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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Warfare and Developments in Medical Evacuation

Not all of the technological developments we have witnessed in war have been positive from a medical standpoint. While in the ear...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

Pros and Cons of Detaining Suspected Terrorists

detainees captured in the "War on Terror" to civilian detention centers and affording them with all of the due process rights that...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

Analyzing The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

a time, Friedman states, world societies were shaped largely by tradition and political ideology, which is symbolized by the olive...

Overview of King Philip's War

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

Lack of Justification for the Iraq War

the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said: "Knowing now what I know ...

Second World War Jewish Stereotypes and Minority Group Perceptions Regarding Gays and Lesbians

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

Foreign Policy Changes Since the Late 20th Century

there were two blocs, there were also nations which were left out, and these would be seen as the third world and so, nothing was ...

International Drug Trafficking

symptoms similar to alcohol intoxication (Drugs of abuse - 2004). They can also cause impaired judgment, violent bvehavior, and h...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

has a dual mission. That is, he wants to survive the attack by the Martians and he also wants to find his wife. There are other ch...

Ancient Rome to Post Second World War Infrastructural Development and Military Strategy

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars

violence, thus setting a deplorable example that will certainly result in more violence, and another round of resource wars. Chapt...

Progressivism: United States 1900s

helped to define the future was because of the influx of immigrants changing Americas very social landscape. There was much disse...

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

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...

Analyzing Three Poems About War

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

The Commanders by Bob Woodward

involved. The meetings that ensued laid the groundwork for meaningful discussions where the president and others would go point by...

The New York Times' Coverage of the Iraq War

on certain Republicans who had publicly questioned this policy, seemed to make clear that support for a proposed war was hardly un...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

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...

Roman Republic's Collapse

conquered territory, when Pompey had returned he found he did not have the assistance of the Optimates and his requests were oppos...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

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...