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Post Cold War Relations in the Middle East

US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...

Is the Law Based on Morals?

guide the making of the law. In applying this to the study of the law and how it is made there...

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and the Conflict in Bougainville PNG

white they thought they were looking at ghosts or maybe some people who had just fallen into bad luck. Dogs sat on their tails an...

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

Honduras - Economy Progress

Company alone owned 10% of all the land in Honduras. This situation made it difficult for the general populace to compete (Acker, ...

Human Population Increases and the Toll on the Environment

Our rapid population growth has put us into a position of having to balance immediate economic benefit against...

Drafting the Constitution

the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...

Twenty First Century Policing

Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...

International Influences on Australian Foreign Policy

When the Allied powers of World War II are mentioned, many of the history books refer only to the involvement of the United States...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

Why Did Iraq Invade Iran in 1980?

forward the 1979 Iranian revolution as the initial event that would lead to the war. While there had been a great deal of hostilit...

The ICC Charges Against Gaddafi

Reactions of the Libyan forces to the protests have included the indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians by military aircraft. ...

Euthanasia Should be Patient Determined

The concept of euthanasia, prematurely ending anothers life or choosing to end ones own life in the name of compassion seems to...

Is the Social Constructivism Paradigm the Most Appropriate Security Models for the 21st Century?

The writer considers whether or not the adoption of a social constructivism approach to security is the best model for the modern ...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

Global Free Trade, WTO, and GATT

in effect. The relative attractiveness of foreign goods to U. S. buyers, and of U. S. goods to foreign buyers, depends in part on...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

Thomas L. Friedman and Samuel P. Huntington on Globalization

is not just our "pop" culture that has caused so much influence. Aside from the political force of the United States, we note th...

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...

William James' 4 Saintliness Criteria and How They Apply to 13th Century Poet Rumi

yet another book, Annemarie Schimmels "Rumis World". William James lectured and wrote on what he referred to as "natural re...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

Western Domination from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

than any other nation in the world the Western world was coming into an age of discovery that would set the stage for all the deca...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Suicide by Emile Durkheim and its Relevance

the field of psychology has changed quite a bit and so, to speak of insanity in those terms is somewhat antiquated. Today, there a...

'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Book VII of The Republic by Plato and Its 'Allegory of the Cave'

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...