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The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Post-Cold War Policies to Facilitate “One Europe”

be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Comparing the Gulf War and Vietnam

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Medieval Weapons And Siege Engines: England

axes and spears inevitably provided close proximity to ones target. Swords were particularly coveted by the Saxons who estimated ...

Leadership at the Battle of Ia Drang

from Georgia (Kingseed, 2002). From this painstaking experience, Moore says he learned that a person must first learn to lead them...

The Battle of Baghdad - Engineering Operations

the war. To these ends, the battle pitted the United States Army, Marine Corp., and Air Force, as well as the British Royal Air Fo...

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Princess Diana's Battle with Bulimia Nervosa

and Diana became Lady Diana Spencer, creating notoriety that resulted in lifelong changes, leading to her marriage to Prince Charl...

Contrasting Macbeth and Banquo

This essay discusses the similarities and differences that characterize Macbeth and Banquo in Act I. The writer argues that their ...

The Army and Accountability

medicine, its crucial to have accountability in the armed forces. Military personnel are sworn to defend the nation, which often m...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Mohammed Introduced New Religion

Mohammed introduced Islam in about 632. It was a time when tribes ruled their own group. There were continual battles between trib...

Battle of the Bulge, Overview

This report discusses the Battle of the Bulge, offering a comprehensive overview. The writer describes the overall strategy that r...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Sterilization Methods, Ancient to Modern

and isolation of contagious patients would save lives and slow the transmission of illness. Sterilization and disinfection of mi...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadl...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

The Battle of Cowpens

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Kasserine Pass - American View

his arrival in North Africa, British General Harold R.L.G. Alexander described the Americans as "ignorant, ill-trained and rather ...

The Second Battle of Falluhjah

alongside, those Marines of course, was the US Army. The Battle of Fallujah offers many lessons for us all. The efforts at...