...The precise beginning of globalization is often obscured because there have been many instances where early nations engage in trade and integrate their economies together. Some historians attribute the start of globalization to as early as 1492 when Christopher Columbus arrived in the American continent, because he was actively seeking a trade route to connect the Indian spice market to Spanish commerce. This event was also the beginning of European exploration in the Americas, and the subsequent colonization of the New World. Although this expanded the worldview of European people by introducing them to a completely new continent with raw materials and new resources, it was not the true beginning of globalization and was rather a stepping stone to this event. Since there were no open agreements that countries should put their economies together on a global scale, the events of trade were based more around supply and demand needs. Supply and demand needs are different from globalization in that they occur naturally in countries from the desire to obtain new resources. Globalization is a concept of actively pressuring national economies and policy to interact on a global scale, regardless of the supply and demand of a certain good. For that reason, we can attribute the true beginning of globalization to many years after these mercantilists and colonial eras. The devastation of both World Wars allowed the United States and the idea of global economy to flourish in light of a weak...
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...“In 1941 Great Britain developed radar (McGowen 27).” This was a must since there were many weapons that couldn’t be seen by a naked eye and they helped warn soldiers of an incoming attack. Some of the weapons that needed radar to see were submarines and fighter planes. These weapons were very important, yet they weren’t the only important weapons used in World War II. In World War II, many important weapons significantly helped countries gain an advantage, and changed the way wars were fought. America had a variety of weapons that gave them an advantage. First, America had the F4U Corsair fighter plane or The Corsair. “The Corsair was mainly used in fighting against Japan (World Book Online).” Second, America had the Boarfish submarine which helped them get closer to their enemies unseen. The Boarfish sank its first ship on January 31, 1945. Next, America had the M3 Grant tank. The M3 grant was the first usefully tank the allies had. “The M3 Grant had a 3-inch gun capable of firing highly explosive and armor piercing bullets (Nunn).” The M3 Grant also had a 2-inch armor plating as well as a cannon with a 120 mile range. Plus, the Thompson sub-machine gun was used by America in World War II. The Thompson didn’t start as a military weapon; it started as a guard weapon for mail carriers but then made its way to being a military weapon. These were just some of the weapons that gave America an advantage in WWII. France had weapons that changed the way this war was fought. To start...
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...World War II was the largest armed conflict in history and resulted in over 50 million civilian lives lost. This war ranged to six continents around the world and created significant amounts of tension between world powers. This period changed the ways that society would be run forever by inspiring people to create new innovations, spread ideas, and work to create a more peaceful world. This world war allowed the League of Nations to successfully establish the United Nations and led to new principles that defined the causes of war. After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson worked to establish the League of Nations, which was an international peacekeeping organization that was formed with the goal of resolving conflicts around the globe. However, this organization was unable to prevent the outbreak of World War II, and instead, was strengthened because of it. President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to frequently use the term “United Nations,” which became a new international organization that was incredibly similar to the ideas of the League of Nations. The structure of this new group was inspired by those created specifically for the League of Nations, however, due to its failure, they adopted some of these beliefs and used them as a way to make this organization even stronger. Today, the UN constitutes a world center for diplomatic conferences for world powers to meet and discuss economic and political fields to reduce conflicts that may lead to another war. The UN currently...
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...Jewish Resistance Fighters In World War II Background: There were many different types of resistance against the Nazi regime during World War Two some involving those who were directly targeted by the Nazis and those that were passive or against the Nazis. Aims: In this report I plan to talk about the different groups of people resisted to the German rule, such as; • Those who were helped by the allies or other anti-Nazi organisations • Those who independently resisted the Nazi rule despite not being directly targeted by them. • Those who were in ghettos or work camps • People who escaped German Concentration Camps. • Tito's Resistance group During the Holocaust, around twenty five thousand Jewish people actively resisted the Nazi party in every European country that was occupied by Axis powers. Most of these Jews joined existing non-Jewish resistance groups and although these people were fighting for the same cause, some Jews still concealed their religion due to the long embedded anti-Semitism in Europe. On the 13th of June 1940, Winston Churchill created an organisation called the Special Operations Executive, otherwise known as SOE, to contact and help resistance movements in mainland Europe. SOE faced some major problems when it started such as confirming if any resistance actually existed and how to maintain contact with them. SOE invented a small plane that was able to land on makeshift runways to overcome these problems by being able to drop off secret agents and...
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...An enigma is a puzzle that should be impossible to be solved, but yet the enigma machine was able to be solved by the Allies. During World War II, the enigma machine was used to help the Germans communicate without giving out any of their plans. This enigma machine was built by a German engineer, Arthur Scherbius, in 1919. It was, however used in the war in 1939 through 1945. The Allies knew about the Germans communicating through radio messages, as they also used a code, but wanted to know what the Germans were talking about. If it could be about their plans of the war or the Germans could send false information. With the ambition to win the war, the Allies were able to crack the enigma messages, use the messages against the Germans, and was able to win the war. First, the Allies, but mostly Britain, were able to crack the Germans enigma messages. The enigma machine was sent to the Germans, but the Britain got their hands on the enigma. They noticed that the messages were in code like theirs and thought that the coded messages would help reveal the plans of the Germans. According to Burgan, “Both Axis Power and Allies sent their radio messages in code. Both picked up each others messages, but couldn’t understand the codes” (20). A new unit was created in Britain to help decipher the encrypted codes. This unit was called the British Intelligence. The British Intelligence unit had to work fast to decipher the coded messages because there were billions of possible combinations...
