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Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Educating Today’s G.I.

group of highly trained people who gather together in fortifications barricaded against the enemy. Now that picture is changing, a...

Spartan Military Training In "Gates Of Fire"

thrust him into the depths of rigorous and ever-demanding scenarios that were the foundation of what it required to make him a sol...

The Issue of Gender in the U.S. Army

serve in all branches of the military; their increased participation means that policies have been put in place with regard to e...

Punishment for Negligent Discharge of a Firearm

one? Its been surprisingly difficult to find solid reputable references about this issue. There are a great many "blogs" out ther...

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

Jimmy Cross and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

Paul H. Carlson's The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

On Duty Soldier Visiting Kuwait

once again into a fatal web with a fearless, inhumane entity whose only objective is annihilation. The most important of many les...

Vietnam Combat and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

'Uniforms in the Closet' by Jennifer Egan

This means that they are obliged to live a totally celibate life while serving, or participate in a loose "underground network" of...

Saints and Soldiers, A Discussion

This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...

An Analysis of Josh Gracin's "The Other Little Soldier"

anything too abstract or relevant to human concepts of beauty and complexity. While the songs lyrics sing the tired tale of a sold...

Lt. Gen. Moore Leadership

the men to attach their bayonets a few times. Summary of Leadership Information Leadership, management, and supervision may be d...

The influence of Francisco de Haro on San Francisco

Before California within the hands of the Americans, it was a Mexican territory, with the Mexican soldier Francisco de Haro being...

Defunding the Military

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at funding the military. The impact of defunding on soldiers is examined. Paper uses fo...

Soldiers and the Experience of PTSD

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at soldiers experiencing PTSD. A variety of scholarly sources are reviewed and compared...

The Military and Social Media

have indicated a distressing trend: more than 80% of personal information on soldiers and military activities held by terrorists a...

Social Work: History and Application

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

Solving the Problem of Child Soldiers

war, perhaps one of the most disturbing is the use of child soldiers. Many nations today have young children under arms. The viole...

Ugandan Child Soldiers

turns ordinary children into child soldiers is methodical and thorough. The first step imposed upon Richard Opio, in 2000 when he ...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter, and Nationalism

In seven pages this paper traces the emergence of nationalism from the early 19th century until the first World War as portrayed i...

Ford Madox Ford's 'The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion'

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers how there is a lack of passion in the narrator that exists in stark contrast to the p...

Wendy Hunter's Eroding Military Influence in Brazil Politicians Against Soldiers

This text is discussed with the focus being on the author's proposed 'rational choice theory' in eight pages. There are no other ...