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

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

most others, however, she did not sit idly by and merely complain about the intolerable situation; as a young, black woman with a ...

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

MIDDLE PASSAGE Johnsons cultural and historical journey of racial divide chronicled in Middle Passage provides readers with a sig...

in fact, she had more gumption than most adults, refusing to allow adversity stand in the way of what she knew had to be done. He...

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...