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Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Comparative Analysis of Georege Orwell's 1984 and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In four pages this paper of two parts compares Orwell's Winston Smith and Kesey's Randall McMurphy and in the second part 'the boo...

New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt and its Influence on Cyclical American Presidential History

In three pages FDR's New Deal is considered in an examination of U.S. presidential cyclical timing and how it both defined and con...

Three Decades of War

force from farm to factory, from country to city. They were also aware that the United States lagged behind Europe in its struggle...

Hiroshima Devastation

atomic bomb. Fearful of the world devastation that could result from their creation in the hands of such a tyrannical leader, man...

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...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Review of the Post World War II Film The Bicycle Thief

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

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....

American Women's Movement and the Impact of the Second World War

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

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

Fictitious Oral Interview with a Second World War Wife

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

U.S. Global Hegemony after WWII

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

Development of Tank Warfare During the First and Second World Wars

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

Ideology and Technology of the Second World War

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

Capital Flows into Developing Counties and International Financial and Monetary Systems

place between the developed wealthy countries. Another form of capital flow is that indirect investment. This has been seen in m...

Hobsbaum and Scot on Bureaucracy, Prosperity, and Peace

them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...

War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

Two Vietnam Books

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

Pre First World War Pittsburgh and the Black Community

In ten pages this paper discusses how the black community developed in Pittsburgh before the First World War and compares it with ...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Inevitability of War

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

First World War According to Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen

In five pages this paper compares the views of the First World War that are presented in The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy and Dul...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

America's Longest War Critiqued

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...