YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Pacifism versus Just War
Essays 1531 - 1560
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
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...
personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
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...
to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...
1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...
(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...
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...
stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...
twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...
having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...
pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...
but it soon became apparent to any objective observer that the Versailles Treaty was bound to cause problems. While it may be diff...
that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...
is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...