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Essays 1951 - 1980

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

A World Trade Center Memorial

extreme loss of life, but it also encompassed a lot of anger. Most of the people--and particularly those who lived in New York--we...

'How to Remember the Forgotten War' by Stanley Weintraub

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

Free Speech and J.S. Mill

According to Mills adversaries, if utilitarianism is, indeed, wrapped around the concept of emotion instead of common sense, then ...

Letter to The President of The United States

the historical context of the second Gulf War to support their arguments. Since the end of World War II, US defense and foreign p...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

Comparison of Aging in Africa and in the United States

responsible for perpetuating this socially accepted attitude, inasmuch movies, books and other forms of broadcast rarely portray t...

Drug War and Economics

Case Study A case study submitted by a student suggests that the government is concerned about the increasing incidence of armed...

August 19, 1942's Dieppe Operation

to keep trade routes open between Canada and the rest of the world, and to put on a united front to the world....

Comparing Utopian Societies

our own society. Consider how the general population views its government and the politicians who hold political office. What we...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

World History Events Had Hitler Not Become Dictator of Germany

consisted of several different political parties, all representing those small factions that splintered off from their original pa...

Inevitability of the Cold War

the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Iraq War Coverage in UK's The Guardian and The New York Times Compared

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

War and Noncombatants

In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...

Changes in the Relationship of the Atlantic World and Western Europe in Robinson Crusoe

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

19th and 20th Century Naval Power

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Happiness

In five pages this paper examines happiness as reflected in two oppositional views presented in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and the History it Reflects

In five pages this paper considers America following the Civil War and how this time period is reflected in Mark Twain's The Gilde...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

JFK's Vietnam Mistake

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...