Essays 211 - 240
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...
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...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
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...
be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...
forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...
NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...
textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...
In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...
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...
Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...
World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...