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Essays 121 - 150
citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...
Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...
had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...
that have unfolded in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center and the subsequent attacks on ...
American value. Neither do we want anyone else dictating what constitutes security for any one individual; how we will sell...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
a little less safe. While talk of terrorism when a passenger jet went down in Lockerbie, Scotland was in the air, no one expected ...
stock market was closed for several days and it would not be until the following Monday that the opening bell would ring-a task ac...
themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...
In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...
In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...
In five pages this paper considers the direction of American foreign policy from the end of the Second World War into the Cold War...
In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...
and many others in between (Hewitt, 2002). This is an important point for Americans to realize, and one of the...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...
suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...
mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...
me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...
already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...