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The Second Global WarThe Second Global War, which started with the assassination of the Turkish Prime Minister in Belgrade in July of 1911, ended up engulfing the whole world, with only a few nations managing not to get involved, most notably Switzerland and Denmark-Norway. The war itself only ended five years later with the surrender of the last British and Confederate armies in 1916, and after an estimated 12.5 million young men had been killed, and over one trillion dollars had been spent by all the powers on the five year war.
New weapons, such as the "landship" (nicknamed the "tank" by some based on its design, and the name stuck), and poison gas made its combat debut during the course of the war, while weapons such as the airplane, the machine gun and the submarine, which had been used in previous wars, had found their role in "modern warfare", and would later have their role expanded in future conflicts.
The war, which ended with the German surrender at 10:00, on September 10, 1916, resulted in victory for the Grand Alliance, lead by France, Russia and the United States of America, over the United Coalition, headed by the United Kingdom, Germany and the Confederate States of America. Vast swaths of land are transferred between the victors and losers, and the defeated were forced to pay reparations and had their military's restricted and modern weapons dismantled.
But it wasn't just the defeated who paid for the war: Emperor Louis, who many said was the "saber-rattler" of the pre-war era, remarked that it was a "Pyrrhic Victory", and that "...this war defies all the notions of war that anybody may have had before. Any romantic and glorious vision of battle that we may have had in 1911 is gone now in 1917; replaced with death, sorrow, misery."In all, over 40 million casualties (killed, wounded and missing) on all sides were estimated, out of a guessed 95 million men who were called to the colours by all nations. it was estimated that, in present dollars, that over $850 billion dollars was spent by all nations in their war efforts. Enormous stretches of productive land in Europe, Asia, North and South America were laid waste, and, more so than in any other time, the people at home were exposed to the terrors of war: bombing, artillery, occupation and resistance.
The outbreak of the "Soldier's Flu" at the end of the war, so called because the sickness came at the time of the demobilization of soldiers at the end of the war, so many assumed that the flu spread because of the movement of the soldiers back home. The flu eventually resulted in the death of over 25 million, even more than had been killed in the battlefields months before. But as quickly as the flu struck, it had disappeared by the winter of 1917.
Blaming the Defeat
Almost as soon as the armistice was signed, the job of blaming the failure of the war began, and almost always resulted in persecution and racism directed at multiple cultures and the politicians. In Germany, the collapse of the Army and the Reich in the last four months of the war was blamed on the Jews, the "spineless" politicians and the Communists, especially after the "September Revolt" by Communists in several major cities. The defeat of the so called "Socialist Republic of Germany" resulted in men having to be drawn from the fronts of the war to put the failed state down. Britain, her army having never actually been defeated on the continent, instead blamed the Irish and the African forces brought to Europe during the war for the defeat, and a wave of prejudice and racism swept the empire. Canada specifically targeted the Indians, most of whom supported her enemies, especially Assiniboia, though the Quebecois also contributed, seeing the war as an "English revenge" for the failure of expanding west in the 1870's. The Confederate States of America blamed the former slaves and the entrenched politicians and generals in the army, who earned their stripes and stars based mostly on their ancestry than merit alone. Also, the constant opposition to expanding industrial production in the conservative country was also seen as a major factor.
In every defeated nation, new right wing political parties were formed to "take back the country" and "rebuild her pride," while Socialist and Communist parties also gained influence, though were hampered by their opposition to war and nationalism.
The "Brave New World"The end of the war resulted in the collapse of several empires: The Ottoman Empire fell into Civil War, which resulted in the creation of the Balkan Confederacy, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Arabian Union by the end of the war in 1922, with Turkey being reduced to a small rump state. In Asia, the Emperor of China was forced from power, and China fell into civil war between different groups and warlords, which Japan and Russia used as an excuse to expand their power into the devastated nation.
The redrawing of the map in Europe resulted in nations created in the First Global War being "united" with the nations they were formerly part of. But the biggest loser was Germany, which was forced to surrender land to Austria-Hungary, Poland, France, the Netherlands and Russia. And, according to the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war between the Grand Alliance and Germany, Germany was reduced to an army of 150,000, and all submarines, airplanes and tanks were to be dismantled, and reparations totaling over 10 billion francs were to be paid. The abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the establishment of the so called Frankfurt Republic, left the German people bitter, being "stabbed in the back" by the same officials who had just took power, or so the Generals and nationalists claimed.
Depression and Revolution
By forcing the nations that were defeated to pay reparations, many, such as Argentina, Germany and the Confederacy were forced into near bankruptcy, massive hyper-inflation and economic crisis. Millions of soldiers who had just suffered through years of war came home to be confronted with unemployment and starvation, while an entire generation was nearly destroyed: either killed, injured or emotionally devastated by the war.
During the war, the Russian Bolshevik party, lead by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Josef Stalin, attempted to seize power from the Romanov dynasty in the First Bolshevik Revolt. Czar Nicholas II, although nearly captured in the fight in St Petersburg, was able to escape, and later lead the army that crushed the short-lived Soviet Republic of Russia, killing Stalin and trying Lenin to life imprisonment. The leader of the Russian Socialist Union, Leon Trotsky, called him "a brave, but foolhardy man." Trotsky was part of the coalition in the Duma that had agreed to the war, and was elected the first post-war Prime Minister of Russia, and he enacted reforms of the army and the economy that were exposed in the light of the war.
Other revolutions gripped China, defeated by the Russian's and the Japanese in the war, and soon groups from Chang Kai-shek's Nationalist Front to Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party, as well as multiple other warlords and political factions, all fought to try to take over the government, which had started with the abdication of the Chinese Emperor in 1915 after the defeats brought on by Japan and Russia.
The Rise of National Socialism
Other revolutions took place in Argentina, which ended with the radical Argentinean Socialist Front, lead by Nicolás Repetto, to take power in 1923. He worked hard to rebuild the economy of the devastated nation, and soon brought some semblance of stability, while imprisoning his opponents and taking away many rights, such as free speech and free press. His "National Socialism", as he called it, soon became the model for many other groups throughout the world, though few would be as successful as him until after the stock market crash of 1930.
The basic tenets of Repetto's National Socialism was that Marxist theory that said nationalism and socialism are not compatible is wrong, and that they can be harnessed together, to bring individualistic nations together, and that the government can control the industry and all productive businesses for a common, "National" goal. Repetto believed that apart, socialism and nationalism could not work separately, as the people won't support the government taking over the nation to create a classless and "united" world if their is no symbol or idea that can hold the people together to achieve this goal, while they would support Nationalistic parties, even if they don't have a goal or ideal, as they use the ideas of "nation", "strength" and "superiority" to bring the people together.
The "Booming 20's"
The era after the original recession at the end of the Second Global War soon turned into an era of increased prosperity and technological revolution that brought much of the world economy back from the depths of the war.
In the United States, the presidency of Eugene V. Debs, the first Socialist president in the nations history, was a time of victory and prosperity, and he was long seen as one of the greatest presidents of the Union. Despite his opposition to the war the US was thrown into, he managed to rally the nation and drive back the Confederate invasion, and ultimately capture Kentucky and Western and Northern Virginia, as well as the sparsely populated Oregon Territory from Britain and Desert Territory from the Pacific Republic. His successor, Charles Edward Russell presided over one of the largest booms in American history: prices dropped, factory outputs soared, and the move from rural to urban areas accelerated. This was also the case in the other nations of North America, such as Assiniboia and Alyseka, though in Canada and the Confederacy, the difficulty of paying reparations drained heavily on the economy, though the government tried to do its best to hide this from the people, relying on borrowing and tariffs to raise the funds needed.
The Kulturverschiebung
As the memories of the war time hardships and deprivations were slowly replaced by cheap and plentiful consumer products, low unemployment rates and large amounts of disposable income for some and cheap credit for many more, allowed many to purchase products only available to the rich before the war, such as radio's, novels and other forms of entertainment, including some of the first motion pictures, such as the well known Birth of a Nation by Confederate D. W. Griffith, which was finally finished after the war in 1920, detailing the creation of the Confederacy, and the well known Napoleon released in France in 1923 by Jacques Feyder about the rise of the first Emperor of the Empire. Both these movies were seen to have reawakened the nationalistic feelings of the nations they were released, and both were heavily supported by nationalistic parties: Thomas Dixon, Jr., the writer of the book of the same name that influenced Birth of a Nation and a President of the Confederacy and the right wing in France for Napoleon.
