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South African History/The Gold Industry

"poor sanitation and hygiene," the homes of Africans, who had been confined to slums by segregationist law, were perceived as a "...

Hannah and O'Brien's War Stories: The Sacred and the Mundane

Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...

Summitry

ahs been an acceleration, they are now more common place than in the past and deal with a wide range of diplomatic issues. It may ...

International Influences on Australian Foreign Policy

When the Allied powers of World War II are mentioned, many of the history books refer only to the involvement of the United States...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

Why Did Iraq Invade Iran in 1980?

forward the 1979 Iranian revolution as the initial event that would lead to the war. While there had been a great deal of hostilit...

The ICC Charges Against Gaddafi

Reactions of the Libyan forces to the protests have included the indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians by military aircraft. ...

World War I Those that Fought and Those that Stayed Home

World War I brought many challenges not just for US soldiers but for our nation as a whole. With our entry...

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and the Conflict in Bougainville PNG

white they thought they were looking at ghosts or maybe some people who had just fallen into bad luck. Dogs sat on their tails an...

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

Honduras - Economy Progress

Company alone owned 10% of all the land in Honduras. This situation made it difficult for the general populace to compete (Acker, ...

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" ...

Pinter's "Precisely" - Dualism and Language

first attack or an attack done in retaliation is unknown, and frankly, not important. What is important is the mens callous and co...

World Wars I and II

Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...

World War I, Its Causes

war, pulling in allies from the Near East, Asia and North America, was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...

Cold War Politics and Culture

War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...

"Ending the Cold War" by Herrmann and Lebow

pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

The Cold War

Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...

World War II Britain and the Use of Secret Strategies

has been written about the role of John Masterson, an agent in the British Secret Intelligence Service who masterminded the use of...

Overcrowding in Florida Prisons

properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...

Global Theory and the Cold War

enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...

Comparative Analysis of Military Power's Role Throughout History

all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

1980s' War Between Iraq and Iran

In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...