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Civilians Working In War Zones

There is the risk of capture or immediate death or permanent injuries. And, what is only recently being published, there has been ...

Canadian Consumer Culture & the Environment

was not, as it had been during the Depression, a function of what the consumer could afford, bur rather what the then could find (...

U.S. Action in the Pacific in World War II

in which the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were heavily engaged, although there was Army presence as well. Still, it is the Mari...

A Review of The American Civil War The Last Capitalist Revolution

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

Neville Chamberlain's Appeasement Policy and Frank McDonough's British Road to War

in 1934 by Philip Henry Kerr who wrote a letter to the Times of London (Safire 23). Interestingly, the Times was instrumental in c...

Political Film Comparision of the Nonfiction The Fog of War and Fiction Fahrenheit 911

of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...

Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women by Willard Swartley

23). The author realizes that certain readers may wish to find definitive answers on the controversial issues explored, but Swartl...

Incredible War of 1812 by J. Mackay Hitsman

In four pages this text is reviewed with the role of Sir George Prevost, a general from Canada, the primary emphasis. There are n...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

Evolution in Aircraft Design in the World War II Era

drag cleanup. Howard Hughes racing plane was the fastest thing going in the U.S. during this time and one of the most important f...

The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Joan of Arc

was located within the realm of the Duke of Burgundy, but while the Burgundians were in alliance with the English, Domremy had con...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Genocide Since World War II

that barbarous act destroys the narrators faith: "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: Where is God now? And I heard a voice wi...

Significant Events After World War II

1960S One of the most significant reasons why the United States became involved in the politics of Southeast Asia is becaus...

FARC and the Drug Wars in Colombia

to a situation in which enemies fight each other in one place and make deals in another, "as is the case with the Fuerzas Armadas ...

A Look at the Ice Cream Wars

study on Unilever broaches the idea of corporate social responsibility. In it, it is noted that Unilever distributed a very large ...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Islamic View of Holy War

who do not fight "with severe punishment in the hereafter" (Gould, 2005, p. 15). But the Koran does not make it clear whether Musl...

King Philip's War by Jill Lepore

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

War on Drugs' Legalization

In five pages this issue is examined from both sides. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

World War One Weaponry

very interesting is the fact that the tanks in WWI were developed by the British and French in the hundreds, but the Germans remai...

Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism and Global Holy War

of fundamentalism, and extremist elements exist in both Islam as well as Christianity. Islamic Fundamentalism is defined as "an u...

Parallels Between the Civil Rights Movement and Post Civil War Reconstruction

servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United State...

US Involvement in the Korean War and the Future of North and South Korea

favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of the original separation. North Korea, on the other hand...

From the Revolution to the Civil War: The Long Sleep of Carleton Wankybucket

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

Trench Warfare and the Best Anti-War Novel Ever Written

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

The First American Casualties in the Korean War

Korean War. Unfortunately Task Force Smith was just the opening page of a war that would turn out to be a long and gruesome affair...