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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 War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

'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...

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...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ugandan Child Soldiers

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

World War I Those that Fought and Those that Stayed Home

World War I brought many challenges not just for US soldiers but for our nation as a whole. With our entry...

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...

Roman War Memorials and the Roman's View of Death

original fight. When there was a positive win, the soldiers would march through the street much like they do when a baseball tea...

World War I Journal

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

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...

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...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

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...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

The Significance of Studying Military History

addition to perhaps studying liberal arts. Studies vary from nation to nation, but it seems as if training in the military does o...

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...