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

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

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

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

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

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...

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

arose that the city was burned intentionally on the command of the emperor. One contemporary account asserts that "Certain people ...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

event, which is capable of causing PTSD symptoms. Complex trauma, however, is when the individual experiences prolonged, repeated ...

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

he wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible" (Bodnar). While there is also this sort of romantic ideal in Saving Private ...

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...