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Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Armor Development

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Zuckerman's Playing a Real Bad Hand (Article Summary and Review)

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

A Memo on the War on Terror

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Christian Viewpoint - War In Iraq

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

The Causes of War; Nationalism and Social Darwinism

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

The Causative Factors Relating to the Second World War

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

Military Draft and War With Iraq For and Against

any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...

Joseph E. Persico's Roosevelt's Secret War

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

War and its Impact

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

Red Tail Angels of the Second World War

The Second World War's Red Tail Angels, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, are examined in an overview of their courage despite ra...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

U.S. Civil War and Conscription

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...