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Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

Post Second World War Era and its Influences

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

Enlightenment Ideals and Military Theory

In twenty five pages this research paper examines how late 18th century military theory was profoundly influenced by the Enlighten...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

Reasons for the 431 BC War Between Athens and Sparta

Why Sparta engaged in war with Athens during this time period is examined in a paper consisting of nine pages with the outcome of ...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

The Cold War and Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames worked. According to one Western intelligence official, the commitment of Ames to his task was absolute, he acted ...

The Causes of the Persian Wars, 499-404 BCE

Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

Tom Paine: Common Sense

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

The Relevance of Revolutions

happened to be the French Revolution. This ushered in a new period where democracy would create a brave new world. France would en...

Arthur Lefkowitz's George Washington's Indispensable Men

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

Theology and the Impact of the Enlightenment

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

Women and the Revolutionary War

start a new land and women were respected in relationship to what they did do in those regards. They were an essential part of the...

War Decisions and the United States

to have the approval of Parliament to commit troops to a foreign country, the President of the United States does have a certain l...

Faith and Mysticism

The key elements in mysticism of any religion is a belief in something outside of ones self, a higher deity. Secondly, most...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

American Colonies and Mercantilism

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

Revolutionary War and the British Loyalists

(Van Tyne, 1929). Those who remained loyal to the reign of George III were incapable of grasping the liberal concept of individua...

Factors Leading to the Revolutionary War

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

Post American Revolution Minority Creditors' Oppression

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Revolutionary War Caused by Mercantilism

the task becomes difficult. The only way that countries could survive economically was to encourage colonialism. Colonies provided...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Romantic and Enlightenment Views of Nature

would sweep away the superstitions of the past and replace them with the clear light of reason. Regardless of the discipline in wh...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...