...are sensitive in nature or that might not be taught in depth in their general education. Throughout the history of children’s literature, there has always been social commentary and political satire (Abate, 2010). Did children always understand the undertones? Probably not, simply because the books were written by adults and the underlying comments were possibly considered to be “too adult” in nature for children to understand, even if they were written with the audience of a child in mind. There is one book that comes to mind that provides an in-depth education to what life is like from the eyes of a child, being told that she’s too young to understand some events and discussions, in spite of living through them on a daily basis. That book is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a partial biography of Anne Frank who had received the gift of a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942 (Frank, 1967). The pages in the diary are written in a two year period, beginning on June 14, 1942 and ending with the last entry of August 1, 1944. Anne was a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam Holland whose life, along with her family and most of her friends, was turned upside down simply for being Jewish. Yet, when one reads her diary, it is clear that we could almost be reading the diary of any 13-15 year old girl when the circumstances of war are ignored. For the most part, Anne is a typical 13 year old girl when she starts writing in her journal...
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...educational system, it can most likely control society a lot more easily. However, some of the nationalistic views that many of the main Nazis had were brought to them during World War I in the classroom. Many classrooms celebrated the military aspect of war and they celebrated and taught nationalism for Germany. Classrooms did not really do that until the war. It was after the loss in World War I that the attitudes perpetuated by the enormous let down where teachers helped with the Nazi effort and taught the essentials to the Nazi party. Teachers did not do much to fight the Nazi effort and even though not all of them directly participated in the Holocaust, they did breed a nation of young extreme German nationalists whose ideals perpetuated the event. Extreme nationalism was a very popular topic for classrooms during and after World War I, which played a contribution to some of the main Nazis during the Nazi era. A large percentage of the Nazi base was born between 1900 and 1908 including Martin Bormann (born 1900), Rudolf Hoss (born 1900), Heinrich Himmler (born 1900), Ernst von Salomon (born 1902), Werner Best (born 1903), Reinhard Heydrich (born 1906), and Baldur Schirach (born 1907) were all men who went through the German school systems during and after World War I (Anson 337). The teachers during this time taught a nationalist bias that gave these students an unrealistic...
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...Throughout the years of the 1900’s, the Americans were involved in two wars. Those two wars changed us dramatically, especially for the government. The two wars were World War I and World War II. In between those two wars the Americans were suffering, which cause the Great Depression. So, how did these three events change America, and its history? How did World War II help end the Great depression? In the year of 1914 World War I begin and ended in 1918. At first America decided not to get involved into the dispute between the other countries, but we got involved anyways. In the 4 years of the war, the government accumulated 24 billion dollars in debt. With them being in that much debt, it affected the citizens. The price of daily necessities was raised, which made it not that affordable, because they were already poorly paid. Two...
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... and was in operation the longest from 1933 to 1945; all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau is located on the grounds of an abandoned World War I munitions factory. The first buildings served as the main camp until 1937, when prisoners were forced to expand the camp and demolish the original buildings. The new camp, completed in mid 1938, included 32 barracks and was designed to hold 6,000 prisoners; however, the camp population was usually over that number electrified fences were installed and seven watchtowers were placed around the camp (20th Century History 19) . At the entrance of Dachau was an iron gate with the infamous phrase, "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Will Make You Free”). The first commandant of Dachau, Hilmar Wäckerle, was replaced in June 1933 after being charged with murder of a prisoner. Although Wäckerle’s conviction was overruled by Hitler, who stated that Dachau and all other concentration camps were not to be subjected to German law, Heinrich Himmler wanted to bring in new leadership for the camp. Dachau’s second commandant, Theodor Eicke, established a set of regulations for daily operations in Dachau that would soon become the model for all Nazi concentration camps. A variety of SS officers trained under Eicke, most notably future commandant of the Auschwitz camp system, Rudolph Höss (The History Place 16 17) . Dachau was originally designed for holding German and Austrian political prisoners and Jews...
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...Ancient Chinese Contributions The world is forever in debt to China for its innovations and contributions. Ancient Chinese inventions were extremely advanced and are still in use in today. They have contributed to our world civilization’s achievements in the fields of agriculture, shipping, astronomy, printing, oil, martial arts, ammunition, and mathematics. Ancient Chinese inventions such as gunpowder, silk, paper, printing, tea, wheel barrow, iron plows, deep drilling, porcelain, toilet paper and the compass were and still are important pieces of Chinese and global life. These inventions were major blocks in the building of the world that we know today. The four main innovations that I consider essential in our lives are printing, gunpowder, compass, and paper. The method of printing and woodblock, or movable, printing are considered ancient Chinese inventions. This ancient Chinese invention was seen before the first dated book in 868 (Lad). Printing books was time-consuming, as the blackline method used required a new block to be carved for each page. Movable type in printing was invented during the Song Dynasty. Movable Chinese characters were carved from wood, which could be arranged as needed and even reused. Later versions used clay, but these broke easily. During the Ming Dynasty, the wooden movable type was refined and books were printed using the two-color printing process. After the development of paper, printing was one of the most important inventions...
