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groundwork for development in this struggling nation, and further, created a sense of enlightenment where before there was none (...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

horse sacrifice contained within The Ramayana. According to Narayans translation, in this ceremonial ritual, "A horse... is set f...

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

more area than it already occupied. The result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Ken...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

This paper questions whether our current war on terrorism is valid. To answer the question the author examines the history of ter...

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...

for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

This paper argues that Morgan had more of an impact on Kentucky history because of the myth surrounding the man and his personalit...