Essays 211 - 240
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
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 ...
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 ...
Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...
citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...
history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...
survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...
war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...
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...