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War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

has a dual mission. That is, he wants to survive the attack by the Martians and he also wants to find his wife. There are other ch...

A Review of Two Books on Poverty by Newman and Gans

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Randall Wallace's Film We Were Soldiers and the Depiction of the Vietnam War

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Personality Theory and the Jewish Holocaust

Personalists like John MacMurray study the relationships that emerge in the state of being a purpose, in internal aspects...

Europe in the Middle East, an Analysis

The wishes of the Arabs themselves were acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nation...

The Impacts of World War I on the Battlefield and Back Home

The First World War had impacts not just on the areas embroiled in the warfare but on the...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

Inclusion in Education

multiple placement options would provide a better means for meeting "each students assessed needs as indicated in the individualiz...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Christian Viewpoint - War In Iraq

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

The Naked Society by Vance Packard

in many different ways, invading privacy and pushing their way into our lives. While many people accept it today, the pressures in...

Federalism

created a government that was made up of states and a national government (Boyd). "Almost immediately upon its adoption, issues co...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Evaluating Hamlet

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Orwell/1984 Overview

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

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

The Causes of War; Nationalism and Social Darwinism

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”

often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...

The Dream of the Rood

tower under heaven, that I might heal/ each and everyone that shows awe of me./ Of old I was once the most bitter of tortures,/ ha...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...