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Slavery and the Causes of the U.S. Civil War

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

US Society and the Impact of Operation Desert Storm

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

Vietnam War's Military Operations and the Roles Played by Government Policies and Public Opinion

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Impact

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

Case Study of PepsiCo in Mexico

it was too late. Molina and his family also controlled a number of other enterprises, including sugar. PepsiCo then made another h...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Latin America Problems A PepsiCo Case Study

except Venezuela where Pepsi had a 42 percent share to Coca-Colas 11.6 percent share. In fact, in terms of market share, Pepsi cam...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Christian Viewpoint - War In Iraq

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

The Causes of War; Nationalism and Social Darwinism

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...