... changed by new social reformatory ideas with radical and lively leaders steering them into the 21st century. World War One is not often seen to most people as a battle between democracy and autocracy. Nonetheless, the war indeed was an ideological struggle in numerous respects. Take for example that ... brilliant plan that worked successfully and through true Machiavellian politics Mussolini had used the devastation wrought by the First World War to become not only popular within Italy and it's entire people, but he had become their controller and their dictator. Playing on the theme of ...

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... . Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the ... formal, Latinate, almost technical vocabulary ( 'ejaculations'); colloquial spoken grammar and lexis ( 'Where you will next be there's no knowing'); romantic, popular song style ( 'rose-flush coming and going'; 'when you were all aglow' (stanza 3)). It i...

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... and the Spee Club, one of Harvard's elite "final clubs," where bluebloods mingled and made the connections that kept America's aristocracy running. A contemporary called him "one of the most popular men in our class." In 1937, while JFK was still in his sophomore year, Joseph Kennedy, Sr. was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. This prestigious post opened new social avenues ... ) and the Green Bloods (the rising, and largely Irish, immigrant class). Again, Joseph Kennedy, Sr.'s money and connections had tremendous impact. It was a Republican year, nationwide, as the popular general D...

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... Art and architecture were also very big priorities during the great depression. Many artists were creating many beautiful masterpieces that are millions today. However most art that would have been famous today, was completely dominated from the great depression just like everything else. The "public works of art ... numerous strategies to keep their districts operating. Many kids went without education for a long time during the great depression. Teacher's salaries were cut, and most teachers were paid $40 for a whole 5-year teaching fee. When kids were not in school and teachers were un...

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... do it in as little time and with as little effort as possible: hence the popularity of hobby kits. Painting became one of the most popular hobbies of the 1950s, with the new paint-by-number sets for adults at the center of a "national mania," selling $10 million ... in 1956, GM was on the Top Ten Advertisers list. The most popular theme for car advertisements was the space rocket motif, related to the rocket-like tail fins popular on 1950s automobiles. One of the most impressive and entertaining and moments of her work is when Marling discusses ... and the equation of a car to a "chor...

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... growth and expansion. Sportsmen and woman became the heroes with huge crowds of spectators attending all sports events. With the huge flood of immigrants arriving from Europe other sports became popular. With many of the immigrants coming from England Greece, Germany and Italy soccer became a widely enjoyed sport. Other sports like football flourished with Australians using their leisure time to enjoy ... . Radio was the first real live communication used by the masses. Sports events were transmitted to spectators who could listen all around Australia to their favourite sports. Radio was...

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... gave Nazis an opportunity to promote Nationalism as a remedy for any future betrayal by a large number of unpatriotic Germans disgracing those truly patriotic Germans. This popular political belief permeated throughout Nazi propaganda. Milton Mayer, an American social scientist, interviewed a group of ex-Nazis on their feelings toward parliamentary democracy. Mayer ... was used in Nazi propaganda many times to tap into those who felt "stabbed in the back" by the old, self-serving government. A popular societal belief in Germany was that Jews were especially responsible for Germany's loss...

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... him and exacerbates his war guilt. Inspector Ian Rutledge engrosses himself in police work, hoping to regain his sanity. He is sent to Warwickshire, England due to the murder of a popular military officer. The current conflicts revealed in this small city accurately reflect the post World War I society of England. The historical and dynamic aspects embedded in the novel highlight the ... from smelling" (Pg. 316). One of Colonel Harris" hardest duties were reading and writing letters sent by families about the current conditions of his soldiers. Post cards were an immensely popular form ...

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... he advanced into the Senate. John married a woman named Jacqueline Bouvier, who was from a prominent family, on September12, 1953. He became very influential and popular in a short period of time. In 1956 he was almost nominated as a represenative for Vice President by the Democrats. Just four years after that he ... worked to his advantage in being elected president. After he was elected President, his Inaugural Address was also televised. This was also one of the most memorable speeches in the history of the United States. The speech included a quote that will always be remembered. Jo...

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... had fish. Currently there are about 8500 fish and chip shops across the UK, that's equal to eight for every one McDonald's. The types of fish used to create this popular dish are almost as abundant as the shops in which it is produced, limited only by the species found in the surrounding seas. Britain gets ... the coasts of Iceland, Greenland, and the North Cape of Norway. In the UK, cod is the main fish used in fish and chips, especially in the south. The second most popular fish is haddock, most popular in the northern parts of Britain. Hake is a specialty fish unique to Britain, wher...

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... at the time. Historians describe the period between 1914 and 1945 as a birth of mass culture, resulting in fresh forms of popular expression. During World War I and II, the making of masses into a historically powerful force was the most significant event of this time period. The rise of masses heralded the onset of a new phase of culture in which ordinary men ... Soviet Union, but also warned of the dangers of repression in capitalist society. Throughout the interwar period art, architecture, and film advanced quickly. Movies became published as the world's most popular form of mass cul...

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... economically stable in the 1920's. Meanwhile, during the 1920's Canada was also gaining a cultural identity. People were able to start having fun after the war ended. Nostalgic writings were popular and authors wrote about the fading away of rural life in Canada. Other authors wrote about urban and rural life in Canada. Germaine Guevrement, wrote about rural dwellers living in ... mass markets through radio and newspapers. In the 1920's football, lacrosse, baseball, track an field, and hockey, were all very popular spectator sports. The Young Women's Christian Group (YWCA) encouraged wom...

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... use such a monstrous weapon, it could end terribly or be used for the wrong purposes. The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power were invented. These tanks have a great upper body structure that is incredibly ... as everything in their way. They use massacring machines that have been derived from the devil himself. Food Glorious Food! During the Roman Empire the most popular dish would have been pottage which was a mixture of a variety of vegetables and some meat as well as that it was ei...

