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Medical Treatments for Iraq Veterans

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women As Seen Through the Eyes of Euripides

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

American Policy in Japan, 1948-1952

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

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

1948 through 1952: Politics Between the U.S. and Japan

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...

Japan’s Position on International Issues

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

Tom Paine: Common Sense

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

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

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

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

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...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

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

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

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

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

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

US Intelligence After WWII

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

Reading: The Rule of Law and Military Tribunals

the most immoral atrocities ever committed, but it was not enough for the Allies to condemn them morally: "... this was to be a le...

KOSOVO AND IRAQ: THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

using the conflict as a stepping stone to promote democracy in the Middle East and destroying any weapons of mass destruction (Enc...

Why a Draft Should be Implemented (Policy Argument)

there are many opposed to the concept. Yet, ironically, it is for that very reason why the proposal must be accepted. That is, the...

Influences on Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”

what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

Freud And Malaparte

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

Palast: Armed Madhouse

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

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Macroeconomics; The Price of Oil

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

An Overview of the Battle of Dunkirk

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...