Essays 541 - 570
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
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...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
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...
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...
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...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...
neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...
United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...
to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...
1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...
The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...
In five pages this report discusses how conflicting ideologies were responsible for soldiers to continue to fight overseas' wars a...
adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...
citizens continues and also the continued torture of tens of thousands of political prisoners. The North Koreans are heavily funde...
not the most dependable of organizations in terms of information accuracy and assessing the worlds trouble spots. For example, in...
In twenty pages this paper applies the Protestant work ethic of Max Weber to these two American ethnic groups. There are over 12 ...
ways that non-students of foreign policy can easily understand. FitzGeralds attitude concerning her subject matter is established...
In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...
in world politics illustrates how such groups form out of a need to "right" perceived wrongs. Since they believe their duty is to...
as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...
a war that has the United States too close to detrimental watershed. The integrity of a man like Woodward (2006) - who would plac...