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Essays 1981 - 2010

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Historical Accuracy, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Jihad, Herem, and War Philosophies

In nine pages this paper considers Jihad and Herem concepts as they pertain to war philosophies. There are 7 sources cited in the...

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....

Christianity and War

same. "Transcendence is experienced as addressing man and charging him with responsibility..." (Werblowsky 12). Once a person ha...

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...

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...

Democracy and War

In a paper consisting of twelve pages this paper considers democracy in terms of its antiwar disposition. Nine sources are cited ...

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...

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 ...

Land and Blood Wars of Bolingbroke in William Shakespeare's Richard II

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shakespeare employed the dual land and blood motifs in his historical play i...

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...

1865 to 1877 U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Plans of the President and Congress

Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the people is what was going to promote both individual and...

Persian Gulf War and President George H.W. Bush

In nine pages this paper discusses the presidential power misuse of President George H.W. Bush as it relates to the war in the Per...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

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...

Future and War Types

war-real and imagined-and that practice centered around the Cold War philosophy of winning an all-out nuclear war. But the rules ...

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...

Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Sociopolitical Theories

In ten pages this paper examines presidential decision making in these two instances from a sociopolitical theoretical perspective...

U.S. Veterans and Homelessness

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

Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss

but it had awakened the curiosity of dozens of would-be inventors. No one questioned that the Wright Brothers were the original d...

Casablanca Film's Propaganda and History

In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...

English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell

In twenty five pages this paper discusses the participation of the Roundheads and Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War in a co...

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...