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Essays 1921 - 1950
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...
private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...
can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...
allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...
a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...
Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...
abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
with analogies for the many different types of business becoming popular titles on the best sellers lists as well as fashion items...
problems of their own. This eastern front, including Dieppe was would be a significant victory, and probably was a test for future...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...
parents or circumstances are right to understand the potential for such a child and the social soil may be described as the type o...
construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...