...One’s view of poetry is extremely personal. With over fifty-five different formal styles of poetry to choose from (Kennedy & Gioia 681-717) no two individual’s tastes will coincide, the same can be said for poets. No one will argue that Walt Whitman and Herman Melville have vastly different techniques for chronicling the events they experienced. This is especially true for the author’s interpretations of events leading up to, throughout, and after the American Civil War. Although they approached their subject from the same vantage point, that of the Union or Northern Army, both author’s writing styles could not be more different. Melville and Whitman’s family history, personal experiences, professional interactions and literary notoriety all factor into their chosen poetic style and content. The following is a critical analysis of these similarities and differences using select works from Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War and Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The list of recommended poems is not sufficient to adequately fulfill this requirement. For thoroughness, additional poems...
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...The Holocaust was a mad murder of Jews under the German Nazi rule during 1933-45. The Bangladesh genocide was the deliberate and systematic destruction, in a whole or in a part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different in three different ways; lives lost, ethnic identities, and the effect it had after. The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended May 8th, 1945. The Nazi were the ones responsible for this tragedy. The victims of these concentration camps were, Jews, slaves, ethnic poles of color, disabled or mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Spanish republicans. Anyone who was...
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...flag How it was like the war We played capture the flag representing the revolutionary war on Friday last week during class. The British was the red team, the blue team represented the Americans, and the white was the French. The blue team had to get the flag to win and they needed to win the war against the red team. The war lasted for a long time. There was a few amount of small battles because of the revolutionary war. We played capture the flag to show what happened in the revolutionary war. In the capture the flag game we played six rounds. The first round Mr. D had one flag on each side. In round two Mr. D said that one person on the blue team wouldn't receive a prize even though everyone else beside that one person on...
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...War in the Office: A comparison of “Art of War” and “Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us”. Many major theories and teachings from the non-business world can be learned and successfully applied just as effectively as those skills learned in the business work place. I became more and more convinced of this statement after reading two relatively similar books on the topics of War and personal success. Although both topics seem farfetched and distant from each other they happen to contain a lot of similar themes and ideas. Contrary to what the title suggests, the main point of the “Art of War” is to convince readers that in times of war or conflict, information and knowledge are the greatest weapons one can possess. Many individuals tend to look at the book in the wrong light simply due to the fact that it has the word “war” in its title. Scholars believe that the Art of War was written around 2,500 years ago. Sun Tsu (the author of the novel) was a high-ranking military general who took his endeavors as serious as any other high profile military figure. The business based novel I selected (book #2) to read is titled “Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us”. Drive is written by Daniel H. Pink, A critically acclaimed writer and Yale/NorthWestern university professor. While both books are similar and contain elements of non-fiction advise. “Drive’s” central argument is that “Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose” should be the three most practiced areas or fields...
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...The Inca, Maya,and Aztecs are three of the most important groups. The Inca were located in Andes Mountains in South America. Their range stretched from Southern Chile through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and into Southern Columbia. Their capital was Cuzco. The Inca civilization was in the highlands of Peru. The Aztecs were located in Mexico. The Aztec Empire was based in the Valley of Mexico, a high elevated valley in the mountains of Central Mexico. Tenochtitlan was the Aztec city and the capital. It had canals and causeways that supplied hundreds of thousands of people who lived there. The Mayans lived in Mexico and Central America. The Palenque was once known as the red city, because the buildings were all painted red. The Maya capital...
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...Hobbes’ views on absolute monarchy is a tested theory, which through a historical lens, we know to be problematic and ineffective in the long haul. Hobbes during the years when he began forming his concepts, aware of the wars during his time, may have failed to assess properly the political structure, then, being that it was similar to absolute monarchy, and that most wars during his time were waged through political systems that adopted this. Locke while having significant influence such as influencing the founding fathers of America and providing a more complex political structure in detail, however, can be seen to miss certain issues that arise from his views on private property and government functions. Viewing things through a modern lens, if we were to adopt Locke’s limited government, which does not provide societal needs such as the development of infrastructure, services, or the maintenance of various things than this form of system would be problematic (i.e., using a modern lens we know people need more from government). Proponents...
