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Germany and the Effects of the Second World War's Outcome

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

The First Modern War in America was the Civil War

limited (Vasile The Union Soldier, His Life and Times: A Modern Interpretation of a 19th Century Experience). However, technologi...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

Crossover Development and George Lucas' 'Star Wars'

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

Austro Hungarian Empire and First World War's Causative Factors

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Five Key Events in One of the Most Horrendous Wars in History, The Vietnam War

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

An Examination of the Cold War and Why It Did Not Result in a Major War

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

Post War Propaganda Posters and the Spanish Civil War

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

Comparative Analysis of Posters During World War I and World War II

armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed...

US Artist Winslow Homer

and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...

Athena and Juno in Homer and Virgil

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham

(Hickham, 2000, p. 1). That one simple opening sentence tells readers what kind of conflicts the book explores: there is the confl...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" - Southern Society and the Grotesque

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

3 Plays and Societal Influence on Family

societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sh...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

2 Questions on Great Literature and Its Practical Applications

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

'The Odyssey' and the Underworld Journey of Odysseus

to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

'The Odyssey,' The Aeneid and the Themes of Star Crossed Lovers

banquet. Aeneas begins to talk to Queen Dido. Dido becomes enamored with Aeneas, something not unprovoked by the gods and goddess...

Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

Extended Similes of Violence in “The Odyssey”

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

HOMER HICKAM JR.: EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP

a national science fair (Homer Hickam Online, 2006). With help from a supportive teacher and inspired by rocket genius Werner von ...