Essays 721 - 750
truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...
and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...
make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
been warriors but are now too docile for their own survival. Those who are poor are not poor because of the system, but are poor b...
no one would call it aggressive. While many suggest that nations need a strong defense, like the U.S. and Israel, one could ask ju...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...
he was concerned with. And, the issues he was concerned with came largely from personal experience with wars and turmoil. In man...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...
is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...
military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...
a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...
Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...
realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...
as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...
first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...