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Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Military Policy Decisions After Vietnam in Light of Frederick Kagan's Views

the U.S. military after Vietnam. The author notes that there is currently a volunteer force, which is quite different from the dr...

Operation Desert Storm

and the "restoration of Kuwaits legitimate government to replace the puppet regime installed by Iraq" (Richelson, 2001). The Unit...

United States and War with Spain

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

Jefferson Davis: Civil War and Reconstruction

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

Medical Treatments for Iraq Veterans

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women As Seen Through the Eyes of Euripides

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Vietnam, America’s Lost War

United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...

Harris: Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches

"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...

Ayers: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

Japan’s Position on International Issues

naval mission in the Indian Ocean providing fuel to coalition forces in Afghanistan" (Japans opposition to stall war on terror bil...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

Sun Tzu and the War in Iraq

in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

Two Legal Questions

from terrorism, no rights should be accorded to suspects captured in the war on terror. Terrorism is not an activity endorsed by ...

Comparing Two Close Friends

the fun side of life and appreciates the foibles of human behavior. They each work extremely hard, Judy for her family and three s...

Argument: Under International Law, the Iraq War is Legal

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...

Why a Draft Should be Implemented (Policy Argument)

there are many opposed to the concept. Yet, ironically, it is for that very reason why the proposal must be accepted. That is, the...

Hemingway’s Techniques Described in “Hemingway: In Love and War”

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...