The Deception of Hitler
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(5 pp) It has been said that the best way to learn of history, is not from the facts in a book but rather from the stories or memories of someone who was in the experience, in this case it makes it even more intriguing because. "the truth," is about deception itself. In wartime, truth is so precious, that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Major Richard G. Ricklefs Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Decline of Spain in the 17th Centruy:
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This 5 page paper examines Spain in the 17th century and reveals the nature of its decline. Many examples and details are given which reveal how this powerful and influential nation was able to decline so quickly at this time. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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(5 pp) There are times when we are hearing a story, or an event told by a friend, and we almost automatically say, I can't imagine that. Perhaps that is even why some of us have such a great enjoyment of reading, in that it expands our sense of imagination. We can imagine more as we experience the stories of others. It has been said that the best way to learn of history is not from the facts in a book, but rather from the stories or memories of someone who was in the experience. Such is the case of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
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The Growth Miracle(s) of Germany’s Economy, 1871 to Present
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This 16 page report discusses the economic perspectives of: the German Empire that was founded in 1871; the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and Germany’s economic standing; World War I years; the years between the wars; World War II; post-war recovery; the Wirtschaftswunder (“economic miracle”); and, the “second” reunification. It shows how it came about that the German economy was the world’s third largest at the end of the 20th century came to a close. In fact, it accounted for somewhat more than one-fourth of the entire European Union’s gross domestic product or GDP. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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The Ideological Relationship Between the World Wars
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This 5 page paper provides an explanation for the origins of each World War and how they both prompted technological innovation. The wars are compared and contrasted as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Importance of a United Europe
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This 7 page paper looks at the European Union as well as the history of Europe. The theory of neofunctionalism is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Importance of Germany in European History
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A 6 page paper which discusses the history of Germany as it involves general European development, illustrating how Germany often played an important role in Europe's history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Individual and Society: The Construction of “Unreal” Existences from the Experience of Horror, Terror and Fear as Found in “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “The Survivor”, and “Wild Swans”
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This is a 10 page paper discussing the alteration of realities through horror and terror in Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1928), Terrence Des Pres’ “The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps” (1976), and Jung Chang’s “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” (1991). Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1928), Terrence Des Pres’ “The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps” (1976), and Jung Chang’s “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” (1991), all tell stories of individuals within societies whose lives and perceptions of reality become altered by experiences of horror, terror and fear from massive events in history. Remarque’s “All Quiet” tells the tale of a young German soldier, Baumer, during World War I and how his concept of life and reality only is considered through death and destruction. Humans for Baumer, become animals in the horror of war and his reality about his emotions is skewed in terms of the value of life. In “The Survivor” Des Pres retells accounts of the Nazi death camps during World War II. The survivors of the death camps are able to recount their tales of survivor and horror in the camps but in many cases their reality is skewed by their experiences in that they cannot fully explain the events in terms of their five senses and linear time. Their lives and terror became “unreal” and not a part of the real world. Similarly, Chang’s “Wild Swans” tells the autobiographical stories of three generations of Chinese women who all experienced different terrors first through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people lived in fear and altered their actions and thoughts to conform to those which were inflicted upon them. In all three generations, the women witnessed those who were prosecuted for alternate views and reality existed outside of their own world. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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The Inevitability of World War Two
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The Inevitability of World War Two: This 7-page essay examines the myriad of attempts made to maintain world peace after the end of WWI. Despite the numerous efforts at mediation/ arbitration inherent in the treaties, agreements, conferences, etc., the growing dissention between nations made another World War imminent. The disparities between nations were just too insurmountable. Bibliography lists 6 sources. SNNopeac.doc
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The Influence of Colonialism on the Development of the Middle East
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This 5 page paper examines the impact of the colonial rule and orientalism over the development of Middle Eastern politics particularly in terms of state formation, nationalism and economic development. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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The Jewish Response to Nazism in the Weimar, Nazi Germany and Nazi-Occupied Europe
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This is a 12 page paper discussing the Jewish response to Nazism from the 1920s to early 1940s in Germany and Europe. From the time after the First World War and the German defeat until the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Nazis, the Jewish response to Nazism changed in intensity in accordance with the increasing persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and in perspective through political and economic means and eventually through armed and spiritual resistance. Politically, the Jews were well represented within the Weimar Republic which was the established form of governance after World War I. The Nazi Party used the poor Germany economy and the Jewish membership in the Weimar in their opposition and push against the Republic. Throughout the 1920s, the Nazi opposition against the Weimar and the Nazi open declaration to remove the Jews from Germany led many Jews to leave Germany for other parts of Europe, Britain and North America. When the Weimar ended in 1933 and Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party had gained the political power in Germany, the Jewish business community on a national and an international basis devised an economic boycott of Germany with the hopes of ending the Hitler regime. This however only resulted in the Nazi’s further restrictions against the Jews and their transfer from their homes into Jewish ghettos throughout Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe. Even within these ghettos, Jews responded with increasing armed and spiritual resistance which further intensified with the Nazi transfer of the Jews into the concentration and extermination camps as part of the process of Hitler’s “final solution”. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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The Marshall Plan and Germany
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A 5 page paper which examines how the Marshall Plan affected Europe, with a predominant focus on Germany. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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