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Home Front (Brothers
Home front is an English language term with analogues in other languages. It is commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system for their military. Civilians are traditionally uninvolved in combat, except when the hostilities happen to reach their residential areas. However, the expanded destructive capabilities of modern warfare posed an increased direct threat to civilian populations. With the rapid increase of military technology, the term "military effort" has changed to include the "home front" as a reflection of both a civilian "sector" capacity to produce arms, as well as the structural or policy changes which deal with its vulnerability to direct attack. This continuity of "military effort" from fighting combat troops to manufacturing facilities has profound effects for the concept of "total war". By this logic, if factories and workers producing material are part of the war effort, they become legitimate targets for att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Can Do It! NARA 535413 - Restoration 2
In Modern English, ''we'' is a Grammatical number, plural, Grammatical person, first-person personal pronoun, pronoun. Morphology In Standard English, Standard Modern English, ''we'' has six distinct shapes for five word Morphology (linguistics), forms: * ''we'': the Nominative case, nominative (subjective) form * ''us'' and ': the Accusative case, accusative (objective; also called the 'Oblique case, oblique'.) form * ''our:'' the dependent Genitive case, genitive (possessive) form *''ours:'' the independent Genitive case, genitive (possessive) form * ''ourselves'': the Reflexive pronoun, reflexive form There is also a distinct English determiners, determiner ''we'' as in ''we humans aren't perfect'', which some people consider to be just an extended use of the pronoun. History ''We'' has been part of English since Old English, having come from Proto-Germanic *''wejes'', from PIE *''we''-. Similarly, ''us'' was used in Old English as the Accusative case, accusative and Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |