Essays 121 - 150
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...
The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...
about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...
had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....
in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...
blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...
color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...