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does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

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

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...

Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

predominating fact peculiar to these ages is equality of conditions, and the chief passion which stirs men at such times"(2002). ...

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

costs of replacing the employee should the need arise. This can be examined not only in terms of modern morals and the way it may ...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...