... Chairman, council, mothers and daughters. I have been invited here to speak to you about Australian women and their changing roles since World War II. After World War II the roles of Australian women in society have changed greatly from being the domestics housewife who were pretty, well kept and great managers for their time. In most cases women often had no ... women would still had to return home to do their household duties. These women were still receiving little compared to men who were do the same job. By 1950 women earned only 75% of the male rate of pay for the same work. This ...

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... an extraordinary job of pulling the reader into the idea of the Maginot Line and in the end leaves you shaking your head. The irony is all to present, the line was a great way of preventing a German invasion yes, but at the same time it was barrier for the French who could have made significance advances into enemy territory. Throughout the body of the book, Horne ... the irony that existed in the French surrender. The French were forced to surrender in the very same train car and at the same location as the Armistice signing of 1918. Although the book strongly focuses on the many Frenc...

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... clashes and misunderstandings. Bette Greene explores the simple facts of right and wrong, good and bad. Greene's scenario of paranoia and government promoted prejudice leaves no room for human compassion, international understanding or the development of a romance. The theme of this book is well hidden, but with further thought, it ... . Although the novel was well written and most points were easily understood, there were many questions left to the reader by the end of the book; a few loose ends left for the reader to wonder about. Many questions are raised to explain why there is such ...

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... -151). In this political fable, animals who live on a farm drive out their exploitative human masters and set up their own society. Eventually the new animal leaders absorb the love of power and use their intelligence to trick the follower animals. The pigs, in species and attitude, become more oppressive and heartless than the humans they ran off. The leaders made ... to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which."" (Des Chenes 147) In this book, Orwell presents recurring themes of personal freedom, the influence of language, and the abuse of po...

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... family whatever is needed, whether it is through food, kind words, or just being present during a sorrowful time. Ma Joad also assumes the role of the leader of the family. When the men in the family become utterly discouraged, she stands up for the family to be proactive and to do something about their ... Joad replies "Times when they's food an" a place to set, then maybe you can use your stick an" keep your skin whole. But you ain't a-doin" your job, either a-thinkin" or a-workin". If you was, why, you could use your stick, an" women folks"d sniffle their nose an" creep-mouse aroun". ...

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... it as a motivator for him to succeed. Another example from the book of how discrimination against a minority living in a majority culture is how Theresa was fired form her domestic housework for the wealthy Anglos. Theresa stole a can of tuna from the Anglos, who were going to use it to feed ... their cat. After Theresa was caught, she was so ashamed that she did not want to continue her job. This symbolizes how different the hierarchy status between Anglos ... and Mexican is. In this case, even the Anglo's cat had a higher status than Theresa did. Because Theresa was Mexican, the Angl...

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... technologies which expanded economic production. The development of mechanization instituted fear among America's laborers. Not only was mechanization displacing workers to factory positions and creating a "technological unemployment-, it was also subjecting laborers to harsh working conditions for comparatively less pay. In 1889 David A. Wells wrote a book called Recent Economic Changes in which he states that, "What was formerly known as domestic ... manufacture is now almost obsolete. In short, the people who work in the modern factory are, as a rule, taught to do one thing "perform ...

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... shelf the videos they have there, plus I got to learn how to check in books which turned out to be the simplest job I've done there so far. Next time I go to a library I will make sure that when I get a book to return it to the place I found it because its really, really hard and confusing to put them back after its been ... put in a wrong place. Now its time to back before the library trip, in the beginning of the vacation I traveled to Colorado to visit family. Once there I decided ... Jewish name on to English. I learn that the 2nd world war was horrible for a little boy, and I admi...

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... may be different from other, but we will get into that later. I think David D. Lee did an excellent job of writing this book. From the knowledge I have, I think he portrayed Alvin about as accurately as anyone could. Lee did a good job of evenly dividing the time in the book to the varying difference in York's life. One thing, I believe, will make this assignment tougher is the ... in most people's mind, but he made the changes in his life and drastically improved all of those ideas. As I said due to the lack of a concrete thesis I believe the facts do the best job possible keeping in t...

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... trying to accomplish by writing this book was to show us that those camps were not like the concentration camps of WWII. She also shows the hardships of trying to be accepted after the war and being frowned upon because of your decent. First, Jeanne does a good job expressing her goal by noting many ... is the general public that would like to learn something about the Japanese during WWII. Second, I think that Jeanne covered a variety of topics in her book. She goes from talking about how the Japanese Immigrants were treated, to her stay at Manazar, and life after. While she does have ...

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... June eighth. Originally slated for June fifth due to whether conditions the attack did not occur until the early morning of June sixth. Ambrose does a good job including not only the strategy, and also certain flaws that took place during this time, bit he also includes ... job in putting the reader at Omaha beach or Juno beach or any one of the places that battling took place day. Ambrose covered everything even down to the fake cricket noises used by paratroopers who landed early before the major invasion to tell who their allies were. This is one of if not the most important aspect of...

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... had to live with during this time period. It also helps to open our eyes to the mistakes, and how our government can question itself over some of the issues we were fighting for. The book tells the story from Jeanne Wakatsuki, the main character, and how she and her family struggled to make it through this time period in American history ... government tried to tell them that these camps were for their own protection, yet they were surrounded by barbed wire, and guard towers. During the final chapters of this book, the author does a great job on describing the tough times the Japanese h...

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... on airstrip one in Oceania, which used to be London, England. The ruling government of Oceania is IN SOC, which is a totalitarianism government. The author George Orwell wrote this book to warn people about the negative effects of a totalitarianism government. In the first section of the book, it tells about Winston's job changing the past and present news for the government. Winston belongs to the outer ... -party and is suppose to love Big Brother who is the ruler of Oceania. The official language developed by the government ... Julia. Winston also meets O'Brien who works for Big Brot...

