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The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

One Method for Quality Improvement

Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a statistician and was asked to help the Japanese government with their post-war census. While there, he...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

Years Following Civil War

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

The Iliad's Cultural Values

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at a passage from The Iliad. The cultural values of war and honor inherent in the pass...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

Kentucky History and John Hunt Morgan

This paper argues that Morgan had more of an impact on Kentucky history because of the myth surrounding the man and his personalit...

The Civil War and Contributions of African American Soldiers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

Muckraking and Yellow Journalism

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Two Views on War: Tennyson, Owen

This essay presents the argument that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deco...

Cross Boarder Crime and Terrorism Following the Cold War

include criminal activity. Clutterbuck (1990) argues that the legitimate trading patterns resulting from increased liberalizatio...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

Canada After the Second World War

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Government Secret Keeping

parents or circumstances are right to understand the potential for such a child and the social soil may be described as the type o...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Saigon's Fall and its Importance

In five pages this paper discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Rich and Powerful Nations and Third World Government Corruption

of the Cold War, the Third World became an unfortunate battleground of economic ideals as put forth by the worlds reigning superpo...

A Veteran of the Vietnam War's Perspectives

In five pages this tutorial considers the experiences of a veteran of the Vietnam War. Three sources are cited in the bibliography...

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

Something that Makes You Sad: Journal Entry

was sad for many reasons. I was sad because so many people died and I was sad that someone was so angry that they did such a horri...

Pros and Cons of Detaining Suspected Terrorists

detainees captured in the "War on Terror" to civilian detention centers and affording them with all of the due process rights that...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...