Essays 211 - 240
The writer discusses how these two Presidents approached the problems of defending liberty, both at home and abroad. Their approac...
Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...
This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...
less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at containment policies in the Cold War. The efforts of the US to contain communism are...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...
otherwise come into existence if it were not for the inherent desire to be the best. Humans have forever longed to explore ...
130) and used all the weapons of the modern dictatorship: surveillance, false arrests, show trials, hellish labor camps and summar...
In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the Cold War emerged as a result of the late 1940s' conditions in the Soviet Union and Amer...
This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...
In ten pages a review of this Cold War historical text is presented. There are no other sources listed....
This research paper addresses the role played by Finland in WWII. The author also includes relevant information about Finland and...
In eight pages this paper analyzes the theses Stewart L. Udall features in his text The Myths of August A Personal Exploration of...
Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...
that veered off into the direction of Communism and/or democracy when in the company of Soviet dignitaries, inasmuch as one slip o...
In five pages this paper discusses the common cold and how it cannot be cured by vitamins, although vitamins can boost immune syst...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
that another pandemic can still strike at any time. While such possibility of widespread influenza is a very real threat, the com...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
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...
is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...
deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...
light - or enlightened. The evil part of humanity - the executioners, are beyond the light - in the literal and spiritual dark. F...