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All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Zuckerman's Playing a Real Bad Hand (Article Summary and Review)

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Buddhism and the Impact of War

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

The Peloponnesian War of Thucydides and Greek Culture

In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...

3 War Novels and Self Realization

and womanizing, punctuated only by bouts of warfare. It would be inaccurate to say that Frederick really believed in the war at ...

Factors Leading to the First World War

In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...

The Conflicts Between Israelis and Arabs

In five pages the third and fourth of the wars between the Israelis and Arabs better known as the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars are ...

A Memo on the War on Terror

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Military Draft and War With Iraq For and Against

any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...

The 1950s

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

Defining War Crimes

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...

Three Decades of U.S. Foreign Policy from 1945 until 1975

In five pages this paper considers the direction of American foreign policy from the end of the Second World War into the Cold War...

War and the Human Psyche Impact According to Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

War of 1812 and its Causes

In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...

Book and Article Review on the Anti Vietnam Movement and its Impact

In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...

Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...