In other places such as the US and Russia, waves such as Jazz and art deco architecture heavily influenced the post war period, and the medium of radio was highly influential throughout the industrialized world, bringing news and entertainment to millions, while motion pictures, besides the few mentioned above, were escapist fantasies and comedies, and such actors as Charlie Chaplain in Britain, Douglas Fairbanks in the US and Max Linder in France delighting audiences. However, the right decried the "collapse" of social values, which many linked to the "watershed" moment of the Second Great War which brought an end to the Victorian Era: shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences, the social values of previous age was virtually destroyed, replaced by a "you only live once" social perception.
The "National Socialist Experiment"
Elsewhere in Europe, the experiment of national socialism in South America was seen as the only way to restore the defeated nations to prosperity, especially in Germany and Britain, which were suffering from weak, ineffective government, hyperinflation and the bitterness of being forced into "submission" by the victorious powers of the war all lead to extremist groups in multiple states to come to power. The first was General Benito Mussolini in Italy, de-facto head of the Nazionale Partito Socialista d'Italia, the National Socialist Party of Italy, in 1925. After a bloody coup, the charismatic Italian military officer was named the acting-President of the Italian Republic, but he soon called for Italy to rise, and regain the "Glory of the Roman Empire for the Modern Age." He nationalized heavy industry, transport and the banks, though small shops were allowed to remain in private hands, but under tight government control. All opposing politicians were arrested, and either forced into exile or silence, or sent to "concentration camps" in the Alps or Sicily.
Ernst Röhm, who had rose to the rank of Major in the German Army before being demobilized in the forced downsizing of the armed forces, was one of the founders of a radical communist group in the aftermath of the war, but he left soon after, mostly because the majority were devout Marxist's, and believed Nationalism is incompatible with Communism. Röhm knew that German's were very nationalistic, and that they wanted revenge for the "stab in the back", so he left to found the German United Front in 1924, but, with the onset of the economic boom, he could not achieve any power in Germany, and the Frankfurt Republic was beginning to get itself working together. That, and the assassination of a Communist leader in Munich lead to the forced disbandment of the extreme groups in the "Hamburg Laws" in 1926, and the arrest of the more vocal leaders. Röhm himself fled to Italy, were he became an adviser to Mussolini, while helping to rebuild the National Socialist movement in Germany, reformed with the unification of several nationalist and socialist groups into the German National Socialist Union, or the Deutsche Nationalsozialismus-Vereinigung in 1927.
The British Empire, with most of its colonial empire in Africa stripped away, and Ireland given freedom, the government of
In the Confederacy, war veteran Sam Rayburn came to lead the Confederate Liberty Party, which advocated a more centralized National Socialism, as the ideas of Marx and Repetto were frowned upon. rayburn called for a "Liberated Confederacy" from the ideology of the US and France, as well as expanding industry, which the Liberty Party named as one reason the South lost the war, as well as the "mules" in power since the Confederate Independence War, which frowned upon new ideas, like his own. However, for the longest time, he was assumed to nothing more than a "rabble rouser", especially after the attempted assassination of President Pat Morris Neff by a Liberty Party affiliate, when the Liberty Party was barred from running candidates, and Rayburn was thrown into prison, where he wrote his political ideas down, later released in a book called "To Restore Honor."
The Stock Market CrashFor several weeks leading up to the infamous simultaneous New York and Paris Stock Market crash, the value of massively overpriced stocks and bonds were starting to fall, but on July 19, 1931, the bottom fell out, and some stocks lost over 75% of their value, wiping out millions of dollars of wealth in a few hours. The collapse of the French and the US economies, the largest in the world, unleashed a domino effect that quickly engulfed the world. The hardest hit were the losers of the previous war, who were burdened by payments to the victors, who were still forced to pay their debts, which were financed by loans from other countries, who in turn had to get loans from other nations, some of which became heavily reliant on the loans and the war reparations that yet other nations had to pay, in a massive circle that engulfed the world. Of all the nations in the world, it is generally accepted that only two managed to avoid the full effects: Argentina, with its National Socialism policies that ensured everyone had a job, and many who still lost theirs were involved in massive works projects that built new factories, highways and expanded the army. The other was, surprisingly, Assiniboia. Despite its close ties with the US and Alyseka, two of the hardest hit countries, Assiniboia managed to avoid the worst effects of the depression due to the traditional Native American and Metis idea's of the powerful helping the weak: despite high unemployment even before the stock market crash, quick action by the government helped many to keep their farms and businesses, and the overwhelming majority of people still could put food on the table for their families, by an effort to keep people employed and new make work projects that helped open the north of the nation, such as railways, canals and roads. Port Riel in the north was entirely built by men who lost their jobs, allowing a new link to Europe besides the port of Thunder Bay for Assiniboian Grain and products. The "Assiniboian Miracle", as it was called, was later to be replicated by other democracies, though not to the same degree of effort and success as witnessed in the northern land.
Collapse of Austria-HungaryIn comparison to Assiniboia, Austria-Hungary collapsed in 1931. The victory of the multi-cultural Hapsburg state in the Second Global War had given the increasingly unstable empire a valuable and much needed support to ensure that it wouldn't collapse. However, the different groups of the Empire, lead by the Czech's and Croatians, demanded greater representation in the empire. Although the Hungarians were prepared to allow this, the Germanic Austrians refused, as they were already a minority compared to the other groups, and their hold on power would be forever shattered. Tensions continued to be held in check by vague promises and not so subtle threats, but the economic crisis was the final straw. Czech patriots demanded a greater voice, and when the Austrian's, under Prime Minister Engelbert Dollfuss refused, they declared the creation of Czechoslovakia, and named Milan Rastislav Štefánik, a Slovak, the first Prime Minister and Edvard Beneš, a Czech, the first President. Although the Emperor, Ferdinand II, tried to bring all sides to the table (as he had sought, since the day the was crowned in 1916, to try to keep the empire together), but failed. The Austria-Hungarian Army under General Adolf Hitler refused to put down the revolt, instead marching on Vienna and forcing Prime Minister Dollfuss to flee into Exile in Italy. General Hitler then declared that, with Hungarian support, that Austria-Hungary was dissolved, to be split in Austria and Hungary, with the area known as Croatia agreeing in a referendum to remain part of Austria. Hitler, in elections that followed, was named the first democratically elected President of Austria, while Miklós Horthy continued on as Prime Minister of Hungary. The Austria-Hungarian Empire was no more, Ferdinand II being stripped of his title as Emperor of Austria, instead becoming, in name only, the King of Hungary.
The Rise of the Right in FranceThe French Empire suffered much more than many other nations, with its northern, industrialized area having been ripped up and dismantled by the German and later British armies during the war, and with over 35% of the nation's youth having been killed or maimed, and the majority of the rest traumatized and shocked by the devastation. Matters were not helped when the beloved Emperor Louis died in his sleep on April 17, 1923. His successor, his cousin Victor Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned soon after, but due to his age, died just over three years into his reign, to be followed by his twelve year old son, Louis II, while the National Assembly appointed a Regent Council to rule the nation until the young emperor came of age in 1932. The stock market crash, as well as the assassination of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré on June 3, 1932 by a radical communist, the atmosphere of the French Empire was very tense and threatening to break into civil war, until Fédération Impérialiste Française leader, Philippe Pétain, was named to the premiership a few weeks after heated negotiations, the first major test of Emperor Louis II's reign. Almost immediately after taking office, the war hero sought to restore calm and security to the empire. However, this would be achieved by following Sorelist ideas, which he called the Imperial Restoration by arresting communists and political opponents, and taking over the media and press, and the Service de Sécurité Impérial quickly took over policing and security within the empire. His heavy handed actions were welcomed by those who were used to the steady hand of Louis I, and of the political situation from before the war, when the Empire was safe and secure, and which Pétain offered. His dictatorship soon made the National Assembly answerable only to him, and he took it upon himself to make sure the young Louis II will come to power in a powerful and strong France, with the ideals he called for to restore France. Regulation of industry, and massive government projects soon restored the economy, and by 1937, a labor shortage was the only reason some ambitious projects, such as rebuilding Paris into a more streamlined, modern capital, had to be scaled down or canceled.