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...in Bosnia during the Balkan wars. He wrote this book as a memoir of his experiences, and to make the extremity of the Balkan wars better known. Also, Kenan honors his late mother in writing The Bosnia List. He remembers that she used to sit at the typewriter and write about their struggles and hardships. The time period jumps back and forth between the life of Kenan at age 9 in 1992 during the Balkan Wars, and his life in America at age 30 more than twenty years later. The description of Kenan’s life in Bosnia shows the great suffering he and his family went through, as well as the suffering of other Muslims in the area. When...
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...primarily to preserving the legacy and honor of the African-American soldier. It houses the largest repository of African-American military history in the world. In fall 2012, the museum moved into its new 23,000-square-foot home at the Houston Light Guard Armory in Midtown. The historic armory space is seven-times the museum’s previous space, giving the national museum significantly more room for reenactments, exhibits and lectures. The process of relocating the museum took nearly a decade to realize. The 10th cavalry, an all African-American Army unit, was nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by Cheyenne warriors in 1867 out of respect for their fierce fighting ability. Over time, the term Buffalo Soldier was applied to all African-American soldiers. The museum aims to articulate, collect, display and preserve historical artifacts, documents, videos, prints and other historical memorabilia which detail the history of the brave men and women who overcame extreme adversity while fighting the great American wars. Original uniforms from the Indian Wars and a musket from 1775 are among the items on display. Visitors will see artifacts stretching from the Revolutionary War through both world wars to present day conflicts. Matthews, a Vietnam veteran and military historian, founded the Buffalo Soldier National Museum in 2000 to honor the history of the soldiers in the U.S. Army’s all-black 9th and 10th cavalries, and the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st infantry regiments, which were created...
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...section of eModule 1 or 2 to guide your reflection: 1.2 Reflect on and discuss some of the underlying causes of world hunger? * Historical Factors * Cultural Factors * Structural Factors * Critical Factors (Germov, 2014, p. 7, 8). During this assessment I am going to be using the factors from Germovs Sociological Imagination template. Step 2: Reflect upon and analyse your experiences in relation to the topic of the question from step 1, using factors from Willis’ Sociological Imagination Template. There are many factors that are involved in the underlying causes of world hunger some factors include: environmental conditions such as climate change, high temperatures and humidity, natural disasters, land rights, lack of democracy and ownership, crop insect infestations, famine, war and corruption, economic causes, socio cultural causes, microbial growth, excessive food wastage, political and governmental factors, limited access to education and educational supplies and a lack of infrastructure and thus no way to manufacture products or ship them to the rest of the world (Holland, 2013). World hunger and the underlying causes are advertised in various ways on a daily basis through social media. These charity organizations primarily target the impacts and effects world hunger has on the world population. Charities promoting hunger have defiantly made me visualise world hunger in a different aspect, opening my eyes to the massive worldwide issue affecting many lives right this...
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... PROGRESSIVE ERA THE GREAT DEPRESSION DESRINE SINCLAIR HISTORY 105 DR. TERRY HAMMONS MAY 12, 2012 IDENTIFY 2 MAJOR HISTORICAL TURNING POINTS BETWEEN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION. In the recent studies that I have previously experienced one of the turning points in the progressive era and the Great Depression solely rely on the habits on how the United States was brought into the Great War of World War II. I have learned from early history that World War II was a turning point for the American people we as a nation was brought together to defeat the Axis of power which is widely known as the German power house. Hitler was the benefit of this war that the United States tried so hard to avoid. In the recent information that I have put together there was evidence that many people did not want the U.S. to get involved. We as a country was facing our own economic problems the Stock Market crashes and many investors who placed solely all their savings, checks and balances in the trust of the banking systems. The failure of the baking systems placed a strong grip on the American people forcing them to profit off other means such as hoarding their possessions and even entering into the war against Hitler and his German advisories. During the ordeal there also was a mass accumulation of immigrants into the United States and many were from Ireland, did not want the United States to intervene in the War to assist the British. There were shortcomings of the reaction...
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...September 2011 Karen J. Birk, MA Electrical Dependency As a society I don’t believe we consciously realize how electrically dependent we have become. At approximately 4 p.m. Thursday September 8, 2011 reality struck nearly six million people in the Southwest and Mexico when the power went off line. The outage impaired or stopped most our daily operations and functions. I felt vulnerable to the electrical system and began to realize just exactly how deeply this type of event impacted my family. I found myself examining means of backup power for the sole purpose of avoiding the incontinence of being without power. In truth, electricity is a convenience we have turned into a necessity. Critical to Henry Ford’s success and accomplishments was the implementation of assembly lines to create mass production of his vehicles. Before assembly lines, automobile production was a very slow process that involved groups of highly experienced workers producing expensive automobiles for the well to do. Ford saw this as a serious problem. “Mr. Ford looked to innovations in production to solve that problem, and was particularly interested in the production model being used by Chicago meat packer Gustavus Swift” (McDonough, 2003). Ford took the disassembly line in the meat packing plant and modified the process for assembly of his vehicles. “Ford did not conceive the concept; he perfected it” (Eye Whitness to History, 2005, p. 1). Henry ford began introducing assembly lines in his plants in...
