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This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...

stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...