Essays 1 - 30
In five pages this essay explores the meaning behind Abraham Lincoln's observations on 'necessities of war' by examining the Civil...
war in history (Sulzberger, 1966). World Peace it seems would be an ever elusive dream and our military exploits in Korea would b...
Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...
mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...
exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...
determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...
Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...
1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...
argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...
Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...
the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the E...
to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...
past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...
Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...
tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...
the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...
troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...
being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...
late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...
committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...
had positive economic effects for the North (Logue 611). When the nation emerged from the recession of 1991-92 (at the end ...
fueled by a rising tide of nationalism. The traditions and problems dated back so many years that it would be nearly impossible to...