Essays 1981 - 2010
were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...
archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...
is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...
military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...
a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...
Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...
Chinese international policy affects Korea. As far as China is concerned, foreign policy had changed a bit since the Korean War. C...
some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...
2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...
Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...
as well, however. South Korea had been in favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of...
fronts if our own national security is to be preserved. While the EU is presently regarded as a friend to the U.S., history testi...
for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....
There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...
Case Study A case study submitted by a student suggests that the government is concerned about the increasing incidence of armed...
a good deal of attention on the people who actually know what needs to go into the plan and how to utilize the CIA, FBI, military ...
women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...
between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...
the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...
sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...