Essays on World Wars

Noncommissioned officers’ in the United States of America were first witnessed in America beginning of the year 1775. This was propelled by the birth of the continental army. The noncommissioned officer was very independent and did not observe the trends in any army. The American army blended the traditions of the Prussian, British, and French armies into a uniquely different experience that became the American founding. As the years passed, the noncommissioned officer was forced by the American system of contempt for nobility, social attitudes and expansion to the west in the U.S to make him fall out of the ...

There are numerous similarities between the plot developed in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours. For instance, the two plots were set at a time when the World Wars were taking place. Consequently, the author had to develop characters that took part in the war. Additionally, the effects of the war on the family setting are depicted in both plots. The role of the wives after their husband are away at war is also a shared similarity. In both plots, there is the role of Clarissa. In addition, the role played by Clarissa in both plots is similar.

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In the context of technological changes in the last 3 decades, the first thing coming into mind is the internet. The influence of internet on the business and the world economy is immense. The internet gave an opportunity for small businesses and world corporations equally to go global and become present on both local markets and global stocks in general. Through the e-commerce and e-banking, companies do not have to compete on the basis of geographical position and closeness to the target market. Today, businesses compete through the attractiveness and cheapness of their product, adapting to the requirements of ...

Introduction There is an unresolved debate among scholars and historians as to whether the Navajo Code Talkers represent a group of American Indians who were exploited by the United States military. Alternatively, whether the Navajo Code Talkers represent a moment in United States history when Native American men came forward to help defend the country against a great evil. Before the Navajo Code Talkers, the United States had employed Native Americans in various military capacities. During the colonial period, Native Americans had been hired by the military to act as scouts and sometimes as fighters. During the United States Civil War, Native ...

What challenges, if any, did colonialism and the cold war pose to the United Nations at its inception in 1945? Use specific examples to illustrate your answer. The world has gone through two serious world wars. The negative effects of first and second world, wars are still eminent. Most of the countries that actively took part in the second world wars lost their economic superiority due to repeated bomb attacks. The Allied victory against the axis brought the eagerly awaited peace. The allied forces convened several meetings that came up with the United Nations organisation. The frictions between ...

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Abstract Women have served in the military from times immemorial, ranging from Egypt’s Queen Ahhotep I and Joan of Arc to modern times, where women increasingly joined the military during the World Wars. Women were traditionally given support roles as medics and technicians. Lately, they have been inducted into combat roles. Life for women in the frontlines is challenging. While a few women are happy about the degree of wholehearted assimilation they experience in units, many remain bitter about the amount of struggle they need to undergo to prove they are as good as men. Fears of ...

Introduction

Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions to achieve individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a certified practitioner. Music therapy may sound not like a very much practiced medical procedure but that is not true. In fact, music therapy dates back as early as ancient civilizations like Egyptian, Indus valley and old Chinese civilization. Music combined with various dance forms was used at that time to treat various illnesses. Even today music therapy is used to address physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of an individual. After assessing the problems of a patient, a certified music therapist provides treatment which ...

Modern warfare as we know it today began to take shape during the 19th century, with the rise of nation states came patriotic fervor and the need to express this through a strong, varied and most importantly competent military force. For the first time in history, armies became institutions and nations took pride in training and equipping their regiments. This change coincided with the industrial revolution which brought wide ranging changes to manufacturing processes. The production line allowed weapons and other instruments of warfare to be produced in mass numbers never before seen. More advanced manufacturing techniques meant more secure ammunition, ...

Working as a labour may although act as a source of income for a lot of people proving out to be a boon but are all the dimensions of labour as attractive as it appears to be? No of course not! There are a lot of angles which need to be examined through the lens of justifications with respect to the frames such as socio economic factors, the will of labour, unawareness of the labour and the most important one being ‘Human Rights’. Labour surely acts as a highlighting factor for the inception of any productive work. Be it a factory establishment or an organisational setup, ...

Political History and Development of Nursing Education: Comparison of Kenya and Poland

Traditions and culture in Kenya are the origins of its nursing system. As an African country, the wide belief of Kenyan community in the occult and/or supernatural had determined their earliest conceptual explanations of illness and disease. The earliest known nurses in Kenya were the Traditional Health Providers and Traditional Birth Attendants (Mule, 1986). Traditional Health Providers and Traditional Birth Attendants of the pre-professional nursing era in Kenya used objects, particularly herbs and ancient practices of sacrifice/offering, as the basic forms of medicines (Mule, 1986). However, with the arrival of Western missionaries on Kenyan lands, the traditional nursing known ...

