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'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Book VII of The Republic by Plato and Its 'Allegory of the Cave'

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

Global Free Trade, WTO, and GATT

in effect. The relative attractiveness of foreign goods to U. S. buyers, and of U. S. goods to foreign buyers, depends in part on...

The Plight of Abandoned Children in the US and the World

juvenile charges, it can be argued that this particular field holds a great deal more ethical conscience than any other. Often vu...

William James' 4 Saintliness Criteria and How They Apply to 13th Century Poet Rumi

yet another book, Annemarie Schimmels "Rumis World". William James lectured and wrote on what he referred to as "natural re...

Vietnam War and the Critical Turning Point Represented by the Tet Offensive

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

WTC and Terrorism

for models of courage and true heroic action. Terrorism and The World Trade Center - The First Attack While the...

Arab Impact of the Prophet Muhammad

this select few. The Prophet Muhamed and Social Reform The word Islam itself means both "peace" and "submission to the wil...

Vietnam War and Tim O'Brien's Revealing The Things They Carried

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

Seizure of the City of Hue and the Tet Offensive

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

Ute Indians and the Meeker War

dealings with the government were not to their benefit and in the late 1800s, treaties with the Untied States forced the three ban...

Third World Military Coups

Clearly, these people will find it obviously difficult to return to a system of order and reliance on traditional political regime...

North and South Advantages During the Civil War

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

Thomas L. Friedman and Samuel P. Huntington on Globalization

is not just our "pop" culture that has caused so much influence. Aside from the political force of the United States, we note th...

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...

New World Order's Geoeconomies and Geopolitics

Vietnam War, and the problems along the Suez Canal in the late 1960s (Sookdeo, 1993). As a result, the world was divided along pol...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Imperialism and The New World Order

replaced by an increasing number of autonomous self-determining states, whereas others were more precipitate: the collapse of the ...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

Western Domination from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

than any other nation in the world the Western world was coming into an age of discovery that would set the stage for all the deca...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

Social Responsibility in the Corporate World

they are engaging in partnerships for community development all over the world, and they are increasingly taking a holistic approa...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Social Problem of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...