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...Brave Women in WWII When Japan bombed pearl harbor they had less than 1,000 nurses then over 59,000 women joined the US army nurse corps in WWII. That was the first war and the first years women were getting out of their homes to go to work. The women went to make money when their husbands were gone, and some even did it just for fun. That is the turning point in history, that is when women started working. Patients and their conditions Around 22,000,000 to 30,000,000 soldiers died because of various reasons, such as disease, killed in action, missing in action and held captive and killed. The nurses would do there part to try and save the soldiers if they could but not all that they tried to help lived. They once treated 4,577 patients in 45 days. What it took to be a nurse Just to be a nurse “For women at the time, it was an important opportunity to help the war effort and make a difference.” Nurses in WWII could not be older than 40 but not younger than 21 there was also one more requirement and it was if the nurse had a child under 14 they could not part take in the duty. In all the years before 1943 the women did not need a specific training but from 1943 and on they did in all different types of things like mental health, anesthesia and much more. Over 22,000 nurses were given jobs as nurse by the American Red Cross. WWII is the war that started women working. They advertised joining the cadet nurse corps on the radio, ads, films, and posters. The recruitment of the...
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...The experience of Japanese and Japanese Americans during the second World War is nothing short of abuse of power and total disregard for human rights and lack of regard for human dignity. The Japanese Americans that were sent to the internment camp committed no crime during the World War II except for the fact that they have ancestral or parent of Japanese origin. It is morally wrong and socially inappropriate, but the government in that era had all the freedom in the world to do whatever it feel necessary during the time of the war to abuse those who are citizen in the country but have ties to Japan who the country is at war with, it is a shameful act and denying the Japanese Americans the fundamental human right to live at peace in their own country. The experience is a harrowing one because the executive order 9066, which took over 110,000 Japanese Americans which include both young and old, babies, pregnant women, children and haul them to a particular section of the country and labeled them as enemy combatant, this is simply depriving the Japanese Americans their basic civil liberties. The United States government and to some extent some of the segment of the country see Japanese Americans as spy and possible having loyalty some ties with the Japanese government and the government believes that there is tendency for the citizen of this country with ties to Japan could create problem for America. This type of fear mongering and paranoia has successfully play into the mind...
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...Psy/400 Social Psychology Social Psychology Definition Lauren Davis Marinela Dushmani November 2, 2015 Introduction The things the author will discuss and cover in this paper are; the definition of social psychology, a brief history background of social psychology. The way social psychology differs from clinical psychology, general psychology, and sociology. Also the role of research in social psychology will be discussed. Define Social Psychology Social Psychology is a discipline that uses scientific method “to understand and explain ones thoughts, feelings, and behavior that are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other human being” (Gordon Allport, 1985). The year social facilitation was introduced was 1800’s. After WW2 was when the research of social psychology began. The holocaust was what led the researchers to study the effects of social influence, conformity, and obedience. The US Government was interested to apply social psychology concepts to influence citizens. The Differences The way social psychology differs from Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, and Sociology are; Clinical Psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on diagnosing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Some of these disorders are learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. General Psychology is a term that refers to the entire science of psychology. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior...
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...9th Grade Lit/Comp B Research Paper Outline Unit 2, Lesson 11 Complete this outline and submit it to the dropbox in place of your Research Paper Rough Draft. You will work on this outline throughout Unit 2 Lessons 8-11. You will submit your completed outline to the drop box at the end of Unit 2 Lesson 11. Intro Hook - What interesting fact or statement would make your reader WANT to read the rest of your essay? Your hook should NOT be in the form of a question. Innovations in technology relating to weaponry and machinery made great advancements during the period between World War I and World War II. These advancements in machinery contributed to increased fighting capability by land, air and sea. Background- introduce your topic and...
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...Many kinds of weapons were used in the Second World War. And of those weapons, many of them were brand new technology, developed for the war. The countries in this war all had their own special branches of technology, and used them to create weapons of destruction, ensuring their winning the battle, and bringing their soldiers home. There were three large contributors to the weapons front of the war: Small Arms, Tanks, and the Atomic Bomb. In this paper, I will explain what those weapons were, what they did, and how they fared on the battlefield. Many of the weapons in the war were small arms, used for combat between people. One of the most common small arms were pistols (World War 2 Weapons). However, they were extremely ineffective, and were only used at close range. The U.S. had some of the best pistols carried, an m1911 (World War 2 Weapons). Pistols were carried by tank crews, infantry officers, and pilots in case of an emergency. The different countries had different pistols, with the U.S. having the best one and Japan having one of the worst. Rifles were also used extensively in the war. However, many people went into battle carrying WWI rifles, which did not work as well as the newer versions....
