... the conclusion of the war, the country rushed to satisfy the needs and wants of a population overwhelmed and excited by returning servicemen and a newly refreshed economy (Norbert, 30). The post-war years saw common citizens experience economic prosperity not previously known. This, in turn, sparked a renewal and explosive expansion of trends, in all aspects of architecture and furniture design. ... architects began to think of rooms as " capsules" in which the building structure, furniture, and function were completely integrated ("St. James", 658). All of these elements emerged in the p...

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... of triangles." The triangle is the predominant strategic geometric metaphor characterizing the nature of interactions in East Asia, especially during the Cold War and to a less intense degree in the post Cold War era. the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. Everything took ... the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in US-Soviet and US-Japanese relations from time to time. Its immobility may have been the single most stabilizing element ...

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... may develop when an individual experiences severe trauma, such as serving in a war. If not properly dealt with, these problems can bring on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Due to the horrible conditions that World War I soldiers endured, it was no surprise that many of them ... during the war or upon returning home. In her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf addresses the subject of "shell-shock," or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, in the character of Septimus Warren Smith. Through the eyes of Septimus, the reader becomes aware of how the brutality ... while it should have chan...

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... a nuclear capability, the Pugwash Doctrine was formulated by Bertrand Russell, to make axiomatic, the assumption of 'mutually-assured destruction'. Based on this assumption, the industrialised nations were to shift towards a 'post-industrial society', supposedly to reduce the hazards of war, but specifically to stop the flow of technology to the Third World, in order to prevent any economic development. The capitalist ... oil ventures profitable. British intelligence also fostered and directed the international drug traffic into the United States, in order to destroy the US population, to...

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... is directly related to a time in American culture and the architecture of it can reflect how Americans were using certain materials and styles in 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. ... the necessary tools, workforce, consumer population and food in order for the diner business to grow or really maintain at all. On the other hand, post-war saw a complete turnaround in style, approach and framework for diners alike. Unlike before the war, diners were now faced wi...

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... "perilous times" showing a seemingly unified opinion between the two, and thereby a seemingly unified opinion between the two nations against the Soviet Union. The Saturday Evening Post suggested that the speech had contributed to "a new groundswell of opinion".23 This mindset carried through from one important speech to another. In April 1946 Truman delivered his ... transition. John Fousek believes the doctrine "tapped into the existing fusion of universalist and nationalist values that already shaped much public discourse concerning America's role in the post-war world It incorporate...

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... , less of this I have spoken attitude." However this is a somewhat individual viewpoint as there is no documentary evidence to support any alterations in the post- war relationships between men and women. In opposition to this marriage and birth rates peaked after the war, though again this was a short term trend ... in to the workforce as possible, and therefore their propaganda gave somewhat a false picture, as sex segregation was going to continue in the post war years. Studies suggest this, in that although the numbers of women in male dominated industries increased, the volume of th...

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... found in Carruthers' statement that, "the two superpowers, having emerged from their interwar isolationism, found it impossible to agree on the shape of the post-war world."" America and the Soviet Union disagreed on the principles and policies that should have been implemented at the time. America was on the ... side of free trade and liberalisation while the Soviet Union wanted to enforce communism. Carruthers says that, the post-war stalemate resulted in the division of Europe into two camps for the next forty-five years, and the temporary solution of the German Problem ... ' with the...

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... result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it." The above definition was absolutely meant to protect specifically European refugees of the post second war era. However, as refugee problems continued to increase around the world after the war, it became clear that it was no longer a European phenomenon. Although the European ... period, new refugee crisis were gathering momentum in the third World countries of Africa and Asia. From 1960's until early 1970's, these two continents were witnessing serious anti-colonial and post-independence struggles ...

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... to atrocious behavior. However, this notion of the 'American Dream' has fooled him, it has tricked him into believing that in this new post-war world hard-work is all one needs in order to be respected and good. He rails that "everybody's gettin' so Goddam educated in ... over what he believes to have earned rightfully to Chris. Chris' unwillingness to inherit his father's estate contributes to Keller's unexpected exit. In the post war and depression America, Keller is deceived on the ability to earn respect and outstanding reputation through hard work. He scoffs at those people get...

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... the evils they inflicted upon Europe forced them to invent a trial format which they deemed would appear as fair as could be constructed given the post-war circumstances (www.courttv.com/nuremberg/legacy.html). However, in a lengthy article published in 1946, Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr. discussed the legal ... a soldier or civilian acting under orders, and as Wyzanski states, "the refusal to recognize the superior-order defense not only is repugnant to the ex post facto principle, but is consonant with our ideas of justice," (Wyzanski, 70). Secondly, the charge of crimes against humanity ...

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... at the their convention in Chicago. d. For the first time the Republican platform totally abandoned its traditional opposition to involvement in foreign treaties and supported the United States participation in post war organizations. e. Dewey indirectly questioned Roosevelt's abilities to continue by referring to the "tired old man." f. The Republicans attacked Roosevelt of using a navy destroyer to retrieve ... longer had the strength in his forces to keep fighting Britain. D. M. Atlantic Charter (1941). The agreement between the US and Great Britain, which outlined their plan for the p...

