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A Comparison of The Green Berets and Casualties of War

days on the battlefield seemed to be but a dim memory. The Korean War was Americas first unpopular war where there were no victor...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

Lessons About War In The Film, Saving Private Ryan

This paper examines Stephen Speilberg's 1998 WWII film, Saving Private Ryan. The author discusses what lessons can be taken from ...

A Critical Analysis of the Film, Hamburger Hill

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...

US Pop Culture and the Star Wars Trilogy

a true sense of what is American pop culture, one needs only to venture into a childs bedroom. Since 1977, it is likely that ther...

Star Wars 'Prequel' The Phantom Menace

bits of information from ancient times, which have to do with the themes that have supported human life, built civilizations, and ...

Auteur Film Director Brian DePalma

The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...

Historical Accuracy, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Song of Roland, 'The Iliad,' and Heroism

In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...

Writer's Impressions of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Vasili Kuragin. Also through their conversation, the reader is first introduced to Prince Vasilis sons, Ippolit and Anatol. The ...

Cynicism and War in The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

soon had a falling-out and Villa fled in December 1914 to the northern mountains with another rebel leader, Emiliano Zapata, an en...

Always a Part of the War as Described by Karl von Clausewitz in 'Fog and the Friction'

Forces held hearings on land forces modernization. At that time, numerous members of the Senate and high-ranking military officia...

Future and War Types

war-real and imagined-and that practice centered around the Cold War philosophy of winning an all-out nuclear war. But the rules ...

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

U.S. Veterans and Homelessness

of the general male adult population, approximately 40% of homeless men are veterans. Surprisingly, it appears that homelessness ...

Nuclear Weapons Policy of the US

Iraq had amassed huge stock piles of deadly biological warfare agents which it had planned to use against the United States (Hacke...

The American Military and Asian Prostitution

In five pages Let the Good Times Role by Sturdevant and Stoltzfus is used to consider how U.S. soldiers victimized Asian prostitut...

Foreign Policy in the United States and Relations Between the President and Congress

The post 1960s relationships between the President and Congress is examined in ten pages with foreign policies including arms sale...

US Military Interventions During the 1950s and 1960s

the United States in Vietnam. It is not difficult to reach the simple and straightforward conclusion that in the 1950s, Eisenhowe...

Visual Images of the Cold War

In five pages the photographs of the Cold War and the images of its effects are considered in terms of Diana Arbus, those appearin...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

In this paper that contains five pages the ways in which the First World War and especially the strategically important Battle of ...

Cold War and McCarthyism

invasion of Russia during World War II had cost that country dearly. The Soviets, logically, wanted to feel secure, so they also w...

Second Punic War and Its Effects

Hadasht," or the "New City" of Carthage was built by Phoenician colonists from Tyre sometime around 800 B.C. (Brett 44). It was de...

American Consumerism and How It Evolved Since the First World War

In five pages this paper examines how US consumerism evolved between the First World War and the late 1940s. Four sources are cit...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

Overview of Motown and Post 1945 Impacts of Black Identity, Gender, Class, and Race on the United States

In twenty six pages this paper examines the post World War II changes in American culture with regards to race, class, gender, and...

Experimental Avant Garde Cinema and Theater

In five pages the post First World War avant garde genre and its influence upon theater and cinema are examined in a consideration...