The book “War Without Mercy” is a study of the wartime attitudes between the Japanese and American forces against one another‚ by John W. Dower. The book is divided into four parts: Enemies‚ The War in Western Eyes‚ The War in Japanese Eyes‚ and Epilogue. Each section plays a vital role in the book‚ that without any of these‚ the book would change entirely. War Without Mercy opens with the section titled Enemies. It functions as an introduction to the themes and materials that John Dower will use
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The text given for interpretation is an extract from the novel “From W. S.” by L.P.Hartley‚ a British writer‚ known for novels and short stories. L.P. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and all his tales are admirably told. As a contemporary reviewer remarked‚ “not only does he portray the exterior of social life with a novelist’s sharp eye for detail‚ but he also explores the underworld of fears and fantasies through which we wander in our ugliest dreams”. “From W.S.” comes from “The Complete
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Born Again by Charles W. Colson Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light. Bob Latta would you sacrifice your life so that a lot of other people could live? The year is 1954 off the coast of Guatemala everything is enveloped in total blackness‚ the sea is like smooth marble‚ the air is hot and heavy‚ and
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literature has a way of romanticizing con men‚ their cons‚ and even their victims too. Especially‚ confidence men in the United States during the 1900’s till the late 1920’s. But being a confidence man is not all that glamorous and romantic which David W. Maurer portrays in his book. Maurer‚ who was a linguistic professor at the University of Louisville was able to gain the confidence and respect of confidence men simply by talking to them. Which is one of the ways he gathered information about the different
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A few people in the criminal justice system have come up with theories regarding social power and law. C. W. Mills constructed the theory of Power Elite and Control and G.W. Domhoff came up with Capitalist Classes and Influences. Both of these theories share very similar ideas. Their research looks at how social networks of families occupy the powerful positions
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Comparisons in Fuzzy Logic Galit W. Sassoon ([year]) uses fuzzy logic for complex sentences and comparisons‚ because they can "associate complex predicates (e.g. negated‚ conjunctive and disjunctive ones) with graded structures (say‚ a mapping of entities to numerical degrees)" (127). She states that‚ in comparisons‚ the difference between the truth values of two different entities must be > 0‚ as in x is more than y‚ or ≥ 0 in sentences like x as y (124-125). The most interesting part of her paper
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Jon R. Vulgamore Prof. Jeffrey Reed HST 123 - American History 1900-present 10 April 2007 The Klan’s view against Progressivism Hiram W. Evans’ "The Klan’s Fight for Americanism" tries to enlighten audiences to his view point. That view point being the Klan’s feeling that America is being lost to liberal ideologies and cold intellectualistic direction. He emphasizes the de-Americanizing’ issues facing the country such as the reason World War I occurred and why the Jews hold such control over
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Dr. Robert W. Stokes was a licensed‚ board-certified dermatologist who practiced medicine in Grand Rapids‚ Michigan. Doctor Stokes was well-renowned and popular in his practice. However‚ in 2001 federal agents initiated an investigation into Dr. Stokes’s billing practices to determine whether he was up-coding certain outpatient surgical procedures. Up-coding is “billing Medicare and insurers for more expensive procedures than what was performed” (Justia US Law‚ 2010). The investigation exposed some
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In the short story‚ “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier‚ the protagonist‚ Lizabeth learns a very big life lesson that has been conflicting within herself during adolescence because she discovers the value of compassion and hope. In the beginning of the story‚ Lizabeth’s innocence makes her infantile to the real world. As she realizes how complex people are‚ she becomes paralyzed and wants to escape from the circumstance that she is facing right now. At the end of the story‚ Lizabeth experiences a
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1 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman A predilection for the high drama of war stories and an appreciation for history as narrative led me explore Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August ‚ a dramatic‚ comprehensive and painstakingly detailed account of the beginnings of World War One. Having read her history of fourteenth century Europe‚ A Distant Mirror‚ I was eager to see how she would apply her style of taking important individuals of the period and showing how events unfolded through
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