... sometimes a Puritanism that emphasized orthagonal qualities. On the othe! r hand, smooth, tensely stretched or softly flowing forms could be combined with brilliant, pure colors. After the mid 1920s a certain hygienic freshness also filled the furnished rooms, and all kinds of abundance had to step aside. No wonder that the shining tubular steel was implemented as a furniture material. The education of art proper ... also understand that it is harder to design a first rate chair than it is to paint a second rate painting, besides the chair is much more useful. As I said before the maste...

• Word Count: 2575
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

... for their sacrifices. Groups of militant nationalists seized Fiume, a port city on the Adriatic, and held it for a year before being disbanded by the Italian army. 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. Italy had long-standing problems that ... Fascism was a product of the Great War and the crisis that followed. Nevertheless, premonitions of fascism appeared in the decades before 1914 – none of them quite the full-blown thin...

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

... received the doctoral degree. Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called to Princeton as Professor of jurisprudence and political economy in 1890. A popular lecturer, Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People (1902). In 1902 he ... the Democratic presidential nomination. Although Wilson entered the 1912 Democratic National Convention a poor second to Speaker of the House Champ Clark, his strength increased as Clark's ...

• Word Count: 4679
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

... political influence altered. To imperial supporters in the 1890's the South African problem seemed to be at its climax. The main conflict of interest lay in the discovery of gold and the growth of the Rand after 1886, when the Transvaal replaced Cape Colony as the economic center of South Africa. The peak of British imperialism coincided with the identification ... the Boers on the veldt as a Lord Mayor's procession would have a catching a highwayman on Hounslow Heath [the Boers] are all around and about us like water round a ship, parting before our bows and reuniting round our stern. ...

• Word Count: 3503
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... first of the posters aimed at women in 1915. Women played an important role in persuading able men to go and fight. Firstly it is important to note that in 1914 a year before this poster was made an Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded The Order of the White Feather. This organisation encouraged women to ... go out and hand white feathers to able men who were not fighting for their country. "One young woman remembers her Father, ... a speech addressed to women that had been drafted by A.A. Milne, who was also the author of the children's classic's Winnie the Pooh This all came after a time...

• Word Count: 2585
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... didn't live a picturesque, glorious life. The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. Everyone in the family contributes: his sister knits socks, shirts, and ear warmers. His parents donate their support by pointing out his opportunity to show his honor ... , which further emphasizes his intention to not create controversy, but instead describe pure emotion. In fact, his poem "her care distinct sex," came after his controversial popularity, and describes with even more "truth" his sexual experiences: "Her careful distinc...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

... only sent 90,000 men to France by November 1917, of which 50,000 had come in the month of October 1916. After November 1917, new measures were taken up and another 72,000 men were raised from the black French Africans including the first 10,000 from French Equatorial Guinea . In general ... about their defeat in the Boer War. Botha eventually put down the rebellion of about 11,000 men after a few months with the help of over 30,000 loyal Afrikaners . So in January 1915, he and his men turned their attention back to German South-West Africa. The army was split into four ... German hands ...

• Word Count: 2502
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the U.S. created MI-8, a code cypher bureau. After the first world war, the U.S. reduced funding for intelligence, and even shut down MI-8 in 1929. In between the two world wars, the United States lost their interest in intelligence, and significantly reduced funding. Since there was little to no intelligence collection or analysis before the second world war, the U.S. suffered a ... significant loss in naval power. The attack on Pearl Harbor is known as an intelligence failure because of the lack of collection made prior to the bombing. This attack was considered a catalyst to the Ameri...

• Word Count: 2957
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... chosen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt happened to be one of the chosen ones and he fitted into the role of ruler greatly. Former President Delano Roosevelt comes closest to a dictator in America than any other presidents that came before or after him. President Roosevelt was elected by the people to lead in 1932 ... , during the great depression. During the 1930s the almost the whole world was in turmoil, people just wanted hope and someone to lead them out of the darkness, ... off conquering small defenseless states that surrounded Germany, it was also to his advantage that those states on...

• Word Count: 2636
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... the basic animal instinct is to kill in a time of war to protect themselves and their nation. There are those who are conscience objectors to war and killing their own species. These Pacifists developed from the same human animals that kill its own in war. Why is this? Before finding out why this is true, it is important to understand when Pacifism began ... . The earliest objectors of war "arose among early Christians who lived in the Roman Empire during the first few centuries BC, long after war ... in a time of war is to try to do away with war and violence. These changes require us ...

• Word Count: 3064
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... should accept? an invitation to visit Queens Square, where Yealland practises. We are told that Rivers? night had been more disturbed than usual and this foreshadows that he is about to witness something awful. The reader is given an anticipating feeling of dread as Barker describes how Riverspushed ... . Barker compares the hospital to a landscape apparently devoid of life that actually contained millions of men? which makes the hospital and Rivers visit to Yealland seem more sinister before we have even met Yealland. I think this represents that although the men are still physically al...

• Word Count: 3832
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... such accusations were generally mischievous, made by people who knew how angrily Hemingway would defend his manly, heterosexual virtue. The second, less masculine hero I mentioned before is seen in several of Hemingway's short stories and novels. In these works Hemingway constantly had underlying homosexual plots that can be examined. Hemingway seemed very negative about this submissive masculinity that seemed more feminine ... hero can be found in Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises. Before World War I, the world had a set of expectations for what a man should be. After the war, the brave...

• Word Count: 2875
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna was a congress of European leaders who were gathered to reestablish international order after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. This congress was concerned with restoring rulers and frontiers as they were before the French wars, and achieving a balance between weakening France and maintaining peace. Austria's foreign minister, Prince Metternich, was concerned with preserving the existing order. He was largely responsible ... United States played a key role in World War I when they entered it in 1917. With their fresh enthusiasm, manpower of 4 million ...