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...different occupations. The occupation in question at the moment is a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists have to be not only properly trained, but possess the right individual traits to perform a job well. As mentioned previously, some of those traits include maintaining self-control, possessing active listening skills, being able to communicate effectively, and being able to tolerate stress well. This then begs the question- what is the best selection system for identifying these traits? There are numerous selection systems that can be used to ascertain whether or not an individual possesses these necessary traits. With that being said, I believe the best way to measure self-control is to use testing- but not a test with a pencil and piece of paper. Something I would use is similar to the “Marshmallow Test”, first performed by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and colleagues in the 1960s (Chen, 2014). The test entailed giving school age children the option of either eating a single marshmallow right away,...
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...Aerospace engineers can also prioritize in military weapons that can change the outcome of battles and even wars. During world war 2, aerospace engineers created weaponry powerful enough to make their foes tremble in fear, such as missiles that can destroy an enemies base from hundreds of miles away and without any cost of lives. With this technological advancements, the demand increased for aerospace engineers to support the war efforts and win the war. After WW2 ended, the cold war started which specialized in aerospace engineers to create nuclear missiles and anti nuclear missiles to prepare for a threat of war. And so, the demand of aerospace engineers greatly increased making many breakthroughs in technology associated with missiles. Even though it may sound like great advancements, the only thing that aerospace engineers created was mass destruction weapons that could kill millions of people in one instant. After the cold war ended, the technological advances didn’t stop there. The only thing that changed was that aerospace engineers weren’t prioritize in weaponry but in innovation for the greater good of...
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...The Atomic Bomb: A Necessity or a Desire Tanmay Bhanushali Year 10 Historical Paper “Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint” Leo Szilard - Hungarian-born Physicist and main scientist to oppose the atomic Bombings This was spoken in an interview titled “President Truman did not Understand”. This was between a US news reporter and Leo Szilard the key figure among the scientists opposing the use of the bomb. The interview was in August 15, 1960. Why was their so fierce Opposition? In what Way did Truman Not Understand? These answers lie in the depths of the controversy about the Atomic Bomb. Introduction The atomic bomb was a topic of major controversy but the main debate was about the necessity of the atomic bomb. Many say that the atomic bomb was dropped because it would save millions of American lives. However at that period the Japanese were also at the point of surrendering. Huge amounts of incendiary bombs were used in large-scale cities against japan. Many of the scientists in the Manhattan Project were disturbed about it. The incendiary bombs reduced much morale from the Japanese army and crippled the will power. However this small cripple made Japan even angrier because these incendiary bombs were used on innocent civilians and not the Japanese army. Many think that it was necessary to use the Atomic Bombs because Japan attacked America first and not the other way around. It is a fact that when Hitler attacked...
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...Inventory Management Systems Inventory Management Systems In the past inventories where done manually. An innovative business owner today will use an automated system to keep track of their inventory. This system would keep track of the products that support the business mission. “Before the Industrial Revolution, merchants basically had to write down all of the products they sold every day (Inventory Systems Blog, R. Lockard, 2012).” Automated inventory management systems would be advantageous to both the business owner and their customers. For the business the products can be monitored for their types, quantity, price, availability, cost, and trends. For the customer, reliability of the business to provide the latest trends, stock on hand, and price. In order to help my sister in creating an automated inventory system, converting from her manual inventory to an automated system on a small budget, would be to create a plan to identify what is needed. “Cost justification is the process of determining the return on a productivity investment. The savings are measured and evaluated relative to the cost of the system, in present value terms (Systems ID Warehouse, 2006).” The first would be to identify all aspects of the project for instance creating a list of the equipment, maintenance, and cost. Below is a spreadsheet identifying each item by name, cost, quantity, and total. Project Estimated Cost | | | | | | | Hardware | Item Name | Cost | Quantity...
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...Zimbardo Research Paper Dr. Zimbardo conducted a research study in 1971 where he took 24 male college students and divided them randomly between guards and prisoners. The guards created a “prison” like set up for their prisoners. The prisoners were arrested by real cops, blindfolded, hand cuffed and taken to the simulation prison where the guards brutalized, dehumanized, tortured them. The study was to see how behaviors change based upon a setting they were put into. Throughout this paper it will come to light on how unethical this study was but also how it changed the ways in which studies are now required to be handled with human participants (Films Media Group, 2012). Value of the Study in Relation to Social Psychology Dr. Zimbardo’s research study was able to show how healthy participants quickly changed their psychological and physical behaviors when they were placed into a prison like environment. The 24 participants were all good people who were put into a very bad situation where they had to choose to stay good or conform with the environment and do what they felt was rational behavior. This study was to last two weeks and after six days Dr. Zimbardo finally shut it down. This is because the prisoners were showing signs of extreme depression and stress anxiety, while the guards were becoming very abusive, hostile and dehumanizing the prisoners. There were only a few people who were able to not let conformity consume who they really were and destroy their...
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