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Dispatches by Michael Herr

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

Vietnam War and the Differing Policies and Opinions of George Ball and Robert S. McNamara

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Cause of the Biafra War

day is the site of tremendous ethnic conflict. The same can be said of other regions of Africa as well. Secretary-General Salim ...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Thirty Years War and Source Documents

alliances to protect their interests: the Catholics under Maximilian of Bavaria, and the Protestants under Frederick V....

Civil War Fighting and the Need of Manpower

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

Second Gulf War Protest and Effects on Troop Support

end they are supporting the troops by seeking to protect their lives and create a scenario where they will not have to fight the w...

Assessment of the Iraq War

believe that only a select few should be granted the privilege of human rights. Philosophers have spent endless hours determining...

War and Mathematics

of terrorist attacks -- more specifically, the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Centers in New York City....

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

US Wartime Uses of Propaganda

using the press in this manner, some excellent examples remain which show what media savvy can make the difference. Consider that ...

TV Series on the Vietnam War Tour of Duty

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

War and the Effects of Tanks and Trench Warfare

more despicable methods of death. As soon as soldiers reached the grounds, they knew their lives were in peril. The glow of arti...

Social Perceptions and News Magazines

over the Washington-area sniper who began shooting people at random during the latter part of 2002 (Abramsky B11). Even while "th...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

Craiglockert Meeting Between Sassoon and Owen

die in war for brothers. Certainly at this point it is evident that he regards dying for ones country as truly dulce et decorum: a...

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

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...

International Environmental Treaties and the Effects on Countries At War

primary importance of effective sanctions, which serve to control appropriate activity between and among all participating nations...