Essays 1861 - 1890
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...
5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...
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 ...
the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...
most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...
all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...
sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....
economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...
meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...
stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...
realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...
first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...
despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...