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An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Marshall Plan and Defensive Realism

the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...

UK Foreign Policy and Germany During the Thirties

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

World Wars II and II and the Ideological Connection That Exists Between Them

a part of the WWI time period and inherent in Europe. Also, Fascism was something that was fought ideologically. In order to proce...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

Construction and Military Operation of the Bismarck German Battleship

secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

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...

Anti Semitism History in the United States

such as France, actively participated and even facilitated the deportation of their Jewish citizens to death camps (Grobman, 2005)...

The Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's 14 Points

This paper presents a comparative overview of these documents and presents the argument that the Treaty of Versailles was a major ...

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

The War of 1812 As America's Second War of Independence

This paper contains five pages and discusses how the War of 1812, also the Napoleonic Wars, was relatively minor and that its limi...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Global Stratification and Dependency Theories

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

The World Before the First World War According to Barbara Tuchman

In six pages Tuchman's text on the period just prior to World War I The Proud Tower is examined. There are no other sources liste...

Enlightenment Religious Reform, the Hapsburg Empire, and Joseph the Second

greatest minds of his time period (Geocities.com, 2002). Maria Theresa was considerably more conservative (Geocities.com, 2002). ...

China and Britain, a Tale of Two Empires

others, and they resisted allowing the Europeans to unduly influence their traditional ways and religion (Hostetler, 2000). Europ...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

The Societal Rebuff of Anyone Different

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Iraq Invasion Justification

better between these two presidencies, with clear indications that things had in fact become significantly worse, the decision to ...

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

Overview of Electronic Marketing

and therefore those companies that do not embrace this new medium may well be left behind. Even in less technological countries e ...

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 ...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...