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the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

no power and they were possessions. So in that respect with Paris of Troy stealing something from Athens was cause enough for batt...

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to ser...

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...

(Tracy). He traveled from place to place and although poor and impoverished at many points in his life, he was also warmly receive...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...

This 3 page paper discusses the role women play in "The Iliad" when it comes to marriage and sexual relationships; it also discuss...

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...