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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...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

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

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

"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

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

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

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

is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...

A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

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...

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

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

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

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

would have undertaken a careful analysis of the current position of the company, and where they want to be along with the market o...