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... of eliminating communist beliefs and ideals in the western hemisphere. The battle lines would be drawn around the question of democracy versus communism (the fact that communists had been the most effective campaigners against fascism in Italy during the war being ignored), and as United States intervention effectively campaigned it; it was a matter of "communist dictatorship- versus the idea of " ... much of a disaster voting communism would be in Italy, the United states portrayed the elections as the American way of life versus the Soviet way of life, a bold move considering most Ital...

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... be lost in the bin of unwanted fashions. Doc. #2 Benita Feorey. "Baroque to Oriental: Pearls are Back."" Harper's Bazaar. April 1981. To most of us, however, pearls were a reminder of the middle class we were all running from. Just look at the woman who wore them. There she ... Carnes article on icons of fashion. This document states that denim jeans were sort of a shock, and that nobody expected them to be one of the most fashionable items in the world today. Denim jeans in women's fashion was not a recycling of an old trend, but rather a revolution towards a whole ... new fashion and a...

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... 22 covers for George Horace Lorimer's magazine "Saturday Evening Post" (Guptill). On average, he produced 10 covers per year for the popular magazine. Norman Rockwell would do most of is illustrations using charcoal. He likes to use the grid method for his larger paintings. First he would sketch a small picture ... covers on the Saturday Evening Post magazines. Now some of his paintings can be seen in books and museums. In the 1970's he put most of his paintings is his local hometown museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1977, Rockwell received an award called the Presidential Medal ...

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... international affairs resulted in an arms buildup between the United States and the Soviet Union; including weapons that exceeded the atomic bomb, then the most effective and destructive weapon in price and devastation. Yet, to everyone's surprise, the Cold War abruptly ended in 1990 with the collapse of ... The United States initiated the Marshall Plan, a policy they hped would help sway the ailing, poor European countries, those thought to be the most vulnerable and accepting to the communist ideals towards capitalism. Not long thereafter came NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),...

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... anti-war protest poem, "my sweet old etectera," Cummings reveals the discrepancy between those who support war and the true feelings of soldiers. Despite popular belief of the United State's post-World War One nationalism, soldiers didn't live a picturesque, glorious life. The poem develops an image of a ... of his feelings of wanting to escape the murderous trenches of Europe. Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. In another popular anti-war poem, "I sing of Olaf glad and big," C...

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... more our technology progresses and as our industry grows stronger, computers and electronic entertainment will grow to be found everywhere around the world. And this includes videogames. Although gaming became popular in the 1980s, it has been alive since the 1970s. In May of 1972, Magnavox Odyssey was released as the first gaming console. A few built-in games came with it ... were the deaths of Jews. Enraged parents raised protest when Mortal Kombat was released in 1991, which gave the player choices on how to "finish off" their opponent, sporting the most graphic (and not to mention b...

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... part of that fateful decade, America would see a transition unlike any it had yet experienced in its history "and in the face of a most terrible war, would succeed in protecting not only its own safety, but the entire world's. Our nation entered the decade in troubled times. The economy, ... in the United States were reluctant to get involved in the new war. After the horrors experienced in the First World War, isolationism had become popular, as no one wanted to repeat the same disastrous circumstances that claimed millions of lives. Ironically, this policy is one of the reasons Adolf ....

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... the back by civilians". It was an irrational excuse, given the military's domination, but it became a popular myth. The defeat in World War 1 was therefore a traumatic shock to most Germans, especially to the German soldiers, and almost no one in western Europe understood it then. This resulted ... , a severe economical burden of compensations, and severe limitations on the German military's size and equipment, which were supposed to reduce its threat. Most Germans perceived it as a great national humiliation. Hitler, finally recovered from his injury, and still officially a soldier, joi...

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... in countries where democracy had been abolished. In fact in Nazi Germany, Hitler's rise to be power had been based on an exploitation at a popular wish to regain international respect. Public opinion supported his belligerent approach. The second option of heavily armed isolation, was indeed a favoured option by ... didn't just have one set of borders to defend. In fact it was the fact of Empire that shaped much of Britain's considerations - most notably in 1931 with regards to Manchuria. This of course leads to a discussion of the third option - collective security in the nature of .....

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... proved little more than a confession of weakness which left Spain with a Fascist dictatorship for nearly forty years, but the reasons for the policy, which most countries agreed to but only a handful adhered to, were more complex than a purely historical reaction to the Spanish problem. In practice, French policy ... turn at each country and examine how the leaders and diplomats perceived their respective interests and how they assessed and claimed those interests were most likely to be promoted or threatened. `British Foreign Policy in the 1930's is often summed up by one word: appeasem...

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... television. By the late 1950's, many Americans had a television set in their home. However television did not keep Americans from reading. Television changed our perception of literature. During the fifties most Americans had a television at their home. Contradicting many predictions, television, did not cause a decrease on the sales of books in America. Actually during the 50s the bookshops were quite ... popular. Americans during the 1950s bought 53% more books than in the 1940s. The invention of the television, however, had a major impact in newspapers and radio stations. When it cam...

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... Unique, was published in The Fortnightly Review. In 1895 Wells established himself as a novelist in 1895 with his science fiction story, The Time Machine. Wells also became very popular in the United States. The popular magazine Cosmopolitan serialised two of his books, The War of the Worlds (1897) and First Man in the Moon (1900). His work also appeared in Collier's Magazine ... book was widely discussed and the abridged version, A Short History of the World, published in 1922, sold in large numbers. Wells was now considered to be one of the world's most important political thinkers an...

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