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Central Intelligence Agency's Role

In eight pages this paper discusses the CIA's role in regions such as Guatemala and Chile and such topics as technology and the im...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Themes of War and Domesticity

In a paper consisting of 6 pages war and domesticity are examined within the context of these Homerian ethics particularly as they...

A Review of Fields of Fire

A 5 page overview the fictional tale of the Vietnam War by James Webb. The young protaganist is a Marine hero. 1 source....

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

Warfare and the Role of the Howitzer

In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...

Overview of the Vietnam War and its Impact Upon America

fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

Prussia’s Rise to Power: Seven Years War and Frederick the Great

rulers was growing increasingly bitter. Frederick the Great began his reign at the same time Maria Theresia became the monarch of ...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Time to Surrender in the War on Drugs?

Mr. Knizely sees three major areas of concern with regard to the Constitution. First, the "war on drugs" violates the 4th Amendmen...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Medieval War Tool the Trebuchet

the beam, its attachment point along the beam and the distance of that attachment point from the ground, the weight and position o...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Differential Gender War Understanding Approach in Fausse Route by Elisabeth Badinter

the same from the differential stance of a man or a woman, and it is because of this very distinct - if not wholly natural - separ...

Iraqi War Perspective

needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of politics; however, it can also be contended how there...

The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan and the 'Righteous War' Concept

horse sacrifice contained within The Ramayana. According to Narayans translation, in this ceremonial ritual, "A horse... is set f...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

War In The Congo

groundwork for development in this struggling nation, and further, created a sense of enlightenment where before there was none (...

Depiction of the Civil War in Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women and the Film Birth of a Nation

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

Past and Present Drug War in Colombia

In five pages this paper examines the drug war in Colombia, past and present. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

War and the Readership of Newspapers

In five pages this paper examines the connection between the circulation of newspapers and the events of war. Six sources are cit...