World War I was an event that caused almost 10 million deaths in Europe‚ therefore killing off almost a generation of Europeans. It ended empires in Russia‚ Germany‚ and Austria Hungary and caused Russia to turn to communism and become a totalitarian state with Stalin in power. It created more rights for women and changed the social perspective of life to gloomy and pessimistic. The Congress of Vienna of 1814‚ created a long-lasting peace in Europe completed with regular peace meeting which proposed
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Who was to blame for the cold war? Generally it is not a great idea to blame just one party for something. I feel the same way about the cold war. I believe all parties involved were equally to blame in the cold war. This will be illustrated in my essay. However‚ there are three divisions of western historians when it comes to their opinion on the Cold War‚ the Traditionalists‚ the Revisionists and the Post-Revisionists. Each party has their own opinion on who was actually to blame for the Cold
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in terms of good and bad. Often‚ the most important decisions are choices between the better of two options. The decision to go to war in Iraq was not an easy conclusion but it was one that was made with best intentions. It is my opinion that even though there were some mistakes made in the determination to invade Iraq‚ it was a just decision on both a security and a moral basis. This paper will briefly look at the background behind the start of the war with Iraq and then examine the rationale
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The conflicting national interests in western and eastern Europe drove the major countries to form protective coalitions‚ even with nations that had once been bitter enemies. Smaller countries were forced to choose sides‚ and by 1914‚ Europe was separated into two heavily armed camps. Any spark would have been enough to ignite the war everyone expected. That spark was touched off in Sarajevo‚ the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In an attempt to ease tensions between Austria-Hungary and people
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Was the American civil war inevitable? The civil war was inevitable‚ only however‚ after one key event; the cotton gin made the civil war inevitable. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 was the key element which enabled the south to have sufficient vested interest in their traditional lifestyle in order to feel the need to defend it at all costs even from their Northern countrymen. The core argument of this essay centres around the evidence which clearly defines their being in existence two
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Explain how the combination of two of the following elements was used in one live production that you have seen and assess their contribution to the creation of specific mood(s) and atmosphere(s) at moments: set design‚ lighting‚ sound. The live performance I have chosen to write about is ‘Warhorse’ which I saw on the 3rd February at the New London Theatre. In this essay‚ I am going to explain and analyse how the staging and the lighting together created the different atmospheres and moods such
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often lead to disappointment. "An almost unavoidable source of disappointment and distrust in our normal love life derives from the fact that the very intensity of our feelings of love stirs up all of our secret expectations and longing for happiness‚ which slumber deep inside us (361)." Simply‚ projecting our desires‚ expectation and sometimes guilt upon our lover can lead to disappointment. Love‚ in this way‚ can be a hugely unsatisfying because our expectations for it can be contradictory in nature
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Due to the fact of the absence of many men‚ who either joined the military and/or took jobs in a war production industry; women were obligated to move outside their traditional roles and take positions in employment historically reserved for men. For instance in the United States‚ images like "Rosie the Riveter" promoted the ideology that it was patriotic and not unfeminine for women to work in these various industries. Posters in Canada were launched illustrating a women holding a bomb stating
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A Red Cross member reminisced on World War II‚ saying‚ "The war was fun for America. I’m not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us‚ the war was a hell of a good time." Over time‚ the allied victory in World War II has become idealized‚ a war of good versus evil in which everyone knew what he or she were fighting for. It has become known as the war that cemented America’s place at the top of the world both economically and militarily. Upon closer examination
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Wilfred Owen 1 ) To this day Owen is thought of as the leading poet of World War I. 2 ) Owen’s poetry was on the horrors of WWI‚ especially trench warfare and gas warfare. 3 ) Owen’s poetry dates back to 1903 when he was 10 years old. 4 ) The poetry Owen wrote was influenced by Keats and Shelley. Later on‚ his friend and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon also had a profound effect on Owen’s poetic voice. 5 ) Owen never saw his own worked published other then two magazines. 6
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