Essays 211 - 240
late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...
end to the long bloody affair and to consequently save countless US and Japanese lives that would have been lost if the war had of...
rhetoric; this is the charismatic leader theory (A summary of the causes of World War II). The mob mentality theory is supported b...
to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...
the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...
Patriarch of Babylon; Mar Raphael I Bidawid (Kapica, 1991). The way judgments are made on actions may be highly subjective, but in...
dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...
which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...
of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...