Essays 571 - 600
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...
alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...
rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
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...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...
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...
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...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...
past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...
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..." (...
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...
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...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...