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Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front II

In ten pages this paper analyzes how the novel exposes war and its grim realities that are in stark contrast to the cultural illus...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

A Critical Analysis of the Film, Hamburger Hill

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...

Trafamadore and Billy Pilgrim

In three pages this fictitious autobiographical essay from Billy's perspective explores his zoo experience featuring the circulari...

Song of Roland, 'The Iliad,' and Heroism

In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...

Auteur Film Director Brian DePalma

The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...

Neorealism of Italian Director Roberto Rossellini

In eight pages this paper discusses the post Second World War neorealist cinema that was characterized by Roberto Rossellini in su...

Greek Mythology, Women, and Warriors

In seven pages this paper considers the injustices of war in a consideration of women's unequal roles represented in the works of ...

Feudalism of Medieval England

In six pages this research paper discusses English feudalism in a consideration of Medieval war, women's status, and feudal system...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...

John Drescher's 'Why Christians Shouldn't Carry Swords'

This Christianity Today article on the author's views of war is reviewed in four pages. There are no other sources listed....

Always a Part of the War as Described by Karl von Clausewitz in 'Fog and the Friction'

Forces held hearings on land forces modernization. At that time, numerous members of the Senate and high-ranking military officia...

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

Nuclear Weapons Policy of the US

Iraq had amassed huge stock piles of deadly biological warfare agents which it had planned to use against the United States (Hacke...

U.S. Veterans and Homelessness

of the general male adult population, approximately 40% of homeless men are veterans. Surprisingly, it appears that homelessness ...

The American Military and Asian Prostitution

In five pages Let the Good Times Role by Sturdevant and Stoltzfus is used to consider how U.S. soldiers victimized Asian prostitut...

Foreign Policy in the United States and Relations Between the President and Congress

The post 1960s relationships between the President and Congress is examined in ten pages with foreign policies including arms sale...

Animal Characteristics and Ambrose Bierce

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

Progress of the Space Program

otherwise come into existence if it were not for the inherent desire to be the best. Humans have forever longed to explore ...

Ethnography and Eskimo Essays

In ten pages an ethnographic perspective is offered in an exploration of Fineup Riordin's text which considers the Yup'ik Eskimo c...

Prisoners Without Trial by Roger Daniels and Japanese Internment

In ten pages this research paper discusses the U.S. bigotry that was responsible for the internment of thousands of Japanese Ameri...

Sociological Contributions of Herbert Spencer

In three pages this essay discusses Spencer's sociological contributions and examines the roles played by morality and war in part...

Post 1945 Nuclear Power

history.html). There was no question that nuclear power was the wave of the future. "Nuclear power is one of our most impo...

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...

A Review of the Impact of American Presence in Adano as Revealed in A Bell For Adano

This five page paper provides and overview of the impact of American involvement in Adano Italy during World War II. John Hershey'...

Revolution Concept of Jacques Ellul

In five pages this paper examines Jacques Ellul's concept of revolution within the context of European history from the sixteenth ...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

Drugs Decriminalization

In six pages this paper discusses how the U.S. war on drugs might be more successfully fought through drug rehabilitation rather t...