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USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

of Change Statistician Walter Shewhart published a work in 1931 describing the benefits of bringing manufacturing under sta...

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the reasons for the war, LBJ's escalation, and the Vietnamese perceptions of the conflict are...

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the...

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...