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checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...

In 2003 the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. The war was controversial, justified to many of the ele...

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...

themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...