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Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

The Sudanese Civil War

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

War and the Human Psyche Impact According to Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

Gulf War Coverage of CNN

that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

A Life Examined in Alan Taylor's 'William Cooper's Town'

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Korean War and Its Impact

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Defining a Hero

understanding how this works we present an examination of various individuals, illustrating what makes them a hero. Many argue t...

Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

Ancient Greek Mythological Heroes and Episode II of Star Wars

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Global History and the Significance of Political Ideology

about. Economic factors on the other hand seem far more serious. While that is the case, and economics have a decided impact--the...

Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

Character Analysis of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

The Love of Women Presenting A Different Kind of World

become well-known on stage in the time and place in which both of these works took place were no better than they had been a hundr...

War as a Business

There are a number of other factors that influence a war economy - and many of these are simply not predictable without knowing th...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Life in a World With Either Conventional or Nuclear Weapons

decades. He also rejects the notion that governments that are controlled by the military would be quicker to employ nuclear weapon...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

JFK's Vietnam Mistake

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...