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for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for...

a good deal of attention on the people who actually know what needs to go into the plan and how to utilize the CIA, FBI, military ...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...

States power and security position? Many questions linger. Since the cold war has ended, many thought that it was the end of secu...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

This mutual alliance against terrorism intensified when maritime protection became necessary during 1987, an augmentation that ser...

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...

the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...

realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

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