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U.S. Civil War and Major Political Figures

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

'The Wall' by Jean Paul Sartre and Existential Writing

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

Nationalist Success and the Spanish Civil War

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

How To Invest Wisely

this level. The top tier of the wedding cake is synonymous with very short-term savings for things like emergencies. Since this mo...

Recruitment Techniques in the U.S. Military Since the Civil War

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Issues Prior to the U.S. Civil War

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

Naval Warfare during The Civil War

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Civil War Turning Point of the Battle Of Gettysburg

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

Deborah Gray White's Aren't I a Woman?

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Civil War Reconstruction and What if It Had Been Overseen by Abraham Lincoln

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

Character Analysis of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

Karl Marx's Predictions and America After the Civil War

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

How I Remember the Creator of Peanuts

inside Charlie Brown, the protagonist and the authors namesake who keeps going no matter what. At the end of his life, Charles bat...

Caribbean Banana Trade Wars and Banana Trade Security

it was estimated that the net worth of the banana trade was about $10 billioniv. These few multinational companies who produce th...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

Post Civil War South Carolina

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...