Essays 1291 - 1320
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
23). The author realizes that certain readers may wish to find definitive answers on the controversial issues explored, but Swartl...
in 1934 by Philip Henry Kerr who wrote a letter to the Times of London (Safire 23). Interestingly, the Times was instrumental in c...
that, "In the aftermath of the fighting with Iraq, two just war principles in particular - just cause and proportionality - reveal...
"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
that was more accommodating to the US. At its height, the congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, which frequen...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...
In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...
5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...
circulated, such as that they sailed to Australia for no reason. This author also considers the myth of how the Vikings would get...
of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...
power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...
on how to interpret current political phenomena." Yet, in doing so, the creation of an archetype is quite helpful. In fact, Wolin ...
whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...
associations between a person and the brand selected, including product identification. According to Falling (2002), each brand mu...
one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...
the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...
by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...
In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...
would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...
was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
Jeffersons time by the name of Benjamin Benneker will be discussed as well. Of course, he was a brilliant man, but he was not a po...