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construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

for resources is another of the more prominent reasons for conflict. Closely aligned with the issue of intertribal conflict is ...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...

There are a number of other factors that influence a war economy - and many of these are simply not predictable without knowing th...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

recourses with which to assure that future attacks on the United States would not be forthcoming, it is necessary to understand ju...

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

with analogies for the many different types of business becoming popular titles on the best sellers lists as well as fashion items...

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...