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Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Two Vietnam Books

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Deceptions

to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...

O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

War: Civilians and Soldiers

whats going on" (Kaplan, 2007). Realistically any individual in charge of sending soldiers out must be aware of what is going on....

The War of 1812 Was a Necessary War

being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

A Decade in the Persian Gulf

up to par in terms of its defense systems or are they backwards and vulnerable to attack? What has happened in the course of nearl...

Incendiary Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In eight pages this paper how Uncle Tom's Cabin may well have ignited the Civil War spark to the antagonisms that had long been si...

Another Odd Couple Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim

The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...

David Donald Why the North Won the Civil War

Jefferson Davis inferiority to Lincoln, for he never developed an overall strategy or devised a unified command system for the ent...

The Meaning of President Bush's Contention that Desert Storm Would Not Become Another Vietnam

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

Guy Chapman A Passionate Prodigality

The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...

The Impacts of World War I on the Battlefield and Back Home

The First World War had impacts not just on the areas embroiled in the warfare but on the...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore

yet they did not refrain from those actions. Lafore seems to shed light on how the threat to Austria and Hungarys integrity was a...

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...

George Linderman The World Within War

God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...

Vietnam War Books

but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Prisoners of War During the Vietnam War

In seven pages this paper discusses questions involving Vietnam War POWs and considers if there are still MIAs and POWs being held...

Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

New Technology and the 'Audio Wars'

give up something so familiar for untried technology. Additionally, those consumers who are willing to delve into the brave new di...

Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

Resident's Experiences During the US Civil War's Battle of Vicksburg

In six pages this paper examines 2 letters written by a fictional resident of Vicksburg that provide a student with an overview of...

Contextual Approach to Media Criticism in 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws'

This is an historical research paper of 8 pages that discusses the impact these films had on popular culture, economics, technolog...