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Comparing Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front with Joseph Heller's Catch-22

the present reality of the protagonists, but providing exposition through the use of flashbacks. This use of voice emphasizes the...

Overview of the Revolutionary War

revoke the three pence tax on each pound of tea(Schwarz 110). This refusal to lift the tax on American sales caused an uproar sta...

War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

Isolationism An Evolving US Philosophy

defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...

A Look at International Humanitarian Law

that the people who did this would hear us soon, the people applauded, but that resolve faded over time. After years of nothing mo...

Assumptions in the First World War

but preferred diplomacy, and Germany and Russia were somewhere between the two extremes (Waller ). James Joll, in observing all th...

Palka, Galgano, and Corson's Operation Iraqi Freedom

and resources for Iraqis, and helping the Iraqi people create the conditions necessary for a rapid transition to representative se...

Changes in Military Operations

been bombarded. In effect, the equipment was more refined, the weapons more powerful with airplanes added to the mix, but it was s...

Intelligence Gathering by U.S. Agencies during World War II and Beyond

better known as G-2 (Warner, COI came first, 2000). At times, the information went all the way up to the White House, but short of...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Civil Service Employee Recruitment

fields but this will eventually turn around. Even if the jobs were available, one must ask why a talented individual would want to...

Lessons Taught by the First World War

that had to be destroyed. Smoter also wrote that Hitler that "propaganda played a large role in the German failure." He learned t...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

The Second Revolutionary War

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

Too Late for Compromise

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

Checks and Balances Since 9/11

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

The 1st and 2nd Gulf War - Have the Allies Committed Genocide?

not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...

Origins of the First World War

for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...

Support Programming for Youths and Young Adults Who Are Grieving

war in Iraq began in 2003, over 4,000 soldiers have died in action, leaving a growing number of widowed spouses with an average ag...

Drafting the Constitution

the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...

Solutions for California Prison Overcrowding

The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

Reality: The Things They Carried

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Torture and the War on Terror

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

National Security in a Time of Change

more area than it already occupied. The result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Ken...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...