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The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

War of 1812 and its Causes

In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...

The First Modern War in America was the Civil War

limited (Vasile The Union Soldier, His Life and Times: A Modern Interpretation of a 19th Century Experience). However, technologi...

The So-Called Ongoing Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

a part of Iraq, yet Kuwait had systematically encroached on Iraqi territory, while also deliberately stealing Iraqi oil from the R...

Book and Article Review on the Anti Vietnam Movement and its Impact

In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...

Freedom of Speech According to Duke University Professor Stanley Fish

In twenty one pages this paper critiques Professor Stanley Fish's views on freedom of speech as expressed in There's No Such thing...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

Overview of the Battle of New Orleans

troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...

Spanish-American War, Yellow Journalism, and Publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

I. THE SCANDAL OF YELLOW JOURNALISM It was, perhaps, the most devastating event to occur with regard to journalistic integr...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

Samuel Huntington and Conservative Ideology

The work of Samuel P. Huntington on world conflict breaks all problems down to seven different groups of civilizations. This paper...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...

Difficulties Associated with Fighting the Vietnam War

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

Civil War and Role of Irish Americans

In ten pages this paper examines the Irish Americans' role during the Civil War. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Cold War and Factors Leading to the Korean War

In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Virginia During the Eighteenth Century and the Contributions of African Americans

In three pages this paper discusses the African American importance to Virginia during the eighteenth century in an examination of...

Cinematic Depiction of African Americans

In fifteen pages this paper analyzes how African Americans in movies have evolved with the success of director Spike Lee among the...

Changes and Conflicts Korean Immigrant Families in New York by Pyong Gap Min

as well as community interaction. Through his in-depth studies and interviews with the members of the New York Korean community, ...

Public Space Function of the American Street

In five pages this paper discusses the evolving function of the American street as a public space and considers how it may not aga...

The Role of the United States in World Affairs After the Second World War

In a paper that consists of five pages the changes that followed the Second World War in terms of economic, military, and diplomat...

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phillis Wheatley comparing the Work of the Two Authors

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...

Alligator Mississippiensis or the American Alligator

In five pages this American species of alligator is examined in an overview of how it evolved from the crocodile, its reproductive...

Evolution of the American Revolution

rule for quite some time. It was at the point where the colonists began to realize how much better off they were than their count...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...