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War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

A Personal View of The End of Victory Culture

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

First World War and Imperialism as Its Cause

for years. An understanding of both imperialisms definition as well as its indirect influences is essential to comprehending how...

To Be Italian American in America

In ten pages what it is like to be an Italian American growing up in the United States is considered in an examination of ethnic c...

Contemporary Japanese Imperialism

In seven pages this paper considers the U.S. Matthew C. Perry arrival in Japan and the late 19th century emphasis upon imperialism...

U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Post Napoleonic Europe's Rise of Imperialism, Nationalism, and Industrialism

In five pages this essay discusses Robert Roswell Palmer and Joel Colton's A History of the Modern World in a consideration of po...

Changing Gender Perceptions in Great Britain from 1865 to 1915

In five pages this paper discusses social pressures, imperialism, and increasing nationalism as causes of changing gender percepti...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

The Evolution of U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policies

however, their rights to the newly settled lands was ephemeral as well. Soon in her history America was looking westward....

US Imperialism: The Transition Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

House of Dawn by Momaday

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

1890s' American Expansionism

area. As a consequence they sometimes still ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal p...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Burmese Days by George Orwell and Themes of Imperialism and Class

In eight pages the ways in which British imperialism is featured in George Orwell's debut novel are examined in tersm of oppressio...

Imperialism and The New World Order

replaced by an increasing number of autonomous self-determining states, whereas others were more precipitate: the collapse of the ...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar. This relates the central themes a...

Herodotus Histories, Book 4, Chapters 176-183

as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...

Student Supplied Readings on Being Human

the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...

War and its Compelling Literary Themes

In nine pages this paper examines how war's compelling themes are depicted in the literary works the Bhagavad Gita and the writing...

War's Depiction in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In five pages World War II as it is portrayed in Heller's novel is examined particularly in terms of they ways in which themes of ...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

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...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...