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Essays 1951 - 1980

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

War on Terrorism and American Engagement

a tremendous and detrimental way as to completely overshadow the others victory. The Task Force was meant to bolster the desire f...

The Vietnam War and the U.S. Defeat

In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

Second World War and Its Chronological History

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

Journalistic Perspectives on World War II

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Neville Chamberlain's Appeasement Policy and Frank McDonough's British Road to War

in 1934 by Philip Henry Kerr who wrote a letter to the Times of London (Safire 23). Interestingly, the Times was instrumental in c...

Unjust Aspects of the Iraq War

that, "In the aftermath of the fighting with Iraq, two just war principles in particular - just cause and proportionality - reveal...

Achieving Societal Perfection

"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Incredible War of 1812 by J. Mackay Hitsman

In four pages this text is reviewed with the role of Sir George Prevost, a general from Canada, the primary emphasis. There are n...

The Punic Wars

of the most important things to note about this conflict is that it each side was forced into a situation where it seemed they had...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

Arthur Lefkowitz's George Washington's Indispensable Men

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

Observers of the Vietnam War Experience

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

Possible Solutions to the Problems Associated with the 'War on Drugs'

the displacement and abuse of the impoverished in the world. Turnipseed (2000) notes that in order to help many of the people in f...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

World Wars and Changes in Technology

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

Differential Gender War Understanding Approach in Fausse Route by Elisabeth Badinter

the same from the differential stance of a man or a woman, and it is because of this very distinct - if not wholly natural - separ...

Ideology and Technology of the Second World War

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...