Essays 721 - 750
of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
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...
Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...
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...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
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...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
In five pages the third and fourth of the wars between the Israelis and Arabs better known as the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars are ...
In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...
A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...
need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...
In five pages Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, his activities during the Second World War, escape, capture and subsequent trial a...
and womanizing, punctuated only by bouts of warfare. It would be inaccurate to say that Frederick really believed in the war at ...
In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...
In five pages the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic is analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...
of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...
and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...
In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...
In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...
that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...