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of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

In five pages this paper examines reasons behind the fighting of the US Civil War in a comparative analysis of James McPherson's W...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

by more Confederate troop who had joined the fighting. Mass confusion erupted and thousands of Union troops were captured. Union ...

In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...

his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of the Civil War in terms of the reasons why the South was defeated and also examine...

Civil litigation is considered in this overview of six pages and incorporates examples to reveal civil justice inadequacies includ...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

In six pages three Gothic genre authors including Bram Stoker are examined in a consideration of their works, the antiheroes they ...

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...