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American Colonies and Mercantilism

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

Issues of the Lebanese Civil War

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

Timothy Findley's The Wars and Setting

a man who has lost his childhood and lost more innocence than most people will in a lifetime. In this book we are presented wit...

Is Peace in Palestine and Israel Possible?

of Israel and her people. This emphasis is understandable given the long history of unrest which has characterized the young nati...

Pacifism versus Just War

nature of war in relationship to what may be perceived by some as the just nature of the terrorist acts waged against the United S...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

Terrorism and Special Operations Forces

Navy Seals and the Green Berets underwent rigorous screening and training before they were admitted to these Forces. Their trainin...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Craiglockert Meeting Between Sassoon and Owen

die in war for brothers. Certainly at this point it is evident that he regards dying for ones country as truly dulce et decorum: a...

Two Art Works Compared

a rather poor situation. One can pick out the bride when one looks carefully enough, but she is nothing like one would expect a br...

War and Mathematics

of terrorist attacks -- more specifically, the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Centers in New York City....

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

War and the Effects of Tanks and Trench Warfare

more despicable methods of death. As soon as soldiers reached the grounds, they knew their lives were in peril. The glow of arti...

Social Perceptions and News Magazines

over the Washington-area sniper who began shooting people at random during the latter part of 2002 (Abramsky B11). Even while "th...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Assessment of the Iraq War

believe that only a select few should be granted the privilege of human rights. Philosophers have spent endless hours determining...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

The Turn of the Century Expansionism of America

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

US Wartime Uses of Propaganda

using the press in this manner, some excellent examples remain which show what media savvy can make the difference. Consider that ...

Kuwait's National Security Issues

Government does challenge the border on occasion ("Kuwait," 2003). Iraq had been a threat long after the Gulf War. Yet, although ...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Iraqi War and Its Impacts on the U.S. Economy

however, continue to argue that the economy will be boosted as a result of the war. The purpose of this paper is to analyze each ...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

U.S. Miltary Public and American Foreign Policy

There is no question that a significant number of tax dollars have been used to militarize the Middle East, in addition to the pay...