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...| Created By Blood: | How Afghanistan's past influenced it present and future. | Jose M. Alvarez 12/22/2012 | Abstract I have been deployed to Afghanistan a few times during my military career. During theses deployments, I never focused on the past, present, and future of Afghanistan. I only focused on my mission at hand. I did basic research about the culture, and geography, but I never focused on what makes Afghanistan what it is; a country that by today's international standards has devolved. As I write this paper, I have a few goals. First, is to expand my knowledge base on the country, which in the long run will have a direct affect on my missions. Secondly, I wish to answer the question "How has the past forty years of constant conflict affected Afghanistan's past, present, and future". I want to look at this as a study because Afghanistan has been in a constant state of war for the last forty years, and it has taken its toll. Generations of Afghani's have never known peace, only war. In order to do a proper analysis on an entire country and its people, I will address the PMESII-P factors, though not sequentially. PMESII-P is a military acronym that stands for Political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, and physical environment. PMESII-P is a "reliable framework for analysis that, when applied judiciously, will lead to a sophisticated understanding of the dynamics within the foreign country or region of their assignment. Furthermore...
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...I believe that the story “Night” shows us a multitude of angles on which people lived during the holocaust. Though I do not belive that in these times that human kindness prevailed, often prisoners would kill for food or drink, and many people turned a blind eye to the actions in Germany. The history of the world is plagued by mankind’s inability to settle for what they have and who they are. Wars have been fought over religion, tradition, territory, and in this case, the idea that one race is superior to another. World War II was a horrible time in the world. The First World War was “the war to end all wars” and yet chaos spread over Europe. Elie Wiesel’s story, Night, is no exception. Elie was a Jewish prisoner who escaped the Nazi death camps. Night redefines what a common theme of man’s inhumanity to man. This theme is shown through the murder of a young boy, Elie’s belief in God, and Elie’s self-worth. The first display of Nazi inhumanity is the murder of a young child. An man and the boy (his assistant) were accused of blowing up a power plant on the camp. The man and boy were tortured and questioned and refused to give any information about the incident to the Nazi soldiers. The boy was described as “having the face of a sad angel” and was sentenced to be hanged. Everyone at the camp liked him and the SS officer in charge of the hanging refused his job and was replaced. The child was so light he hung for half and hour before actually...
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...World War 1 was the first global war in history, starting in 1914 and ending in 1918. During World War one, the evolution of women rights drastically changed. Women went from working in the domestic industry, to part taking in jobs, which were predominantly designed for men. To fully comprehend the impact of how the role of women changed during World War 1, it is important to discuss how women’s roles in society changed during war, women’s contributions in war and women’s contributions at the home front. By examining these themes, it becomes evident that the role of women forever changed due to World War 1. World War 1, played a significant part in influencing women’s roles to work, as well as their political standards and rights. Before...
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...The History of Rockford, IL Rockford, Illinois, was first settled in 1834-1835 by Germanicus Kent, Thatcher Blake, and Lewis Lemon, who came from Galena and established themselves on the west bank of Rock River; and Daniel Shaw Haight, who founded a settlement on the east bank (Molyneaux). Halfway between Chicago and Galena, the community was briefly known as "Midway", but quickly became known as "Rockford", because of the excellent ford across the Rock River (Molyneaux). Today, Rockford is the home for 152,871 people (according to the 2010 US census). During the 20th century Rockford was booming; the city placed a big part of the industrial revolution, trained men during World War I and II at Camp Grant, and is the proud owner of the Coronado Theater (Molyneaux). The first business in early Rockford was built in May, 1835 by Germanicus Kent and Thatcher Blake. The business of the settlement- known as Kentville-during the first years included a general store, a blacksmith shop, sawmill, primitive hotel, a crude system of banking, and mail facilities of a sort (Nelson). All were under Kent’s general proprietorship (Nelson). Rockford’s first ferry was also owned by Kent. In September, 1836, the Winnebago County Court granted a license to Kent to establish a ferry where the State street bridge now is (Segar). It was the dream of the early Rockford settlers that Rock river might be developed into one of the great water highways of this inland empire (Segar). Their dream came...
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...World War II was an extremely intense time in history, filled with new technology and weaponry. With these new accomplishments came a wide array of new strategies and thinking about the way war was fought. A war is not commonly started by just a single person, but a mass of tension and discontempt building up over time. Even though a single person and their actions may not have begun a war, what they accomplish during the fighting could affect the outcome. Alan Turing was a man whose technological contributions influenced the end of World War II with his brilliant work with Enigma (Hodges). Alan Turing’s early life was fairly ordinary. He was born in Paddington, London on June 23 in 1912 (Hodges). As an adult, Turing had short, dark hair and eyes that made him look like he was busy with his own thoughts and analyzing the world around him (Alan Turing). For his elementary and high school education he attended Sherborne School, an all-boys boarding school just outside of London (Hodges). Turing had always seemed to be an isolated individual. His incredible intelligence caused him to have a tough time interacting with other people. In his professional life, he was “famous as 'Prof', shabby, nail-bitten, tie-less, sometimes halting in speech and awkward of manner, the source of many...
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