... fit perfectly with its purpose, in other words, fulfil its practical function, be easy to handle, economic and beautiful". (Walter Gropius, Director of the Bauhaus, 1927) THE BAUHAUS Henry Van de Velde had founded the School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, Germany in 1907. On his retirement he passed the Directorship of the School to Walter Gropius. In 1919, Gropius ... ) design as "Un-German-. Wilfred Franks is one of the very few surviving students of the Bauhaus and was the first English man at the school and in these following quotes I believe he answers the following question very sat...

• Word Count: 2013
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... : what did the Germans know? Under Operation Fortitude, a fictitious American force-the 1st Army Group-assembled just across the Channel from the Pas de Calais. Dummy troops, false radio traffic, dummy landing craft in the bay of the Thames river, huge but unoccupied camps, dummy tanks-all ... for the invasion neared, the German's focus of the deception had shifted from the regions of the Balkans and Norway to the Pas de Calais. The concentration of Allied troops was so great, that an invasion of France seemed inevitable. Bombing attacks, sabotage by the French ... Resistance and false...

• Word Count: 1264
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... : what did the Germans know? Under Operation Fortitude, a fictitious American force-the 1st Army Group-assembled just across the Channel from the Pas de Calais. Dummy troops, false radio traffic, dummy landing craft in the bay of the Thames river, huge but unoccupied camps, dummy tanks-all ... for the invasion neared, the German's focus of the deception had shifted from the regions of the Balkans and Norway to the Pas de Calais. The concentration of Allied troops was so great, that an invasion of France seemed inevitable. Bombing attacks, sabotage by the French ... Resistance and false...

• Word Count: 1349
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... than attacking. In Germany the "Atlantic Wall" was formed in order to sabotage any attempt to storm the beaches of Cotentin or the Pas de Calais. Enormous metal spikes were set on the beaches to prevent any possible boats from landing on the beach. Also enormous fences and back-up ... Allies" victory over the Axis. Under Operation Fortitude, a massive American force known as the 1st Army group assembled just across the Channel from the Pas de Calais. Dummy troops, false radio traffic, dummy landing crafts in the bay of the Thames River, huge but unoccupied camps and dummy tanks all helpe...

• Word Count: 1521
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... bomb as being "the master card" of diplomacy toward Russia. Gary Alperovitz's final argument lies in the lack of the support for the bomb after the war. He quotes multiple high ranking officers discussing their sentiments about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many believe that the bombs were unnecessary and that the United States most likely over looked ... . The Japanese had no intentions of backing down and a Soviet invasion would only empower them. Alperovitz's second argument lies in the regrets of World War II military leaders. The author quotes Dwight Eisenhower as saying,"...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Allies used these agents to send incorrect information to the Germans. The Allies needed to convince the Germans that the invasion would occur in an area called the Pas de Calais. The Commander of the German armies in France was convinced that the Allied invasion would be in this area. To keep the Germans in this area U.S. General George Patton ... was placed in command of an army in the area of Dove. Dover is opposite the Pas de Calais. German General Rommel believed that the Allies should be destroyed at sea. Others preferred to let the enemy come ashore and annihilate them with t...

• Word Count: 1983
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , and those who did not. People can never forget those who refused to betray their principles. The movie tells the story of a fictional director named David Merrill, played by Robert De Niro as a man who is not a fanatic or hero, but balks at betraying his friends before a group he has no respect for. As the film opens, Merrill has come back ... in danger of forgetting: that the greatest service we can do our country is to be true to our conscience. I particularly enjoyed the careful and thorough case HUAC assembles against De Niro. We are shown he has friends like: An alcoholic woman ju...

• Word Count: 1497
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Wall was not complete, but it was operational. 12,000 of the 15,000 planned fortifications were completed. 13 million tons of concrete had been used from Cherbourg to Pas de Calais. 500,000 beach obstacles had been built and 6.5 million mines had been laid. The second main objective was to start an offensive against Germany. This offensive hoped to bring ... messages of an invasion, but not in the place of the planned one. American and British intelligence made the Germans believe an operation was going to take place at Pas de Calais. German generals sent extra forces to the area (17 di...

• Word Count: 1374
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... to scoop out the water (Keegan 373). To trick the Germans, the Allies had false information intercepted by them. They made them think that they would invade at Pas de Calais. The Pas de Calais is a very narrow waterway with flat beaches, making it easy for troops to move swiftly along. The Germans fell for the trick, but did not move a lot ... of troops from Normandy to Pas de Calais (Keegan 373). Commander of the Allied Landing Force was a man named Montgomery. His plan was: "Rommel (German General) will do his level best to `drunkirt` us - not to fight ... ...

• Word Count: 1405
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... . During the war years in Holland, he reduced his colors and geometric shapes and invented his non-objective Neo-Plastic style. In 1917, Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic ... and industrial design. Mondrian's essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. In July 1919, he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from t...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... a puppet for the United States. Pearson's most defining confrontation with another world leader as the Prime Minister would come during the time of Canada's centennial birthday. The French President Charles de Gaulle. Charles was seen as a very odd character to the other nation leaders, however his antics were tolerated. Instead of arriving via airplane into Ottawa, he arrived by ship and ... landed at Wolfe's Cove. No one had known, but de Gaulle had come to stir up anti-Canadian feelings. He gave a very loud and enthusiastic speech to separatists in Montreal where he was quoted as say...