The "Swastika Revolution"With the full effects of the Great Depression starting to be felt in 1931-32, extremist parties on all sides began to gain support, especially the National Socialists. The success of Argentina and, to some extent, Italy in surviving the Great Depression gave major incentive to other National Socialist Parties in other nations. The German DNSV made a strong showing in the 1932 Presidential election, with Röhm coming in second to the incumbent, Franz von Papen, and again in the 1933 Reichstag election, second only to the German Social Republicans lead by Otto Braun, and the two parties agreed to form a ruling coalition, with Röhm as Vice-Premier and Minister of War and Braun as Premier. However, the DNSV used this opportunity to slowly turn public opinion against the Social Republican's, saying their centralist views were restricting the leftist National Socialist agenda, which would guarantee work and restoring Germany's honor and strength. In the election of 1935, Röhm was given the majority of seats he needed, and he became the Premier of Germany. However, before he could take office, a massive explosion destroyed the Reichstag, killing over 130 members of the body, including thirty members of the DNSV. Röhm is used this as in excuse to arrest all the members of the Reichstag who did not agree with him, and got President von Papen to sign the Emergency Act, which gave the office of the Premier almost unlimited power, and the right to rule by decree as long as the Emergency, decided by the Reichstag, existed. And with the DNSV in the overwhelming majority, basically the "emergency" could last as long as long Röhm decided it should. In the 1936 election, still held despite the "emergency", Röhm easily won, defeating von Papen 56% to 32%. Röhm now held both legislative and executive power, and merged the two offices into that of the "Führer", or leader.
In Britain, the Imperial Socialist Party, lead by veteran John Beckett made its slow rise to power, having only been founded in 1924. However, Beckett's call for a "New Empire" resonated with the people, and in the 1936 election, the BIP won the most seats in the House of Commons. However, King George V died on January 20, 1936, two days before the end of the election. It was known that George V was secretly opposed to the BIP, calling them "a rabble rousing lot," and was considering seeing if any other party could form a coalition to prevent Beckett and his National Socialists from taking power. However, the new king, Edward VIII was known to have sympathies with the National Socialists, so in his first act as the new monarch of Great Britain, he made Beckett the Prime Minister. Immediately after, the Imperial Party and Prime Minister Beckett passed a series of laws, called the "Four and Twenty Songbirds" after the children's fairy tales for the 24 major acts of the packed Parliament, which dissolved all political parties except the BIP, the arrest and imprisonment of "those who oppose and plan to destroy the British Empire," and banning the Irish from the government and "essential services." Within a few months, the BIP had reshaped the United Kingdom into a National Socialist state, and began the process of rebuilding the British Army.
The Confederacy also under went a major change. After the ban on allowing the Liberty Party to run candidates in political elections ended in 1928, Sam Rayburn, who was released from prison after ten months in 1925, set to work to rebuild the Liberty Party. By the 1930 election, the Liberty party had regained its momentum, with Rayburn flying across the nation to deliver speeches blaming the bureaucracy and the "II's, III's and IV's" in Government, and the Negro's for the loss in the previous war. However, the 1930 Presidential election was lost to Joseph W. Byrns, and lost dozens of seats in the CS Congress. The Great Depression, however, saved the Liberty Party, and in 1935, Rayburn defeated his opponent, Cary A. Hardee, and took up residence in Charleston. Rayburn immediately set to work to industrialize and strengthen the Confederacy, making sure the blacks were kept down and his opponents were kicked out of office, arrested and sent to camps in Texas. Two years later, the Pacific Republic also elected a National Socialist President, Earl Warren, who set to imitate Rayburn in his larger neighbor: expanding industry, arresting opponents and rebuilding the republic.
Democracy in Crisis
The few nations that still held onto democracy as the left and the right rose to power through out the world were in desperate straits. The United States, under Nationalist President Herbert Hoover, was caught in the whirlwind of a massive economic recession that threw millions out of work, as well as unrest in the Occupied Confederate states of Kentucky and Northern Virginia, and from rebellious British settlers in the Oregon Territory, neither of which Hoover was able to handle effectively. Hoover was defeated in the 1933 election by Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas, who actively supported the Democratic Socialism in opposition to National Socialism, though using some of the more acceptable ideas, such as make work projects and government regulation that the National Socialist's called for in his "American Restoration" programs, designed mostly by his Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Russia, one of the last remaining constitutional monarchy's left in Europe after the Second Global War, was nearly flat lined by the Great Depression. On top of this, the resurrection of the Communist revolt in 1932 (the Second Bolshevik Revolt), reluctantly lead by Mikhail Kalinin, almost plunged the nation into another civil war. However, the Minister of State Nikita Khrushchev, one of the youngest leaders of the Russian Empire, was able to arrange a cease fire, and a power sharing agreement that prevented the outbreak of yet another "conflict that will tear us apart," as he said. The communists were forced to disarm, but at the same time Kalinin was allowed into the Czar's government as Minister of Labor, and along with the aging Prime Minister Leon Trotsky and Khrushchev, managed to reform the nation in its darkest hour; by 1937 unemployment was down to 15% from a high of over 35% in 1934, massive work projects, including an expansion of the Trans-Russia Railway and new hydroelectric dams and highways, managed to restore prosperity to the Empire. The death of Trotsky in 1938 of a heart attack, followed weeks later by the death of the heir of the throne, the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, after a fall from a horse, brought mourning to the people, and cast in doubt the possibility of the survival of the Romanov Dynasty after Czar Nicholas II, named. A coup against the government by radical Communists that did not support Kalinin's attempt to prevent the civil war was brutally crushed, and the "Red Hunt" for communists resulted in thousands being arrested and tried, including many high ranking military officers and members of the government on less than ironclad evidence, though the trials were considered fair otherwise.
The Second Sino-Japanese War
While the rest of the world was struggling with the Great Depression, the Empire of Japan looked further into expanding its empire, deeper into China. The weak and corrupt Chinese Monarchy that barely survived the Second Global War had collapsed in 1929, and now China was now in the throes a three sided civil war, between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communists; the Christan Lou Tseng-Tsiang's Greater China Movement who advocated for closer ties to the west and a National Socialist agenda; and Yan Huiqing, leader of the Free China Movement, called the Yellow Dragon's, which fought to rebuild the Chinese Empire, with no foreign interference. The three sides struggled against each other, but with little support from Europe and America, the war continued to drag on, killing thousands.On April 4, 1934, the Japanese Navy sailed to Shanghai harbor, and demanded the Yellow Dragon garrison, which Japan accused of killing Japanese businessmen after they took over the city a few months previously, to surrender, which was promptly refused. The rejection was answered by a massive bombardment, followed by a naval landing of elite Japanese Marines. The 4/4/34 Incident resulted in the death of over 19,000 civilians from the bombardment, with thousands more having been killed by the occupying force. With the simultaneous Invasion of Manchuria, the Second Sino-Japanese War had begun.
Very quickly the Japanese had occupied much of Coastal and Northern China, able to gain a large amount of land from the divided and squabbling Chinese. However, in October of 1934, the three sides of the Civil War agreed to lay down their arms and unite against Japan, with Mao's Communists take them on in the North, Tsiang and his forces in the South and Huiqing in the Central region. With the civil war placed on hold, the Chinese were able to hold back the Japanese from capturing Beijing, despite advance's elsewhere.
Attempts for Peace
With the shocking images of the Second Sino-Japanese War flooding through the world, due to efforts by the Chinese to show the atrocities committed by the Japanese in their invasion, many leaders from around the world tried to further ensure that the horrors of war would be forever extinguished. However, their was little interest in these agreements, many of which had been proposed as early as 1916, after the last war, especially from the dictatorships on all sides. The calls for limiting of weapon's, especially naval and aeronautics, fell on deaf ears, as generals and admirals protested against these attempts to reduce the army. Their was a re-birth of this movement in the 1930's as the Depression swept through the world, but no concrete steps were taken, due to opposition of France and Japan.
Nations desperate to try to restore their economies instead turned inward, and took little interest in affairs abroad, especially in Asia. However, The National Socialist Nations did send some aid to China, though the difficulty in shipping it, and Japanese protest hampered shipment. As Japanese successes continued into 1935 and 1936, the only routes left to supply the Japanese was through British India and Russia, the later of which closed its borders and refused to allow any contact with China (and the refugee problem, which would have easily swamped the struggling economy).
Canada in FlamesAs the Great Depression roared around the world, one of the hardest hit countries was Canada. The Dominion had been defeated in the Second Global War by Assiniboia, Alyeska and the United States, resulting in Assiniboia re-taking the land that Canada had took from them in the aftermath of the Third American War, while the United States took over part of New Brunswick, adding it to Maine. Canada was in the throes of revolution, which only the strong hand of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King managed to prevent the collapse of the nation. The almost dictatorial rule of Mackenzie King managed to bring the nation some semblance of normalcy after the war, and managed to cap the seething tensions between English and French speaking Canadians. However, many English speaking Canadians resented the fact that King's government seemed to be pandering to the French Canadians, and several organizations were founded (silently, so as to not bring the wrath of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which besides being the national police force had the power, given by King, to arrest anyone they may suspect is disloyal to the Dominion) to plot his downfall.
