Hitler’s Original strategy was to conquer all of Western Europe, then move on to Russia. Before the war he signed a non-aggression pact with Josef Stalin, the Czar of Russi...
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Message
In his address to Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) speaks urgently and fluently about our need to act, or more specifically, o...
Man’s attempt to create a ‘civilized’ and ‘cultured’ society inevitably leads to the suppression of genuine emotion and impulse; these feelings and behaviors are hel...
Soldier’s Home
Soldier’s Home is a short-story by the world-famous writer Ernest Hemingway. Reading only the title, we imagine an older solider telling us about his exper...
The rise of documentary filmmaking in the wartime period made popular in Japan what would be one of the most influential styles of filmmaking. Documentary film is based on th...
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”(Historian David McCullough)
The time line of modern America ho...
War with Iraq
Bush Administration’s Greatest Mistake
On March 20th next year, US will celebrate its five-year anniversary of invading Iraq! But the question that bothe...
Women’s Role in Inanna
It is fascinating how the world has changed from the beginning of the ages until what we call modern time. The situation each human often finds his...
Over the past seven years, the United States has been engaged in the War on Terror and U.S. servicemen have been abroad, stationed in remote areas of the world protecting free...
Canada in 15 years
When I see the Canadian economy over the next 15 years, I anticipate the following macro-economic indicators: Canada will continue its economic growth thr...
ompany History
Swissair was formed by the merger of BalAir and AdAstra on March 26, 1931.
The new company had 13 aircraft, 64 employees, and flew from Zurich to 4 domestic a...
Emma - Understanding Jane Austen's World
Pamela Whalan has been a member of the Study Day Committee of JASA since 1999 and has been involved in the successful presentation...
“Is Iran’s Nuclear Activity an Issue of National Sovereignty?”
Iran's nuclear program began in the mid-1970s with help from the West. Iran was a key ally in the US st...
“Is Iran’s Nuclear Activity an Issue of National Sovereignty?”
Iran's nuclear program began in the mid-1970s with help from the West. Iran was a key ally in the US st...
Women During World War II
Traditionally the woman’s place was thought to be in the home. She was responsible for cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, and lookin...
Dolores Price of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone (1992) tells the story of her life through the experience of television and how it warped her sensibiliti...
The al-Qaeda of today is a vastly different entity from the al-Qaeda formed by Osama bin Laden towards the end of the Afghan war against the Soviets in 1988 (Alexander and Swe...