Essays 631 - 660
"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...
the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...
area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...
of the essential events leading up to the war were confined to Europe. Why then, was the conflict not contained in Europe? Why di...
interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...
offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...
with analogies for the many different types of business becoming popular titles on the best sellers lists as well as fashion items...
noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...
did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...
"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...
well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...
together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...
with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...
Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...
nations. The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy ...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...