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with men; truly powerful women leaders are so rare that we know their names: Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I in history; more recentl...

hours that typical young people spend with peers, listening to music, watching television and so on," Caulkins and Reuter note. No...

vision of the universe. From the early Reservoir Dogs to the stylish Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has challenged both viewers and the ...

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...

he wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible" (Bodnar). While there is also this sort of romantic ideal in Saving Private ...

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...