... subject of controversy, the evidence presented in The Rape of Nanking should put an end to this debate. For the second edition of the book, published on December 13, 1997 -- the 60th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking -- the authors carefully reviewed the records of Japanese military units ... of Japanese militarism in China and elsewhere has been systematically denied or distorted by the Japanese government. Only since the first publication of this book in 1996 has the historical controversy been widely reported in the West. Author Young argues, "We cannot allow ourselves to forget the...

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... ON "A SEPARATE PEACE" John Knowle's A Separate Peace is novel that focuses in on characters and their reaction to the world around them. Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. The author uses the backdrop of war to show how young boys develop bonds of ... ON "A SEPARATE PEACE" John Knowle's A Separate Peace is novel that focuses in on characters and their reaction to the world around them. Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. The author uses the backdrop of war to show how young boys develop ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. The key to their success could be attributed to a singular book, which was written around 500 BC. This short read, labeled The Art of War, has been read and used by almost every successful general ... drawn from the decisions made by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. These decisions, specifically, relate to the third and thirteenth chapter of the book. The United states carried out multiple operations throughout the duration of the war, most of which covert and completed by either the Culp...

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... initiation of a long term civil war in the country of Spain and had a major role in tearing the emotional boundaries of the state. For any book to be treated seriously it should possess a very strong subject matter that is full of details, ample accurate information and above all, a story presented ... common soldiers in the army and was later on supported and aided by the conservative elements both outside and inside of the country. According to the book, there was not a major success when the coup actually started and actually was looked upon as a big failure for the whole nation. When...

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... -Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into ... as manly heroes rather than the "babies" they were. With his right hand raised, Vonnegut vows not to glorify war and promises to call his book The Children's Crusade. Later that night he reads about the Children's Crusade and the earlier bombing of Dresden in 1760. While teaching at the ...

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... a teapot from the ruins, as the climax of the novel, Bernard still seems unenthusiastic. The best outline the narrator ever made for his Dresden book was on a roll of wallpaper, using crayon. Colors represented different people, and the lines crisscrossed when people met, and ended when they died. ... something. Finally, she confronted him: the narrator and Bernard were just babies when they fought. Mary was angry because if the narrator wrote a book, he would make himself and Bernard tough men, glorifying war and turning scared babies into heroes. There would then be a movie that starre...

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... /~jobrien/reference/ob45 .html). Conrad witnessed this expansion when he himself traveled into the Congo in 1890 (Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)). From the book, it can be inferred that Conrad did not have a very favorable view of this cultural exportation. He described the trader Kurtz as being "contemptibly ... that the society turns its back on true spirituality in favor of barbaric blood lust. Piggy represents reason and order. Early in the book he is described as "the fat boy with asthma."" These characteristics make Piggy seem like an unpopular and unattractive person. Golding uses ... ...

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... , seemingly lost forever. Frederic learns that when trust is put into something, such as his love for Catherine, it can easily be defeated. I chose the book "A Farewell to Arms- because I absolutely adore love stories, combined with tragedies. These characteristics were fulfilled in the novel. I also like to read war stories ... but a wonderful work of literature. The title of the novel, "A Farewell to Arms- is very symbolic and meaningful in the story. As I read the book, I found two major themes or ideas that in some way were attached to the title of the novel. The first one being rathe...

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... for a peace settlement. The terms mainly included arms reductions and settlement of disputed territorial claims ("World War II", www.historychannel. com/pert/print___book.pi? ID-33842). The other Allies involved in the war were more interested in gaining war attributes for their victory of Germany. The official ... neutral in any affairs not having to do with them unless American soil was being threatened directly ("World War II", www. Historychannel.com/pert/print__book.pi? ID-33842.)On August 31st, 1935, Roosevelt signed the provisional neutrality act. In 1936 the law was renewed and i...

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... . With financial success came political involvement. In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and a famous, if controversial, national figure, holding ... necessary for our survival," Profiles in Courage cemented JFK's reputation as an intellectual, a thinking man's politician, and made him a darling of the New York and...

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The Little Prince which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and was published in 1943 during the World War II, is my favourite great book. Although the story is simple, but it enlighten me so much. The story started with the author's plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from help ... , from then on he no longer felt lonely. Finally, he went back to his planet with the help of a snake. From review of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, This is a book that can be read by both children and adults. It has a message of love that is true and touching, and it is ... has stood the tes...

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... new foreign policy is what kept the United States so strong for many years. Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority ... Truman Doctrine may be a correct one but it is most certainly not the only opinion among authors and historians to date. Roger S. Whitcomb in his book argues that the Truman Doctrine needlessly harmed the United States and Soviet Union relations. Whitcomb among others argues that the Truman Doctrine was a...

