Essays 211 - 240
Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...
This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at containment policies in the Cold War. The efforts of the US to contain communism are...
nuclear proliferation had to be a reality. It was. But others have a different point of view. The origin of the term is Latin. P...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....
This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...
that veered off into the direction of Communism and/or democracy when in the company of Soviet dignitaries, inasmuch as one slip o...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
that another pandemic can still strike at any time. While such possibility of widespread influenza is a very real threat, the com...
In five pages this paper discusses the common cold and how it cannot be cured by vitamins, although vitamins can boost immune syst...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...
suppress anti-Habsburg activities, organizations, and propaganda and that Habsburg officials be permitted to join in the Serbian i...
In the socio and political environment that resulted after World War I ended, there was probably even less chance of global...