Essays 361 - 390
of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...
Patriarch of Babylon; Mar Raphael I Bidawid (Kapica, 1991). The way judgments are made on actions may be highly subjective, but in...
dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...
the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...
is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
starvation (Philips). While this African nation is at peace today, the causes of this conflict, that is, "ethnic rivalry and mist...
42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...
as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...