... that half of them end up wanting out ofthe deal What is amazing is that the other half stick with it THE DOWNFALL OF MARRIAGE: THEPURSUITOFHAPPINESS Another friend, recently remarried, offers ... case, the job was done by the people ofthe country themselves, stumbling toward it over the course of many, many years But Friedman was in a hot sweat of war fever As one ofthe biggest backers of ... HEIGHTS And there you have the explanation for one ofthe many sordid features ofthe early twenty-first-century public spectacle outsize CEO salaries They are the bright feathers ofthe high-ranking...
... Vilnius, the archives ofthe Hoover Institution in Stanford, and kind librarians at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Freiburg, and the University of Tennessee For the production of ... in the West.10 Building on these eVorts, cultural historians moved to assess the importance ofthe First World War in molding the distinctive contours ofthe modern Robert Wohl’s study ofthe ... Yet these illuminating examinations ofthe psychology ofthe frontexperience and its ramiWcations focused almost exclusively on only one half ofthe war, the Western Front Discussions of the...
... times of war the same tools can be detrimental to the outcome ofthe battle, and if they are not limited in some respects, it can lead to the deaths of thousands of lives The Perception of Propaganda ... attitudes of other groups by the use ofthe instruments of communication, with the intention that in any given situation the reaction of those so influenced will be that desired by the propagandist” ... from the war, a point he emphasized via his campaign slogan, “He kept us out of war!” Yet, with the bombing ofthe Lusitania in 1915 and the sending ofthe Zimmerman telegram in January of 1917,...
... her sexuality freely As the nation lived under the constant threat of death the film seemed to echo the general feeling of living for the day The film concludes with 'thehappiness we have is worth ... guidelines were therefore enforced to raise the cultural and intellectual levels ofthe general public whilst also moderating the amount of information they were exposed to whether it be on the weekly ... and the very real temptation of extra-marital affairs Whilst the Ministry of Information were not unaware of these issues they wanted to maintain an image of strength These problems could only be...
... three bills have the short title of “United States War Bonds Act of 2009” and the official title of “To authorize the issuance of United States War Bonds to aid in funding ofthe operations in ... were responsible for the sale of nearly $186 billion worth of government securities Of this, U.S Department ofthe Treasury, Savings Bond Division, p 11 U.S Department ofthe Treasury, Savings ... Seeking to stir the conscience of Americans, it invoked both their financial and moral stake in the war The sale of war bonds provided a way in which patriotic attitudes and the spirit of sacrifice...
... hide the naked plunder ofthe Emperor The task ofthe historian, then, is to penetrate to the essence ofthe transaction, to strip the ideological garb from the Emperor State and to reveal the ... representation ofthe past in conceptual terms The historian does not simply let the events speak for themselves He arranges them from the aspect ofthe ideas underlying the formation ofthe general ... “solution.” Nor they probe deeply into the motives ofthe proponents ofthe Federal Reserve Act After a brief and superficial account ofthe events leading up to the enactment ofthe law, they hasten...
... from the passage which contains the first ofthe two references which the war receives in The Making ofthe Crofting Community: In the spring of 1914 the Board of Agriculture requested the Scottish ... discussion of Cameron's work in the preface to the 2000 edition ofThe Making ofthe Crofting Community is indicative ofthe characteristics of each of their approaches and which this thesis aims ... individual lives ofthe conflict as the division between the old world ofthe 19th century and the new one ofthe 20th.64 In An Ribheid Chiùil, an anthology ofthe poetry ofthe First World War...
... what they were fighting for Between the 1914 of Brooke’s sonnets and the 1917 of Gurney’s, the reality ofthe war that the soldier poets experienced prompted significant changes in the way they ... (57–64) The English landscape, whether it is the rural beauty ofthe loops over the downs’ or the busy ‘roar of towns’, is now infused with the war and its victims in the poet’s mind, to the extent ... depictions of soldiers from the lower classes Their use of traditional language and forms, for instance the sonnet, also aligned them with the past, unlike their Modernist contemporaries Their vision of...
... “downright and absolute tyranny … [as] the dead are not the property ofthe nation or ofthe regiment, but ofthe widow, ofthe father and ofthe mother” While the war dead may be garnered as tools ... COMMEMORATION IN SINGAPORE 1.1 The global-national-local nexus and the problematization ofthe “local” Recent theorizations on the concept ofthe “nation” within the domain ofthe social sciences have ... take the forms of memorial architecture, display of artefacts, the use of moving images and graphics, or the use of “simulacra” where scenes ofthe past are recreated in the present for the purpose...
