...Bekkos 14753469 Is the concept of ‘total war’ useful for understanding the history of the two world wars? ‘Total War’ for historians can seem to be an endless minefield where one is destined to step wrong sooner or later. With the extensive diverse research on the topic and the numerous definitions of ‘total war’, it can be challenging to use the concept of ‘total war’ for understanding the history of the two world wars, as it can and already has be interpreted in diverse ideas. ‘What, after all, is the term total war meant to describe: a specific period, particular wars or only certain aspects of such wars? Some precision would clearly be welcomed.’ This essay will attempting to argue that the concept of ‘total war’ can be used to...
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...Total war means productively taking advantage of the country's own resources and people to seek survival and dominance in a devastating war. The impact of total war on a country was decided by two factors, which were the country's own resources and the allied countries` resources. Therefore, the presence of total war can impact every single aspect of society, including how goods and services are advertised and children`s education. During the First World War, Canada's arrangement for total war was separated into three categories, which were the production of food, manufacturing of war equipment and the growth of a powerful armed force. To conduct this plan into reality, brutal work and effort were put upon the men and women of Canada, thus...
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...Justifiable Terrorism in Total Wars Molly Thomson 201311503 Political Science 1000-03 March 18th, 2014 The word ‘terrorism’ instantly makes people shudder; the negative connotations and controversies surrounding terrorism in modern society are enough to spark a discussion of whether it is justifiable or not. In order to determine whether or not terrorism can be justified, a clear definition must be decided upon. Decades before the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the definition of the word terrorism was hard to define. Political figures around the globe argued and disagreed on what they thought should have determined the act of terrorism. Now, there are multiple different definitions originating from distinct cultures and societies, suggesting that terrorism is in the eye of the victim. One definition of terrorism is “any violent or criminal act planned for a political or ideological purpose”; while another claims that terrorism is understood to be a direct attack on innocents. Since both of these definitions have important components to them, it can be assumed that both traits are essential to defining terrorism. For the purpose of this paper, the definition of terrorism will be understood as ‘a violent attack on innocents for the purpose of political change’. It can be hard for most people to understand the act of injuring and/or killing hundreds, or maybe even tens of thousands of people, as justifiable. However, if the innocents are...
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...The concepts of total and limited war provide historians with an opportunity to evaluate and categorize wars by scope, intensity, and impact. By analyzing wars through the total vs. limited dichotomy historians can further examine the benefits, constraints, and deficiencies of these popular terms to better understand when they can best be applied. Total war, as a concept, is pervasive but unsatisfactorily defined. As Robert Chickering noted, one of the defining characteristics of total war is its unprecedented intensity, but the idea of what heightened intensity is can be ambiguous. Without a way to determine when or how the intensity of a war reached the realm of total war, for example, the phrase becomes somewhat less useful academically....
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...Based on a real-life event, Napoleon: Total War was released on February 23, 2010 in North America. Three days later, Europe had it. The game was set in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Even with that said, it was not until January of 1805 that the storyline of the game started. The whole game of the European Campaign was set from 1805 till June 1807 ending with the victorious Battle of Moscow. This may vary greatly depending on the player because Creative Assembly gave the gamer till 1812 to beat the whole game, which creates a huge change in history regarding dates. In two game plays, Total War gives the player a chance to acquire money through building structures, receiving taxes, making agreements with other allies, building armies, and...
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...William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman deserves this ‘TOTAL WAR’ award for many reasons. Reason one, he taught his soldiers to clear everything in their way; they destroyed a lot things in their path. Reason two, with his army they defeated Johnston’s army in 1865 which was the biggest surrenders that the Confederates had during the whole war. William T. Sherman was an excellent general with strong character. The idea of total warfare was brilliant. He taught each and every one of his men what this was and how to do it. William’s army devoured anything in their path. William...
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...professional life are continuously shifting at time interval; hence it’s becomes necessary to balance this two. Globalization has changed the total scenario, the working condition as well as total environment has changed. If you recall you own working condition and environment surrounding you before 3-4 years, there is a visible difference today. Taking equal responsibilities family more and more women are joining either a job or doing something at home to earn for the family to improve standard of living and for better education of their kids. Many of us may have experienced the instances when we became late or even absent in Parent-Teacher meeting arranged at school, due to some urgent job or meeting or even due to your engagement in some training. Many of us are going late at home to complete the target given by bosses. Now, if you see other way around, you may get late sometimes even for office due to some family matters. These types of situations happen with most of us and that’s really gives stress. Your problem at office or very much busy work schedule develops stress in you and those directly affects and reflect in your attitude towards your kids or wife, when you go home. On the other way, your family problems like illness of your near one or behavior of kids etc reflects at your office. Office and home environment affect each other. Total elimination of all family and office conflicts is impossible, but we can try to balance the both and minimize the same at some extent...
