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Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Issues in Criminal Justice and the Criminal Justice System

know him as a real person, not just a symbol of authority. He was someone they could trust and who could help them solve problems....

THE PATRIOT ACT, AN OVERVIEW AND THE 14TH AMENDMENT

"wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism..." (Ball 51). Along with this, Title II also allows the seizing ...

A First Person Insight into the Days Leading Up to the Civil War

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Resources, Military Commanders and Political Leadership and the Civil War

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Leadership and Mahatma Gandhi

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

AN ARGUMENT FOR REPEALING THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT

whim of the FBI or CIA. The ACLU points out, for example, that Section 215 of the Act allows the FBI to...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

The Civil War, Augusta County Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

Beah: “A Long Way Gone”

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...

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...

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....

An Examination of American History from 1865 until 1920

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

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...

Overview of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg

In nine pages this pivotal battle of the Civil War is examined in an overview of the events leading to it and a listing of officer...

Depiction of the Civil War in Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women and the Film Birth of a Nation

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

Victims A True Story of the Civil War by Phillip Shaw Paludan

was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...