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Drug War and Economics

Case Study A case study submitted by a student suggests that the government is concerned about the increasing incidence of armed...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

Von Clausewitz and Galula, Views on War

may be social or economic, but the basic formula for revolutionary action remains the same. Von Clausewitz, in his nineteenth ce...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...

United Nations And U.S. National Security Policy

the UN when seeking their approval to go into Iraq. For more than a decade, Iraq had refused to meet the mandates of the UN Securi...

Secularism, Cold War And Germany's Reunification

world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...

The Civil War, Augusta County Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

The Problem With News Media Today

like NPR and PBS are under attack as there is political pressure for them to be less critical ("Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenou...

Lincoln and the Second Revolution

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

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

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

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

Woodward's "State Of Denial"

a war that has the United States too close to detrimental watershed. The integrity of a man like Woodward (2006) - who would plac...

The Battle Of Gettysburg

as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

Gulf War, U.S., Iraq, and a Contrast of Ideologies

of the group. Functionalists believe that every state has the universal right to provide those elements which will strike a balanc...

D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover and the Relationship Between Oliver Mellors and Connie Chatterley

engaged in. Koh indicates that "the exceptional scale and range of British losses did serious damage to the established socio-...

Justification of the Iraq War and Other Alternative Perspectives

just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

War and the Economy

government spending increases $75 billion. The effect on domestic investment will be that it decreases. Increase in trade defici...

Puritanism and the English Civil War

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

Deborah Gray White's Aren't I a Woman?

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

Letter to The President of The United States

the historical context of the second Gulf War to support their arguments. Since the end of World War II, US defense and foreign p...

Lessons Learned From The Failure of Prohibition

enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...

Comparisons Between Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

have presided over rough economies. The poor economy, in fact, cost Bush Senior the 1992 election. According to experts, Bush Juni...

David Donald Why the North Won the Civil War

Jefferson Davis inferiority to Lincoln, for he never developed an overall strategy or devised a unified command system for the ent...

Reagan Administration's Military Buildup

of San Salvador in November 1989 and the government continued to be responsible for murders carried out by right-wing death squads...