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Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

The Vietnam War

Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...

Pinter's "Precisely" - Dualism and Language

first attack or an attack done in retaliation is unknown, and frankly, not important. What is important is the mens callous and co...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

DRUG TRADE IN LATIN AMERICA: TRANSNATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES

reduction tools and, to an extent, education on the evils of drug use (Seelke et al 2010). The results have been mixed to not-so-g...

The Second Revolutionary War

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

An American Shame - The Ku Klux Klan

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Our Fondness for the Civil War

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

Too Late for Compromise

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

Checks and Balances Since 9/11

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

Origins of the First World War

for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...

Germany and Her Deliberate Path Towards World War I

of World War I were extremely complex. People, actions, and events merged to result in one of the most traumatic world events of ...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

After the Cold War, What’s a Soldier to Do

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Blacks in Uniform in the American Civil War

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

Freeze Frame: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths' Depiction of the Vietnam War

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

Reality: The Things They Carried

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

The War Against Troy

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Torture and the War on Terror

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

National Security in a Time of Change

more area than it already occupied. The result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Ken...

Terrorism and Our Involvement in the Middle East

This paper questions whether our current war on terrorism is valid. To answer the question the author examines the history of ter...