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Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

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...

1980s' War Between Iraq and Iran

In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Civil War, Industrialism, and Sectionalism

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

Post American Revolution Minority Creditors' Oppression

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Napoleon and Kutuzov in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....

Registered Nurse First Assistant Programs and RNs During the Korean War

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

America's Involvement in the First World War

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Images of War in Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Now here, now there, he hunted hem so faste, Ther nas but Grekes blood; and Troilus, Now hem he hurte,...

Populated Areas and Military Offenses

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

Stock Markets During Times of War

FTSE 350 all show similar trends over the same period (Financial Times, 2004). Figure 1; FTSE All Share Index 1994 - 2004 (Fina...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Macroeconomics; The Price of Oil

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

Argument: Under International Law, the Iraq War is Legal

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...