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Essays 1981 - 2010

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

1980s' War Between Iraq and Iran

In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

The Deepening Involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam Affairs

In a paper that consists of three pages the increasing involvement by the United States in Vietnamese affairs are discussed as the...

Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

'War on Drugs' and its Political Benefits

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

Vietnam War Failure of the United States Observed

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

Terrorism Problems and the Challenges Confronting Kuwait

This mutual alliance against terrorism intensified when maritime protection became necessary during 1987, an augmentation that ser...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

Analysis of US Antiwar Organizations and American Peace Movements from September 11 2001 until March 20, 2003

military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...

Global Security Environmental Changes

States power and security position? Many questions linger. Since the cold war has ended, many thought that it was the end of secu...

Uncle Sam and Juggling Two Wars

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

New Peace Movements in the United States

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

War and Noncombatants

In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...

Globalization, Collapse of Communism, and the New World Order

In five pages this paper examines the Cold War, globalization, and communism's collapse in this conceptual view of the 'New World ...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

Post 1990 Iraq War Time Line

Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...

1950 to 1951 Time line of the Korean War

as well, however. South Korea had been in favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of...

Europe and Its Steps Toward Minimizing War Chances

fronts if our own national security is to be preserved. While the EU is presently regarded as a friend to the U.S., history testi...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Foreign Policy Shifts of Korea and China

Chinese international policy affects Korea. As far as China is concerned, foreign policy had changed a bit since the Korean War. C...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...