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General Lundendorff's The General Staff and Its Problems, Volume 2

In ten pages this First World War German High Command General's memoirs are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Short Essays on Europe Since 1870

In six pages post 1870 Europe is examined in a series of short essays with topics including Mussolini and Fascism, the foreign pol...

Guy Chapman A Passionate Prodigality

The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...

A French Historical Turning Point

In this paper containing foru pages the effects of World War I as an influential defining moment in French history after 1919 are ...

Bolshevik and Stalin Economic Policies and the Impact of the Second World War

In ten pages the impact of the Second World War on the economic policies of the former Soviet Union first established by the Bolsh...

Eighteenth to Twentieth Century Puerto Rican History Essays

In eleven pages various essays regarding the history of Puerto Rico and its Caribbean role, coffee's eighteenth century economic i...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Ozu/Tokyo Story

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

Book Report on Thomas Sanchez’s Mile Zero

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

The Meaning of President Bush's Contention that Desert Storm Would Not Become Another Vietnam

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

World Wars and Changes in Technology

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

Observers of the Vietnam War Experience

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

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

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

US Could Not Justify Vietnam War Involvement

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

WWW Sites on the Vietnam War

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

Treaty of Versailles and the Problems It Caused

Britain (2001). Those were the key players in the war. It was a treaty that was based on an agreement made by the "Allied Nations"...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Warfare and Developments in Medical Evacuation

Not all of the technological developments we have witnessed in war have been positive from a medical standpoint. While in the ear...

George Linderman The World Within War

God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...