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'Shiloh' by Bobbie Ann Mason and Characterization

In five pages the ways in which the characters of Norma Jean and Leroy are developed through Civil War symbolism are discussed. T...

Storytelling and the Past

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

Russian War in Chechnya Justification

In eight pages this report justifies the ongoing Russian war in Chechnya as a way of preserving Russian Federation cohesion. Five...

Economy of Japan Following the Second World War

In five pages this paper examines the Japanese economy following the Second World War in a consideration of the banking system's r...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Nationalism in Canada

In eleven pages the ways in which the First World War contributed to Canada's nationalist stance are examined through the theses p...

Absurdity and Humor in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In 7 pages this paper celebrates the humor contained within Catch 22 by Joseph Heller which puts life and war absurdities into a r...

Germany Before the First World War

In ten pages this report considers Germany prior to the First World War in terms of the issues that the country was struggling wit...

Issues Prior to the U.S. Civil War

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

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...

Government Secret Keeping

parents or circumstances are right to understand the potential for such a child and the social soil may be described as the type o...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Unification and Africa

for resources is another of the more prominent reasons for conflict. Closely aligned with the issue of intertribal conflict is ...

Overview of the Battle of Dieppe

problems of their own. This eastern front, including Dieppe was would be a significant victory, and probably was a test for future...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

Naval Warfare during The Civil War

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

The Fundamentalist Middle East Society and Anti-Westernism

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...

War as a Business

There are a number of other factors that influence a war economy - and many of these are simply not predictable without knowing th...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

How Would American History Be Different Had John F. Kennedy Lived?

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Symbolism in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

United Kingdom and the War Against Terrorism

events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

War Justification and the Taliban Terrorist Network

recourses with which to assure that future attacks on the United States would not be forthcoming, it is necessary to understand ju...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Battleship Technology and its Combat Relevance

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

Background and Events of the Wars of the Roses

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...

Co. Aytch by Samuel Watkins

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...