CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT

MIKIYA FENNELL
 1914: WORLD WAR I BEGINS

During WWI, Russia, France, and Britain were against Austria and Germany.
Beginning with A dispute over control of Serbia, this war raged on until November
1918. By the end, Europe was torn apart, leaving nearly an entire generation of
young men killed, maimed, or traumatized by the War.
 "THE SOLDIER" BY: RUPERT BROOKE
(1914)

• “The Soldier” is a sonnet in which Brooke glorifies England

participation in WWII. Speaking as a English soldier who is
leaving home to go to war. The poem represents the patriotic
ideals that characterized pre-war England. It portrays death
for one’s country as a noble end and England as the noblest
country for which to die.
 "DREAMERS" BY
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
(1918)
• “Dreamers” is a WWI poem that is about
the solider as individual rather than war itself.
The overarching message of the poem is that
soldiers are not natural born killers or cruel.
Instead, the poem seeks to humanize and
soften the image of the soldiers while not
demonizing any particular side.
 1916-1921: IRISH CIVIL WAR; IRELAND SPLITS INTO
TWO

A small Irish uprising created more tension, and after a lengthy

struggle, the British split Ireland into two self-governing dominions:
Northern Ireland and the Irish free state (later the Republic of Ireland).
 “MICHAEL COLLINS” BY: NEIL
JORDAN
(1996)
• Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and
directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as
Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died
in the Irish Civil War.
 1929: U.S. STOCK MARKET CRASH SPARKS
WORLDWIDE DEPRESSION

War-wounded nations of Europe turned to the United States for loans,

but the U.S. Stock market crash in 1929 caused a worldwide economic
depression and resulted in feelings of chaos and uncertainty. Leaders
of Russia, Germany, and Italy began to annex and invade neighboring
countries.
 “THE GRAPES OF
WRATH” BY: JOHN
STEINBECK (1939)
• In “Grapes of Wrath”, Tom Joad and his
family are forced from their farm in the
depression-era Oklahoma dust bowl and set
out for California along with thousands of
others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a
brighter future.
 1939: WORLD WAR II BEGINS

Britain and France declared war on Germany, thus beginning World

War II. Japan and Italy allied with Germany, but the United States
would not join the war and ally with Britain and France until the attack
on Pearl Harbor in 1941 by Japan.
 “PEARL HARBOR” WRITTEN BY
RANDALL WALLACE
(2001)
• Based on the true story of Pearl Harbor the film focuses on
the tragic day in the shoes of two fictional characters: best
friends Danny and Rafe.
 1945: U.S. DROPS ATOMIC BOMB; WWII ENDS

In 1945, the U.S. Attacked Japan with the world's first atomic bombs, and Hitler was defeated by
the allies. In the war's aftermath, Britain faced numerous burdens: cities were destroyed and needed
to be rebuilt, finances were drained, debt was crippling, and the human loss was devastating. A new
labor government was created to revitalize Britain, and domestic issues took precedence over
colonial needs.
“HIROSHIMA”
BY: JOHN HERSHEY
(1946)
• “Hiroshima” is a nonfiction
collection of 6 different survivor
recounts of the bombing and
them handling the aftermath for
decades after the tragic day.
 1947: INDIA INDEPENDENCE

In 1947, India gained its independence from Britain. Meanwhile, the

rest of the British empire continued to dissolve. Its colonies would
eventually become part of the commonwealth of nations, in which each
country is considered free and equal.
 “SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT” BY GEORGE
ORWELL (1950)
• Shooting an elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience
as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd
'solely to avoid looking a fool’/
 1960S: RISE OF FEMINISM

• With Betty Friedman’s “The Feminine Mystique”, a second wave of

feminism erupted and slowly spread across seas to the United
Kingdom where demanded reproductive freedoms such as
contraception and abortions were protested for. In 1966, the National
Organization for Women was created , which Friedman initially led.
 “THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE” BY
BETTY FRIEDMAN
(1963)
• To shed light on the plight of the American woman during the
1950s and 60s. She argued that an idealized image of
domestic womanhood had created an identity crisis among
American women. Extremely controversial at the time, the
feminine mystique is often credited with inciting the second
wave feminist movement.

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 1973: THE VIETNAM WAR ENDS

• The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the
communist regime of north Vietnam and its southern allies, known as
the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United
States. No side truly won.
TIM O’BRIEN THE
THINGS THEY CARRIED
(1990)

• “The Things They Carried” is a

collection of linked short stories
about a platoon of American
soldiers fighting on the ground
in the Vietnam war.
 1989: THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE

• Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen

square in rally for democracy In Communist China. On April 19,
thousands killed in Tiananmen square as Chinese leaders take hard
line toward demonstrators.
 ‘NEVER
FORGOTTEN’
(2013)
• Artist and former soldier Chen
Guang stands with one of his
paintings last year that depicts
the scene when he helped clear
Tiananmen Square as a soldier.
 1991: SOVIET UNION COLLAPSES

The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great
number of radical reforms that soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had
implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.
 “After work” by Konstantin
Alexeyevich Shurupov
(1970)

“After Work” is a painting

depicting a group of 5 women
walking home after a long day
working in the fields in Soviet
Russia
 2001: TWIN TOWERS COLLAPSED

• On 9/11 several terrorist attacks took place. The Twin Towers in NYC was one of the biggest
targets. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am, less than an hour after being hit followed by the
North Tower at 10:28 am. Later that day, the nearby Seven World Trade Center collapsed at
5:21 pm from fires that had started when the North Tower collapsed.
 “EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY
CLOSE BY: JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER”
(2005)
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he navigates New York
city on a quest to unlock the secrets of a mysterious key and its
connection to his father, who died in the collapse of the World
Trade Center on 9/11.
2013: THE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSES IN BANGLADESH

The 2013 Savar building collapse or Rana Plaza collapse was a

structural failure that occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila
of Dhaka district, Bangladesh, where an eight-story commercial
building named rana plaza collapsed killing 1,134 and injuring 2,500
more.
 “THE TRUE COST”
BY: ANDREW MORGAN
“This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we
wear, the people who make them, and the impact the
industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has
been decreasing for decades, while the human and
environmental costs have grown dramatically. The true
cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls
back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to
consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?
Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest
runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews
with the world’s leading influencers including Stella
McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, the true cost is
an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye
opening journey around the world and into the lives of
the many people and places behind our clothes.”
–Andrew Morgan