YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our War by David Harris
Essays 481 - 510
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
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 ...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...
time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...
PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...
war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...
history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...
recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...
it was too late. Molina and his family also controlled a number of other enterprises, including sugar. PepsiCo then made another h...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...
the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...
reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...
to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...
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...
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...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
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...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...