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Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

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...

The United Nations: Overview

easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...

Using Neo-Aristotelian Criticism to Evaluate Bush's Speech

This 3 page paper uses neo-Aristotelian criticism to analyze one of President Bush's speeches, the one in which he "made the case"...

Using Neo-Aristotelian Criticism to Evaluate Bush's Speech Justifying the Invasion of Iraq

Bush chose Cincinnati for this speech. Unfortunately, research hasnt revealed any particular reason for the choice of this venue, ...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Woodward's "State Of Denial"

a war that has the United States too close to detrimental watershed. The integrity of a man like Woodward (2006) - who would plac...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Role Of Congress In National Security

any other official militia of the country.4 The Constitution divides the powers regarding war between the President and the Co...

Vietnam War and Individual Actions

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Octavio Paz/Diego Rivera

portrays him "wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane=cutters machete ("Agrarian Leader Zapata...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Analyzing the Gulf War Leadership of President George H.W. Bush

prices, cut the legs off of this machine. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had to be drilling diagonally across the border and tapping the...

2 Constitutional Issues Involving the George W. Bush Administration

readily surmise that the campaign approaches might also differ from those of past elections. "The framers of the Constitution con...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Truman, China and the Korean War

The writer considers whether or not the breakout of the Korean War was a surprise to President Truman. There are two sources liste...

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Vietnam War 'Shot Down' the Great Society Envisioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

The ICC Charges Against Gaddafi

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

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

Checks and Balances Since 9/11

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

Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

Analyzing LBJ's March 31, 1968 Televised Speech

search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...