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    In the year of 1916 the labour government introduced conscription. Conscription or ‘national service’ was a method of convincing men to compulsory enrollment into the armed forces. Before introducing conscription it was a significant issue in Australia between the years of 1914. This was due to the fact that there were different people on both sides of the issue who were and weren’t in support for conscription. Most countries such as Britain fought with a conscripted army of men besides Australia

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    The Liberals’ policy towards State Control before the First World War was ‘laissez faire’‚ a policy of the government having a very limited impact on life in the country. However‚ the First World War forced them to scrap this policy and increase the restrictions placed on civilians in order to successfully fight the war. They did this in a number of ways‚ and this answer will include: Conscription‚ Censorship‚ restrictions on women and food rationing. It will be argued that the most extensive increase

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    Vietnam War Research Paper and Project Your Mission: Choose a topic of interest on the Vietnam War. I have provided a list of various topics below these instructions. From that list choose one that appeals to you. I will consider other thoughtful topic choices not from the list‚ but any of these must be approved by me! Second: Once you have your topic narrow it down. Avoid having such a broad topic that you are swimming with information. Make sure you have a clear and concise thesis that either

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    World War Two Unit Test Review Part A- Matching prominent people (10 marks) Adolf Hitler‚ became Germany’s Chancellor in 1933‚ leader of the Nazi party Benito Mussolini‚ became Italy’s dictator in 1922 Dwight Eisenhower‚ the supreme Allied commander for the U.S.A/the Allied commander‚ who led the Normandy Invasion (Operation Overload) Bernard Montgomery‚ the British Ground Forces Commander In Chief Gerd von Rundstedt‚ German commander Erwin Rommel‚ German commander Friedrich Dollmann‚ German

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    increased their protests. * By the early 1970’s there was a dramatic division in Australian society over the involvement in the war. * Many supported the involvement in the war but not many understood the political realities of the war. Conscientious objectors * Save our Sons was established in May 1965 as a direct response to conscription * 63 740 men were called up of which 15542 were conscripted * Many eligible for conscription protested by not

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    Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (Muhammad Ali) meet a dude name Joe Martin when he got his bike stole form him after two days he got his bike. Joe martin was an amateur boxing program in Louisville and Martin convinced young Cassius to learn how to box so he can defend himself against larger kids that stole his bike. Cassius went to Louisville Central High‚ but boxing had overshadowed his school. When he was‚ sixteen Cassius won Louisville’s Golden Gloves light heavyweight title. Cassius graduated in

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    type of character‚ one who sets her individual conscience and belief in divine principle above and against the power and authority of the state 4. Ismene serves as a foil for Antigone; she is the “compliant citizen” to her sister’s “conscientious objector.” While she is loyal and willing to die at her sister’s side‚ she does not make the same bold‚ defiant stand that Antigone does. She is a reasonable‚ sympathetic person whose fate is tied to the far more fanatical Antigone and Creon. The thought

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    News women take the right to vote May 30‚ 1997 1960! That’s when all Canadian women were allowed to vote! Women won the vote in small and incremental steps‚ with our western provinces leading the way. The first federal election in Canada was held in August‚ 1867. Women didn’t have the right to vote in it. Even if women met the same requirements around citizenship‚ property‚ age and race as men‚ women did not have the right to vote. Why? Because the laws of the provinces of Nova Scotia‚ New Brunswick

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    Stanley Milgram conducted an examination‚ in the 60’s‚ based on the justification for the acts of genocide offered by those who were accused in the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials of WWII. Their defense‚ as they claimed was solely based on “obedience” and that they were in fact only following their superior’s orders. This eventually led to the study on the conflict between obedience toward authority and one’s personal conscious. His experiment was a model of simplicity. The idea was to take an ‘experimenter’

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    Children during World War II were in a constant state of struggle. Having their fathers‚ uncles‚ brothers‚ cousins‚ and in some cases mothers go off to war really put a toll on the children of Canada. They had to adjust to doing more chores around the house‚ taking on jobs outside of their homes to make money‚ coping with shortages and rationing‚ and on top of all that be in a constant fear for their loved ones who were out defending their country. Symbolically visualizing fearfulness as well as

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