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

This in-depth paper examines the pulmonary disease emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic obstructiv...

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

administration was under pressure to stem the loss of American manufacturing jobs from Japanese imports and in 1985, Secretary of ...

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

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

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

baseballs "magic numbers" (InfoPlease.com, nd; Baseball Almanac, nd). He was the last player to bat .400. He was also selected for...

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

drugs will enhance performance while others will deteriorate performance. Performance-enhancing drugs have been used by athletes i...

that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

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

In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the criteria of a postwar empire and whether or not the US qualifies. There is 1 source cited i...

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

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...

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