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Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Co. Aytch by Samuel Watkins

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

John Paul II's The Gospel of Life Evangelium vitae

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

Post Civil War South Carolina

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

U.S. Civil War and Maneuver Warfare

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

U.S. Civil War and Political Compromise

In six pages this paper discusses how when various political compromises between North and South fell short civil war in the Unite...

Winston Groom's Shrouds of Glory

In five pages a review of this Civil War text is presented. There are no other sources cited....

Internet Regulation and Civil Liberties

In nine pages this paper discusses legal regulation of the Internet in a consideration of the F.C.C., Communications Decency Act p...

Kenneth M. Stampp's And the War Came

only truths that earlier history books illustrated, and in Stampps book we get an even clear picture of the actual circumstances a...

Civil War and Vietnam War 'Necessities'

In five pages this essay explores the meaning behind Abraham Lincoln's observations on 'necessities of war' by examining the Civil...

Different Perspectives on Slavery

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

Southern Africa and Civil War

This research report looks at a variety of Civil Wars in the region. The history of these problems are incorporated into this repo...

1994 Bloody Civil War in Rwanda

Twa, who make up about 1% of the population, are the only group actually indigenous to the area (McDonald PG). The Tutsis and the ...

Mathew Brady's Civil War Photography

In nine pages this creative essay is told from the point of view of a hypothetical assistant to Mathew Brady, famed Civil War phot...

Irish War of Independence Leader Michael Collins

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

Civil Engineering Applications of Computer Technology

In fifteen pages computer technology is examined within the context of its impact upon civil engineering in terms of operations an...

Life and Legacy of Indian Political Activist Mohandas K. Gandhi

In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...

Why the US Civil War Was Fought

In five pages this paper examines reasons behind the fighting of the US Civil War in a comparative analysis of James McPherson's W...

The Liberian Civil War

This research report focuses on Charles Taylor. Who he is and how this relates to the Civil War in Liberia is the subject of this ...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...

Concept of the Social Contract According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

In six pages Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke are discussed in an examination of h...

Military Tactical Strategies of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General Ulysses S. Grant

and ancestral place meant everything"1. This limited view of Lees motivation leads to the assumption that Lee was not fully commi...

Fourteenth U.S. President Franklin Pierce

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

U.S. Civil War and the Turning Point at the Battle of Gettysburg

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

Liberia Civil War and Charles Taylor

that the colony would serve at least two purposes: the first to spread the Christian gospel in Africa, and the second to serve as...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

The Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg

The battle at hand is what is the focus of attention of this five page report that makes use of five references. The Battle of Get...