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Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Construction and Military Operation of the Bismarck German Battleship

secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

Second World War Japanese Canadians' Internment and Treatment

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Overview of On the Beach

that a the protagonist will meet his or her demise, and adventure novels too often will show men and women risking their lives in ...

Singapore History since WWII

activities from business to entertainment to sex. The Internet is also regulated (2002). While not a dictatorship, the nation has ...

Seizure of the City of Hue and the Tet Offensive

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

China's Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Qing Dynasty

ordered men and to where the Manchu clothing rather than the clothing style, during the Ming Dynasty (Minnesota State University)....

Cause of the Biafra War

day is the site of tremendous ethnic conflict. The same can be said of other regions of Africa as well. Secretary-General Salim ...

President Andrew Jackson's 1832 'Bank War' with the Bank of the US

and readily became the most powerful lending institution in the land -- a central bank, in effect, with a determining influence on...

History of the UN and its Influences

In six pages the post Second World War creation of the United Nations is examined in an overview of its history and the important ...

Account of the 3rd Punic War

In five pages the 149 BC to 146 BC conflict between Carthage and Rome known as the 3rd Punic War is described in this historical o...

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski

writings, one will realize that Kapuscinski was striving for a very comparable abstract with The Soccer War. Indeed, the story wi...

Overview of Terrorism

In five pages and 3 sections this overview on terrorism includes similarities and differences between terrorism and war, force mul...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

A Review of the Impact of American Presence in Adano as Revealed in A Bell For Adano

This five page paper provides and overview of the impact of American involvement in Adano Italy during World War II. John Hershey'...

Overview of the 1892 Cattle War in Wyoming's Johnson County

and prominence. Two of the leaders were Harvard graduates, five participants in the incident were livestock detectives being paid ...

Relationship Between the Philippines and the United States and the Impact of the Spanish-American War

In eight pages this paper discusses the Philippines' acquisition by the United States in an overview of the Spanish-American War o...

US Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

Richard M. Nixon's Involvement in Detente

In eight pages detente is examined in an historical overview beginning with years just before the Cold War, the nuclear armament b...

Second World War's Battle of Okinawa

In eight pages the naval battle plans associated with the Second World War battle of Okinawa are examined in this military overvie...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

The Mexican-American War

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War

first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...

1991's War in the Persian Gulf

2005). This was clearly illegal and those in the Middle East worried that he would try to take over more nations. Certainly, it wa...

International Relations' Preferred Model of Realism

anarchic and does have individual political entities known as states (2005). They are the actors who possess militaries which make...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Evolution of the Russian Family Institition

however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...

Was the War of 1812 Unnecessary?

at a British port. Napoleon retaliated with a similar system of blockades, confiscating vessels and cargoes in European ports if t...