Essays 1981 - 2010
attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...
Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...
Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...
"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
enquired anxiously whether I had courage, or firmness to remain in the Presidents house until his return, on the morrow, or succee...
information is wanted out there has become that much more difficult. But few issues have caused as much outrage as how the...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...
had positive economic effects for the North (Logue 611). When the nation emerged from the recession of 1991-92 (at the end ...
or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...
a great deal of ability to open doors, but this impedes the freedom of the people of the United States. While it has happened in r...
it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...
There were many thousands of Palestinians who were forced to make their home in Jordan after they were run out of their own countr...
matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
rulers was growing increasingly bitter. Frederick the Great began his reign at the same time Maria Theresia became the monarch of ...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
railways were so relatively new that strategists had yet to really utilize their usefulness. With these basic elements in mind the...
This is very important to understand. It is not as if there were cell phones or video cameras around. It was not as if there had b...
come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...
Mr. Knizely sees three major areas of concern with regard to the Constitution. First, the "war on drugs" violates the 4th Amendmen...
back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...
on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...