The case of the baby boom generation provides a useful way of understanding the complex of factors that shape demographic change. ... To understand the baby boom generation we need to examine a whole host of factors. ... What is clear, however, is that it carries the future of the nation's economic and social security along with it. ... They will affect decisions that in turn will be the basis on how society will live in the near future. ... Future careers of people will also be impacted by their retirement; people will get jobs that are related directly or indirectly to the needs of...

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One being written, the other visual, their protagonists both portray the generation of young men who were lost to World War I, never realizing their potential. ... Each being a promising representative of a lost generation of young men, the respective protagonists of 'All Quiet On the Western Front' and 'Fly Away Peter', Paul and Jim, are both swept up in the celebratory attitudes of the people around them as they prepare for war. ... Paul likewise casts aside his future as a promising writer, another Goethe or Schiller according to Professor Kantorek, his mother observing ...

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Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, termed this popular public sentiment as the "Lost Generation". The term was used to describe the generation of men and women that came of age either during the war who were "lost", meaning their generation was characterized by lost values, obsolete morals, lost belief in human progress, and a mood of despair and disappointment as a result of their war experiences ("Lost Generation"). Ernest Hemmingway portrays this "Lost Generation" through the words of his fictional character Lieutenant Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. ......

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This created the baby boom generation; in 1959 the population of kids under the age of fourteen was over fifty million and that significantly impacts society in many area of life. ... As a group, they were the wealthiest, most active, and most physically fit generation up to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time while they may have been born during the Great Depression giving in to the financial wants of their offspring to give them what they couldn't have. ... The baby boom generation began to introduce materialism, a peril of mass...

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The SSA insured the older generation that they would have enough money to survive and spend throughout their lives. ... Even though Roosevelt introduced several acts to improve the country's instability, it still did not end the Great Depression as the outbreak of the second World War ended the Depression; however, Roosevelt's New Deal gave restored people's confidence in the government, ultimately giving them hope for a brighter future....

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Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ... "The laboratory, which may Kanellis 4 represent the nation's military-industrial complex, is blamed for not only contaminating the environment but also breaking the chain of family tradition, the hunting culture that has been passed from generation to generation" (Anaya, Rudolfo, 487). ...

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Fear of communism, nuclear war, the future, and of all things considered unknown, unusual or untraditional ran wild throughout the United States as the Eisenhower administration worked tirelessly to address the hysterical concerns of his constituents, doing so masterfully. ... Furthermore, Eisenhower understood the importance of education for the future of this great nation. ... With a nation of educated individuals, the United States was sure to remain prosperous and safe for at least another generation. ...

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Geological finds changed the course of European thought and religion, soon biology spawned the generation of scientific racism. ... Many factors of World War One help create Germany's inevitable future, including post World War political and economic crisis, Hitler's influences, German anti-Semitic beliefs, and Germany's history of genocidal behavior. History is a way to understand our future and being afraid of our past makes us ignorant to our present. ...

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The dropping of the Hiroshima bomb would have been enough to make Japan surrender but the military also wanted to see which bomb would be more effective in the future so they dropped both types within days of each other. ... The atomic bomb was so powerful that it wiped out about 90 percent of the city, Hiroshima, and instantly killed over 80,000 people: thousands more would die in the near future due to radiation exposure. ... Many of the survivors or those who were exposed to the high radiation eventually suffered or died from leukemia, myeloma, and other illnesses that would be passed down...

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First of all, the inventions in design of Gothic Cathedrals have led to a new way in constructing buildings for the next builders' generation. ... The benefits of space exploration have impacted us in almost all aspects of life, and it will advance in the future. With the curiosities of humans, they will change the future world by invention or discovery, as they stimulated the world in the past days. ...

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Nevertheless, when viewed in the context of setting a foundation for future world justice dispensation, Nuremberg served its purpose. It became the model for future world criminal tribunals and the criticisms it engendered were taken into account in establishing these new legal venues. ...

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There has also been much work on improving the tarnished relationship between Japan and Australia after the second world war, and a peaceful future looks promising as Australia leads the world in the amount of students studying the Japanese and Chinese language, for a nation that doesn't speak it natively. ... The truth is the common Australian, those who have been here for generations, are essentially European in culture. ...

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Russel declares that, "The well-being and future of the United States is inextricably connected to the peaceful development of the Asia-Pacific region" ("Bureau of East Asian," n.d.). ...

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Writers write with the purpose of presenting and explaining some sort of universal theme relating to human life, which survives in history through generations, along with the stories they create, because they are written down and read by others who keep that tradition and the values connected with it ongoing. ... Transforming from a clueless little girl to a determined strong woman, she asserts her hope to atone by battling the past with knowledge of the present, hoping to reach her atonement in the near future. 3. ...

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While the Great War demonstrated flaws in the government system and provided future generations with the ability to learn, understand and prevent mistakes, the outcome of such a conflict is never important because there are no real winners in war. ...

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This agreement, however, was not fully carried out after the war but led to the Arabs not trusting the government in the future. ... His government, the Kingdom of Syria, would last only a few months, enjoy little domestic legitimacy, lose British support, and fall victim in July 1920 to French imperialist claims on his territory during from the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1915 Under the guise of a League of Nations' mandate, the French established a colonial presence in Syria and would remain for a generation leaving only in 1946.... The future of the Middle East would depend on the Paris P...

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In considering the likelihood of major war in the future it is necessary to inquire into the causes of war. ... War can be situated within a wider theory of conflict and in thinking about the past, present and future society. ... Neither nation has felt the need to risk everything in the present in order to prevent inevitable defeat in the future. ... The administration of Richard Nixon constituted a watershed in that it was the first to deal with the challenge posed by the increasing disequilibrium between America's international position and America's ca...

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The Second World War created an atmosphere of instability, suspicion, and fear, which blanketed the entire western world. Threats real and imagined existed everywhere. Since confederation, anti-oriental sentiment has been a part of white Canadian society. Japanese-Canadians were specifically stig...

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These effects would also dramatically affect not one but at least two generations, specifically and perhaps most intensely both the "greatest generation"" and their children, the "baby boomers,"" who would each interpret and style the trend in their own image. Through these generations, the automobile culture would grow and transform, progressively building upon itself and extending its influence further into American society until outside forces, especially the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, would deal a fatal blow to driver's wallets and subsequently the cars and the culture they had shaped. ...

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All of these changes have been decisive ones - crucial developments with critical implications for the future. ... (Bodley p. 3) Bodley writes that our generation is experiencing the fastest most profound changes that humankind has ever seen, and we are not yet prepared to deal with the impact of such rapid change. ... People are concerned about what would happen If the polar ice caps were to melt, but that event is so far into the future that we would have plenty of time to deal with the situation by the time it occurs. ...

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Fashion is one of the few areas where Marling's book depicts the "growing generational divide" of the 1950s, and the "sack dress" was at the center of that divide (41). ... Tomorrowland lauded American technology and a new innovative future, Frontierland praised a mythic American frontier past, and Fantasyland stood right in the middle. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis conducted in decades after the event, lead to a shift from the guilt perspective, to a broader one of various interacting factors. Although almost nine decades have elapsed, one question still persists: "Which explanation is best suited as the cause of WWI?" To provide an answer, the views of six h...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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