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Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

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...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

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 ...

Hemingway’s Techniques Described in “Hemingway: In Love and War”

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

Is the Cold War Over?

cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...

Points of View on the Just War Theory

base their assumptions and conclusions on the notion that a supreme emergency provides a justification for war. He considers the ...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

Terrorism Problems and the Challenges Confronting Kuwait

This mutual alliance against terrorism intensified when maritime protection became necessary during 1987, an augmentation that ser...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

to the twenty-first century reader somewhat of an ordeal to read through the entire volume. The author for example talks about nin...

19th and 20th Century Naval Power

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

Emerson and Thoreau and the War in Iraq

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

Three Wars and Their Impact on History

forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

Events Leading to Operation Desert Storm

the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

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...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

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...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

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...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

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 ...