Know as the Progressive era, Bristow attempts to deal with the complexities of this time, a time in which morale and decency prevailed. ... The CTCA was formed in April 1917 to supervise the cultural life of the military service men. ... As a result, men from all walk of life where thrown together as they moved from state to state, country to country, while being trained. The image that many civilians had about camp life, according to Bristow, was that of military camps being a place corrupted and diluted by drinking, prostitution, profanity, and fighting. ... The Commission provided the m...

• Word Count: 1179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What makes his work so effective is that he appears to have shared with millions of other Americans a particular set of assumptions about life in the United States, and he has blended his skills as an illustrator with a wealth of careful observation to bring the consequences of these assumptions to life. ... Unlike other painters of his time who used postimpressionism and modernism; Rockwell created images of Americans and is said by some to be the only true American realist (Schorr). ... In the later years of his life, Norman Rockwell started to take a stand against bigotry by drawing picture...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Armenian Holocaust was the first genocide of the twentieth century; it decimated the Armenian Christians inhabiting Turkey and accounted for almost ten percent of Turkey's population at that time. History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the Great War; what is often overlooked is the suffering the Armenians endured forty years prior to the war. ... The first reason is attributed to the severe religious and cultural separation between the two, summarized by Stephan Astourian as "societal forces supporting human life versus soci...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At first, the nationalists blamed the "mutilated victory" on President Wilson, but after a short time they turned on their own rulers and what they considered the weaknesses of parliamentary democracy. ... There he gave part of his time to his books and the rest to writing articles for socialist newspapers. ... Nationhood was the highest form of society, with a life and a soul of its own, transcending the individuals who composed it. ...

• Word Count: 5609
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. ...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate