Essays 661 - 690
In sixteen pages the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre is discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
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...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
it was too late. Molina and his family also controlled a number of other enterprises, including sugar. PepsiCo then made another h...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...
reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...
the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...
spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
fighters was the response of the British government, which included the execution of the insurrection leaders and thousands of arr...
At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...
defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...
This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...
The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...
that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...
In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...
The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...
The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...
In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...
In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...
and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...
of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...