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first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

documents of black history and was considered to be a prolific author of scholarly works as well as popular books (2002). He woul...

involves slavery: "Here, too, there developed a slave society that more nearly resembled Caribbean than other mainland societies. ...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...