During a speech in Toronto on July 1, 1937 (Canada Day), Mackenzie King was gunned down and killed by an extreme National Socialist English Canadian group, which called themselves the Canadian Liberators, and proclaimed that King was selling out to the Quebecois, and that English Canadians should rise up and take control of the nation for themselves. English Canadians flocked to their banner, while all the different smaller groups united to forge the Nationalist Front, and began to initiate terrorist actions on the Quebecois, supported by the Confederacy and Britain. The French, who had rose to great heights within government, including the post Prime Minister, currently held by Ernest Lapointe. Lapointe actively tried to end the violence, but the English Canadians refused to negotiate with a French speaking leader.The crisis came to ahead when General William Aberhart, one of the highest ranking generals in the Canadian Army, and a decorated hero of the Second Global War, used the forces under his command to take over Ottawa on November 18, forcing Prime Minister Lapointe and other Quebec members of the Government to flee to Montreal. Aberhart declared himself the new Prime Minister, as Lapointe was "unfit for service", and his coup was overwhelmingly supported by Ontario and Nova Scotia. Lapointe declared that the coup was illegal, and that he was still PM, and he formed a new government, called the Canadian Provisional Dominion on November 24, and called upon "loyal, true blooded Canadians" to "fight for the cause of freedom and liberty over tyranny and oppression that the Aberhart regime say they will put in place." Aberhart then proclaimed that Quebec was in a state of rebellion against Canada, and sent the army to try to put it down, but all French Canadian units, composing nearly 45% of the army, refused, and instead confronted the English Canadian's, and at the Battle of Sherbrooke, on the same battlefield as the British victory in the First American War, held them up, and forced them to retreat. Though neither side wished to go to war, their actions resulted in the outbreak of the Canadian Civil War.
Foreign Intervention
With the civil war breaking out in Canada, the National Socialist nations of the world were quick to send aid to the Nationalists, in the form of guns, tanks and airplanes, all of which had, as of yet, been mostly untested in warfare. Some of the first weapons to arrive included new British airplanes, including the Spitfire fighter and Hurricane bomber, which, along with the German Stuka dive bombers, were used in the mass terror raid on the Quebec town of Shanigwan, killing hundreds, and sparking fear as to what the modern air force could do.
France, with a kinship to Quebec (plus both being along similar ideological lines), sent large amounts of weapons and "advisors" to Quebec, totaling over 55,000 by 1939. As well as the French "volunteers", other nations that did not wish to get directly involved, looked the other way when locals who wished to fight national socialism left to fight for the Quebecois, in the so called "International Brigades". The largest number of "internationals" who left to fight in Quebec were from Assiniboia, who supported the French Canadians due to their vocal support of the Metis and Natives who mostly populated Assiniboia. The "Louis Riel" Brigade showed extreme bravery in combat, and where considered the best soldiers in the Quebecois side, to the point that few Nationalists would dare confront them.
With the civil war's raging in Canada and China, the National Socialist states, showing off their military weapon's in the fight successfully, they believed that they could easily "encourage" the democracies to return land that they assumed that belonged to them.The first such demand was from the Confederacy, under President Sam Rayburn, in 1937. Having already won the right to rebuild the CS Army in 1936, Rayburn used the pretense of American violence against Confederate patriots in Kentucky and Occupied Virginia (which had been made the American state of North Virginia to demand that the "unlawfully occupied" former Confederate territory be returned to the Stars and Bars. American President Norman Thomas originally resisted the demands, and tried to placate the rebellious states with the relaxing of military government (which had been in place since the end of the Second Global War). However, by giving an inch, the Confederate's (mostly Liberty Party supporters) took a mile, and continued to demand to be reunited with the South, holding rally's, strikes and marches, nearly shutting down the state. Violence against those that opposed their point of view reached an all time high, though only three were killed.
Finally, President Norman, under pressure from the Nationalist Congress, but against the advice of his advisers, especially Franklin Roosevelt, agreed to a referendum to be held in Kentucky and North Virginia. The results, if in the Confederate favor, would return the states to the South, though with the condition that the land remain de-militarized for 25 years. And the vote, held on January 17, 1938, was an overwhelming victory for the Confederacy, with the South winning over 85% of the vote in Kentucky, and a 65% in West Virginia. The results were meet with celebrations by the white majority and riots by the Black minority, who, though allowed to vote (by American demand), where in fact bullied and tormented to not cast ballots, and only a few braved the hostility and beatings to do so. With the turnover date set for March 1, 1938, over 25,000 African Americans fled north, to escape the clutches of the Liberty Party.
"Chamberlain's Plan"In Europe, tensions over the redistribution of borders after the Second Global War lead to terrorist activities, especially in Poland, and French occupied Flanders and Wallonia, as well as in Ireland, lead by the British and Northern Irish Minority. After the bloody events of "The Night of Fire" (6 March, 1939) in Flanders, leading to the death of the French Governor and the burning of Antwerp's city center, the British Foreign Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British government intentions to try to resolve the crisis, and hopefully bring peace to the continent, as both National Socialist government's threatened war to achieve their goals.
However, Prime Minister John Beckett and German Führer Ernest Röhm secretly worked together to try to ensure a position of strength, besides reclaiming land they formerly held. Germany would support British efforts to reclaim Northern Ireland, and in turn would support Germany's quest to reclaim the German speaking area's of Poland. Chamberlain was merely the front man, and the conference held in Florence, Italy, in April, soon proved this. The Foreign Minister's of France, Russia, Britain, Germany and Italy gathered together, and after much haggling, the Florence Compromise was finalized, which, with no input from Ireland and Poland, divided their territories and delivered them to Britain and Germany, and Italy received Sardinia, citing the oppression of the Italian majority by the French minority.Chamberlain returned to London, the agreement in hand, and proclaimed "Peace in our time," much to the relief of the British people. However, in September, after provocation and riots by the National Socialists in Austria, the German, Italian and Hungarian armies marched in and annexed the land they claimed, which destroyed the Florence Compromise, which stipulated that no further territorial expansion would be sought by either Germany, Italy or Britain. "Chamberlain's Plan", as it was later called, worked well enough to lull France into a false sense of security long enough to enact this plan, which gave both nations valuable time to continue to build their armed forces to prepare for the next stage of their combined plan.
Outbreak of War
The first spark of the war, however, did not come in Europe, but South America. The National Socialist regime that gave birth to the movement, in Argentina, moved to capture the land she believed she deserved, starting with Uruguay. The ultimatum to surrender to Argentina, issued on February 15, 1940, expired 48 hours later with no response, and the Argentinean army quickly rolled over the border, and captured Montevideo within three days. A demand by Brazil to withdraw fell upon deaf ears in Buenos Aires, and the Brazilian Empire declared war, and sent its inadequately prepared army to confront the highly trained and motorized Argentinean ataque rápido, or as later known by its German title, blitzkrieg. Soon Chile and Colombia declared war on Argentina, while Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia joined its National Socialist counterpart. The Third Global War had begun in South America. The conflict in Europe and North America would start within the next two years.


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Young Muslim filmmakers were given a rare opportunity to have their short films curated at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. The Muslim Youth Voices Project steered six filmmakers through a seven-day filmmaking workshop in July of this year, and then showcased their finished product at the festival in November. The workshops were produced by Kar Yin Tham and CAAM (Center for Asian American Media).
I joined WHYY's associate editor Neema Roshania in a joint interview with the students about their films, just ahead of the panel discussion, which featured film instructors and members of the community.
The students were afforded a chance to work with Musa Syeed, an independent filmmaker noted for his narrative feature Valley of Saints– it won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Syeed helped the students along the way, offering advice from storyboarding to shooting.
The general themes ranged from bullying to eating healthy; these were real life issues that these students faced on a daily basis. Their lived experiences were multidimensional, and the films existed as an unapologetic outlet for their Muslim identity and the idiosyncrasies that bind citizens together in multicultural societies.
Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers is a volunteer run nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to educate and expose the Philadelphia region to films by and about Asian Americans primarily through an annual film festival as well as year round events.


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Bohemian nights in Valencia where the gypsies shred violins into the coming dark
Sketching Sights: Burma
Before the world can truly reveal itself you must take a period of meditation. A time of reflection. To pre-game, to set a cosmic course of action by stating your intentions and making them manifest. This is the driving force behind Sketching Sights. To become one with the elements of each and every environment that strikes me. […]
A Conversation with Maria Rochelle
I recently had the pleasure of joining fellow author Maria Rochelle in quite a revealing conversation… A discussion on travel, literature, writing, life, love and losing oneself in the beautiful madness of all things. Since reading Knausgaard i've been determined to step, several wide steps, away from the ego. Moving instead towards a voracious diet of […]
New York City in 24 Hours: Where to Eat. Sleep.
Experience New York City like a local. Expert tips on where to eat, what to see and do in a weekend or layover.