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... Chiang Kai-shek issued an ultimatum demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan. Japan chose not to surrender at that time. Feelings of a British scientist P.M.S. Blackett were a bit different. He wrote a book titled Fear, War, and the Bomb, in which he said that the United States wanted to end the war with Japan prior to Russia's entrance. Blackett felt that the USA ... of the cold diplomatic war with Russia. (www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities History/20th_Century/World_War_II Atomic_Bomb_The) Also an American historian, Gar Alperovitz, wrote a book titled Atomic Diplomacy. His book con...

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... elaborate, majestic ending for a novel with little action. Although I enjoyed the story, some descriptions were unnecessary and caused the story to become monotonous and repetitive. In addition to this, the book is a tragedy, which added to the dullness of the story line. I found that the pace varied and disliked the fact that the author would include a great amount of detail regarding ... of Blitzball or the Super Suicide Society of the summer session meetings. Knowles' gloomy winter causes the reader to experience an unexpected joy at the signs of spring (I thought the book would get ...

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... his last name to Heidler through the encouragement of an uncle to carry on the family name. However, when the Heidler family name was written in an official name recording book, it was spelled as Hitler. And so in 1876, Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler. This is important to history because it would be very hard to imagine tens of thousands ... easy for him and he discovered that he had considerable talent for drawing, especially memorizing architectural details and sketching buildings ("The Rise of Hitler"). Adolf while rummaging through his father's book collection found several...

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... the time of the ballads. The name of Taliesin, a bard supposed to have lived in the sixth century, is associated with the fourteenth-century Book of Taliesin, a collection of poems of various kinds, sources, and dates. The Book of Aneurin is a thirteenth-century collection of poems ascribed to one bard, the seventh-century Aneurin. It is remembered for the elegiac battle poem ... human frailty as is the treasure of silver which corrupts Nostromo in Conrad's novel. The 'incorruptible' Emilia in Nostromo, in her relationship with the Italian sailor who is the book's hero, has a simil...

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... , instead, segregated them into Jewish Schools." (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) Streicher was also responsible for the publishing of the well-known Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer as well as a children's book series Der Giftpilz. In these publications the Jews were portrayed as a problem or menace to society, a hindrance to the advancement of the German state. In the children ... Jews are described as a "poisonous mushroom" that looks beautiful, but should not be trusted and one should not be persuaded by its image. "This book taught German children how to attack the Jews in three anti-Sem...

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... to the "Endless Steppe" of Siberia, where they would struggle to survive five long years of starvation and suffering (Hautzig 12). Esther shares her feelings with the readers throughout her book; she tells us what exactly felt like to be in a cattle car full of peasants who seemed to be handling the situation in a much better way than she and her ... it makes us see how humans can become "monsters" and performs such horrible and outrageous things such as massive murders. Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. Fluek...

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... there has been anarchy. There is no written law or foolproof way on how to be a successful ruler. Niccolo Machiavelli however has written a guideline on how to rule. In his book, The Prince, Machiavelli laid the ground work on what one needs to do to be a successful, also suggestions on how gain power and how to maintain it once its been ... today. Many past and present dictators or rulers made have not read Machiavelli's The Prince, but many of them have practiced what he has suggested and pointed out in his book and have been very successful because of it. Some of the most recently su...

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... Regeneration where the conditions Burns suffered take him back to the trenches in his imagination as he has been mentally broken by the effects of war. This part in the book really is the key point and finale of how the harsh reality shocked and moved me through Barkers and Owens portrayals of the horror of WW1. Here we see Burns ... and haunted by the 'shrill demented choirs of wailing shells? and theawful falseness of set-smiling corpses?. Pathetic fallacy is used by Pat Barker, which gives this part of the book immense power to move us, and horrify us when we see what war has driven ...

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... to get to Constantinople. A former American ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau states these people and also the other important events that happened in his lifetime in a book called Ambassasor Morgenthau's Story. The chapter from the book Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry MORGENTHAU is about the events with depths that took place in the lifetime of the American Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau ... people changed their minds in a couple of years about this very important issue for England referring to Sir Winston Churchill who was against the attempt in 1920s and in his bo...

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... economic and sociological theories to explain management accounting practice, they may often be using theories suggested and supported by historical data. The book, "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting" introduces the history of management accounting. The book is very well documented in that Johnson and Kaplan were able to deduce different conclusions made by others. They start from the ... investment (1997). According to Grahame this was the time that "Ownership consequently became divorced from manager ship- (2002). External shareholders became more involved and...

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... so called 10-dashed dot line. China's claim to this territory is in the wrong, because not just what it encompasses but also how much land it encompasses. In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime ... against American forces and that is when China will strike. This is not just a view that is believed by the extremists in American government. William Triplett, the author of the book Red Dragon Rising sa...

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... , family, and the United States for extended periods of time. Some did find small ways to cope with this however. One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" during hard times of the war. Most soldiers though still felt the desire for human comfort through proximity even ... ...

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... allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses allegory as a literary device to advance the story's significance beyond just an adventure fable. The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. The story is composed of several different allegories including elements linked with ... allegory to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. The book travels alongside th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate