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Essays 1981 - 2010

An Article on U.S. Welfare and Poor Programs Reviewed

system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Overview of the War of the Roses

Kings inner circle. While government faltered, commerce and prosperity declined and French pirates raided the coast with impunity....

Economics and War

soldiers being sent literally around the world. Factories that had stood idle or working at greatly reduced capacity suddenly wer...

Post Second World War Generation and Rock 'N Roll's Impact

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

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...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

Society and the Impacts of War and Terrorism

our integrity through military means is an obvious part of protecting us and the world from terrorism, the current state of world ...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

Terrorism and Special Operations Forces

Navy Seals and the Green Berets underwent rigorous screening and training before they were admitted to these Forces. Their trainin...

Lessons Learned From The Failure of Prohibition

enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...

Pacifism versus Just War

nature of war in relationship to what may be perceived by some as the just nature of the terrorist acts waged against the United S...

Letter to The President of The United States

the historical context of the second Gulf War to support their arguments. Since the end of World War II, US defense and foreign p...

National Identity of France and the First World War

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

The Philippines and Economic Conditions

in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

Landings at Normandy and D-Day

only the greatest difficulty on July 18th."3 This perpetual setback would ultimately abate, however, come the end of July when Op...

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

Aftermath of the Second Gulf War and the Middle East

various minority groups, the most notable being the sustained campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Kurds in the north of the c...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Comparative Analysis of the Film Stand By Me and the Texts The Giver and The Chocolate War

only way to do things, or that individuality is just as important as prosperity, then the whole structure falls apart. The secret ...

Cold War and Bipolarity Between the United States and Soviet Union

U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...

First and Second World War Similarities

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

'The Longest Day' Was it Accurate?

film was produced in much the way a battle is in terms of strategy and planning, thus making it a very intense and powerful film. ...

Overview of Major Events of Western Civilization

of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....