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Greek War God Ares

In seven pages Ares and his passion for war and brutality are examined as is the God of War's love affair with the married Aphrodi...

Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day June 6, 1944 The Climactic Battle of World War II

In five pages this book is reviewed and evaluated in terms of content, themes, narrative, and a discussion of how the author bring...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

World War II's D Day and the Role of the U.S.

involved European forces. At the same time, this is an American story. It would involve Americans. McManus (2004) claims that the ...

Bettany Hughes in the PBS Special The Spartans

the culture, which included infanticide and euthanasia, practices which most balk at in the modern era. Slave labor is utilized an...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

A First Person Insight into the Days Leading Up to the Civil War

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Jean-Paul Sartre/The Flies

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

Considering the Maya

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" And Erdrich's "Tracks": Psychological Influences Of Childhood

is perpetuated by their sons inappropriate activities that were created James and Marys poor parenting. There is no end to ...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

DUBAI VS THE MIDDLE EAST: A NATION-STATE IN LOVE WITH MONEY, NOT WAR

thus staving off what could have been a disastrous situation. A default on debt is certainly nothing to sneeze at and can h...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

Origins and Implications of the Cold War Era

War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Paideia, The Thoughts of Douglas Wilson

This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

Differing Analyses of A Long Day's Journey Into Night

In four pages Eugene O'Neill's play is analyzed from historical, feminist, and psychoanalytical perspectives. There is one biblio...

Greek Literature as Reflective of Greek Culture

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

Bob Woodward's Bush at War

a good deal of attention on the people who actually know what needs to go into the plan and how to utilize the CIA, FBI, military ...

Tragedy That is Not Tragic in 'Night Mother'

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

'The Longest Day' Was it Accurate?

film was produced in much the way a battle is in terms of strategy and planning, thus making it a very intense and powerful film. ...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Ancient Rome to Post Second World War Infrastructural Development and Military Strategy

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

A Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and Different Interpretations

a purely psychoanalytic point of view, this family epitomizes the term dysfunctional. The father, James, is battling depression be...

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Past Guilt

women but prostitutes" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). These are exactly the same people that ONeill puts on the stage. We might ...

Artistic Traditions: Egypt and Greece

A 4 page paper which examines the reasons for differences in the artistic traditions of the Egyptians and the Greeks as suggested ...