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The readings and images that were provided to us had a common theme of World Wide Human Rights.  These human rights were aimed to benefit everyone, but more the minority.  The Family of Men was a series of pictures taken from over 200 photographers displaying the element so humanity.  Fred Turner stated  “The Family of Man’s middlebrow … Continue reading “The Universal Human Rights Movement?”

After World War Two, soldiers came home to America, tired, torn, and battered, with psychological and physical scars that would last a lifetime.  As they tried to settle into life back in America, e.g. working, marrying, and raising a family, Continue reading Veterans lose Unemployment Benefits, despite Hardships→

The Keloid Girls were a little known group of Japanese girls who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Scarred and disfigured in horrendous ways they became outcasts and pariahs to their people. In an effort to provide aid to the victims of the war and to gain positive publicity and take attention away from anti … Continue reading “Hiroshima Maidens”

Veterans have always had a hard time adjusting back to civilian life after war. Government assistance is often required for a veteran to successfully re-enter civilian life. The longer and or more brutal the war the harder for a veteran to rehabilitate generally speaking. World War II was both long and brutal and posed significant … Continue reading “Veteran Rehabilitation”

At the end of World War II countless lives had been uprooted, vast numbers of people were homeless and looking for new places to live. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear displaced persons in context to post WWII is the foundation of Israel. The event that stands out to me is … Continue reading “Displaced Persons”

http://www.mconway.net/page1/page15/files/Shock%20of%20Atomic%20Bomb.pdf http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1109877 The first thing I noticed about the article about the Hiroshima Maidens is the difference in attitude about the acceptance of western culture versus the traditional culture. The way the Japanese people handled the recovery and remembrance of the Hiroshima bombing and the aftermath, including the Hiroshima Maidens, showed how the country was … Continue reading “Wages of Destruction- Parker Manning”

The discussion of veterans benefits and the rights and privileges of veterans from World War Two based upon the country that the veterans fought for can be diverse because of the nature of the conflict and the aftermath in which allies that had fought together against Germany and Japan ended up having a ideological standoff … Continue reading “Veteran’s Post- Parker Manning”

Blogging is certainly not a strong point for me in my academic career, so I need to work on it in order to contribute better to the field because it allows us to communicate our thoughts more freely and casually than formal papers only shared between student and professor. The displaced persons situation in Europe … Continue reading “Displaced Persons Blog Post Parker Manning”

As the Second World War came to a close, the Allies were faced with a very difficult decision. Having already won the won in Europe, the Allies, but primarily the United States, had to decide whether invade the island of … Continue reading →

After World War Two, the entire world was zooming in different directions. Millions of people were still suffering. Millions of other people were celebrating. And millions of people were dead due to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soldiers returned home suffering from physical injuries, and mental ones, injuries that couldn’t be seen but that […]