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John Lewis Gaddis' We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...

Knowing the Future by Knowing the Past

In five pages this paper provides support for the statement 'Without knowledge of the past, we would have no knowledge at all.' S...

We Now Know Rethinking the Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis

In five pages this paper examines the evolution of the Cold War and how it was unavoidable according to John Gaddis' book. Two so...

The Second World War and U.S. Prisoners of War

In a paper consisting of five pages American prisoner of war camps and the treatment of these prisoners during the Second World Wa...

The Olinkan Tribe and Female Circumcision

Tashi first came into the clinic, she could barely walk due to complications from her circumcision. A pelvic examination revealed...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

Overview of Infibulation

In seven pages this paper defines infibulation and considers the causes and effects of genital mutilation in females. Twelve sour...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

A Historical World View of Female Genital Mutilation

an exclusively Islamic practice. FGM is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual and is in most cultures primarily a social pra...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

First World War as Portrayed by the American Government

In four pages this paper discusses how the American government positively portrayed the First World War as addressed in Lights, Ca...

Overview of the Battle of New Orleans

troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...

Japanese Americans After World War II

In six pages this paper discusses the social problems associated with the US interment of Japanese Americans during World War II a...

Hanny Lightfoot Klein's 'Prisoners of Ritual'

many areas so that they remain chained to the patriarchal influence. "The patriarchal system, which came into being when society ...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

Difficulties Associated with Fighting the Vietnam War

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Cold War Outcome and the Impact of Nuclear Weapons

In five pages this paper discusses how another World War was prevented by the inclusion of nuclear weapons by the Americans and th...

Cold War and Factors Leading to the Korean War

In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Female Circumcision, Tradition or Mutilation

Europe, and North America (Kluge 1993). Parents may use traditional practitioners or seek medical facilities to reduce the morbidi...

Female Genital Mutilation Ritual

(Kluge 1993). Parents may use traditional practitioners or seek medical facilities to reduce the morbidity or mortality of this ge...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

The Best War Ever by Adams

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

Cold World Impacts Documented in Underworld by Don Delillo

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Just War Concept of Thomas Aquinas and the Vietnam War

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...