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... to this day. In my opinion the author Don E. Fehrenbacher is very qualified to write a book on Abraham Lincoln. He is a history professor at Stanford University, and has done a great job explaining Lincoln's life. He is qualified to write this book because he has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was with and educated with the US Army during World War 2. He has ... taught for a total of 44 years and flew 30 combat missions over Germany and occupied Europe, he ... well organized, it was a little complicated to follow at times. This book was more of a book that concentrated duri...

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... the 1960s in proper historical context, which helps define this turbulent era as the logical extension and culmination of an earlier time that came after the Great Depression, World War II, and before Watergate and women's liberation. This book starts talking about the beginning of the 1960s and how everyone seemed to have great expectations for better things to come. In the early ... and he seemed to have a personality that many people couldn't resist, but that doesn't necessarily make someone a great president. Of course, the book will talk about how Kennedy's election as President wa...

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... The Home Front in World War One The sources show different attitudes for different reasons or purposes. Some of the sources are propaganda, one a photo, one a statement from a modern text book and the last a tribunal testimony of Clifford Alan. Sources "A" and "B" are giving reasons for men to enlist in the army. Source ... to the inhabitants of Britain to crush the "German Barbarians". This sort of poster would boost morale of the people working in England. The people manufacturing weapons, farming, nursing, the women's land army or any other job would now have a reason to why they were...

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... the town. In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", Harold Krebs is traumatized by his return and in exchange, he is transformed completely through patterns of emotional feelings. The protagonist, Harold Krebs was a normal teenager until he was drafted into the army. After the war ended, he did not want to ... in his stories, he quickly runs into his parents' house. He slowly develops a daily routine of during the blazing summer, "sleeping late in bed getting up to walk down to the library to get a book room" (167). He simply cannot handle and face reality and has no dreams in his ... h...

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... culture that formed him. Unlike the stereotypical Jack-who follows his fathers footsteps and desires to play war hero, Davy chooses a safer role-that of a war correspondent. During the era in which the boys grow up there is the gender problem. Woman's social standing was still low. Davy ... he meets his wife, sees women as something to conquer. Davy stays with basically three jobs throughout the book, whereas Jack is influenced by the time, and therefore moves from job to job, until he gets a job in the Wimmera district. Davy describes this as " an important ratchet in Jack's destiny, it...

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The Upstairs Room is an autobiography. Johanna Reiss is the author. In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. In 1939 the Germans invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews ruled the Germans. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost of the First World War. The story begins when the author is six (1938). Her father is very concerned about ... . Chapter six marks a month that the girls had been with the Oostervelds. The year is 1942. They are very bored. The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. The girls help with the birthday...

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The Upstairs Room is an autobiography. Johanna Reiss is the author. In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. In 1939 the Germans invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews ruled the Germans. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost of the First World War. The story begins when the author is six (1938). Her father is very concerned about ... . Chapter six marks a month that the girls had been with the Oostervelds. The year is 1942. They are very bored. The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. The girls help with the birthda...

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... recently in our country, anyone who was not a white male had a very slim chance of obtaining a well-paid job or a promotion. In her chronicle, entitled "In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution," Susan Brownmiller recollects filling out a job application in the `60's which asked for the date of her last period and whether she had ever had an illegal operation. Such questions were not ... within the workplace; the two most common forms of which are sexual harassment and wage discrimination. The most obvious type of sexual harassment is direct, for example, when an employer extends job opportu...

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... narrator has a monotone distracting voice and mood that forced the audience into a daydream. Overall the movie tried to produce the facts of the book with about the same time it would of took to read the book. The movie showed the increasing abolishment of discrimination against minorities and women. The movie also illustrated how much we worked, when we worked, what we worked for, and ... what we bought with our money. The movie displayed how women worked in factories during World War II, which changed the role of women's work from homemaker to factory-worker. Blacks and Hispanics foun...

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... when you do, and don't interrupt, and say "sir" when you do." Desiring promotion over every thing else, Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men of his squadron must fly. Even though the army says they need fly only forty, a bureaucratic trap called "Catch 22" says they can't go ... ) with the war in different ways The daredevil pilot, McWatt, loves to buzz his friend Yossarian's tent. Mess officer Milo Minderbender turns his job into an international black-market food syndicate. Lead Bombardier Havermeyer Zeros in on target's, no matter how much anti-aircraft pepper...

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... Ishmael is talking to his mother, Helen, about Kabou's case. Helen questions whether facts are ever enough to find someone guilty of a crime. Overall, I would recommend this book to other people. I believe that this book represents a fairly accurate picture of what life would have been like in the late 1940's and 1950's for small communities. The discrimination against Japanese-Americans was very blatant, ... and pressure to associate with only your own ethnic group was strong. The author does an excellent job of developing his characters, and it ... is very interesting to watch the tr...

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... the storyline make it a must see on everyone's list. Adrien Brody does a wonderful job in the part of Wladyslaw Szilman. Wladyslaw Szilman is a Polish Jew that is said to be the best pianist in all of Poland. Adrien does a superb job playing the part of a Jew during World War II. When Wladyslaw Szilman is sad you are sad, when ... one such scene shows Wladyslaw Szilman playing the piano while outside the window the city lays in total destruction. The Pianist is based on a the book that Wladyslaw Szilman wrote about his experience in the ghetto and World War II. The story is absolutely ...

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