History:

Music is a very important art form that has been a characteristic of the human beings. This form of art involves the manipulation of sound. It has been greatly used as form of entertainment and expression for people and has had great importance in people’s lives. Music has undergone great changes throughout history attributed to changes in social, political and economic factors. Development of new musical instruments has also led to the advancement in music over time. Interaction between different cultures has resulted to the sharing of ideas as far as music is concerned and thus resulted to evolution of ...

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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells There have been several science fiction novels written in the late nineteenth century. However, only a handful of them stood out for providing fuel for both drama as well as science. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells is a highly debatable novel as it has been one of the pioneers in signalling the subtle concepts of the use of superior technology to win wars. One of the major reasons for the novel as well as the film to be extremely popular is its unique concept of using science fiction to ...

Art and architecture:

The movement of modernism is a movement that has been associated with the transformation of the western societies through development of industrial societies that then resulted to the development of cities. It is a movement that was conceived through the need to develop after the catastrophic events of the world wars. One of the main factors that the modernism has influenced is the aspect of architecture. The movement was developed as a way to reject and relinquish the traditional procedures of planning and adopting better and new methods that are capable of improving the social condition of people. The movement first ...

Introduction

The aerospace industry has witnessed a sloppy growth over the past few years. This is facilitated by different factors based on the historical aspect or trend within the industry. Since it opened its doors back in 1930, Grumman has witnessed a tremendous growth and drop within the industry (Northrop Grumman, 2013). The company was initially founded by six members plus fifteen different employees within one year as they fulfilled the first government contract. The following analysis provides a clear analysis on the downsizing in the aerospace industry through focusing on the Grumman Aerospace Corp.

Analysis

Grumman military aircraft traces back in 1933 after ...

First globalization:

Abstract Globalization is a process that has gradually developed over the years. It is an aspect of the society that is very important. It is an aspect that is attributed to increased development in technology mainly in the sectors of transport and communication. Globalization has led to the development of global trade and economic development. However, throughout its history it has been met with several challenges, and the most common are the two world wars. These were two periods in history that were characterized with great destructions and losses. Transport and communication stagnated as well as economic development. However, ...

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Otto von Bismarck in the nineteenth century formed the only German state that three quarters of a century later, has been killed by his own unbridled audacity (Rose, 2013). Bismarck as the founder of the Reich announced that created new Germany is satisfied in its aspirations. But the successors of the first chancellor, and especially Kaiser Wilhelm II considered the Bismarck’s opinion modest and unworthy of a nation that costs more. Dissatisfied ambitions were the cause of both world wars, and that had brought to the German people nothing but misery and suffering. In 1945, the Germans were again forced ...

The terms modernism and modernity have presented a lot of ambiguity in the literature world. Modernism refers to the reactions people had to modernity. Modernity symbolizes the changes that came about in the world in the 19th century. Most of the major changes that came to the world happened in the years 1890-1960 the period from the occurrence of the First World War to the Second World War (Haferkamp and Smelser 26). The First World War brought about major change in chemical weaponry, rise of wireless communication, machine guns, aircraft and armored vehicles among other changes. The First World War ...

Many issues have changed and revolutionized with the changing times in the world. Artistic features have changed in many aspects that include style, design, and themes among other elements that describe art in general. Technology and innovation are the key forces behind the differences noted from the world presented in the ancient times and modern days. Many artistic elements and forms that include buildings, music, paintings, sculptures and drawings among others display certain changes when compared to the work done in the modern times. These changes and revolutions witnessed in the past have been associated with certain developments or ...

- How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to two of the following: Relief, Recovery, Reform. The Great Depression is a title of the economic depression in the world in the decade before the World War II. It was the longest and the deepest economic decline in 20th century. The Great Depression in the United States started in August, 1929, when economic recession was first observed in the country. The Wall Street Crash in 1929, the biggest stock market crash in the US history, signaled the ...

Luebbert presented an article about form of political regimes that existed in Europe between the World War I and World War II. In his description, the author has indicated that in the period between the two world wars, four types of political regimes dominated various parts of Europe. Through the analysis has shown the existence of the traditional dictatorship that he indicated was dominant in the Eastern Europe, the pluralist democracy that was common with the British, social or corporatist democracy, which was a common regime in Norway and the fascism that was common in Germany (Lubbert 449). The description ...