Morocco Travel Guide: Tangier
Travel the the bizarre world of Morocco. This multi-part travel guide discusses the top foods, sights and things to do in this wonderfully amazing Kingdom.
A Recipe for the Sun: Why Spanish Wine & Simple Grilled Salmon
Summer is long days, the sun pouring its song across orange-evening skylines with everything its got. Summer is falling across damp grass, wine bottle in hand, picnic blanket shaken out and mosquito bites. Summer is sun-burns and sand-where-you-don't-want-it vacations. Summer is lush, drunk on springs abundance. The death of winter is almost forgot, the rebirth of spring … Continue reading A Recipe for the Sun: Why Spanish Wine & Simple Grilled Salmon
On the Road Less Traveled
The winding sandstone canyons that hide the fabled city of Petra. Here, where Bedouin live in caverns, past and future can be seen in the present. This is a land legendary and proud. Where pastoralists and sedentary pedestrians mix. The desert is hot madness, yet soft and poetic. It's exotic as it is wild and it … Continue reading On the Road Less Traveled
NaNoWriMo : Into the Wild
Earlier this year, I set a goal to finish a solid draft of my memoir and to achieve this mission i'm going into the wild, er, offline... A MONTHLONG period away from social media, the internet, ethernet and all those nets, in an archaic approach to finish this labor of love that i'm damn excited … Continue reading NaNoWriMo : Into the Wild
The Sabah House Rules
It was nearly a year ago that I discovered the Sabah Dealer. A chance meeting on Twitter led me to this exotic, almost whimsical Instagram where I was transported to Anatolia. To the bazaars, the buskers and baksheesh and medieval villages. To a world still crafted by hand. I soon found that behind the Sabah Dealer's travels were shoes--Sabah's … Continue reading The Sabah House Rules
"Tbex is love made visible" --To misquote Khalil Gibran never felt so right Last week I participated in my first Tbex conference. This coming together of like-minded artists in the travel industry has opened my eyes to the potential we have within. From a passionate and lyrical lesson by Don George to the dynamic Dave and Deb from Planet … Continue reading TBEX, TRAVEL BLOGGERS AND NORTH AMERICA


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Beauty and the Beast, Ages 2-102
Have you seen the new live action Beauty and the Beast? The chances are good that you have; according to Forbes the film earned $6.9 million on its second Monday alone. This isn't really surprising. The landscape of fairy tale is a map we all know so well. Close your eyes and you will see the contours laid out clearly, at times lovingly spiritual in its universality, at others chillingly human in its earthy specificity. There is the castle, shining in the background, flags flapping in the wind. Then there is the dark and murky wood, where wolves and bears and other frightening creatures roam – and where you must go to face your destiny. Upon this landscape live the many stock characters that breathe life into the tales: the cruel witch, the fairy godmother, the lonely Beast, the despairing princess, the courageous prince. In this land Magic runs rampant and injustice is fought until finally the balance of life is restored. Our collective unconscious stores this map, these characters, and their stories. We seem never to tire of recreating them time and time again. Most of us were introduced to fairy tales in childhood, some of us reading large heavily illustrated books ourselves, or having them read to us.
To continue that tradition, Silver Dolphin Books has come out with a series of board books for very young children, called "First Stories," from which I had the pleasure of reading three fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. Each one is a little gem, charmingly illustrated in bright colors and adorable, detailed illustrations.
Chunky and sturdy, the board books are interactive, with tabs to push, pull, and slide. Pull up on one tab and Cinderella's rags are transformed into a beautiful ball gown; pull down on another, and the Beast appears in his castle door. You can shimmy the witch up Rapunzel's hair as she leans out of her tower, or push Cinderella back and forth as she sweeps the kitchen – and then, a few pages later, slide her foot up to the glass slipper! This is Exciting stuff.
Amazingly, each tale is pared down to only four rhyming couplets. Silver Dolphin did a good job picking out those plot points, and somehow the stories manage to come across, in no small part because the illustrations by Dan Taylor are richly detailed, in a deceptively sophisticated way. And not to worry about being too frightening for little ones; while there are scary moments — these are fairy tales we are talking about — the colors are bright and there is a cheerful atmosphere maintained throughout. The iconography of the fairy tale landscape is all there, giving your toddler the means to start their very own map of the enchanted world we all love.
For the older child, or just the young at heart, comes a gorgeous coloring book of Beauty and the Beast, with quotations from the original story by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, first published as a novel in 1740 and later abridged and rewritten into the tale we know by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ornate and lavish, the exquisite drawings, based on the wonderful work of English artist Walter Crane, are reminiscent of 18th century France. Once I saw it I immediately went out and bought a set of colored pencils. It will take a while to get through the whole coloring book, but who's complaining? Any girl –big or little –, who loves to color, will sigh with happiness when they get their hands on this one. Just make sure you have colored pencils or crayons at hand – they won't want to wait to get started.
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Witness the growing form of the graphic novel. I love the originality of this project!
Snoopy contemplates pre-orders and the Hulk navigates iTunes Match … here Robert Sikoryak discusses his ingenious take on Apple's Terms and Conditions
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The Jane Austen Project: A Novel: Kathleen A. Flynn: 9780062651259: Amazon.com: Books
This is my type historical fiction. Two teens go back in time to meet Jane Austen and try to steal an unpublished manuscript and bring it back to our time. Can't wait to read it! Available in early May.
PROJECT MAYHEM: On HIDDEN FIGURES, by Anne Nesbet
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This is my first post after the long, delicious, deep and richly emotional holidays with my big and boisterous family. Ah, to write again. The above link will take you to a review of the movie Hidden Figures (with a nod to the book on which the film is based). I found it moving and inspiring. It resonates with the national conversation on so many levels – and left me feeling hopeful, that our higher selves can and will triumph, even as we shimmer and shake on the edge of despair on our way to making this world a better place. Again, the world of children's literature; with its books, blogs and reviews, holds — at least for me — an unwavering candle up to the heavens.
Gonna have to see this movie, and soon.
The Single Largest Secret to Success
The holidays have me flummoxed and distracted (ok, it is fun to eat stuffing for breakfast) but there is always a little time to flex those writing muscles. I invite you to read this awesome post by Kristen Lamb. Have a great day and remember to Guard Your Muse!
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All of us start out writing for different reasons. Perhaps we have dreams of seeing New York Times Best Seller or USA Today Best Seller in front of our names. Perhaps we long to be a household name like Stephen King or even a legend like J.K Rowling.
Some of you might want to see Winner of the Pulitzer Prize on the cover of your books or see your books made into television or major motion pictures. Some writers simply want to finish that one novel and publish it so they can say they wrote a novel.
Every dream is equally noble. There are no right or wrong goals only your goals (and goals evolve as we do). Yet, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that the level of sacrifice and self-discipline required to Write a Novel in…
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Interview with Henry H. Neff
I had the good fortune to take a master writing class with Henry Neff at this year's 2016 SCBWI Carolinas Conference, "The Power of Story." The class was on world building, and boy is he a master at it. His much-anticipated latest novel, "Impyrium" came out in mid-October, and Henry was kind enough to agree to give me an interview in the midst of what I am sure was a whirlwind of a month. I loved the book, and will be reviewing it as soon as NaNoWriMo is done 🙂 In the meantime, please enjoy this interview. It gives honest insight into this very successful and relevant author, who also happens to be a really nice guy.
Q: You are such a wonderful world-builder. Where does your affinity to this come from?
Thank you. I think it's a combination of having loved immersive fictional worlds while growing up, and later acquiring a history teacher's perspective on how to analyze civilizations at specific points in time. The former fueled my interests and imagination; the latter gave me tools to start building worlds of my own.
Q: Why do you write fantasy?
A variety of reasons. First and foremost, I really like fantasy. No one should write a genre that they don't enjoy. The other reason is that fantasy presents challenges I find fun and engaging. It's one of those genres that fools people into thinking it's easy (I can just make stuff up!) but it comes with traps that make it difficult to write well. Two of the biggest are magic and, funnily enough, world building. If you're not careful, magic can be overdone and lose its impact, unbalance the world, or create gaping plot holes. With world building, many writers invest considerable time and energy in their worlds. That's not a bad thing, but it can cause some writers to become Tour Guides from Hell where they insist on showing the reader every aspect of the world they've so lovingly created. I enjoy the challenge of writing fantasy that's got some grit, realism, and leaves you wanting more.
Q: How important is it to you to follow your own instincts as a writer?
