Essays 511 - 540
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...
mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...
recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...
war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...
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 because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...
to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...