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DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Chile During Pjnochet

him killed (Londregan, 2006). It is noted that he was responsible for the murder of more than 3,000 citizens (Londregan, 2006). ...

GREECE AND POLITICS - 2000-2004

the 2000 election saw the diminishing of PASOKs power, while the 2004 election put the final nail of that power in the coffin. OVE...

Churches and the French Revolution

France. And, as Hines (1999) states, "You might say that bread was the fuel that fired the Revolution, for just about every major ...

National Security Threat Levels

needs to prepare. The standard protocol for a green national threat conditions includes taking this otherwise down time to re-eva...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

Reconstruction and the Civil War

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

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...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

War of 1812 and Great Lakes' Fleets

27 officers in the Marine Corps (Parker, 1970, p. 10). Furthermore, the U.S. Navy, such as it was, only had three first-class war...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

U.S. Civil War and Maneuver Warfare

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

The Seventies and 2000s Compared

lib became quite the rage and Gloria Steinham spoke about issues which many thought were radical, obscene, and downright anti-fami...

Government Secret Keeping

parents or circumstances are right to understand the potential for such a child and the social soil may be described as the type o...

Second World War Atomic Bombs Usage Justifications

number of lives lost as a result of the atomic bombs. This paper will seek to illustrate that there are, therefore,...

Arms Control and the Cold War

British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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

Perspectives on the Cold War

Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...

UK Foreign Policy and Germany During the Thirties

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

Civil War and the Evolution of Warfare in Terms of Naval Power

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

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...

Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

German Foreign Policy and the Impact of Nationalism on it Prior to the First World War

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