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Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

Analysis of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

at Christminster in much the same manner as a knight with the Holy Grail. Hardy comments that Jude did not see that "mediaevalism...

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

History of Land War Strategies

ideal for battle. In the late Middle Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the c...

George F. Kennan's Containment, the National Security Council's NSC 68, and the Cold War Policy of the United States

off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Government Secret Keeping

parents or circumstances are right to understand the potential for such a child and the social soil may be described as the type o...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

United Kingdom and the War Against Terrorism

events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

Issues Prior to the U.S. Civil War

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

War Justification and the Taliban Terrorist Network

recourses with which to assure that future attacks on the United States would not be forthcoming, it is necessary to understand ju...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Battleship Technology and its Combat Relevance

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

eCommerce and Barnes and Noble

was an increase of sixty million individuals using the Net, and in the space of twelve months between 1996 and 1997, the number of...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Cause of the Biafra War

day is the site of tremendous ethnic conflict. The same can be said of other regions of Africa as well. Secretary-General Salim ...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Caribbean Banana Trade Wars and Banana Trade Security

it was estimated that the net worth of the banana trade was about $10 billioniv. These few multinational companies who produce th...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Children and Young Adult Literature with an Annotated Bibliography

Covey who wrote the original book regarding the seven habits of highly successful people. While the elders book is rather intricat...