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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...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

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 ...

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...

Is Peace in Palestine and Israel Possible?

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

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...

'How to Remember the Forgotten War' by Stanley Weintraub

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

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...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Global Cooperation in a Postwar Iraq

housed the U.N. for some ten years (Whitelaw, 2003). The twenty-three casualties would include key U.N. officials such as Sergio ...

First World War and its Aftermath

World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Second World War Photography Propaganda

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

Second World War Thai Diplomacy

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Virginia Woolf, War, the Women's Movement, and Rhetoric

As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Human Nature as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

Public Space and the Media

seems to think, were sorely left out of the equation when Marx had developed his theories. Frighteningly enough, Habermas foretol...

US and the Iraq War

fear. With the terrorist attacks of September 11th, everything changed - literally. No longer can one simply walk through an air...

Warfare and Joint Operations' Purpose

to "expand joint interaction and provide some additional standardization among theaters" (Carpenter, 2003). Overall howeve...

POWs in the Second World War

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...