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...The Cold War Celena Daley Kaplan University SS211: Prof. Jennifer Schmidt 03/12/2016 The Cold War began as a result of a dispute between The United States of America and The Soviet Union. Although the war was never “officially” declared, it began somewhere around 1947 and ended roughly around 1991. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars. The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. Throughout this period, the rivalry between the two superpowers unfolded in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; sports; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars. There was never a direct military engagement between the US and the Soviet Union, but there was half a century of military buildup as well as political battles for support around the world, including significant involvement of allied and satellite nations in proxy wars. Although the US and the Soviet Union had been allied against Nazi Germany, the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of World War II. Over the following decades, the Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world, as the US sought the "containment" of communism and forged numerous alliances...
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...Economics Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2002 pp. 298–318 Firm financial condition and airline price wars Meghan Busse∗ A firm that knows that cutting price may trigger a price war must weigh present versus future gains and losses when considering such a move. The firm’s financial situation can affect how it values such tradeoffs. Using data on 14 major airlines between 1985 and 1992, I test the hypothesis that firms in worse financial condition are more likely to start price wars. Empirical results suggest that this is true, particularly for highly leveraged firms. The article also explores which firms join existing price wars and finds that a firm is more likely to enter a price war the greater the share of its traffic on routes served by the price-war leader. 1. Introduction Economists’ explanations for price wars differ from those of other observers of the airline industry. Most economic models of price wars, which apply more generally than to the airline industry alone, have emphasized the role of fluctuations in demand. Changes in demand alter the expected profitability of undercutting a tacitly collusive equilibrium; depending on the assumptions made, the models predict that price wars occur either when demand booms or when it slumps. Industry insiders, meanwhile, identify the financial troubles of an individual carrier as an important motivation in initiating the fare cuts that trigger price wars. For example: [Mark Daugherty, airline industry analyst for Dean Witter] said weaker airlines...
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...impacted by the outbreak of World War One. However, Cohn still lives by the pre-war values, mainly due to the fact that the war had little impact on him, unlike Jake who was injured in combat, or Brett, who lost her true love during the war. They all have characteristics that are similar with many people who were a part of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation”, a generation of people whose previous values were figuratively destroyed by the outbreak of World War I, and they wandered the post-war world without guidance, without a purpose. (Britannia 1 ) This is because Hemingway created these characters to symbolize a large portion of people in the 1920’s, through the characters attitudes, lifestyle and personalities. In doing so, Hemingway uses these three characters to represent different groups of people within the lost generation. Robert Cohn represents the people of the lost generation whose lives had been unaffected directly by the war, and those who still continued to live by failed the pre-war values of romance, morality and honor. Many of these people were outcasts; they were different, just like Cohn, and Cohn knew what it was like to be different. He spent a good portion of his life feeling like an outcast due to the fact that he was Jewish and Cohn never served in World War I, and was therefore typically scorned by people who had seen combat, like Jake. Cohn holds onto these traits because he had never seen the full extent of the war, and he reads books that are...
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...I will be talking about three different movie posters of the American War genre. First I will describe where I found the movie posters, and then I will state the results of the visual elements. Then I will analyze, and critique the results of the findings. Introduction When someone walks along the hallway of a movie theater, they will see a series of movie posters which are there to advertise the movie. Humans are known to act on their first impression, and this is important in advertising because it will either attract or defer a potential viewer. Most people have a favorite movie genre, so they’re more inclined to watch a movie that appears to fit under their genre. Through the movie posters a patriotic theme is given off, which will invite in the intended audience. American War movies have very similar posters, although they will have different stories. Today I will be talking about three different movie posters of the American war genre: “American Sniper” (See Fig.1), “Fury” (See Fig.2), and “Lone Survivor” (See Fig. 3). The main purpose of this report is to find and analyze the visuals of the three movie posters. Methodology In order to try and test my hypothesis, I will need to find material that will allow me to gather the appropriate information. I am going to use the internet to find three movie posters of the same genre, and that genre is American war movies. First I will search on google images for American War Movies. In order to stay...
