Essays 301 - 330
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...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
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...
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...
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...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
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...
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...
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...
of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...