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the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

a fairly recent advertising campaign - this is not your fathers battleground. Ironically, thirteen years after Reagans introducti...

The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...

In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...

for example seemed to have been swept into a war which it would ultimately lose. But in a sense, Germany can be seen as the aggres...

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

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

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

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...