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of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

for example that examines 2004 statistics is based on public health experts who report that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died...

the Native American Indians had a strong bond with their fellow tribal members, people of different ethnic background feel strongl...

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young gener...

of the most important things to note about this conflict is that it each side was forced into a situation where it seemed they had...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

the displacement and abuse of the impoverished in the world. Turnipseed (2000) notes that in order to help many of the people in f...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

has been solicited by the government in return for security. The US has seen a fear that associated with Islam, it has suited the ...

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Jeffersons time by the name of Benjamin Benneker will be discussed as well. Of course, he was a brilliant man, but he was not a po...

which would earn remission of ones penances because of the great hardships which would be faced."3 The idea was novel, and danger...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

that, "In the aftermath of the fighting with Iraq, two just war principles in particular - just cause and proportionality - reveal...

"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...