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...HST202A: Modern World Studies | Unit 4 | Lesson 13: War’s End Lesson Answer Key War’s End Read: Reading Guide 1. Complete the following chart to show the human cost to the Great War. Group Estimated Number total number of combatants killed 9 million total number of soldiers wounded 21 million civilians dead from disease, hunger, and other war-related causes possibly 9 million Germany and Russia (casualties) 3.4 million French males between 25 and 35 dead or wounded nearly half Britain and its empire (casualties) 1 million Austria-Hungary (casualties) more than a million Italy (casualties) more than a half a million Ottoman Turks (casualties) possibly 325,000 United States (casualties) almost 120,000 2. Today, the British celebrate November 11 as Remembrance Day. In the United States, November 11 is called Veterans Day. 3. What was the effect of the Great War on the infrastructure of France and Belgium? (Infrastructure refers to a country’s facilities and structures that are required to build industries and move goods in and out of the country. It includes roads, bridges, utilities, water, sewage, etc. An infrastructure is necessary for a productive economy.) The infrastructure in France and Belgium was devastated. Farms, villages, and towns were wrecked. Artillery fire destroyed bridges, railroad tracks, roads, factories, and homes. Many villages were completely wiped out. Whole stretches of land...
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...“Instead of being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive”: General Sherman’s March through Georgia 1 The United States Civil War was the bloodiest and most trying conflict in American history. Hundreds of thousands of American lives were lost on both sides of the war. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march through Georgia to the sea was a brilliant strategic victory for the North that helped to end the war more quickly, all while preserving the lives of soldiers on both the North and South. All though his march was outside the general practice of warfare it is clear that the General’s movement through Georgia was the best course he could have taken given his circumstances. His capture of Atlanta and his subsequent march to follow is one of the most controversial issues of the war. At the time of the war it was commonplace for the military leaders to embed their troops in entrenchments that were nearly impossible to infiltrate. They would then rush their men towards each other in a bloody battle. General Sherman realized that attacking the entrenchments of the enemy was fruitless and killed too many soldiers. He went on a path of flanking maneuvers that helped get around these entrenched soldiers. He followed up this plan by attacking the economy of the South and breaking their resolve. The importance of his new plan can be seen on how his tactics of attacking the land and economy, instead of other human beings, and avoiding head-on confrontation actually...
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...market, given the different environmental forces in the country such as a seemingly saturated market with well-entrenched players and a deregulated oil industry? AREAS OF CONSIDERATION: A. Company Background TotalFinaElf Company is originally called Total S.A. Total S.A. is a French multinational oil company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading. Total is also a large-scale chemicals manufacturer. The company has its head office in the Tour Total in the La Défense district in Courbevoie, near Paris. The company was founded after World War I after the French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré rejected the idea of forming a partnership with Royal Dutch Shell in favour of creating an entirely French oil company. At Poincaré's behest, Col. Ernest Mercier enlisted the support of ninety banks and companies to found Total on 28 March 1924, as the Compagnie française des pétroles (CFP), literally the "French Petroleum Company". Petroleum was seen as vital in the case of a new war with Germany. However, the company was from the start a private sector company (it was listed on the Paris Stock Exchange for the first time in 1929). CFP took up the 23.75% share of Deutsche Bank in the Turkish Petroleum Company (renamed the Iraq...