Nations are often defined by their music – music has been used for centuries to depict the patriotism and values of a state or country, and America is no exception. The history of America’s patriotic music in particular is fascinating, and traces the country’s evolution from British offshoot, to bombastic independent nation, all the way through the difficulties of the Civil War, two World Wars, Vietnam and beyond. More than just anthems, American patriotic music allows music historians to track the national consciousness at the time at which these songs were penned and popularized – the way people sing about ...

Discuss this statement in relation to two areas of knowledge.

Philosophy Philosophical assumptions relating the theory of knowledge aspire towards an understanding of and differentiating among belief, truth and justification. Over the ages since Immanuel Khant’s propositions regarding enlightenment philosophers are still struggling to define and conceptualize the term in relation to knowledge acquisition, revision and validation. As such, in perceiving that ‘knowledge is nothing more than the systematic organization of facts’ it would become necessary to define knowledge and facts. Subsequently, a detailed differentiation between the two will be embraced and thereafter conclusions derived from the exposition in relation to two are of knowledge namely religion and ...

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Introduction

The emergence of a collective consciousness towards attaining an enduring kind of peace among different nations of the world has helped foster the concept of human rights. The emergence of the United Nations (UN), a supranational covenant between several nations, has made human rights a compelling concept following years of international conflicts brought by the First and Second World Wars. Whereas there is an understanding that the concept of human rights constantly change over time, it is also equally agreeable that not all people agree with the concept of UN on human rights. At ...

Introduction

The First and Second World Wars led to very many changes in Europe and the world in general. After the war, the six nations, which include Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, based on the Schuman plan decided to sign a treaty that would help them run their industries of coal and steel under a common management. This decision was reached with a view of ensuring that no member country could on their own make weapons of war and turn against each other as had been witnessed in the past. The aboriginal/indigenous people of Canada also participated in the wars ...

INTRODUCTION

The modern century is defined by greater merging between different cultures and religions. This can be greatly attributed to the fact that globalization has become significant in the society we live in. globalization can be referred to as the level at which nations merge their relationships based on social, economical or political ties. According to Ruthven globalization has been praised as tool that has greatly improved the way in which nations relate to each other (32). The launch of globalization was first heightened after the world wars nations released the need for peace and harmonious living. Many authors and ...

World history is fraught with violence. From time immemorial, violence has been regarded as the only solution to all human conflicts. There have been two world wars within a gap of less than 20 years. Both the world wars were the deadliest in nature that history had even seen, with WW1 claiming over 37 million lives and WW2 over 60 million lives, about 2.5% of the total world population then. Going back to the history of medieval and early modern Europe, we would see an era embroiled in bloodbath. Violence and lawlessness describe the tumultuary state of medieval Europe best ...

Throughout American history, different ethnic groups have faced different challenges. The Native Americans obviously were treated very differently than the Irish, for example, and the Chinese were particularly singled out for treatment which included banning them from attaining citizenship at all in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. African Americans obviously also suffered greatly, not only during slavery but also after its abolishment, and with even greater difficulties being accepted by white society even to this day given their appearance and a complexion that was impossible to hide. Yet other groups attained wide acceptance, including Germans, English, and Scots. Andrew ...

Introduction

It is not in doubt that both World War One and World War Two left an indelible mark on the global landscape both literary and otherwise. The two world wars were momentous events throughout the history of human civilization. Millions of lives of soldiers and civilians were lost during the two wars. Very many crimes against humanity were committed during the two wars. However, the two wars served as important catalysts in the transformation of the political and socio-economic environment around the world and Europe in particular. The two wars accelerated the downfall of many feudal kingdoms that existed ...

Why is the US, and not the European Union, a superpower?

Since the end of the great World Wars and the infamous Cold War, the United States has been referred as the world’s only ‘superpower’, capable of deterring any opposition and leading the international community in any issue. Even at present, the US remains at the helm of the international community in political, economic, and social context. However, many experts believe that the European Union should be considered a superpower despite the losses it had acquired in the great wars since Europe is now united under one flag unlike before. The EU is also a frontrunner when it comes to international ...

International Security

Debatably, the most potent lesson that all nations learnt from the first and second world wars, is the fact that sustaining war is one of the most expensive forms of public spending. War can drain the economic strength of a country to an extent that a country can shift from a first class economy to a middle income economy. Historians have always had to look at war as a detrimental social phenomenon that has negative impacts on the economic development of the state h, as well as the country building process. Contrary to this assumption, war has positive aspects as well. In the contexts ...

