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IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

The Deepening Involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam Affairs

In a paper that consists of three pages the increasing involvement by the United States in Vietnamese affairs are discussed as the...

Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

War Peace and the Presidency by Henry Paoluccis

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

Vietnam War Failure of the United States Observed

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

Military Strategic Changes Influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

Foreign Policy Between the United States and South Korea

and U.S.S.R. relationships worsened so too did the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships be...

1820 and 1850 Compromises

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

Overview of King Philip's War

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

1966 and 3 Important Events

the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...

Lack of Justification for the Iraq War

the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said: "Knowing now what I know ...

Second World War Jewish Stereotypes and Minority Group Perceptions Regarding Gays and Lesbians

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

Cold War and the Russian KGB

Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...

Foreign Policy Changes Since the Late 20th Century

there were two blocs, there were also nations which were left out, and these would be seen as the third world and so, nothing was ...

1991's War in the Persian Gulf

2005). This was clearly illegal and those in the Middle East worried that he would try to take over more nations. Certainly, it wa...

Cold War Hysteria and 'Casualties' Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5). Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible ...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Japan and China After the Second World War

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

International Drug Trafficking

symptoms similar to alcohol intoxication (Drugs of abuse - 2004). They can also cause impaired judgment, violent bvehavior, and h...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...