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...kills half of the population of the cows, the productivity level decreases, as the source now are limited. This results in a lower production for both products, illustrated with the shift from point B to D. Question 3 a. | | The demand of the orange juice increases, illustrated by the shift of the demand curve from D1 to D2. This causes the price of the orange juice rises from P1 to P2. | | | | b. | | As New England turns warm, people prefer to go there rather than the Caribbean. This causes the quantity demand for the resort in the Caribbean to fall, from Q1 to Q2, which resulted in the price of the hotel rooms in the Caribbean to fall as well. | | | | c. | | The supply of gasoline decreases as the war breaks, from Q1 to Q2. This result in the rise of the price of gasoline supplied, from P1 to P2. The rise of the price causes the decreasing demand for the used Cadillac cars. | | | | Tutorial 1 Question 1 a. | | b. | | c. | | d. | | Question 2 a. | The number of buyers affects the demand of the minivans. As the number of buyers increases, the demand for...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Teaching Suggestions Teaching Suggestion 1.1: Importance of Qualitative Factors. Section 1.2 gives students an overview of quantitative analysis. In this section, a number of qualitative factors, including federal legislation and new technology, are discussed. Students can be asked to discuss other qualitative factors that could have an impact on quantitative analysis. Waiting lines and project planning can be used as examples. Teaching Suggestion 1.2: Discussing Other Quantitative Analysis Problems. Section 1.2 covers an application of the quantitative analysis approach. Students can be asked to describe other problems or areas that could benefit from quantitative analysis. Teaching Suggestion 1.3: Discussing Conflicting Viewpoints. Possible problems in the QA approach are presented in this chapter. A discussion of conflicting viewpoints within the organization can help students understand this problem. For example, how many people should staff a registration desk at a university? Students will want more staff to reduce waiting time, while university administrators will want less staff to save money. A discussion of these types of conflicting viewpoints will help students understand some of the problems of using quantitative analysis. Teaching Suggestion 1.4: Difficulty of Getting Input Data. A major problem in quantitative analysis is getting proper input data. Students can be asked to...
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...-Reduces its assets During its first month of operations, a company had credit sales of $100,000 and collected $60,000 cash from customers. The company also purchased inventory for $70,000 and had $30,000 of inventory remaining at the end of the month. The company should report a gross profit of: -$60,000 Assume that a corporation reports the same amount of positive net income every year and does not pay-off any of its debts over time. The corporation does not pay out dividends and does not buy or sell its own stock. Which of the following is most likely to be true: -The corporation’s return on assets will decline over time A company has provided the following data: If the dollar contribution margin per unit is increased by 10%, total fixed cost is decreased by 20%, and all other factors remain the same, net operating income will: -increase by $11,000. Regarding the Eight Types of Waste that must be eliminated to implement a Just-In-Time production system, manufacturing an item before it is needed is part of which general waste category? -Over-production Which of the following statements is NOT correct regarding the sample correlation coefficient? -It...
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...to maximize profit, and maximizing profit is not usually the same thing as maximizing revenue. Therefore, while it may be appealing to think about the relationship between price and revenue, especially since the concept of elasticity makes it easy to do so, it's only a starting point for examining whether a price increase or decrease is a good idea. If a decrease in price is justified from a revenue perspective, one must think about the costs of producing the extra output in order to determine whether the price decrease is profit maximizing. On the other hand, if an increase in price is justified from a revenue perspective, it must be the case that it is also justified from a profit perspective simply because total cost decreases as less output is produced and sold. Total revenue is maximized when selling an extra unit would cause your revenue to fall and selling a unit less would have also caused...
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...100 series f rom $2.45 to $2.25 per 100 pieces. As the prof it and loss by Product f rom January 1 to June 30, 2000, the reduction of the unit sales price of Series100 f rom $2.45 to $2.25 would mean that the unit sales price would be below the total unit cost of $2.29.T his should mean substantial losses to the bottom line. However, Cook f orecast that if they hold the price at $2.45 price during the last six months of 2000, unit sales would be 750,000 100-piece lots, the revenue would be $1,838,000 ($2.45* 750,000= $1,837,500). Cook f elt that if the price were dropped to $2.25 per 100 prices, the six months’ volume would be 1,000,000, the revenue would be $2,250,000 ($$2.25* 1,000,000= $2,250,000). Based on this, in last six months of 2000 they would sell more of their 100 series than any of the other series. In addition, f rom Appendix 2 we can see if the price of the 100 series reduced f rom $2.45 to $2.25 in 2000, the selling price will be reduced f rom $2.42 to $2.22, so the incremental prof it should be 90,000. Appendix 2 shows that reduction in unit sales price to $2.22 will indeed create break-even production quantity of near one million units as projected. T his reduction would not increase operating income, the overall total f or the year would at $90,000. In my opinion, they can reduce the price of the 100 series f rom $2.45 to $2.25. Above all Bosworth has already have the price cut on this series and to be competitive in the market, Berkshire’s share of industry...
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