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

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

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

of Israel and her people. This emphasis is understandable given the long history of unrest which has characterized the young nati...

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...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

a diet of mutual hate" (Adler 91). They continue to live in the house together, all but living completely separate lives, ...

had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...

for example that examines 2004 statistics is based on public health experts who report that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died...

the Native American Indians had a strong bond with their fellow tribal members, people of different ethnic background feel strongl...

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young gener...

Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

(Van Tyne, 1929). Those who remained loyal to the reign of George III were incapable of grasping the liberal concept of individua...

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

a follow through on the policy of bringing Al Qaeda to justice. This followed the refusal of the Taliban to co-operate with the US...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...