... mạng tháng Mười Nga thành công C Chiến tranh giới thứ kết thúc D Hội nghò Vecxai khai mạc Câu 3: Theo em, chiến tranh giới 1914-1918 mang tính chất: A.Chính nghóa Anh-Pháp-Nga B.Chính nghóa Đức-o-Hung...
... from the viewpoint of content, such as the “news for preschool children.” “Adrian,” a production by Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO) ofthe Netherlands, focuses on the theme ofthe death of a pet The ... lifestyles rather than lifeskills, making it very different from most websites for the disabled Looking into the Realities ofthe Past More on the topic of war One ofthe features ofthe JAPAN PRIZE ... which the boy’s mother is killed The interactive role-playing game linked to this program begins with the surrender ofthe Netherlands The plot centers on the search for the player’s missing father,...
... head through the game, gathering mats Find the best areas to gather them, and get everything you possibly can together Then, you can make items and sell them on the auction house during the weekend ... easy to get, with the exception of a few This is true for all professions Most ofthe mats that you will need are really simple to get if you just take the time to gather them There are always ... For Playing The World Of Warcraft Auction House For Gold On The Weekends When it comes to playing the auction house in the World of Warcraft, you will find that there are some days ofthe week that...
... been prepared by the staff ofthe World Bank The judgments expressed not necessarily reflect the views ofthe Board of Executive Directors or ofthe governments they represent The material in ... absence from of ce Despite the anomalous situation, loan withdrawal applications have been submitted regularly to the Bank, the majority of them on the basis of SOEs This, in the opinion ofthe Project ... practices, the Committee recommends to the President that the firm (and any firm that owns the majority ofthe accused firm’s capital, or of which the accused firm owns the majority ofthe capital)...
... constitute a part ofthe laws ofthe land [T]he laws of war constitute much the greater part ofthe law of nations Like the other laws of nations, they exist and are of binding force upon the departments ... violate the laws of war: That the law of nations constitutes a part ofthe laws ofthe land must be admitted From the very face ofthe Constitution it is evident that the laws of nations ... members of al Qaeda or the Taliban The memo was written in theOf ce of Legal Counsel ofthe Department of Justice by John Yoo and Robert J Delahunty for William J Haynes II, General Counsel of the...
... known as the Battle ofthe Bulge, the Germans fight back against the Allies with one last, fierce counter-offensive in the Ardennes region of France 1945 Allied leaders meet in Yalta in the Soviet ... homes, the jobs we go back to, the books we read, the very food we eat, the hopes we have for our kids, the kids themselves—they won’t be ours anymore That’s what’s at stake It’s us or them The ... permission ofThe Kobal Collection.) study conducted by the military, based on surveys of soldiers taken during the war, showed that the films did increase the knowledge of events leading up to the...
... our lines At the end ofthe first week the Battalion was again placed at the disposal ofthe 29th Division, then holding the extreme left ofthe British line The chief use they made of us was to ... the true land ofthe Pharaohs at all Until the evacuation the defence ofthe Canal and ofthe eastern frontier of Egypt had depended almost entirely on the waterless nature ofthe 130 miles of ... not as many of us believed the primary cause of, the prevalence of these diseases, was the unsuitability of bully-beef and hard biscuits as the basis of our diet under the weather and other conditions...
... definite notions of who they consider the ‘us’ and the ‘them’ to be The ‘us’, the local authentic fan; the ‘them’ the ersatz ‘globofan’ Within the rhetorics of anti-globalization, the theme of being ... march of global capital and the rapid transformation ofthe game’s everyday cultures The irony here is that the process of ‘inauthenticating’ United, of making them less significant, results in the ... with the music hall patriotism ofthe early 20th century ‘Swing Lo’ is the unofficial anthem ofthe English rugby team, while ‘Three Lions’ was the English football team popular anthem for the...
... at the Peace Conference of 1919 and in the League of Nations after the war With the passage ofthe Statute of Westminster in 1931, the British parliament confirmed the independent status of Canada ... conceited They blame her for prolonging the suffering ofthe Russian people and causing the fall ofthe czars of Russia Others say that she was the product of a weak and corrupt system of royal ... leadership, the assembly had created the Republic of Turkey, replacing the absolute monarchy ofthe sultan with a democratic parliamentary form of government The Treaty of Sèvres was replaced by the...
... high The Alpini took it by a marvellous feat of mountain warfare in the first year ofthe war South of Monte Nero, also on the east bank ofthe river, lies the town of Tolmino, the object of many ... as long as the southern The northern part was held by the Italian Second Army, under General Capello, the southern by the Italian Third Army, under the Duke of Aosta In the north the Isonzo runs ... introduce themselves by name This little ceremony breaks the ice I saw many of them also on the platforms and in the corridor ofthe train The majority, especially of their mounted officers,...