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...monumental the setting of an experience can be, especially in a short story. Drawing comparisons between each story will allow the reader to delve even deeper into the importance of setting. Now it is obvious that a story that revolves around a lake that adolescents ravage and the jungles of Vietnam in the heat of the war are nowhere near similar, but they are. Boyle and O’Brien both create magnificent settings, but they differ in the techniques they use to tell their remarkable stories. Both stories rely heavily on setting and we look to the development of characters in those settings and the influence of setting on plot, to illustrate the differences and similarities between the two, which in the end exemplify brilliant short stories. In “Greasy Lake,” the reader is immediately immersed into the story of three foolish kids up to no good, heading to a secret spot in town. Boyle presents us with this spot without hesitation: “the Indians had called it Wakan, a reference to the clarity of its waters. Now it was fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires” (125). The choice the three kids have made to come to Greasy Lake changes them forever and, without it, there would be no story at all. Boyle successfully familiarizes...
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...1960s Assignment: In this assignment, you will do brief interviews with three people, asking them about their conceptions of the Cold War. Your interviewees can be anyone of your choosing: family members, friends, and so on. Below are some suggested questions that you may want to ask: What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War? Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that you remember? Who were the parties involved in the Cold War? Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War? Take notes on what each of your respondents say. You will need these notes to refer to later when you do the formal write-up of the assignment. After you have completed the assignment, write up your findings in a brief essay, which addresses the following: Using quotes from your interviews, describe how each of your three respondents understand the Cold War. Explain to what extent their definition/understanding of the Cold War differs from the definition above (see the bold typeface in the Overview section above). If your respondents’ understanding of the Cold War is different from the way the Cold War is defined in this course, explain why that might be the case. (Also, if their definition of the Cold War is very similar, explain this as well!) Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length (500–700 words) Double spaced #12 font –Times New Roman 1” margins on all sides Separate cover page...
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...Have you ever felt like what it’s like being in a war? Or how it’s like being a part of the war? Or just experiencing it? These two phenomenal stories brilliantly describe what it was like experiencing an actual war. Nearly one hundred and thirty years apart these two stories were. One was about the Civil War called A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Chesnut, while the other is the Gulf War, called A Woman at War, by Molly More. While these two stories are alike by being in the war zone, but they show differences by their time sets. Let’s start off with the big difference, the time set. A Diary from Dixie is about the Civil War from April 12, 1861 through May 13, 1865. Meanwhile, A Woman at War, is about the Gulf War from August 2, 1990 through February 28, 1991. Nearly one hundred and thirty years apart where the Civil war lasted about 4 years and the Gulf War lasted not even a full year....
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...shooting missiles from their airplanes. With the Japanese, their long term goals was to deliver a knockout blowout to the U.S Pacific fleet with a surprise attack on Pearl attack which would give Japan power , and would help the japanese enough resources they need. The Japanese sent a surprise attack to Pearl attack early morning on December 7 , and the Japanese sunk 4 American battleships , , caused the last to go underground, while the damaging three other ships and over three hundred aircraft. Although the attack devastatingly successful , It was not the knock out Japanese planners Intended. The fight with Japanses on Pearl Harbor actually helped strangle the Japanses economy in the final years of the war. The long term goals of the 9/11 attack was to make Americans...
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...the Cold War today. For example, what do everyday people today think of when they hear the term “Cold War”? This is what you are going to find out! In this assignment, you will do brief interviews with three people, asking them about their conceptions of the Cold War. Your interviewees can be anyone of your choosing: family members, friends, and so on. Below are some suggested questions that you may want to ask: 1. What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War? 2. Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that you remember? 3. Who were the parties involved in the Cold War? 4. Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War? Take notes on what each of your respondents say. You will need these notes to refer to later when you do the formal write-up of the assignment. After you have completed the assignment, write up your findings in a brief essay, which addresses the following: 1. Using quotes from your interviews, describe how each of your three respondents understand the Cold War. 2. Explain to what extent their definition/understanding of the Cold War differs from the definition above (see the bold typeface in the Overview section above). 3. If your respondents’ understanding of the Cold War is different from the way the Cold War is defined in this course, explain why that might be the case. (Also, if their definition of the Cold War is very...
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