• Word Count: 2597
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... fathomable. In war in which casualty numbers lie in the millions, in which whole divisions cease to exist after a given battle, it is rather difficult for us to really comprehend and appreciate the horrendous loss of life that took place. The danger in studying the war is that we ... he did his doctoral work on the eradification of serfdom in medieval France. Bloch went on to specialize in French medieval and economic history and started teaching in 1912 before he was drafted. An extremely intelligent individual, Bloch prided himself on using scientific standards for historical analysis....

• Word Count: 3539
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... a new name: total war, which encompassed all aspects of life. Before 1914, Western society believed in progress, peace, prosperity, reason, and the rights of the individual. During that time, people believed in the Enlightenment, and industrial developments and scientific breakthroughs were a daily reality apparent in the rising standard of ... and by their help, they contributed directly to the victory of the allied forces in the First World War. As a result of their participation in the war effort and the increasing respect they earned, women were granted the right to vote immediately a...

• Word Count: 2634
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, taught him (13). However his studies were quickly halted by the outbreak of World War I. In 1917, Gurney enlisted in the 2nd/5th Gloucester's and served in France (20). After being wounded by gas, Gurney returned to Royal College of Music but his erratic behavior led to his departure once again (22). From a young age, Gurney possessed a lively ... personality that was troubled by mood swings, which became very apparent after the war (20). However, even before the war, Gurney suffered a mental breakdown in 1913, and had several difficulties focusing on h...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a post-World War II world. Even the concept of the diner brought multiple new inventions and techniques of marketing that had never before been experimented with. Whatever the reason, it is clear that architecture of the diner can be studied and looked at to further understand America after World War 2. The idea of eating somewhere roadside really started to blossom in the 1920s, due ... to the automobile. With the production rate growing exponentially, the automobile was taking over the way Americans live. Shortly after, a vast ... in figure 5. Piggybacking from the powerful streamlin...

• Word Count: 2601
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

... could renegotiate the terms of tax payments for common purposes. Needless to say, these negotiations led to regular clashes between both halves' of the Monarchy. Accordingly, Williamson, Taylor, Sked and most Historians have argued that the compromise' created a complicated political structure that was destined to collapse. Yet by 1912 the governmental institutions of the monarchy were in fact functioning, if ... war. Indeed Taylor suggests that it was this backing that marked the real end of the Habsburgs. Taylor states that when the Germans drove the Russians out of Galicia and destroy...

• Word Count: 2507
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... attended. Germany was not invited. The Weimar Republic was the political system that replaced the old imperial German Government after world War One. It was a mixture of allsorts of political ideas and not seen as a capable instrumentality to handle the circumstances of the German nation. This was one of the ... These actions were to bring about the start of the Second World War. By 1936 when Germany reoccupied the left bank of the Rhine and the allies did nothing about this violation of the disarmament Conference Germans must have felt a certain freedom from the shackles of Versailles. ...

• Word Count: 2583
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . The basic German understanding of the treaty was that if they knew before the cease-fire was called how harsh it was they would have held out and fought until the bitter end.(3) Originally ten leaders and diplomats from France, Britain, United States, Italy and even Japan met togethor. Shortly after though Japan left and only the "Big Four- remained, which was Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George ... German seaking peoples forced to live in other countries outraged Hitler. He wanted to unite all the countries and German speaking people togethor, especially his native Austria.(7) There were...

• Word Count: 2784
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... 1890 is the starting point for displacement: to expand further, an empire must displace another physically. It is the last stage before armed conflict, and it has always been characterized by an increase in alliances, by a weapons race, by national indoctrination and by a diversion of attention from domestic problems toward foreign factors. A typical example of displacement Imperialism would be the 2nd Punic ... WWI have been prevented? No, for WWI logically followed three centuries of aggressive European expansionism. The war had been thought and planned for well before 1914. The moods ...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... two of them. Frederic goes every night and meets her after she gets off from work. Later in the novel, Frederic is wounded badly and sent to an American hospital where Catherine works. Here Frederic finds a part of him he has never felt before, the ability to love. In these ... scenes at the hospital it becomes extremely evident that Frederic loves Catherine. Their relationship blossoms during this time that Frederic is away from the front, and progresses into a passionate love affair. After Frederic's recovery, he must return ... war with his love for Catherine. The turning point of th...

• Word Count: 2571
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... ? The question is what should we do with Germany? On May 7, 1945 the Germans finally surrendered, though their fate was sealed well before this date. Germany knew that the tide of the war was turning when the American, British, and Soviet forces entered Germany. This was very significant because throughout all of World War I there were no major battles fought on the ... to demoralize the people. This conference also made sure that any remnants of the Nazi party would be disbanded. War criminals were sought after and rounded up for trial. Anyone that has taken an above average participati...

• Word Count: 4105
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... historic parties of `opposition', Liberalism has occasionally found itself in the ascendancy, when its ideas and values set the agenda for international relations. In the twentieth century, Liberal thinking influenced policy'making élites and public opinion in a number of Western states after the First World War, an era often referred to in academic International Relations as Idealism. There ... within developed capitalist societies. This led capitalists to search for higher profits overseas, which became a competitive dynamic between states and the catalyst for militarism, leading to ...

• Word Count: 3075
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... known. His poetry was inspired by the war and he became a critic of the public illusions about the war. After returning to battle in late 1918 and receiving the military cross for bravery, Owen was killed in action. He was 25 and he died on November 4, 1918, only 7 days before the armistice. Although he is no longer alive, and WWI is long since over, Owen's poetry ... continues to make an impact on those who read it. Owen resented the war, and his poetry ... . Owen writes, "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14). The gas is the green sea, and the man is drowning because the gas ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School