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Achieving Societal Perfection

"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

'Flanking in a Price War' Summarized

must be narrowly defined and must not deviate from the boundaries given it at the outset. Of course approaching a study in this m...

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...

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...

Fighting the Vietnam War

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

Development of Tank Warfare During the First and Second World Wars

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

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...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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 (...

A Speech Analysis

Lee Brown's speech on the 'drug war' deliverd in May of 1994 is the focus of this paper consisting of three pages and is presented...

A Communications Perspective Speech Analysis

This is another analysis of Lee P. Brown's 'War on Drugs' speech delivered in May 1994. One textbook and speech reference constit...

Diplomacy and the Media's Effects

In eleven pages this paper examines how diplomacy is influenced by the mass media in a consideration of such topics as Jesse Jacks...

Second World War Journalist Ernie Pyle

In ten pages the trademark journalistic style that has been duplicated ever since is discussed in this consideration of Ernie Pyle...

News Coverage of NBC and CBS after the First Gulf War

There were significant similarities and differences in coverage of the peace talks after the first Iraq war. This report compares ...

Media and Perceptions of the Vietnam War

that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency During and After the Cold War

In five pages this paper discusses American intelligence in a consideration of the vast involvement of the CIA in the Cold War. F...

Cold War and Varying Perceptions by the Soviet Union and the United States

In eight pages this research paper discusses how during the Cold War foreign policies were the result of very different perception...

The Cold War and SDI

In twelve pages this paper discusses the diplomatic negotiations between Cold War adversaries President Ronald Reagan and Soviet P...

Origins and Early Development of the Cold War

In five pages this paper examines how the Cold War originated and its early stages of development and is not limited merely to the...

Italian Politics and the Mafia

In twelve pages this paper considers the post Second World War emergence of the Mafia and its impact upon the politics of Italy. ...

U.S. and the 'War' on Drugs

two star-athletes fist called wide-spread attention to the problem during the mid-1980s. Since then, the government has reportedl...

Society, Drugs and, Policy

In eleven pages the war on drugs is examined in terms of some early social legislation. There are more than fourteen sources cite...