YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 1531 - 1560
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
of the essential events leading up to the war were confined to Europe. Why then, was the conflict not contained in Europe? Why di...
Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...
landed and took over the island of Thule, which was the main location of the British Antarctic Survey Unit. However, the triggerin...
of gray in this matter. Motorcycles are for example are more dangerous than automobiles but are sold and advertised anyway. McDona...
see how he views war - both admiring the bravery of the soldiers while also acknowledging their certain death. There is evidence ...
had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...
with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
humiliation and the threat of being a cast out of ones own society. Ignatieff addresses the various concepts of nationalism as th...
to who Eckert has his characters refer to as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passin...
In 7 pages this paper discusses the growth of European socialism from 1890 until 1914 and how it posed a significant challenge to ...
He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...
to cut off British communication along the seaborne routs (On and Around the Lakes, nd). The Lake Ontario location also gave Chaun...
poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...
for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...
27 officers in the Marine Corps (Parker, 1970, p. 10). Furthermore, the U.S. Navy, such as it was, only had three first-class war...
to us that, for a 10-year-old, the world continues to hold great promise. In the meantime, no one ever said growing up was easy" (...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
on certain Republicans who had publicly questioned this policy, seemed to make clear that support for a proposed war was hardly un...
it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...
As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
ideal for battle. In the late Middle Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the c...
a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...