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    Nonveteteran Women

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    Using the same method the Veteran Administrations uses to determine wartime eligibility benefits showed the breakdown of whom served in what wars, without having to rely on person account of events. Results: Results followed hypotheses, veterans with wartime experience more health ailments. Despite hypotheses, the Vietnam veterans are managing better than predicted when compared to WWII and Korea. Ages being a

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    Throughout the war, many tend to lose their humanity because of the traumatizing experiences that the war can bring upon a person. Some tend to follow these norms of a wartime society through bloodthirst, while others try to retain their compassion in order to keep their sanity. The author describes this lack of ethicality in Mary Anne’s justification of unapologetically murdering innocent people, by saying that it makes

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    of color film which made movies more modern and attracted. In which film industry responded to World War II with increased productivity, creating a fresh wave of wartime films. During the war, Hollywood was a primary author of American patriotism by generating propaganda, documentaries, educational videos, and general awareness of wartime demand. Also, mid 40's sawed an all-time high in theater attendance and total

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    Alejandra Vazquez-Garcia Professor Hill LIBR – 470 12/04/2015 Nonfiction—Evaluation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is the story of a Jewish girl and her family who hide away in the attic of Otto’s, Anne’s father, company during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She received the diary when she was turned 13 years old and a month later one of her sisters is called to appear before authorities which will mean certainly that she’ll be sent to a concentration camp. The family

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    Public prosecutors, accounting specialists, military personnel and law enforcement officials are just a few of the public services jobs filled by voluntary citizens from all walks of life, but what if a two year service of this kind was mandatory for all high school graduates? It could be said that this would bolster public services with an influx of personnel to provide a more robust service. Would the reasons to implement this type of service outweigh the consequences though? I don’t believe

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    The Civil War was a very eventful, horrific, terrifying, and brutal war in American History. It’s circumstances caused the lives of SO many courageous soldiers. With the help of the medical treatments or procedures that came about, several keys of life, whether daily life or life amidst war, improved. The innovation of medicine in the civil war is very important because of it’s effects on the war, modern medicine, and changes in treatment on the battlefield. During the Civil War, There some change

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    At the time of WWII, most Americans believed that the best thing for the US, was to stay of the war that was happening in Europe. However, by the time that Casablanca came out, the bombing of Pearl Harbor had already occurred, and the US had been at war for about a year. Because of the outrage that the citizens of the US felt at having gone to war, the government mobilized the film industry and therefore, "Hollywood recast national goals and purpose to satisfy the hopes that had emerged in the popular

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    Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act (Amendment) of 1918      On April 2nd 1917, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America, ??went before Congress and called for a declaration of war. Both the House and the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of going to war with Germany.?# This was an act that led to much resistance among the American people. Not four months earlier the American people re-elected President Wilson, partly because of his success in keeping the United States

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    Besides Momotaro’s popularity, there is another reason that he is chosen to be the leader of the propaganda. “Momotaro is the embodiment of Japanese heroic courage and succeeds in overcoming a seemingly superior enemy, who, in an analogy to the fairy tale, is a devil.” Momotaro is a young boy who is born through supernatural means and yet is accepted into being a symbolic hero for the nation. He is untouched by outside forces, said to be a “pure Japanese hero”, who faces against “foreign demons”

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    Key Determinants: of wartime rape. The factors leading to systematic rape in a wartime setting may be categorized into indirect or direct causes. On the indirect side, cultural attitudes towards women, a cult of masculinity, camp security, and resource distribution contribute to rape. By interviewing men and soldiers, researchers gain firsthand insight into male attitudes and cultural underpinnings that may contribute to mass rapes. In interviews conducted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative,

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