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    The film noir Casablanca by Michael Curtiz will always remain an American classic. Director Michael Curtiz shows WWII on the homefront, using the setting to transfer the viewpoint. Famous and popular actors Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid and actress Ingrid Bergman engage in a love triangle that leads the film to its purpose and theme. Whether the genre be a film noir or a wartime romantic drama, Casablanca illustrates lenient criticism through a hometown war rebellion setting and a true love’s hardships

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    Synopsis of Strachan’s The First World War The Great War. World War I. The First World War. Whichever way one chooses to label the conflict between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire, France, Russia, the United States (alongside numerous other allied countries) from 1914-1918, the questions of the war’s origins, methods, and outcomes are brought are asked. How can this seemingly unnecessary, feudal war also be considered the turning point for change in the 20th

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    HomeFront Strong (HFS) is an eight week, group intervention for military spouses promoting positive psychological health, individual resiliency and support for military families (Kees, Nerenberg, Bachrach, & Sommer, 2015). The HFS modules include: fostering resilience, managing stress, promote optimism, re-think thinking, build community, allowing emotions and staying strong (Kees et al., 2015). During sessions, HFS participants practice life skills using interactive lessons. Self-care and grounding

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    Gilman And Masculinity

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    Her first suprise was becoming a man however aware enough that was still a she, feeling the confidence and masculinity of being a man. Her second, after realizing all the amenities and emotions coming along with being a man was that there was fellow peers and friends whom felt the same as she on a daily basis. Another was the lack of interest as a woman of the burdens of a man.Yes she cried about bills however never had to work nor know the actual responsibilities of a man. Gilman's point for

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    Assessment and Treatment of Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder The number of veterans returning from the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation New Dawn (OND) conflicts that are afflicted with posttraumatic stress disorder is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands (Kip, et al., 2013, p. 1298), demonstrating the importance of the social worker to be knowledgeable of the symptoms and treatment of this disabling trauma. The purpose of this literature

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    Though World War II was raging on several years before American soldiers joined the front line, the nation’s entrance into the war was game changing and is, perhaps, what won the war and defeated the Axis Powers. With American entrance into the war came the involvement of Walt Disney Studios and a government deal that would last until the last guns fired in Holland, 1945. Through political propaganda and instructional films, Walt Disney Studios contributed to World War II home front efforts by increasing

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    but also a turning point for Native Americans, who found themselves fulfilling new roles at home and overseas. During the United States’ involvement in World War II, Native Americans were among the many minority groups who fought on and off the homefront to help America succeed. Many left their reservations and contributed to the war effort by joining the military in non-combat and combat positions, playing a key role in the United

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    Even though the United States emerged as a clear victor of World War I, many Americans after the war felt that their involvement in the conflict had been a mistake (Markus Schoof, “The American Experience During World War II,” slide 3). This belief, however, did not deter the country from engaging in many other international affairs in the future, most importantly the WWII and the Cold War. Right from the Manifest Destiny, which led to expand its empire at home and abroad, to the World War I, the

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    Nurses Corps, the Marines, and the Coast Guard, where they either worked as nurses, or other traditional women’s roles, or they filled men’s roles of non-combat jobs. Not only did they fill in for men in the military, women also filled in on the homefront. 6.3 million women joined the workforce during the war. The war also changed how women were seen in society, as shown by the popular symbol “Rosie the Riveter”. She represented the abandonment of the traditional household woman (Mintz and

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    government oppressive imperialism. King knew that the same black men that the government was denying rights, were being sent to die, fight and kill people who were struggling for the same rights. King could not preach non-violence at the American homefront and keep quiet as Vietnamese villages and children were being destroyed. One of King's closest advisers, Stanley Levison, warned

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