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Mexican Revolution and the Yucatan Caste War

In nine pages this paper compares the Mexican Revolution to the Yucatan Caste War in a consideration of its definitive elements. ...

Could the U.S. Civil War Have Been Averted?

In five pages this paper considers whether or not the Civil War could have been somehow avoided. Five sources are cited in the bi...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

20th Century's Most Historic Events

In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...

Water Wars in Owens Valley, California

In five pages this paper examines Owens Valley in a regional history that focuses upon water wars with surrounding areas. Four so...

Georgia March of General Sherman

In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...

Comparison of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Iliad' by Homer

are not primarily about war. The love element is significantly greater. In exploring Virgils Aeneid, it is perhaps the metamorpho...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...

Movies on the Vietnam War

Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A goo...

A Comparison of The Green Berets and Casualties of War

days on the battlefield seemed to be but a dim memory. The Korean War was Americas first unpopular war where there were no victor...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

Lessons About War In The Film, Saving Private Ryan

This paper examines Stephen Speilberg's 1998 WWII film, Saving Private Ryan. The author discusses what lessons can be taken from ...

Cynicism and War in The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

soon had a falling-out and Villa fled in December 1914 to the northern mountains with another rebel leader, Emiliano Zapata, an en...

Themes of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

Song of Roland, 'The Iliad,' and Heroism

In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...

The Peloponnesion War and 'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Athens failed in fulfilling the hopes expressed by Aeschylus in his play ...

First Feminist Perspective in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....

Cold War Era Films

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the Cold War is depicted in such films including Fail Safe, North By Northwest, Dr. Stran...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Religious Beliefs and War

The ways in which religious dogma can be used to justify war are examined in a research paper consisting of nine pages. Sixteen s...

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

Always a Part of the War as Described by Karl von Clausewitz in 'Fog and the Friction'

Forces held hearings on land forces modernization. At that time, numerous members of the Senate and high-ranking military officia...

Future and War Types

war-real and imagined-and that practice centered around the Cold War philosophy of winning an all-out nuclear war. But the rules ...

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

Greek Mythology, Women, and Warriors

In seven pages this paper considers the injustices of war in a consideration of women's unequal roles represented in the works of ...

Feudalism of Medieval England

In six pages this research paper discusses English feudalism in a consideration of Medieval war, women's status, and feudal system...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...

Jihad, Herem, and War Philosophies

In nine pages this paper considers Jihad and Herem concepts as they pertain to war philosophies. There are 7 sources cited in the...

John Drescher's 'Why Christians Shouldn't Carry Swords'

This Christianity Today article on the author's views of war is reviewed in four pages. There are no other sources listed....