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secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

In four pages this paper discusses President George W. Bush's justification of the war with Iraq in a consideration of the hypothe...

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

members of the Serbian government who had been associated with it, and to reinforce the idea that Austria wielded ultimate power i...

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

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...

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...