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... from the first written word to email, and then now, we have so many new advances that communicating is done for us through technology. It takes no effort to tweet, post a comment on Facebook, or send a text. The man representing today's communication, looks almost like the man from the first written word, showing that we don't need any skills, and requires ... and type want we want said. Also, with twitter being "today's communication" it demonstrates that we as a society don't need to say as much anymore. 140 characters in a tweet, or a post on Facebook is only a couple sentences. Ther...

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... of Germany nothing changed. They were under the control of one dictator and then went under the control of another. They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. Some people would argue that Stalin was worse than Hitler, but that is a completely different story. The East took over all of the ... British set up an exchange program, which sent German "students and teachers, which averaged 2,000 Germans coming to Britain each year and over 1,000 Britons going to Germany" (Prittie 31). Post war Germany was on the path for a collision between t...

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... in World War 1 was therefore a traumatic shock to most Germans, especially to the German soldiers, and almost no one in western Europe understood it then. This resulted in a very weak post-war democratic regime in Germany. In addition to that, Germany was divided between "western" and "eastern" political and social orientations. Today, when Germany is a modern liberal "western" country ... liberalism and democracy, and had a militarist aggressive orientation facing east, and the 'western' orientation, which represented peaceful liberalism, was a minority. However, this minority orientati...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. It is a term used to describe the conflict between the U.S and Russia during the post-war period. However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it is a vague term, ... the west." (Leffer & Painter, Routledge, 1994, pg. 91) Despite the strength of the red army, Stalin knew that technologically he was still weaker than his opponents. And in these immediate post-war years, America had the atom bomb and the Soviet Union did not. In April 1949, the N...

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... essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new political pressures arose during the rise of the New Social Movements and the level of comfort that the world had gotten ... 1925 he had become Italy's new dictator. So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? There are numerous reas...

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... would be lethal for his career at the voting booths. This system of power of the people is often used on many issues, not just war. During this time the Post-Vietnam Syndrome was formed. The U.S. did not want to get involved in another land war in South-East Asia, especially one highly unpopular with the public. The ... Post-Vietnam Syndrome was extremely limiting for future actions of the government. Interventions in Angola, Lebanon and Central America were problematic because of Vietnam. The public was leaning towards anti-intervention, ... to deface Hussein helped gain public opini...

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... his staff members who were found to of spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds. On June 17, 1972, The Washington Post published a small story in which the reporters stated that five men had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The democratic headquarters was located in a ... Washington, D.C. building complex called Watergate. The alleged men were caught carrying equipment to "wiretap" telephones and take pictures of documents. Two news reporters from the Washington ...

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... Scorsese, follows Andrew Laeddis' (Leonardo DiCaprio) desperate struggle between reality and delusion, sobriety and insanity. As an ex-soldier in Second World War, Laeddis is like many post-war soldiers suffering from the typical post-war syndrome: "drank", "stayed away", and completely ignored his family (Shutter). His wife, Dolores Chanal, who desires badly to attract her husband's attention ... ...

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... in Vietnam in 1965. The Vietnam War began in the early 1950's between the French and the North Vietnamese. In 1954 the French were defeated at the Dien Bien Phu post and decided to pull out of Vietnam.4 That same year the Geneva Conference was held. Multiple nations assembled in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss a strategy in which France would peacefully withdraw ... representatives nevertheless may give a wrong impression. Few saw combat. The number of journalists who accompanied troops and witnessed actual hostilities and bloodshed was usually low. Henry Allen from the Washington Post r...

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... weren't even needed. Belgium asked the United Nations for more support to reinforce its own soldiers in the United Nations component there. But, as Alan Kuperman reported in The Washington Post (December 29, 1998), "The United States vetoed Belgium's request- so not only was Belgium forbidden to protect its own soldiers, but no country could help (Hentoff 28). America constantly tried ... weren't even needed. Belgium asked the United Nations for more support to reinforce its own soldiers in the United Nations component there. But, as Alan Kuperman reported in The Washington Post (Decemb...

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... , Unions in the United States were growing and they were finding that many corporations had a commitment to their workers. Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in the immediate ... post-war period. It coordinated the interests of workers and employers by restructuring their relationships around a new social contract. Hard work by reliable employees was rewarded with high wages and long- ... ...

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... of scientific management, the birth of multi-product, multi-divisional enterprises, the emergence of mass retailing and the development of operations research. These milestones span the early twentieth century, the post World War II era, and the beginning of the Information Age. The continuing relevance of management accounting in the 'new economy' of the Information Age enterprises is addressed, as are ... organizations. At the same time, the new practice of establishing sales vs. budget forecasts led to the identification of variances. Of note, the cost of developing such information ...

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... economic growth. An example would be the organization MITI (Ministry of International Trade and industry. Though MITI was formed before the war their policies did not impact the economy till post war. One thing they did was to establish something called overloans. Basically overloans were when banks would lend more money to certain firms then what they were actually worth. This ... of their postwar success was contributed to a foundation formed hundreds of years before World War II. You also most realize that they have gone under many different economic changes from post war to present....

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