You never want to ignore your instincts but it's important to recognize not all your instincts are good ones. We all have blind spots when it comes to our writing style, character development, and plot structure. In my case, I have a tendency to lean too dark, to make things too bleak for my characters, etc. There are times when that makes sense, but I've come to realize that I tend to veer in that direction like a wonky shopping cart. Being aware of that tendency helps me keep it in check. That said, I do think it's important to trust your instincts in situations where you've heard conflicting feedback and need to make a decision. I try very hard to listen to my editors, digest their suggestions, and act upon them. 95% of the time they're right. But there are situations where I simply don't see it the same way—particularly when it comes to quieter scenes that focus on character development rather than plot advancement. In those scenarios I trust my instincts and I've never regretted it.
Q: What was your favorite childhood book?
Ack! So many to choose from! Some that come to mind include: The Ant and Bee books, Where the Wild Things Are, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Fourteen Bears, The Spooky Old Tree, Charlotte's Web, Danny the Champion of the World, The Soup books, Tales from a Fourth Grade Nothing, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Dark is Rising, and Sherlock Holmes. Yes, I realize that answer is a cop out 😉
Q: If you were on a train going across America at midnight, conversing with your favorite authors (from any time period) – who would those authors be?
Tolkien, Maurice Sendak, Patrick O'Brian (author of my favorite historical fiction novels), Ursula LeGuin, and Susan Cooper
Q: What is your writing Kryptonite?
Momentum. Once I lose it, it's difficult to get back—particularly on rough drafts.
Q: As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal (homunculus J?)
Ooh! I'd choose a lymrill (a creature from my books). They're tough, lovable, and demanding — the perfect muse.
Q: There is a spiritual undertone to the magic in Impryium. Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice?
I think there's something spiritual about finding your passion and acting upon it. To some degree, I think that's true of magic within IMPYRIUM. Part of Hazel's journey is understanding herself, embracing who she is, and that does play a role in her ability to tap and channel the magic within her. So, yes, there probably is a spiritual/reflective component of magic within my stories. It's definitely not just supernatural science—it comes from somewhere deeper and soulful.
Q: Hazel is a very well-developed character. What's the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?
I wanted Hazel's character, persona, and dialogue to resonate as authentic. We've all read stories where the author's attempt to portray a character or demographic fell short. I didn't want that to be the case and really tried to put myself in Hazel's shoes—particularly in situations where I thought her reaction (both inner and outer) would differ from someone like Hob's. Her relationship with her sisters really helped bring that out — the dialogue between them flowed very naturally.
Q: Dàme Rascha has a very human dimension somehow to her character. Was she based on any real person or persons in particular?
I enjoyed writing for Rascha. She might be cranky and demanding, but she also loves Hazel like a daughter. Ironically, I think Rascha's "human" characteristics are heightened by the fact that she's not human. Vyes look like wolves, like some sort of fairy tale monster and there are times I make a point of emphasizing that they have a feral quality that can be unsettling. But when we see that "monster" speaking quietly with Hazel or giving a grudging laugh, it registers as surprisingly human. Rascha isn't based on any one individual, but I'm sure she's an amalgam from people in my subconscious. I think most characters are.
Q: If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
Write rough drafts quickly. To this day, I take too long with mine and I really don't think there's much benefit. Just get the story down, step away from it, and start revising. It's always easier to react to something that exists than to try and pen perfection as you go. The latter takes too long and it doesn't result in better writing—just slower submissions.
There you go. (I can totally use that last piece of advice.) Thanks so much, Henry. We look forward to to more of the series, so hurry up — I'm not sure I can wait too long for the next installment.
International Day of the Girl: Reflections on Nancy Drew
Join me in celebrating the International Day of the Girl! I share with you my essay on the iconic Nancy Drew, a symbol of American girlhood. It's a little nerdy, a little cool, and a tribute to girls, books, and childhood.
"She had character, and she had courage. Her blue roadster – my having a sports car became a life dream. And when I got in it, I just imagined myself being Nancy Drew."
— Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
In 1920, American women got the vote. Less than ten years later, Nancy Drew arrived on the juvenile fiction scene. She is often portrayed as "emblematic of American girlhood" (Driscoll 5). Accomplished and famous women from Barbara Walters to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer have noted that she was an important role model to them in childhood.[1] The image of a teenage Nancy Drew zipping around in her blue roadster has persisted for almost a century. The series has always had the power to inspire. As Amy Boesky tells us, initial "sales of the Nancy Drew books eclipsed even the contemporary bestselling boys' series" (Boesky 189). Since then, numerous generations of young people, especially girls, have devoured the series, admiring Nancy Drew's remarkable skills and living vicariously through her often dangerous adventures. Now the iconic teen sleuth has entered the realm of computer games, particularly those known as Role Playing Games (RPGs), where the player takes on the role of Nancy Drew. Has this shift altered the character of Nancy Drew in any way? What happens narratologically when a player operates a fictional character?
Like books, computer games can be seen as elements of cultural production, and therefore upon examination, it is possible to glean something about the existing culture that produced them. Nancy Drew has emerged as part of girl's culture, in particular. Cultural theorist Catherine Driscoll has pointed out the "…girl's role as a marker of cultural identity" that also "installs her as representative of the coherence of an historical period" (Driscoll 15-16). If, as Driscoll also contends, the "category of feminine adolescence {is} specific to late modernity" then Nancy Drew, as one ideal of female adolescence, becomes an ideal subject of inquiry (18). Since the postmodern era has as one of its concerns, the transition from the printed word to the digital, an examination of what happens to a female character in a printed piece of fiction, when it is transferred to the digital medium, becomes a journey of discovery into the cultural underpinnings of such a transition.
Some critics, such as Markku Eskelinen, argue that games and literature are not the same, partially because in many RPGs the reader/viewer/player operates the character of narrator (Papazian 454). While it is beyond the scope of this paper to speculate on whether video games are a narrative form, I agree with Gretchen Papazian, who argues that "some video games – in particular, some RPGs – deploy narrative techniques" (452). As she points out, whether or not you accept narrative terminology as a valid lens for computer games, "it is clear that the player's role in the…game is key" as they operate the fictional narrator, in this case Nancy Drew (455). I will be looking at the implications for the fictional Nancy Drew, once the player takes on her role, specifically in the HerInteractive Nancy Drew game, Labyrinth of Lies, which came out in September 2014. The game is rated for Everyone Ages 10+.
The original Nancy Drew, created by Edward Stratemeyer, was initially going to be called "Stella Strong" (Boesky 188). Her character has much to be admired. Throughout the series, Nancy's "heroic qualities….such as independence, self-confidence, intelligence, and physical courage" shine through (Lundin 123-4). Her role as amateur detective also gives her a unique standing. Boesky writes about Nancy Drew as the defender of the established norm; always striving to restore balance, she is a dream adolescent, acting as a "secret agent of the adult world" who patrols "the dangerous line separating the worlds of respectability and evil…with full access to adult privilege" (Boesky 190). From the beginning there existed in Nancy a sense of agency and freedom within the wider world, which was unusual for young women in the earlier part of the 20th century. All these qualities have appealed to girls for over 80 years.
Of course some updating has been necessary. Simon & Schuster bought the syndicate in the late 1970's and took over the publishing and re-branding of the series in the 1980's, creating several different Nancy Drew lines designed for various age groups (Marshall 213). In 2004 they came out with the Nancy Drew Girl Detective series, for a target group of tween girls between the ages of eight and twelve. Nancy's general look on these new covers were brought up to date, while outdated dialogue was replaced within the text to reflect more modern ways of speaking. There was also a significant editorial decision at this point to change the narrator's voice to Nancy's own, speaking to the reader in the first person (Marshall 213). This is a far cry from the perspective in The Bungalow Mystery from 1930, where a third-person narrator frequently refers to the teen as Nancy Drew: "Tired as she was, Nancy Drew knew that she could not rest until shore was reached" (The Bungalow Mystery 16). Giving the young detective a voice of her own creates an intimacy with the reader, along with a sense of engagement with the text.
In 2005, with the same age group in mind, the publisher licensed the series to come out as Papercutz graphic novels. These are often linked to Nancy Drew computer games, put out by the company HerInteractive. Since the Nancy Drew concept is already part of a series, it translates well to the gaming world, where Nancy's mysteries can be played out one at a time, as readers become players.
Readers often use book covers to determine what a character looks like. The earlier Nancy Drew books show a neat and tidy young woman, always in a dress and heels, with a classic hairstyle, often holding on to some clue from the story. Later books show a more modern teenager, wearing jeans and hanging out with friends. The covers of the HerInteractive Nancy Drew computer games depict where the action takes place, with another character or object in the center. All that is left of Nancy Drew is her silhouette – a shadow. The silhouette could be anyone. It could be you. The player does not see Nancy, she sees as Nancy. Opening up a game, a voice whispers, "Dare to Play" and then "It's up to you, as Nancy Drew." It's a clear invitation to step right in and engage with the character. As Nancy tells players on the pamphlet accompanying the DVD of the game, "Without you there would be no reason to create more mysteries, and I would be just a girl without adventure, mystery, intrigue…and a clue." The same could be said of characters within written texts and their readers, but in this case, since the reader/player actually becomes the character, at least for part of the time, the implications are more complex. Without the player, the silhouette would remain as unrealized potential.