According to Kolin, "Wars allow state power to expand in scope and scale so that government can create a steady, permanent erosion of civil liberties and the rule of law" (Kolin, Chapter 2). In the case of World War I, this was indeed the case - the First World War changed and shaped our nation in many ways, giving us both a unique hold on the world economy and responsibilities toward our citizens and those abroad. The expanding state of power and propaganda in the US as a result of the First World War a very bad thing, having made America responsible for a ...

The United States attempted to maintain neutrality initially during World War II. There were two main reasons that this was done: business and politics. The United States was recovering from the Great Depression and was finding ways to make money from countries during the war. President Roosevelt was running for reelection.

Germany was dependent on oil from outside of its own borders and the borders of countries that it controlled. Before Germany controlled Rumania, oil was seen being carted on tanker cars for Germany with the words American Essolube and German – American Oil Company on the side. This is ...

Sex, As a Commodity

In the development of human civilisation, people were exchanging good for various payments; many material objects and services were treated as a commodity. On the other hand, the most universal commodities were and remain a human being and its sexuality. Through ages, the most popular and existential profession was prostitution. On the other hand, there was no society which would mind against arranged marriages and selling of sexuality for certain benefits under particular circumstances. Just as centuries ago, sex and favouritism was a key to power, it remained a means for certain goals achievement. In this context, the aim of the present paper ...

National interest is not easy a concept to define. This is because it has been interpreted and understood differently by different people in various situations. The concept takes many forms and definitions. The major phases of the concept are: the survival of a nation, the welfare of a nation as a whole and most paramount the security of a nation (Benjamin et al, 1999). National interest is a common term during political campaigns. The political aspirants use the term in an attempt to describe their foreign policy package. They use the term national policy to demonstrate their attachment to their nation-the degree of patriotism and ...

Total war was the product of modern, industrial society and the tremendous advances in science and technology that were applied to the development of new weapons like the machine gun, the submarine, poison gas, the airplane and the atomic bomb. To be sure, warfare had always been brutal and atrocities were commonplace long before the invention of modern weapons, but in the world wars of the 20th Centuries, all of the industrial, scientific and economic power of advanced societies were applied to warfare, while the distinctions between civilians and soldiers disappeared as cities were carpet bombed out of existence. ...

When did images begin to become important to the exercise of cultural, social, and political power in the United States?

The history of the image in terms of social, cultural and political power in the United States can be traced back to the first newspapers to be released - ever since Joseph Pulitzer published the World in 1882, featuring pictures and contests to attract new readers and add to the content of newspapers, images have become an important part of establishing American culture and history. With the beginning of the pictoral age of newsmaking came the sensationalism of entertaining stories that would galvanize the people and appeal to emotions. The 1890s saw the beginning of muckraking and yellow journalism, ...

New Imperialism

In the history of human civilization, one of the main tendencies was supremacy of certain classes or states over the others. In this or that way, some states were more advanced in technological and conceptual development than others. The difference in developmental perspectives and simple inconsistency in ethno-cultural traditions were leading to unequal position of states on the world arena. The best example of such inequality was the phenomenon of imperialism. While the first wave of imperialism was relatively homogenous in its nature, the second wave or new imperialism was characterized by diversity of approaches and subsequent consequences mainly ...

Many people do not feel that Adolf Hitler could be considered as one of the people who made worthwhile contributions to the development of the body of knowledge. Rather, many feel that he was just an individual who precipitated much trouble for the people living in his era. He participated in precipitation of the world wars. Yet, there are some famous quotes by Hitler that gets one to see another side of him as discussed in the essay below.

History – Adolf Hitler

For many people, it is hard to imagine that Adolf Hitler, the German dictator who supervised the killing of so ...

The war experience for soldiers in the various wars such as the Vietnam War, the two world wars and the civil wars were quite different. There is however some similar experiences that both soldiers can also share. In this paper, we shall be focusing on the differences and the similarities that the soldiers had in terms of their experiences.

Similarities

The first similarity of their experiences is that the soldiers had to know that they were making a sacrifice for their nation. This did not matter whether they had been trained for war or not. All they had to keep at ...

Abstract

Over the years, technology has been improving day after day, with each new discovery opening up the world to an all new lifestyle. It is the advent of technology that has created the phenomenon currently referred to as the global village, since technology has enabled people from far and wide to interact with ease. Technology also has impact on individual countries such as America, as explained in the essay below.

Influence of technology on the isolation of America

For a long time, the Americas had been isolated from the rest of the world, be it in terms of academics or technical advancements. Even during the world wars, America ...

