In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the narrator, Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, a rich Jew who graduated from Princeton with low self-esteem, an unsuccessful marriage, and a vanished inheritance. ... Without these beliefs, the men and women affected by the war began to rely on irrelevant and escapist activities to fill the void left by the beliefs that had previously given their lives meaning. ...

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While some may view it to be a necessary evil, such as author Robert P. ... He writes that Truman intentionally left the terms of surrender unclear in order to delay the surrender of Japan because he wanted an excuse to use the bombs. ... Robert P. ... The most compelling argument presented was Robert P. ...

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The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. When the Japanese had realized that they were the only ones left in the war, Germany their ally, was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war. ... The Japanese were completely cut off from the rest of the world, as Robert Butow said, " the scales of th...

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In his opening argument, head prosecutor for the United States, Robert Jackson said, "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a great responsibility. ... "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an international tribunal to prosecute violations of universally accepted norms," (Cassel, 1180). ...

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Introduction Charlie Chaplin, the English comic actor, filmmaker and composer was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. In the ensuing decades he starred ...

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Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life, in 1916, this disability will prevent him from joining the Russian army). ... In the June of 1918, Stalin left Moscow (the new capital) and arrived in Volgograd (which, incidentally, would later be renamed Stalingrad) with a new job: "Director General of Food Supplies in the South of Russia". ...

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Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. ... Francis Fukuyama, US social analyst and political commentator says "Most scholars in both the East and West now accept that consumer oriented democracies tend to do a much better job of satisfying the basic human needs and the material wants of their people than any of the leading systemic alternatives on either the political left or the political right."" ...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...

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