The player usually has two or three choices at any given turn, and these choices set the game in motion. In Labyrinth of Lies Nancy travels to Greece to help curate a new exhibition at a museum of antiquities. Artifacts from the exhibit are disappearing, and Nancy has to figure out what is behind the thefts. As Nancy, there are tasks for the player to accomplish, such as "check in with the museum front office," "arrange tickets for opening night," and "explore backstage." The player uses arrows to navigate, as she explores the virtual world in search of clues. As she goes, she meets up with characters and has a chance to talk to them. The text is pre-set; the player has a choice of three conversation starters, and this determines the dialogue that then runs, and the information that the player gets. While the text is printed in a box on the screen, the player can watch the person she is talking to, like a movie, and hear the conversation being spoken, at the same time. The player can also choose to call up the Hardy Boys or the director of the museum on the telephone, for help. Just as in the chats with characters from the game, the telephone call is set up with three prompts for opening up the conversation. Each time the player makes a choice, the fictional character of Nancy Drew takes over and the player transforms back into a reader/watcher for the time being.
There are several other instances where written text is integrated into the game, giving the player access to the fictional character. Clicking on the Diary option at any given time, for example, opens Nancy's personal journal, which is pre-written text, and explains what is going on in her thoughts, including any observations made or questions to be pondered. This serves to fill out the background of the story, and helps the player focus on essential elements needed to solve the mystery. Of course the player has to pretend that she has written the diary herself.
In another such space, museum director Melina Rosi has left a written note for the player-as-Nancy to find, greeting her and leaving some instructions. It also provides more background information about the exhibit and the upcoming performance, as well as giving a list of tasks to complete. Nancy then hands over some of her agency, in a sense, to the player, who must complete the tasks. In this way she becomes a mentor to the player navigating the virtual world of the game, or at the very least, a partner. This is a major change for the teen detective. As Amy Boesky describes the traditional character of Nancy Drew, "…her's is the point of view where all answers consolidate; often she works alone, culling information that only she can access" (Boesky 190). In her gaming world, she must share information with the child player who inhabits her character, who then will make further choices and discoveries along the way to solving the mystery.
While Nancy ultimately has the information needed to move the game forward, regardless of the choices made by the player, being given the freedom to move about the virtual world; being able to make calls, take photos, choose whom and when to talk, and putting clues together in order to solve the mystery, gives the child player a tangible sense of accomplishment. In order to become Nancy Drew, the player has to exhibit the characteristics that the teen detective has shown throughout the series. These qualities have not disappeared; they are now shared.
While her character has remained stable, it has also been made accessible, like a country that has opened its borders. Whereas the iconic heroism of the teen sleuth inspired girls for generations, now it has become a collaborative project in character-building. Digital games, especially Rated for Everyone Role Playing Games, offer a cultural paradigm of choice. Papazian refers to the "digital child" who is "granted intelligence, logic, and possibility" (451). The Nancy Drew games are part of this aspect of American girlhood, representing perhaps a trend in the current culture, one that leans towards the figure of a girl full of agency and choice. Within that landscape the digitized character of Nancy Drew has not vanished into the shadows. Her silhouette remains, operational and full of potential, highlighted against the background of the 21st Century. It serves as a marker of current shifts in the construction of childhood, and reflects her continued relevance to the postmodern child.


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Name: Education of the Baroness
Director: Gérard Kikoine
Language: English
Year: 1977
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Categories: Michele D'Agro sex, 1977, France, English, Gérard Kikoine, Brigitte Lahaie, Sylvie Dessartre, Maude Carolle, Micky Love, Michele D'Agro, Alban Ceray, Guy Royer, Jacques Gatteau, Patrice Cheron, Richard Bigotini, R. Lounge, Facial, Anal, Masturbation
Actress: Brigitte Lahaie,Sylvie Dessartre,Maude Carolle,Micky Love,Michele D'Agro
Actors: Alban Ceray,Guy Royer,Jacques Gatteau,Patrice Cheron,Richard Bigotini,R. Lounge
What would you do if you could change places with a Baron and Baroness for one day? In this fast-paced adventure, two servants find out what it's like to have all the wealth and power they can handle. Hector, the chauffeur and Baron reverse roles during a drive through the countryside. The Baron enjoys chauffeuring, with the feel of the road under him, While Hector enjoys the feel of a sweet young hitchhiker in the backseat.DOWNLOAD FILM


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Art Building Blocks
St. Bernadette School
Fall 2014
October 13- December 10
Fall 2014: 9 week session
Lesson 1
How to combine basic lines and shapes to create images by using a step by step process
Monday Oct 13- How to draw easy animals
Wednesday Oct 15 How to draw wild animals
Lesson 2
The areas of a picture (foreground, middle ground, background)
Monday Oct 20 step by step simple landscape
Wednesday Oct 22 use photos for reference to create landscape drawings
Lesson 3
Observational drawing from life
Monday Oct 27 Choose item from a fall harvest selection (corn, squash, pumpkin etc.,) Observe the actual item and draw what is seen
Wednesday Oct 29 Draw Still life of arranged fall harvest items
Lesson 4
Create Stylized Patterns and Repetitive Designs
Monday Nov 3 City Building
Wednesday Nov 5 Cityscapes
Lesson 5
Face and features
Monday Nov 10: Royal Pooches
Wednesday Nov 12 Egyptian faces in profile
Lesson 6
Connecting to history through art: Shapes of Greek vases
Monday Nov 17 Geometric patterns on Greek vases
Wednesday Nov 19 Illustrating stories on Greek vases
Lesson 7
Texture and mixed media art
Monday Nov 24 Texture rubbings to make foil sea turtles
Wednesday Nov 26 Textured foil sea turtles on textured sea
Lesson 8
Symbols in art are used to communicate identities and ideas. Symbols develop over time and incorporate stories and customs.
Monday Dec 1 Step by step drawing of St. Nicholas
Wednesday Dec 3 Step by step drawing of the Saint's contour, developing it into an image that incorporates one or more symbols to communicate something about the Saint through the use of symbols. (Miter, crozier, three gold balls, gold coins, money bags, three maidens, children, anchor, ship, book, shoes)
Lesson 9
Scientific illustration- uses particular drawing techniques and has a specific format
Monday Dec 8 Draw a scientific illustration of an observed item using proper pencil techniques and correctly titled.
Wednesday Dec 10 Draw a scientific illustration of an observed item using proper pencil techniques, correctly titled with labels identifying part s of the item, and a legend explaining how to read the drawing.
Art Building Blocks explores art and design fundamentals through creative skill- building
Visual art is created by using art tools and materials to make lines, shapes, forms, space, colors, values and textures according to the principles of unity and contrast achieved through balance, emphasis, pattern, movement and rhythm.
During Art Building Blocks lessons, students learn:
how to develop technical proficiency using dry and wet art media
step by step processes
observational skills
fine motor skills
sensory connections
how to develop strategies based upon guidelines
how to discover their personal style and interest in art making
to increase their art vocabulary
reflective and critical analysis
to expand their ability to express creative ideas and increase their knowledge of how to apply art skills in other areas of study
Throughout the program student art will be posted in the 'comment stream'
Oct. 13 How to combine basic lines and shapes to create images grades k-2
Oct 15: Combine Basic Shapes to Make A Wild Animal Grades 3-5
The areas of a picture: foreground, middle ground, background
October 20- Simple landscape
October 20- End of post
October 22- Landscape drawing class
October 27- Simple Fall Still-life
October 27- End of Post
October 29- Observational Still life drawing
October 29 End of Post
November 3- Design a Building using Patterns
November 5 Use Patterns to Design a Cityscape
November 10 Royal Pooches, facial features, manipulating paint
End of November 10 Post
November 12- Egyptian Faces
Greek Vases
Bas Relief Sea Turtles
St. Nicholas -Monday Dec 1
Scientific Illustration
The Wednesday session focused on scientific illustration basics and techniques


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The inclusion of the Mini Heads Up Display means that drivers can avoid being distracted by having relevant information projected onto the windscreen in front of them. Our Mini Sales Executive tells us what it is like to drive while using the Heads Up Display.
"You think it is going to be more distracting" begins Darryl who drove the Mini Coupe with the Heads Up Display installed "but actually it is incredibly helpful and intuitive once you get used to it.
