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Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

Star Wars Trilogy and Mythology

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

British Intervention in “Arab Street”

and unsettled as it is today, but it does seem to have been a source of concern for decades. This paper summarizes and analyzes th...

Personality Theory and the Jewish Holocaust

Personalists like John MacMurray study the relationships that emerge in the state of being a purpose, in internal aspects...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

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

Intelligence Agencies in World War II

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Art and Recruitment: World War I, Flagg, and Christy

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

"Flags Of Our Fathers" - A Photograph's Ability To Shape Popular Perception Of An Event

film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...

Public Support for World War II and Vietnam

"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of ...

World War II Innovations and Tactics

This 3 page paper gives an overview of both radar and vaccines as technological advances during World War II. This paper includes ...

British Morale in World War II and the Role of Information

the Psychological Study of Social Issues in the 1950s sought to analyze the matter, but faced the endemic difficulty of separating...

German Foreign Policy and the Impact of Nationalism on it Prior to the First World War

the Native American Indians had a strong bond with their fellow tribal members, people of different ethnic background feel strongl...

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

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

First World War Battles Fought Beyond the European Continent

name suggests--would affect the entire world. II. World War One World War I begins when the Archduke Ferdinand, who is heir ...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

World War I and the East African Conflict Between the British and the Germans

own countries as they had always been. If you are a member of a royal family at this time in Europe, the least you want to do is ...

Wartime and the Rights of the Individual

a great deal of ability to open doors, but this impedes the freedom of the people of the United States. While it has happened in r...

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...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...