Essays 1981 - 2010
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
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...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...
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...
of the Labour Party and Kok was also the Prime Minister (The Economist, 1998). His opponent was Frits Bolkestein from the Liberal ...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
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...
the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...
of this model paper is to point out that there is no way to avoid foreign entanglements and the War of 1812 is the most likely exa...