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Knowledge of the World as Perceived by David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Impact of Capitalism Upon Peasants

their first contact with Europeans these people have literally been under attack. From approximately 1640 to the present date, w...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

The Modern World Viewed Philosophically

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

International Law Evolution

the World Trade Organization, but other changes such as increased intolerance of corruption are based in heightened awareness of e...

Life in a World With Either Conventional or Nuclear Weapons

decades. He also rejects the notion that governments that are controlled by the military would be quicker to employ nuclear weapon...

Korean War and Its Impact

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

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...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Review of William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses disease spread in a political interpretation of this book as it applies to the contemporary wor...

Gulf War Coverage of CNN

that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...

Contrasting Views of Karl Marx and Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagrahi must be fearless and always trust his opponent, "for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed...

The Matrix Film and Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...

A Life Examined in Alan Taylor's 'William Cooper's Town'

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

U.S. Civil War Gen. Joseph Hooker

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

The English Civil War and Puritanism and the American Colonies

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

A Civil War History of Devil's Den Action

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

China's Rule of the Seas Report

account of daily life for the people in Ming China. One can actually visualize their lives and understand some of the ordinary tr...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Sean Greenwood's Britain and The Cold War, 1945-91

policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...

John Clare's 'Spring Comes' and John Keats' 'To Autumn'

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...