• Word Count: 2144
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... Fatherland Front, led by Engelbert Dollfuss in Austria, the Falange founded by Jose Antonio Primo in Spain, the Cross of Fire, renamed the French Social Party led by Colonel Francois de La Rocque, the Gentile National Socialist Movement and the South Africa Fascists, both in South Africa, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, and the military dictatorship of Admiral ... , Nietzche and even Plato, in his Republic (Segre, 2002). Political theorists, historians and writers all contributed in the 18th and 19th century to the development of European fascist thought. Joseph de Maistre despise...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Dutch colonial forces, which was a change in policy from before the war when they would have supported their traditional ally, Britain, which had colonies in the region. Although Australia supported de-colonization, when the problem arose it was strongly against communism, in support for their new ally, USA. The reason the USA was against communism was because it was during the ... a trading partnership, so they supported the recognisation of China as a country and their entrance into the United Nations. Trade could also be seen as one of the reasons Australia supported de-colonization ...

• Word Count: 1983
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Spanish-American War and the Moroccan War placing much blame on the shoulders of the monarch King Alfonso XIII. Due to social unrest in the country Alfonso appointed Miguel Primo de Rivera as dictator to restore peace to Spain. The anger of the people only intensified with this change of power, suspension of the constitution and the high unemployment rates and ... and the Catholic church added to the dissatisfaction of the elected Popular Front by the politically conservative. In 1933 the recently developed political party of the right, CEDA (Confederacion Espanola de Derechas Autonomas...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... the atomic bomb, he stood his ground in the decision he made, he didn't try to push it onto someone else to better his popularity with the people as he quotes, "Let there be no mistake about it. I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt about it being used," (https://history.state.gov). Truman had ... ...

• Word Count: 1297
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ending the war that was going on between us and Japan, but I feel as though, I would've never worked at the plant if I knew what I was helping to construct. Berger quotes many of the accounts he found powerful in the text Unforgettable Fire. The most powerful one, I believe is "A woman who looked like an expectant mother, was dead. At her side ... ...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and everything" "(Hansen 63). These people against their will were forced to abandon everything from their hard earned businesses, valuable belongings and their home. From a Japanese American woman's perspective she quotes, "we stood helplessly when people, who we thought were our friends, came by and said, 'I'll give you $2 for your stove, $1.50 for your fridge'" "(Hansen 63). These items that ... ...

• Word Count: 1781
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... learns and adopts the Tralfamadorian concept of time, that all moments end themselves repeatedly. One critic, Tim Hildebrand agrees that Billy has turned to the comforting Tralfamadorian time notion and quotes Billy's experience on the alien planet to support his argument (130-131). Billy says (in the novel) "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he ... ...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

... the people themselves in what they do, but rather the way they go about doing them, that is so erroneous. In Marion Pritchard's personal documentation script Reflections on Rescue, she quotes from the account entitled Faith after the Holocaust written by Eliezer Berkovits. "A Jew: "All we want of Christians is that they keep their hands off us and our children." This ... ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... historians and government officials argue against these charges by insisting that the attack was indeed a surprise due to a failure of American intelligence and ineffectiveness of the naval high command. Stinnett quotes historian Stephen E. Ambrose who claimed that the real problem was that American intelligence was terrible. According to Ambrose, the navy had not yet broken the Japanese naval codes, and the ... ...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7

... . No other Prime Minister has had to ever put a Cabinet together as quickly as he and Churchill needed the House's cooperation to do what he was determined to do. 3. Broad quotes James Maxton, as he talks about Churchill after his speech, "It was written in the book of fate, say, perhaps, on the battlefield of Blenheim, the he would one day ... ...

• Word Count: 2096
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to pull Germany from the depression and turn it in to a world superpower that almost won world war two. However they did not achieve the goal that they set out. Quotes 1. Mason, K J,Republic to Reich (pg132) 2. Mason, K J,Republic to Reich (pg133) 3. http://www.kdhs.org.uk/history/as/as_unit3/youth.htm References http://www.malton.n-yorks.sch.uk/MSWeb/HistoryZone ... ...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... . No other Prime Minister has had to ever put a Cabinet together as quickly as he and Churchill needed the House's cooperation to do what he was determined to do. 3. Broad quotes James Maxton, as he talks about Churchill after his speech, "It was written in the book of fate, say, perhaps, on the battlefield of Blenheim, the he would one day ... ...

• Word Count: 2107
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... sleep until dawn. He tells himself, "it is probably only insomnia."" "Many must have it."" Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, and journalistic. Kenneth S. Lynn of The New Republic quotes "The very tension and terseness of Hemingway's intimidating style provided the shock that a new era needed. The mastery over experience that this style seemed to display turned Hemingway's "objective' and ... ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in a dozen years ago, as the people of North Vietnam lived in five years ago, and as the people of Iraq lived in only yesterday- (9). He then begins to use quotes from Lenin to only further his theories. In 1924, Lenin explained his theory of how Communism will take over the world. "First, we take Eastern Europe. Next, the masses of ... ...

• Word Count: 2226
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School