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the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

Introduction World War II was the deadliest conflict in mans history and when it was over, most of the nations of the world were ...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

with men; truly powerful women leaders are so rare that we know their names: Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I in history; more recentl...

hours that typical young people spend with peers, listening to music, watching television and so on," Caulkins and Reuter note. No...

horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

information is wanted out there has become that much more difficult. But few issues have caused as much outrage as how the...

of World War I were extremely complex. People, actions, and events merged to result in one of the most traumatic world events of ...

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

gone by in the war in Afghanistan, and the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and its allies have developed only a marginal...

vision of the universe. From the early Reservoir Dogs to the stylish Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has challenged both viewers and the ...