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free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

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

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

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

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...