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A look at De Pauw's Battle Cries and Lullabies

This well written book by Linda De Pauw is discussed in depth. The book concerns the role of women in the military and especially ...

The American Military and Asian Prostitution

In five pages Let the Good Times Role by Sturdevant and Stoltzfus is used to consider how U.S. soldiers victimized Asian prostitut...

Foreign Policy in the United States and Relations Between the President and Congress

The post 1960s relationships between the President and Congress is examined in ten pages with foreign policies including arms sale...

1865 to 1877 U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Plans of the President and Congress

Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the people is what was going to promote both individual and...

Persian Gulf War and President George H.W. Bush

In nine pages this paper discusses the presidential power misuse of President George H.W. Bush as it relates to the war in the Per...

Animal Characteristics and Ambrose Bierce

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

Progress of the Space Program

otherwise come into existence if it were not for the inherent desire to be the best. Humans have forever longed to explore ...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Always a Part of the War as Described by Karl von Clausewitz in 'Fog and the Friction'

Forces held hearings on land forces modernization. At that time, numerous members of the Senate and high-ranking military officia...

Future and War Types

war-real and imagined-and that practice centered around the Cold War philosophy of winning an all-out nuclear war. But the rules ...

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

U.S. Veterans and Homelessness

of the general male adult population, approximately 40% of homeless men are veterans. Surprisingly, it appears that homelessness ...

Explication of the Poem The Eternal Dice

In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Song of Roland, 'The Iliad,' and Heroism

In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...

Writer's Impressions of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Vasili Kuragin. Also through their conversation, the reader is first introduced to Prince Vasilis sons, Ippolit and Anatol. The ...

Cynicism and War in The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

soon had a falling-out and Villa fled in December 1914 to the northern mountains with another rebel leader, Emiliano Zapata, an en...

Themes of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

Another Odd Couple Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim

The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...

Reflection of Self in 'Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle

In this paper consisting of eight pages the characteristics between the author and his most famous literary creation are considere...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

In three pages Trumbo's novel protesting war is discussed with a consideration of the importance of the social perceptions he incl...

Heroes, War, and Rebellion in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarded the differing perspectives on heroes, rebellion, and war each ...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front II

In ten pages this paper analyzes how the novel exposes war and its grim realities that are in stark contrast to the cultural illus...

'The Butterfly and the Tank' by Ernest Hemingway

him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...

Pernicious Aspects of Nationalism

In three pages this paper examines nationalism in pernicious examples from America during the Civil War and the political structur...

Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

In five pages Albee's employment of allusion in his play are examined as they impact upon the Nick character with connections made...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Civil War Impact on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe

In nine pages this paper examines the profound impact the Civil War had on the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, including Uncle To...