... used. Mussolini saw this as a way of unifying the country and encouraging conformity. Fascism's most effective experiments in consent building were concerned with leisure. In 1925, Mussolini set up the Opera Nazionale Dopo Lavoro, which comprised a huge network of clubs and recreational facilities for adults. Film and sport were the most popular forms of mass entertainment, and the fascist regime exploited ... recreation typified the Fascist obsession with physical fitness and vigour, and more generally with the cult of the youth. A youth organisation was set up in 1926 and was called t...

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... Nazi as the villain but also on the uprising of the Jews and the rescuers or saviours. Director Steven Spielberg's 1993 film, Schindler's List won a number of academy awards including best director and best film and was watched by 25 million Americans. It's non-commercial length, black ... one. Over the last couple of decades, the Academy Awards have frequently been awarded to films and documentaries about this subject matter. Spielberg's Schindler's List', Benigni's Life is Beautiful' and Polanski's The Pianist' are just a few recent examples. According to Hochberg (2000), the Holocaust...

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... of Americans (Faragher 592). This is evidenced in the movie when, after breaking into NORAD's computer system, David is prompted to select from a lengthy list of military games. Just as a teenager today might choose "Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare", David, a teenager in 1983, was intrigued by the inclusion ... of "Global Thermonuclear War". The fact that he chose a game centering on nuclear war from a list of nearly twenty games gives us a glimpse into the minds of teenagers in 1983. The movie also addresses the fact that many Americans realize that ... his Mom tells him to "put that lid...

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... to be spies. Secondly, in the yard, the mother burns not only letters, but also some souvenirs and housewares bought from home country years ago, such as silk kimonos, Japanese opera, the Imari dishes and so forth. People use to send greetings and cares through letters to their friends or relatives when they are far away from home just as the ... ...

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... the orchestra pit and an earthy representation of lovemaking by the dancers on the stage seemed a shocking, almost pornographic enactment of primitive fertility rite 26. Alban Berg - (1885-1935); wrote opera, Wozzeck, first performed in Berlin in 1925; blended a half-sung, half-spoken kind f dialogue with harsh, atonal music; Wozzeck is a gruesome tale of a soldier driven by Kafka-like inner terrors ... ...

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... brotherhood is seen by soldiers putting their lives at risk to save others as is a underlying view of Spielberg's. His is also renowned for other Second World War films, Schindlers List being a very important to him. It's a powerful true-life story of a man who became the saviour of more than one thousand Jews in wartime Poland also used the ideology of ... their start as raw recruits to battle hardened soldiers, and tells it from a very personal point of view. In the television series there is a reoccurring format, every episode having a lead character where the audience sees the war f...

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... Canada ensuring equal opportunities for women with men in all aspects of Canadian society was exactly what she wanted ("Florence Bird", 2000). As Canadians, this added an unbiased character trait to our Canadian Identity, especially when Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, a male, instituted it. In early 1965, Judy LaMarsh wrote that Pearson seemed to finally accept her advice and set ... us the commission. She provided him with a draft of the future terms of reference and also a list of women who might've served on the commission ("Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada", n.d....

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... The influence that the cold war was having on America is prevalent through analysis of the literature that was popular throughout the 1950s. Mickey Spillane's books dominated the fictional bestsellers list of the 1950s, with six of them making the top ten. Historian Stephen Whitfield claims that it was "the detective's hairy-chested heroics would have made such novels enormously popular ... would normally be considered politically incorrect, and even offensive became very popular, simply because they were anti-communist. For example, in Mickey Spillane's novel One Lonely Night, the main...

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... did intellectuals. Food preparation also took the tone of creativity and art. Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the 1950s "a new makeover transformed her into an older and wiser, more mature and motherly figure. American women needed motherly figures. As the new freeway systems ... annual style changes epitomized the car industry. The Ed Sullivan show brought Lincolns and Mercuries into the homes of Americans, and in 1956, GM was on the Top Ten Advertisers list. The most popu...

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... were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. It may therefore be said of the recruiting posters that they were very effective in their methods of persuasion. The initial surge ... while "trudging through mud." (Dulce et Decorum Est). Indeed, the fact that one of these sources is merely an advertisement, while the other is the diaries of an extremely significant character from the conflict, Sassoon bei...

