(need an introduction to the quote)"But now was the time for us to cooperate wholeheartedly with France" (State Department). ... (intro to quote)"An oddly-shaped country, stretching like a letter "S" along the coast of mainland Southeast Asia from the Chinese border to the Gulf of Thailand" (Lessons 3). ...
Quote: "It also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturization. ... Quote: "She had never seen men crying beforefrom this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended" (286-287). ... Quote: "...with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God...No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. ...
" (Wiesel xii) These quotes from the preface allow us to detect the author's anger when thinking about the Holocaust and its present collective memory of it. ... The use of the word 'corpse' when describing this reflection also adds to the weight of the quote. ...
Hitler's complete lack understanding and principles on the eventual destruction of the world by the "polluting Jewish culture" are highlighted in the following quote, "religion is ridiculed, ethics and morality represented as outmoded, until the last props of a nation in it's struggle for existence in this world have fallen. ... The Jews were not blinded by the terrible conditions that they were forced to endure, they were perfectly aware of the reasoning behind their predicament as the following quote from the Warsaw ghetto diary of Chaim A. ...
He quotes multiple high ranking officers discussing their sentiments about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... The author quotes Dwight Eisenhower as saying," During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measur...
" The quote describes how even though violence appears to be a viable solution, the benefits are only temporary and will only promote further mayhem. ... The ruinous events of WWI can be directly correlated to Gandhi's quote, so modern countries should acknowledge Gandhi's perspective on war before partaking in warfar...
Hypocrisy is a form of faking and acting; you become the main character of a situation you are trying to hide. Hypocrisy is not a good thing; you become cynical and start affecting others only to save yourself. There is a very interesting quote by Alan Dershowitz, which says, "Hypocrisy is not a wa...
The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, ma...
From a Japanese American woman's perspective she quotes, "we stood helplessly when people, who we thought were our friends, came by and said, 'I'll give you $2 for your stove, $1.50 for your fridge'" "(Hansen 63). ... In this quote they are referring to the white privileged men and women who were not getting the job done the right way. ...
Referring to himself in the third person, Saddam was quoted in a speech in 1982 by saying, "Saddam Hussein exists in every corner, every place, every eyebrow and every heart in Iraq."" ... Satellite photographs captured pictures of the planes on April 25, 2000, in the very location that was described by the quoted defectors (Kaplan 26). ...
Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. For many centuries, one communal goal found amongst disparate individuals, colonies, and nations was the desire to obtain the greatest magnitude of power. The collective mindset found concerning domina...
Devils in Disguise "Under idealism nothing exists except the mind. Whoever controls the mind controls everything. Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? The answer is most definitely "yes!- Ev...
However, the Korean conflict was particularly central to American policy and indeed world security as it outlined the American policy of containment from NSC 68, and demonstrated that America, to quote President Truman that America was committed to, "the cause for a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations....
The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. The progression of the civil rights movement for African Americans advanced through many important events. However World War 2 can arguably be said to ...
To quote Albert Einstein, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" (Einstein). Here, Einstein is implying that at the point of World War III, humans would have developed weapons of mass destruction so powerful that they would...
President Truman was the one who made the decision to use the atomic bomb, and one of the most admirable things about president Truman was that despite the scrutiny of the use of the atomic bomb, he stood his ground in the decision he made, he didn't try to push it onto someone else to better his popularity with the people as he quotes, "Let there be no mistake about it. ...
The Versailles Treaty, signed on January 18, 1919, stripped Germany of their colonial empire and forced harsh monetary reparations to be paid by Germany to the allied powers for damages suffered during the war. The treaty also incorporated article 231, known as the War Guilt Clause, which formally ...
Power, Pressure, and Persuasion "Power is the ability to get another actor to do what it would not otherwise have done" (Goldstein, 73), this declaration is a accurate. To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold ...
Economy Of Hungary During the two decades following World War II, Hungary was transformed from a predominantly agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. This transformation was carried out under a system of central planning patterned on that of the Soviet Union. Consumer desires were ignored, tight labor discipline was enforced, and living standards were depressed, so that the largest possible share of Hungary's resources could be used to develop an industrial base. Investment in industry was encouraged by a tax and subsidy structure that overpriced consumer goods and unde...
By the time that World War Two ended the United States had grown from isolationist to "Big Brother", most of the decisions were created by them, and as it said in the quote "to create democratic institutions of their own choice", which will be monitored closely by who other then "Big Brother" himself. ...
As Nayan, the wonder boy from the story "Nayan Rahasya" by Satyajit Ray comes out safe and sound in the climax, Feluda, the iconic private detective smiles slightly since it is he who has ensured the safety of the boy, while the audience heaved sighs of relief and cries of joy. Nevertheless leaving the world of Feluda and entering Tintin's does not really alter the feeling of anticipation since Tintin almost does something similar in the story "Land of the Black Gold". The story revolves around Tintin investigating contaminated petrol which if used does not only cause ...
Huntington Theory & Disagreement Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" is a theory based upon geographic locations and political movements. It describes how these have intersected in the past with religion in determining cultural identity. His views on a new world order emerging after the Cold War r...
The conduct of international politics in the last 50 years clearly shows us that it is states that are the heart of international relations. Discuss the accuracy of this statement using neo-realistic based international relation theories and highlight the problems that such an approach faces. The neo-realist theory in International Relations is often simplistically defined as a state-centric theory, specially if considered relatively to other theories. So, the assumption that I am going to focus on - that states are the heart of International Relations - is apparently the basis of th...
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...
