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Essays 1741 - 1770

Craiglockert Meeting Between Sassoon and Owen

die in war for brothers. Certainly at this point it is evident that he regards dying for ones country as truly dulce et decorum: a...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

US and the Iraq War

fear. With the terrorist attacks of September 11th, everything changed - literally. No longer can one simply walk through an air...

Warfare and Joint Operations' Purpose

to "expand joint interaction and provide some additional standardization among theaters" (Carpenter, 2003). Overall howeve...

POWs in the Second World War

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Analyzing Three Poems About War

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

The Commanders by Bob Woodward

involved. The meetings that ensued laid the groundwork for meaningful discussions where the president and others would go point by...

The New York Times' Coverage of the Iraq War

on certain Republicans who had publicly questioned this policy, seemed to make clear that support for a proposed war was hardly un...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

Virginia Woolf, War, the Women's Movement, and Rhetoric

As Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associ...

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Human Nature as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

Civil War and the Participation of Texas

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

A Review of the Essay From Rosie to Lucy

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Global Cooperation in a Postwar Iraq

housed the U.N. for some ten years (Whitelaw, 2003). The twenty-three casualties would include key U.N. officials such as Sergio ...

First World War and its Aftermath

World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...

Roman Republic's Collapse

conquered territory, when Pompey had returned he found he did not have the assistance of the Optimates and his requests were oppos...

Australia's Recreation and Leisure

Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...

Second World War Thai Diplomacy

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Second World War Photography Propaganda

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

Second Gulf War Protest and Effects on Troop Support

end they are supporting the troops by seeking to protect their lives and create a scenario where they will not have to fight the w...