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David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

A Study Using the Scientific Method

In order to test this hypothesis, the research team established four 50x50 cm quadrants, with 50 cm between them. Each of these qu...

Belief In A Just World Theory

the just world theory. Some of those outcomes include: more satisfaction with life, in general, better mental health, better physi...

Transnational Effects of Terrorism

groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience (Dammer and Fairchild 294). Terrorism can occur within t...

Insuring Data Security: Lessons from the Department of Veterans Affairs

even phone numbers and addresses, all information that put the individuals whose data was stolen in a precarious situation in term...

Friedman’s The World is Flat

of companies such as Dell and AOL to outsource their telephone centres has created jobs, but also meant that the has been the abil...

Henry David Thoreau and the War in Iraq

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Global Warming and Sea Level Rise

the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

Fast Food Culture

staples. But it is the cuts of meat that are used, the way it is cooked, and the huge sizes that are served that has led to the pr...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

A Historical Analysis of Terrorism

the PLO or an Israeli group bombs the other, they are continuing to wage war. Of course, the tactics are equated with terrorism ra...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Gender Stereotypes from Infancy

author notes interestingly, though not surprisingly, that 90% of the people who buy greeting cards are women. That, right there, i...

A Philosophy of Education

Some educators are now suggesting that the traditional model is not meeting the needs of students, who are required to do little b...

Japan’s Position on International Issues

naval mission in the Indian Ocean providing fuel to coalition forces in Afghanistan" (Japans opposition to stall war on terror bil...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Who does the World Trade Organisation Protect?

Globalisation and international trade offers a great deal of potential the both developed and developing countries; facilitating t...

Brave New World as a Blueprint for America’s Future

Social stability, in Huxleys nightmare vision, depends on making "[S]tandard men and women; in uniform batches" (Huxley). It turns...

Greek, Mycenaean and Minoan Civilization

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...