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Essays 181 - 210

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...

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and the Conflict in Bougainville PNG

white they thought they were looking at ghosts or maybe some people who had just fallen into bad luck. Dogs sat on their tails an...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

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...

Wassily Kandinsky

very tumultuous period in European history, especially where Russia and Germany (his primary locations) were concerned. He was ali...

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...

We Were Soldiers Once and Young Book Review

a mission after being in the midst of one of Vietnams most notorious battles. It was there that there was a 44% casualty rate as t...

IKEA, FREEMAN AND FRIEDMAN

with a high conservation value (Bartlett et al, 2006). But the issue with child labor was two-fold. Should IKEA try to...

On Murphy's The Real Benedict Arnold

Influences on Arnolds Attitude Toward the Military Early Years Born on January 14, 1741 as its sixth son with the name...

Battle of Fredericksburg

Introduction The Battle of Fredericksburg is considered to be one of the most important in the Civil War. It was a battle that wa...

Battle of San Juan

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...

One Cargo Barge and its Role in the Civil War

was envisioning. One of the more obvious was the fact that supplying an army of this size with all of its operational requirement...

Condoleezza v. Barack Obama World View

America In the wake of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rice begins her speech by summarizing the current dynamic...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

Waterloo

Because it took time to assemble so many troops and only a few could get there in any reasonable amount of time there...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

The Battle of Cowpens

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

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...

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 ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

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...

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

World History Changed by 3 Important Battles

documents of this particular battle in a less biased view than what he grew up with (LeBlanc, 2002). His book, The Tsars Last Arma...

Edwin B. Coddington's The Battle of Gettysburg

author provides straightforward detail on all the movements attacks and the aftermath" and as such is considered one of the best b...

North and South Perspectives on the Battle of Shiloh

or depicted in the movies or reenactments. The history books generally favor the victor in the battle, not the conquered and defea...

Battle of Waterloo and the Reasons the Duke of Wellington Emerged Victorious

outnumbered "Frances 72,000 men (Bonaparte) and its detached right-wing corps of 33,000 (Marshal Grouchy), so the French emperor s...

American Revolution and How the Colonists Achieved Victory

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

Poachers vs. the Conservation Police

Louisiana alligators, the population had been depleted nearly 90 percent because of an extremely lucrative skin trade (Speart, 199...