In various parts across the world, people have had different perspectives concerning wars, uprisings and rebellions since civilization of man and the formation of centralized forms of governance. This is because in many regions they have been seen to change situations within an administrative system when peaceful negotiations fail to bear fruits. However, from a critical observation of wars across the world and over long periods of time, it is evident that they have both positive and negative impacts in various sectors of the society, including the social, political and economical set-up of that particular society. This assignment therefore seeks ...

Traditionally, wars were fought over land, wealth, feuds and women. However, this was a time when nations were not capable of triggering global. Industrialization and the development of weapons technology changed this drastically and the two great World Wars are testimonies to the impact that conflict in one part of the world can have on global politics.

Hence, war, post the World Wars, became increasingly about defense than offence. As the Cold War ended with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the U.S. foreign policy, that had for long been focused on containing communism, lost direction1. The new grand strategy that ...

The end of the Civil War saw the Confederacy, who had intended to secede from the Union in order to protect their right to own slaves, among other reasons, defeated and in a poor position economically. In order to successfully bring them back into the Union and thoroughly unite the two sides of the country, a rough period of Reconstruction followed. The first thing that needed to happen was to rebuild the South, whose economy was in ruins – eleven major cities were severely damaged by warfare, and healthy farmland and livestock were hard to find. 1 Part of the Union’ ...

British Exports

Even before the world wars that have struck around the globe, the United Kingdom has always maintained a self-sufficient and stable economy as they kick started the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Through the world wars, it has managed to sustain the damages and still continuously support itself through exports they have presented around the globe. Since the inception of the European Communities and to its evolution as the European Union, the UK remains to be a strong force in the group. Upon the entrance of the new currency, the Euro; the UK did not incorporate it to their system as their ...

Revolution in military

Revolution in military affairs can be attributed to use of new processes and new tools of waging war like system of systems, command and control, as well as network-centric warfare, all driven by information technology. The term “Revolution in Military Affairs” is used to refer to a major shift in the nature of fighting which is as a result of the application of new technologies which adjusts the nature and accomplishment of military actions, when these technologies are pooled with organizational and operational concepts as well as vivid changes in military doctrine, (Theodor, 1995, pp.3-9). The concept of revolution in ...

1. In what ways do you see society change in the first half of the 20th Century and how are those changes reflected in fashion? In the first half of the 20th Century our society has experienced changes, which have never been so rapid before. Two World Wars and the Great Depression completely changed people’s lifestyle and their understanding of the world. These changes could be seen everywhere: in art, music and sports. Surely, fashion could not be unaffected. Having become emancipated, women demanded more freedom in their dresses. The rationalism of the wartime dictated the necessity ...

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European Union: Peril or Panacea?

The European Union (EU) is a collective of twenty-seven countries who came together at the end of the Second World War in the pursuit of peace and cooperation. Since joining together, the European Union has helped to bring about just over half a century of “peace, stability and prosperity.” (Europa, 2011). The Union’s main focus is to unify Europe and to “make war unthinkable and materially impossible” (Schuman, 1949) as discussed by the then French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman in his proposal to form a ‘supranational’ community which became the EU. Following the horrors of the First and ...

Book Review on Walter Russell Mead's, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

The book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead gives an analysis of the United States’ foreign policy and the effects that it has had to different parts of the world. The author lays more emphasis on the origin and the history of the US foreign policy, the developments it has had and the effects that the foreign policy to both the United States and other countries across the globe. This book gives a very good history of the America’s foreign policy. The author offers a cerebral outline which is based on ...

ROLLS-ROYCE COMPANY

The Rolls-Royce Company is a house hold name in the motor industry. The business was ideally started by Henry Royce at around 1844. Henry built his first motor car in 1904. A partnership with Charles Rolls saw the expansion of the business. The manufactured cars would be sold by the CS Rolls & Co in the agreement reached by the two business individuals. It is after this partnership that business became successful prompting the two partners to form the Roll Royce Company. This was in 1906 in the month of March. It is still within this year that the Silver ...

Human rights refer to the freedom and fundamental rights to which all individuals are at liberty. They comprise of political and civil rights. Examples of freedom and rights include freedom of expression, right to liberty and life, fairness before the bylaw; economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the right to take part in traditions, the right to work, the right to eat, and the right to get educated. Civil rights on the other hand ensure of individuals’ safety and physical integrity defense from prejudice on grounds such as mental or physical disability, race, gender, age, religion among ...