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International Upheaval in 1979

In this five page report the author discusses several key political events occurring with Supertramp in the backstage. The Irania...

Creation of the Roman Empire and Reasons for its Collapse

the republican political system worked out unevenly at best. The idea of having two consuls was particularly difficult, because in...

John Lewis Gaddis' We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...

Causes of Rome's 5th Century Collapse

This research paper examines the role played by military leadership ineffectiveness in the 5th century collapse of the Roman Empir...

Economic Interests and Foreign Policy of the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States

In five pages this paper examines these three countries in an overview of how economic interests often influence foreign policy. ...

Communism's 'Domino' Collapse

In 5 pages this paper examines the domino effect of Communism's fall which began with the Solidarity Movement in Poland that conti...

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 ...

Great Purge of Josef Stalin

In ten pages this paper examines the infamous Great Purge of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Twelve sources are cited in the biblio...

1956 'Secret Speech' of Nikita Khrushchev

This paper examines the far reaching impact of the 1956 speech made by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev consisting of 10 pages. T...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Collapse of the Byzantium Empire

In seven pages this research paper examines how the Byzantium Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks during the 15th century in a consid...

Swissair's Collapse

the way in which the company should have been bailed out, but the way that the company had failed to be as commercially successful...

The Reaction of the World to the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

had been assembled since World War II crossed the border into Czechoslovakia (Caute 327). Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Augus...

Reasons for the Collapse of the Roman Empire

In five pages religious, social, and political reasons are examined in this consideration of the causes of Rome's fall. Seven sou...

Mid 1980s' Collapse of the S and L Industry

Determining whether history would repeat itself and could therefore be predicted was one of the hopes of some. However it was fou...

The Collapse of Enron

is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...

Legacies of Josef Stalin

(Conan). And when he was died, he was embalmed and revered, so much so that he was on display in the Lenin Mausoleum for years fol...

Ivan the Terrible, Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

his cheek, he has a look that mixes fear and trepidation with determination. With this, Eisenstein introduces the idea that the Ts...

Overview of Art Career of Tahir Salahov

Salahovs Repair Workers (1960, Baku Museum of the Visual Arts).10 This orientation is also clear in Oil Rocks in the Caspian, w...

GREED VS. NEED: THE ROOT OF THE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE

throwing the military into a needed war in Afghanistan and a still-questioned war in Iraq. In other words, things dont happen in a...

The Collapse of the Maya Society

that were once great and in some cases spanned the globe no longer exist. The Roman Empire was feared throughout the known world o...

CREDIT DERIVATIVES AND THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

But how did this help lead to the financial collapse. A credit derivatives company basically comes into a situation and promises, ...

The Collapse of the Berlin Wall

the re-unification of Germany, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the predominance of capitalism over state-directed economies, the...

Tax Cuts and the Economy: Revival or Collapse?

United States is in ailing shape. Despite several taxpayer-funded "bailouts", the economic picture is still quite grim: unemployme...

Gorbachev’s Reforms

capitalism. However, taking a perceptive that considers the goals that Gorbachev hoped to accomplish, that is, to provide the "sal...

Jared Diamond: “Collapse”

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

Cod Collapse

unclear. Years ago, it was believed that overfishing was the culprit. Particularly after the "factory boats" arrived and indiscr...

General Motors Collapse

management (Trumbull, 2009). The company, however, has gone steadily downhill for many years. Consider their average annual operat...

WaMu's collapse and Enterprise Risk Management

mistakes (Grind, 2009). But, even by 2001, Killinger had created fractures in the structure and in the operations that would lead...

LEHMAN BROTHERS AND THE INEVITABILITY OF COLLAPSE

Lehman Brothers (History of Lehman Brothers, 2009). And soon after its founding, Lehman Brothers went from a general merchandising...