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Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

British Intervention in “Arab Street”

and unsettled as it is today, but it does seem to have been a source of concern for decades. This paper summarizes and analyzes th...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

Germany After World War I: Strong Economy and Weak Military - Britain’s Hope

The writer argues that at the end of the First World War, it was Britain’s desire to have Germany rendered weak militarily so that...

China in the Korean War

The writer argues that the Korean War actually had more to do with China than with Korea itself. There are five sources listed in ...

Britain’s Ideal: A Weakened Post World War I Germany

The writer examines whether or not Britain wanted Germany weakened and submissive after World War I. There are two sources listed ...

China and Its Involvement in the Korean War

The writer explores the reasons that China became involved in the Korean War. There are six sources listed in the bibliography of ...

Truman, China and the Korean War

The writer considers whether or not the breakout of the Korean War was a surprise to President Truman. There are two sources liste...

United States Foreign Policy Through the Ages

America as a sovereign power following the American Revolutionary War, there have been many conflicting views on what constitutes ...

Cultural Acceptance of Controversial Images: An Ethical or Aesthetic Concern?

to believe that the American character is typified by a na?ve sense of exceptionalism, we, as a culture, continue to be mired in q...

Churchill, Hitler and the “Unnecessary War”

Buchanan argues that Churchill did not really have to go to war and he and Chamberlain made some serious mistakes. He indicates th...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

The Middle East During and After World War I

had very little say in its own governance. This paper describes the way in which World War I spurred the major powers, particularl...

Economics and War

soldiers being sent literally around the world. Factories that had stood idle or working at greatly reduced capacity suddenly wer...

Overview of the War of the Roses

Kings inner circle. While government faltered, commerce and prosperity declined and French pirates raided the coast with impunity....

An Article on U.S. Welfare and Poor Programs Reviewed

system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Post Second World War Generation and Rock 'N Roll's Impact

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

Comparisons Between Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

have presided over rough economies. The poor economy, in fact, cost Bush Senior the 1992 election. According to experts, Bush Juni...

Jews in PA

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

The Central Reasons for the First World War

members of the Serbian government who had been associated with it, and to reinforce the idea that Austria wielded ultimate power i...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Realist Perspectives on the Iraq War

In six pages the realist theory and Machiavelli's political influence are examined within the context of the contemporary war with...

1980s' Soviet Union

Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...