... and dramatically – in style, function, and purpose – as American lifestyles changed throughout history"1. This statement by Offitzer in "Diners" gives a nice description of how not only diners became an important part of American history, but the architecture of the diners were just as important. The design ... for the fatigued and tired travelers at the beginning of the roadside dinner, to the easy, laid-back place where the long-haul trucker, the early-morning passenger, or the midnight tourist all could grab a hot cup of coffee and home cooked meal. America was rapidly turning into...

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... other attempts at fundamental reform aside. Hoover attempted to meet the challenge of the depression, his policies becoming more vigorous as the depression worsened. The program he pushed through Congress early in 1932, most notably the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), a federal agency empowered to support financial institutions by lending them large sums, stemmed the banking crisis for the moment. ... as workers sought directly through their own efforts to gain the benefits Section 7(a) had promised. Hundreds of strikes erupted in a number of basic industries, making 1934 a ban...

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... an assassin; Theodore Roosevelt suddenly became the nation's 26th president. For the sake of national stability, Roosevelt continued McKinley's conservative policies until early 1902, when he began a campaign to regulate corporate interests and protect the interest of the average citizen. Unlike other Presidents, Roosevelt felt that ... 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 was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become Princeton's pres...

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... fully understand this, one must go back to a town in Germany known as Munich, where the word appeasement would take on an ugly meaning. In early 1936, the German army under Adolph Hitler was unprepared for war. His generals strictly warned him that a successful war with Great Britain and France would ... civil war, while some held that Korea was a way to defeat communism and was necessary to the security of the American way of life. Korea was the first war in the history of the United States where the U.S. neither won nor lost. The United States and Russia both stayed in Korea ... the o...

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... these lives continued, Edward Estilin Cummings looked around the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts as his inspiration to be anything but "fashionable". E.E. Cummings" early life inspired his writing from his college days all the way until his last words. After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as ... at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. Through his poetry, Cummings rebels against the common perceptions of traditional American ideology in hopes to bring spiritual freedom to the rigidity of America. Whil...

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... political aspect ever could. The desire to break away and take America for the good of the people was in itself the greatest achievement in American history. With out the Revolutionary War, who knows what would have happened to America today or even if there would be an independent country intact. ... Without the Revolutionary War, no political experiences could have ever taken place. Another event in American history is almost regarded in the same breath as the Revolutionary War. It was not a war against an invading country or against a powerful dictator; it ... was a war between Ameri...

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... many readers and became elitist. Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. But all ... , although short-lived as a movement, were the Imagist poets, whose first anthology – Des Imagistes (1914) – was edited by the American exile Ezra Pound. Imagist poems tend to be short, sharp glimpses, which contrast with the lushness of Romantic and Victorian verse. Imagism was a moveme...

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... stop aggression by major powers, Japan's occupation of Manchuria (1931), Italy's conquest of Ethiopia (1935-36), and Germany's seizure of Austria (1938). It collapsed early in World War II and dissolved itself in 1946. The League established the first pattern of permanent international organization and served as a model for its successor, ... promise to the Americans. Wilson was aware of this. All he had to do was to wait for the right moment. Wilson's chance came in early March of 1916. Sometime around the 6th of March, U.S. intelligence began to send reports to Washington that Villa an...

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... the Bill of Rights." ("A More Perfect Union, Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution". Museum ). The involvement of America in World War II displayed one of the most injustice events in American History, the Japanese-American relocation into internment camps. During the opening months of the U.S.'s involvement with the war, 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into these camps out of fear, ignorance, and paranoia ... . 30, 000 Japanese had died in this battle. However, the United States had the largest victory, for they captured the main base protecting Japans mainland. (WW II, Na...

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... nationalism and self-governance.2 A significant part of the French Empire which was lost due to nationalism was Indochina, established in 1887. With a history of emerging nationalism in Vietnam where French rule was not desired, the French had to remove three Emperors from 1885 to 1917 and this did ... the colony to break away from the imperial rule since the British were lenient with their own influences. Because of this also, the early 20th century saw the British reckoning with the effect of allowing the self-governing autonomy system and its impact on the demand of reforms ... have ha...

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... Bolshevism. This foreign policy program fit nicely with his racial dogma that was based on a vulgarized view of social darwinism. Hitler believed that the history of mankind was really only a struggle for space among peoples, and that the strong survived by gaining the necessary living space from which they could ... the British, Hitler believed that both peoples came from Aryan stock, far superior to Slavic Russians and treacherous Jews. This clearly shows that Hitler had very early shunned the Soviet Union as a potential ally and saw it only as a foe. In April 1921, Hitler described th...

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... lead to the constant demise of Germany. The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. This idea was manifest destiny, or the idea that Germany should own all land from ocean to ocean and that they were ... significant because of the strangle hold that the Prussians had on the ideals of German society. The Prussians had a major impact on Germany in its early days. The "state of Prussia, which had dominated the German Reich for three quarters of a century, was formally wound up by the order ... 3, 1990, political reunification took place u...

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... economic dominance. [Professor Gerhard Rempel, Industrial revolution lecture]. Throughout the ninetieth century most of the countries of Europe had been industrialised, though with different levels of success. According to history journalist Christopher Newman, "Britain's success in manufacturing and exporting had set the standard to which all the European powers aimed to emulate" (Newman Christopher, article: the Great War. ... Why?) Britain was the undisputed industrial heavyweight of the world, writes American economist William R. Hawkins " a hundred years ago Great Britain was the wo...

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... Christians were being persecuted for their Christian faith, they never retaliated in any form of violence. Without violence, Christianity spread throughout Europe in the early centuries AD and today is one of the most dominant religions of the world. This shows that people can resolve their conflicts by being a ... Pacifist. So what is the definition of a Pacifist or Pacifism? The American Heritage College dictionary define Pacifism as the belief that disputes between nations should be settled peacefully, opposes to war and violence to resolve disputes, ... the first Christians to follo...

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... . As a scholarly idea the term enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, when anti-Marxist social scientists favoured a concept that discredited communism by linking it with fascism. Famously, the American political scientist C. J. Friedrich defined totalitarianism as follows: 1. A single mass party, led by one man, which forms the hardcore of the regime and which is typically superior to or intertwined ... whether to side with capital or labour; it owns property and yet is exploited by big business. Marxist approaches to fascism all emphasize its links with capitalism. The most influent...

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... the notion of defeat, let alone the horrors of warfare, which in prior conflicts had been considerable. In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, ... , while trench "raids" tended to reveal more than any writing by a "patriotic" soldier from the front. Surprise attacks were thus rare, especially early in the war, infantry tactics being far from competent. However, when surprise was utilised in areas such as Vimy ridge, 1917, where the Canadians ... As far as s...

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... ', Bentham argued, and `the necessity for war no longer follows from a difference of opinion' (Luard 1992: 416). Bentham showed that federal states such as the German Diet, the American Confederation, and the Swiss League were able to transform their identity from one based on conflicting interests to a more peaceful federation. As Bentham famously argued, `between the interests of nations ... a `New International Economic Order' emanating from poorer post?colonial states contained within it the kernel of a liberal defence of justice as fairness. Liberal institutionalism According to the...

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... it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman 12, 28) Victims were psychologically inclined to mask and forget their ... beliefs: that the war would never end and that we would win it."(Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. Men lived and fought in trenches dug in the groun...

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... -Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Hold and Company, 1994. Gorsky, Susan Rubinow. Virginia Woolf. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1978. Graham, John. "Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf."" Critics on Virginia ... the trench. Being constantly exposed to germs and disease coupled with not being well nourished, made the soldiers more susceptible to catching dangerous illnesse...

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