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Nuclear Weapons and the Danger Posed by North Korea

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the nuclear capabilities of North Korea and the threat they presently pose to a post Cold W...

T.E. Lawrence of Arabia

In ten pages T.E. Lawrence and his First World War exploits are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Isaac Rosenberg's and Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

Projecting What U.S. International Relations Will Be Like in The 21st Century

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

Russia and Tsarism's Collapse

the country based on more equality, not further separation (Lewin, 2002). Russia at this times was quite literally in "the thro...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

Porter's Diamond of National Advantage and Japan's Development

supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Military Warfare Changes from the American Revolution Until the End of the First World War

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

Responsibility for the First World War

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Postwar Success of Japan

Emperor was stripped of his rank and power, most would say that he and the nation of Japan lost much face because of it. In Japane...

History of Germany from 1850 to the First World War

In six pages the role of Otto von Bismarck is emphasized in this consideration of the history of Germany from 1850 through the Fir...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

1969's Soccer War Between El Salvador and Honduras

the 1960s El Salvadors failing economy and severe overpopulation drove hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans to cross illegally int...

Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

In this paper that contains five pages the ways in which the First World War and especially the strategically important Battle of ...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

The Impact of World War I on the Middle East

This 6 page paper explores the impact of the First World War on society in general and particularly on the Middle East. The writer...

Post First World War Culture and Radio

In six pages this paper examines the cultural significance of radio since the First World War and how it led to TV and Internet me...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Politics of the Banana Trade War

another of not abiding by the rules, the WTO provides the forum where such cases can be settled ("The Banana," 1999). If the inte...

Ethical Issues Associated with the Period from the 'New World' Settlement Until the U.S. Civil War

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Computers

and dilemmas of computerization really work out for large numbers of people under an immense variety of social and technical condi...

When Your Number's Up by Desmond Morton

In five pages this book that considers the Canadian involvement in the First World War is discussed. There are no other sources l...

Wartime's Changing Techniques

see that even within the scope of one war the geography and the type of battles that are faced are of incredible importance. Imag...

Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

Singapore History since WWII

activities from business to entertainment to sex. The Internet is also regulated (2002). While not a dictatorship, the nation has ...

Persuasion and the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler

"What really needs explaining is not Hitler, but the historical context which brought him to prominence and power, and convinced h...

Negative Futuristic Vision of H.G. Wells

indelible scar on Wells psyche, which eventually led the young Darwinist to embrace the "cosmic pessimism" offered by the philosop...