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America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

War by Luigi Pirandello

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

Why Do We Fight Wars?

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

The War in Iraq

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

The War of 1812

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Compare: Iliad and the Aeneid

that they escaped due to their bravery. Then they both go on to say that there will come a time when they will look back on these ...

Marco Polo, Herodotus, and Their Histories

guilty of a second violence. They manned a ship of war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis; from whence, af...

Homer's 'The Iliad' Summarized

mother, a goddess, to make pleas to Zeus to ensure that Agamemnon will fail in all battles as long as Achilles is not fighting wit...

Comparing Achilles and Odysseus

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

U.S. History's Watershed Event, the Civil War

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

Woodrow Wilson and Word War I

as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...

US Reasons for Entering Word War I

were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Themes of War and Domesticity

In a paper consisting of 6 pages war and domesticity are examined within the context of these Homerian ethics particularly as they...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Athens and the Mitylenian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

President-Congress Relationship

process of checks and balances. Jackson "saw himself as a guardian of the people, with a mission to protect them from the excesse...

Differential Gender War Understanding Approach in Fausse Route by Elisabeth Badinter

the same from the differential stance of a man or a woman, and it is because of this very distinct - if not wholly natural - separ...