...

"War! Good God ya'll! What is it good for?! Absolutely nothing! Listen to me!" To whomever have heard the lyrics of Edwin Starr's War is likely to have had some opinion formulated about how war is a destructive force in itself. In a world where power is absolute and idolized like an omnipotent force...

Task - A study of the character of Oskar Schindler to show that despite major obstacles and difficulties in his quest for justice for the Jews, he finally achieved his goal, at great personal cost to his own life. The story of Oskar Schindler and his legacy began on April 28th 1908 in the Austri...

In the spring and summer of 1941, the Second World War began to spiral into a truly global conflict. In 1940, the World War was in reality a combination of several regional conflicts around the globe and couldn't truly be classified as a global war. In Europe, Hitler's Germany had overrun...

Introduction Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) entered the White House in 1933 in the midst of the nation's largest economic depression. Approximately 25 percent of the work force was unemployed, industrial production was bleak, and the bank system was collapsing. Overseas, the economic situation ...

Politics Australia had reasons for wanting to join the Vietnam War, quite apart from considerations of South Vietnamese sovereignty. It was considered necessary to maintain good relations with our alliance partners the United) and constituted a critical step in maintaining a defense. Initially, Aust...

World War I undoubtedly changed the political boundaries and economic system of Europe (as seen in Chapter 3 of Findley's Twentieth Century World textbook). However, in the midst of all the political and economic changes, the human toll is sometimes overlooked. With the declaration of World War I,...

With the recent national tragedy, it can be said, with reasonable certainty,that our country, and much of the world, is in discord. We have been sosaturated with newsclips and printed images of the two planes collidingpurposefully into the World Trade Center Twin Towers that our fragile psycheshave...

Marshall Plan In the spring of 1947, the atmosphere in Europe was unstable and tense. World War II left behind misery, unemployment and a housing crisis. The cold weather intensified the severe economic and social dislocation that plagued the continent following the long and destructive war. At t...

Psychological Warfare in the United States militaryThe use of psychology in war is as old as war itself. In ancient Greece, Thermistocles sent his men ashore to carve messages urging the Ionians not to fight against the Athenians (Pease 3). Known as psychological warfare, it is the attempt by one ...

For many years in the early 20th century, two world powers with very different forms of government and economy bred contempt and suspicion toward each other's policies. These opposing forces were the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The United States was a capitalist country, believing...

Webster's dictionary defines consumerism as "the economic theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is beneficial." That is essentially the basis of what consumerism was in its early days. The problem with that definition is that the people who practice consumerism today hardly conc...

The 1930s were turbulent times in Germany's history. World War I had left the country in shambles and, as if that weren't enough, the people of Germany had been humiliated and stripped of their pride and dignity by the Allies. Germany's dream of becoming one of the strongest nations in the worl...

The Soviet-German War is the most brutal episode of the most vicious war that mankind has ever seen (Clark 1). During the "Great Patriotic War", as Joseph Stalin coins it, the Soviet Union emerges through pure tenacity as one of the world's great superpowers. Although Stalin and the USSR emerge vi...

Why did the League of Nation fail?After the First World War, US president Wilson decided to set up the League of Nations. Because of the death and destruction of the war, the league was supposed to bring together all nations to settle disputes in peace. The league was meant to improve working cond...