World War II

Intro: We will study an extract of an epistolary novel named The Literary and potato peel pie society. It’s about the world of book, writing, around the history of the members of a book club (the LPPPS) created during the word war two and relates the conditions of life imposed by the German occupation. In the first part we will talk about the characters and in the second part we will talk about the setting, time and historic context. Plan: I/These letters are sent between Juliet Ashton, the

In 1959, Mary Barstow Rockwell died of a heart attack. Then, Norman and his son Thomas produced his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, which was published in 1960 and in 1961, Rockwell married Molly Punderson. World War II In 1943, during the Second World War, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms series, which was completed in seven months and resulted in his losing 15 pounds. The series was inspired by a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he described four principles for universal

generosity. He began his mission in 1931 when he received an inheritance from his family. He didn't want this inheritance, so he distributed his possessions to a lot of charity organizations. He became a priest on August 14th, 1938. During the Second World War, he accommodated many Jews in the free zone and he resisted against the German Army. But in May 1943, he was arrested by the German Army in Cambo-les-Bains. He broke out of prison and crossed over to Spain to meet General De Gaulle on June 17th in

Introduction Decolonization in different parts of the world had consequences which are still visible today. From this point of view, the partition of former British Raj offers a concrete example. In 1947, India and Pakistan became independent. On the one hand, India is a multicultural state and lay, and on the other hand Pakistan is an Islamic and centralized state. The Kashmir problem is therefore as old as India and Pakistan since it was born from the partition of the colonial

Cristina RUSU 2009 Table of contents WHY SUCH A THEME? 3 HOW IT STARTED 4 THE NAME 5 THE COCA-COLA"CONTOUR BOTTLE" design 6 THE WODERUFF LEGACY 6 WWII 7 I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE 8 THE NEW COKE 10 A WORLD OF CRITICS 11 COCA COLA NOW – „The Coke side of life“ 12 DID YOU KNOW? 13 BIBLIOGRAFY 14 WHY SUCH A THEME? They started their journey with no end in their mind. That is the way to start any journey, in my opinion

JONES DAVID KIRON Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914 In 1914, the Singer Sewing Machine Company (Singer) held a 90% share of all sewing machine sales outside the United States and was the seventh-largest firm in the world.1 By successfully developing the huge, but far-flung, Russian market, reinvigorating the industrial revolution in Great Britain, and transforming the lives of countless millions, Singer became the world’s first successful multinational company. Although

Eugénie de Montijo. Through his experience with French royalty, he developed advanced knowledge of what made a good traveling case. It was then that he began to design his own luggage, setting the foundations for LV Co.[4] From foundations to World War IIThe Louis Vuitton label was founded by Vuitton in 1854 on Rue Neuve des Capucines in Paris.[3] In 1858, Vuitton introduced his flat-bottom trunks with trianon canvas, making them lightweight and airtight.[3] Before the introduction of Vuitton's

the Second World War, America became the decision maker of the world, on the financial level, military, political, cultural and economic. The Marshall plan in 1947 shows the degree of membership of the countries of Western Europe to this economic giant, then in 1949 with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), on the military level. Moreover English is the international language and liberalism is exported in more and more expending countries. The supremacy of the USA on the world confers a decision-making

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competition ad perhaps even war? This paper aims at showing that in spite of an increasing competition and mistrust between the US and China (I), an open conflict between the two powers seems unlikely to happen (II). Here, “open conflict” means a state of openly declared and often prolonged fight between two countries. But this US-China relationship should rather evolve towards an informal conflict leaning on an influential struggle over Asia and the rest of the world (III). In front of the impossibility