SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

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

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 ...

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

create more problems for the nation. In one respect, people who purchase, sell or use marijuana are put in prison and exposed to...

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

plan the air campaign ("Chapter VI-The Air Campaign," 2007). The air campaign was something exciting as it was a relatively new st...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...