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Essays 511 - 540
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...
the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...
was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...
Four of the most influential senior commanders in World War I were Colonel-General Helmuth von Moltke of Germany, General Philippe...
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 which as children leave they receive "lolly bags" and hand-blown balloons (Chen 18). These balloons came in an assortment of c...
ratified after the company is formed, placing the agreement in some type of formal arrangement. However case law dictates that it ...
of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...
Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...
42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...
The African American Museum in Philadelphia Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/18...
in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...
her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...
century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...
In seven pages this paper discusses how Malcolm X exerted a profound influence regarding American social changes that occurred as ...
example, a 1964 article told of the fight by NAACP attorneys against the state of Virginia which was making payments to a school d...