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... : Realistic language focuses on everyday speech rather than the elevated forms of speech that had characterized earlier theatre. The level of speech depended upon the particular circumstances of the individual character. There is no deliberate use of verbal music like Greek drama used, and there is no witty verbal structure like that of the Restoration period. Broken speech patterns, pauses, ... mannerisms, dialects, and inarticulate responses are used because they exhibit natural vocal manners. Character & Self: Realism's major influence was the concept of playing oneself. The actor was...

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... confrontation was carried out in all areas of geographical space across the globe and around. The Cold War was a global scale, not only fight, but also in its consequences. We list these consequences. The Collapse of the World Socialist System The deep socio-political and economic crisis in the Soviet Union, which led to the disintegration of the country. Deep subsequent ... ...

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... countries that were on the winning side of the War, they put to trial the German military leaders and those that were involved in the German killing of Jews this list of people included industrialists, investment bankers, and also included physicians who were involved in the human experiments. As part of their way to systematically kill of peoples that they deemed ... ...

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... the prevailing idea and villainization of communism that had produced anti-communist propaganda during this time. Joseph McCarthy furthered the hysteria by accusing the democratic party of treason and reading a list of known communists in government. It was not enough however to persuade the public in agreement of nuclear standoffs. Pamphlets, posters, and a number of media were portrayed to the public ... ...

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... war had ended in November 1918, the war hadn't ended officially as Germany had to sign a treaty to officially end the war, but the treaty itself appeared to have a long list of problems faced by Germany. Because all the countries involved had different opinions and points of views on what the Treaty of Versailles had to include, the treaty included parts ... ...

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... products from the United Fruit Company's land holdings in Guatemala, and reverse the domestically focused social and economic reforms of the Guzman government. The final element I noted above in the list of factors leading to a weak government-weak state institutions-also resulted from operation PBSUCCESS. Such state institutions and functions as the ability to collect tax revenues, the ability to draft ... ...

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... the world are the United States as well as Norway. Both of these are well known democracies. Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. When a country declares war they are also making commitment to fund all of the expenses that come along with it. Although wealthy countries ... ...

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... believed there were 205 communist members in the U.S. State department (Ferrell 139). Truman knew that these accusations were the results of McCarthy being nave and essentially a liar, as his "communist" list was brought down from 205 to 57 in a matter of a few days (Ferrell 139). However, Truman could not simply ignore this "threat", because of the growing fear of the Soviets ... ...

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... , the ROK government was experiencing some traumatic problems in their relationship with the United States. Secretary of State Acheson made a speech in which he essentially left Korea off of the list of the United States defense perimeter in Asia (Cumings 1983:155). Complicating matters for Rhee were American sentiments that his government was likely to go the way of the Nationalist ... ...

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... , he outlawed it in 1913. One year later WWI broke out in Europe and Japan took advantage of the outbreak. By 1915, they invaded Quingdao and confronted Yuan Shikai with a list of twenty-one demands, to some extend controlling and influencing the economic situation on China. These demands were not only exceptionally harmful to the economy but they were also seen ... ...

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... what, at the time of Yalta, seemed less important points. Winston Churchill perhaps saw "the light- about Soviet power far too late. The problem of Poland was higher on Churchill's list of priorities than Roosevelt. The Polish crisis of 1939 had provided the occasion for British entry into World War II as well as Stalin's rather short-lived pact with Nazi ... ...

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... excuse him from punishment or responsibility, and that following orders would not be an excuse for a defendant, but might mitigate punishment dealt to him (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). In examining a partial list of defendants from the trial, it is obvious that the degree to which each was involved in the Nazi leadership varied greatly. Yet, but the tenets set forth in the ... ...

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... . (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated responsibilities in other aspects of the Terror, but for the Show Trials he personally chose the list of "guilty" men, he deceived the accused into thinking their confessions would earn them leniency in sentencing, and he signed the death warrants.) Bukharin and the other "Rightists" could see ... ...

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... the final analysis, we turn back to the fact that approximately 85 percent of Italy s Jews survived the Holocaust. That statistic puts Italy, with Denmark, at the top of the list of occupied nations for percentage of Jewish survivors. Again, the fact that the Holocaust began late in Italy was a helpful factor in determining the fate of the Jews; by September ... ...

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... Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in February of 1950, when in the midst of the speech he "lifted up a sheet of paper and claimed to hold in my hand' a list of 205 known communists currently working in the American State Department."" No one, even those who disliked McCarthy, had the courage to speak out against him. After 1952, McCarthy had ... ...

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