I chose to see my speed limit, my navigation and included the pedestrian recognition so that I could react quicker to pedestrians crossing in front of the vehicle. Throughout the drive I felt more in control of my speed and safety because I could see this information at all times.
I also decided to hook up my smartphone so that I could see any messages that came through which made me far less tempted to reach down and check my phone while I was driving.
Overall I was delighted with the display; it was really easy to read after I adjusted it slightly to compensate for my colour vision!


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Turn your seating area into advertising space
Whether you're at a trade-fair stand, at a café or at home – cube seats, cushions and chairs that you've designed yourself are real eye-catchers. Have the unusual advertising media printed with your logo or a witty joke. We deliver within a few working days and never charge shipping costs.
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Combined effect of titanium particles and TNF-alpha on the production of IL-6 by osteoblast-like cells
To clarify the role of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha on osteoblast functions in the presence of metal particles, two human osteoblast-like cell lines (MG-63 and SaOS-2) were cultured with TNF-alpha in the presence or absence of titanium particles in vitro. A combination of TNF-alpha and titanium particles showed additive effects on inhibition of cell proliferation and alkaline phosphatase production. On the other hand, production of interleukin-6, which is well known to induce osteoclastogenesis and to directly stimulate bone resorption, was additively stimulated by the combination of TNF-alpha and titanium particles. These results suggest that the association of TNF-alpha and titanium particles may play an important role in the pathogenesis of periprosthetic osteolysis through two different pathways: a reduced periprosthetic bone formation due to inhibition of osteoblast proliferation and alkaline phosphatase production, and osteoblast-mediated activation of osteoclastic bone resorption as suggested by the enhancement of interleukin-6 production.
- URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10951379
Keywords: *Biocompatible Materials/adverse effects ; Cell Line ; Humans ; Interleukin-6/*biosynthesis ; Osteoblasts/*drug effects/*metabolism ; Research Support ; Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support ; U.S. Gov't ; P.H.S. ; Titanium/*pharmacology ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*pharmacology
Department of Orthopaedics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0412, USA.
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It's all about the Dwarf !, Played 2009
Votta - Dwarven Noble with a touch of Larceny
Borian - Elven Druid of Evael
The Guthric Diaries. A knight's journey in the world of Harn
Blood is thicker than water, Played 2007
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Author: Bill "Mr. Bill" BurkettISBN 978-1-60264-774-9 (softcover)
ISBN 978-1-60264-818-0 (eBook)
164 pages
Dr. Bill Burkett describes the powerful Socrates Secret and shares the riveting story of its development and implementation in his English as a Second Language classes in China. Scores of his students achieve dramatic success with Burkett's technique. Burkett states,
"Jennifer was an excellent student. I taught her class the Socrates Secret and asked students to practice the 44 sounds of English in front of a mirror, stretching the speech muscles. She practiced Exaggerated Phonetic Articulation in every Talk Along (described in my previous book, A Manual for Teaching English in China, Beijing University Press, Beijing, China) I held with the class. Suddenly she transferred to Beijing because of her father's job. Jennifer e-mailed me soon after arriving, and revealed that she was placed in the advanced English class in an excellent language school. The examining teacher told Jennifer that her advanced placement was because she could pronounce her -l's and -r's without accent. Jennifer replied that the EPA training she had in my class had enabled her to master her -l's and -r's."
Jennifer is just one of many case studies who have had the same near-miraculous results because of Burkett's original techniques revealed in Secrets to Better English.
Bill Burkett spent seven years in China's universities, colleges, and middle schools teaching spoken English. Burkett achieved his doctorate in philosophy but as a result of an experience he had in college, he became interested in helping ESL students remove accents from their pronunciation. He reveals the story in this book of how an incident in psychology class impelled him to develop speech skills, an original technique that is unparalleled in educational research. Burkett's technique is not just a theory, but an effective method that has been tried and proven to work with hundreds of students who can now pronounce English clearly and intelligibly without accent. Secrets to Better English also includes consonant and vowel charts as well as many practice lists so that teachers or learners of all levels will find that this book will greatly benefit their formal English classes or informal individual study. Building on the information presented in his previous book, A Manual for Teaching English in China, published by Beijing University Press, Beijing, China, Burkett's Secrets to Better English includes many little known tips for unlocking the pronunciation of the English language and is a complete course in itself.
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Internship Nepal welcomes students and professionals from around the world to join our dynamic, effective internship programs in Nepal since 2006. The programs are committed to professional and personal development of students and interns.
Our services on offer are targeted at providing students with a unique internship experience, while constantly supervised by a team of skilled professionals, journalists and researchers throughout the internship session. On a decade long campaign, we have had nearly 800 students from various countries all over the world.
This internship program aims at proving to be a lifetime experience for all those who participate; students will get to touch a new horizon in their career shaping process. Nepal has always thrilled visitors with its aesthetic aura, alluring landscapes and totally contrasting yet unique cultural preface. This sheds light on the fact that students shall learn of the vast differences in people and culture within this world better than any books can ever teach, during their pleasant stay in Nepal.
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DD World plans of becoming a pay channel soon. In a move towards becoming a pay channel, DD World has floated a tender for setting up a distribution network in the UK and Europe. Depending on the response to the tender, Prasar Bharati will decide when to go pay. The global tender closes on August 27. After UK and Europe, DD World will float a tender for the US market.
DD World has a formal distribution network arrangement only in the Middle East, where a local cable network distributes the channel. The decision of the channel to go pay follows a recent analysis of the channel by a consultancy firm. As per the SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis of DD World, the channel was suffering because of lack of resources. And the decision to make it a pay channel, it is felt, would improve its revenue prospects.
Immediately after the SWOT analysis, Prasar Bharati has been working out plans to strengthen the channel. Among other things, DD World plans include substantial investment to build up a library of high-quality programmes. All this is being done after over five years of operation of the channel.
The SWOT listed the weaknesses as total lack of direction, inadequate manpower, lack of facilities, poor technology, lack of quality consciousness and no budget allocation.
Among the strengths of the channel are the DD brand and its infrastructure associated with it. The opportunities include the potential to capture vast audiences in 79 countries and become the voice of India for NRIs and others.
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Edited.... I'm guessing this company is a blocked company because it seems that my subject name has been blocked... I'm curious about *Pisky*Pixie*SugarCra*t? I hope that's ok to ask?
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My husband and I first stayed at Lakeview a few years ago, in the Sparrows Nest, and just loved it. It was super cozy and cute and the deck is an awesome amenity! We enjoyed the pool, hot tub and rented a jet ski for the afternoon at the docks. On our most recent stay, a few weeks ago, we brought 4 other couples with us and stayed at Westside Bay 243. The unit was awesome! The living room/ kitchen was the perfect size for our group to hang out, make meals, watch sports and play cards. The view was great from the top level of the building. We also got a lot of use out of the large balcony off the living room and master bedroom. The heated fishing sock was a hit too. This an absolutely great resort with a friendly staff. We shall return!
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Lakeview Resort is located in Sunrise Beach, Missouri on Lake of the Ozarks and tucked on the end of three peninsulas. Lakeview Resort is your place to explore new frontiers, have quality family time, and relax as you enjoy the surroundings and embark on new adventures. Family owned and operated since 1946, we have been creating memories for families for generations. Our guests will find that our resort is unique with it's heritage. With lakefront lodging ranging from 1 to 7 bedrooms, we can handle couples to the largest of families. Accommodations at Lakeview Resort range from a cozy cottage for 2, to a deluxe penthouse 5 bedroom condo. The off season is great one of our units with a fireplace and jacuzzi tub and a lovely view of the lake. All of our units have fully equipped kitchens. We also offer RV sites with hookups for electric, water, and sewer and include use of all Lakeview amenities. Our amenities are vast and include tennis, basketball, bocce ball, sand volleyball, shuffle board, indoor and outdoor pools (including a toddler pool), sauna, boat and swimming docks, campfire sites and more. ... more less
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Blue Jackets Roll Over Islanders, Hanging On To Playoff Spot
COLUMBUS, Ohio
Boone Jenner and Mark Letestu each had a goal and an assist, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots for his second shutout of the week to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past the New York Islanders 4-0 on Sunday night.
The Blue Jackets, desperate to hang on to a playoff spot in the East, matched a season high with three power-play goals.
Jack Johnson and Ryan Murray ended long droughts with goals, and Brandon Dubinsky had two assists. Bobrovsky, who won at Philadelphia 2-0 on Thursday, earned his fifth shutout of the season.
Anders Nilsson made 29 saves for the Islanders, who had their seven-game point streak end.
Columbus won at home after going 1-4-2 in its last seven games at Nationwide Arena.
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