The United States produced a lot of propaganda posters during WWI. Most explained that we should eat certain foods so we can send the rest "Over There" to help our troops. Also many of the posters pushed us to work harder. Explaining that the work we do is for our men in Europe. There...

LOVE YOUR SERVITUDE Pharmacologists are producing a great many wonder drugs where the cure is almost worse than the disease. Every year a new edition of medical text books contains a longer and longer chapter on what are called iatrogenic diseases, that is to say, diseases caused by doctors. --...

Oppenheimer and Sakharov and the Cold War J. Robert Oppenheimer and Andrei Sakharov are both considered leaders of nuclear physics during the World War II and the Cold War. The two men had astonishingly similar lives, achievements and views on nuclear weapons. Andrei Sahkarov (1921-1989), ...

Death As a Means of Character Development War changes people. It is the same every time, in every movie, every story, and every book. People are one way before they go to war, then they change, and in most cases, they cannot change back. We all have our lives. We have our houses and apartments,...

According to U.S. News and World Report, January 15, 1998, the United Nations estimates that nearly one million Iraqi children are chronically malnourished. Infant mortality and waterborne illnesses are also up dramatically.(Omstad 42) These problems are a direct result of economic sanctions im...

Expose: Gatsby Many people have heard of, but do not know the truth about Gatsby, which is most likely what he anticipated. He hosts elaborate parties but is never about to be seen. He has great fortunes, but the mystery of where he got it from is still uncertain. Who is Gatsby and what is h...

Rock'n Roll is still alive!! It is belived that it died by the end of 1960's but it wasn't. The feelings, the ideas that Rock'n Roll was representing are still living in people's souls. Like freedom and sex. But it is hard to say that it is living as a type of music. Sounds ...

A marine came into our class on Thursday to speak to us about his experiences on war and his opinions of war. The marine was a recruiter for the marine core and he had lots to say about joining the core and what the requirements are. He had been in the core for about 10 years so he had lots to sh...

In the 19th Century, countries around the world had been experiencing a disturbing trend. At their own expense, Western powers invaded their lands to obtain personal profit, even if that meant exploiting the natives. This was apparent in Africa, as European countries rushed to obtain as much terri...

At the conclusion of WWI the world had experienced enough lose of life and resources. A group of peacemakers felt it imperative that an organization be formed so that the devastations of WWI would not be seen again. Eventually in 1920 an international body formed under the title "The League of ...

The Sixties split the skies. Only Civil and two world wars so neatly divided our history into a Before and After. And the Sixties were more divisive than World War II, which drew more people for the war effort. The Sixties drove people apart - husbands from wives, children from parents, students ...

Education has made it possible for man to gain new insights in the world we lived in and beyond and achieve incredible feats that in the past was dubbed as impossible to achieve. It is also like a powerful tool that opens doors to many new possibilities and ideas. However every coin has two faces, t...

Over the course of the last half-century the U.S. has enjoyed unprecedented power in every aspect whether it be politically, economically, militarily, or by any other means. In its dominance of world politics since WWII, the U.S. has been able to cast its influence around the globe. However, the U...

Americanism and the new american paradigm.*note* this paper is 99% opinion, and inspired by Noam Chomsky's 1997 lecture in boston on "Propaganda And Control of the Public Mind."The year was 1989, the cold war had subsided, and America was looking for a new paradigm, a new reason to keep people on ou...

Essay in Response to the film Cabaret Never stopping to think about whom she's hurting Sally Bowles whizzes through life like it's a game. Sally's unique style is based on divine decadence, which is symbolised throughout " The Cabaret". Sally presents her self to be op...

"World War II marked a wide dividing line between the old and the new in American society and the nation's literature"(The World Book Encyclopedia 427) . When world War II ended there was a pent up desire that had been postponed due to the war. Post war America brought about a time wh...

Freedom is a beautiful thing to have, but when does my freedom become a prison? If I have freedom then I have no restriction, and I can do whatever I want to do, but only to a certain extent. With independence, I also can express myself and voice my opinions, but I am not always allowed to act upo...

"Intolerance in the Business World" Intolerance is a human trait that we all have. Regardless of ones social, economic, or ethnic background there has been a time in all our lives where we have judged a book by its cover without at least reading the synopsis on the back. Intolerance is ...

George Orwell was not only a writer, but also an important political reformer.Orwell was born in India in 1903. He considered his family a "lower-middle class" family. He said this because his family was a part of the middle class, but had little money. His father worked for the British governmen...

During the 1850-1939, the western powers, particularly Britain, came over to Asia. The main reason they came to Asia was because of trade. The British wanted to trade with the Japanese, but mainly the Chinese, for goods such as silk and other things that you couldn't find in Europe. The only problem...

Adolf Hitler was a brilliant man, but his twisted thoughts and hunger for power was the key to his downfall. Most people do not realize how intelligent he was. But how many people could turn a country like Germany, with its economy in ruins, into a great empire that would rival the rest of the wor...

Women Serving in the MilitaryIn the movie G.I.Jane Lt. Jordan O'Neil was the first woman to train in the Navy SEALS. From the time she arrived at the base she was treated unjustly. Lt. O'Neil entered the SEALS for the same reasons men did and quickly found she was unwanted in a primarily male domi...

Reparations Justified The question of Reparations, has been the subject of many arguments, and will continue to be. Now, throughout history, man has self-defin...