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The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt

the United States was proved wrong. Engelhardt argues that through these two things, combined with the threat of nuclear war, the ...

Small Victories by Samuel G. Freedman

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the teachers of Seward High School, especially Jessica Seigel as depicted in this ...

Harry Truman's Surprising Victory in the 1948 US Presidential Campaign

In five pages this research paper examines how President Harry Truman pulled off an astonishing upset of Governor Thomas Dewey in ...

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...

March of General William T. Sherman and the Northern Victory in the U.S. Civil War

who still hold true to the ideal of the South and keep the battle raging in their own life. Putting aside the reality of today and...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. Civil war and considers the reasons why the North emerged victorious over the South. T...

'The Noble Experiment' of Alcohol Prohibition in the United States

In a paper consisting of five pages the many problems caused by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution are examined. There ...

Sexual Activity and Societal Prohibition

the varying forms of sexually-related dynamics with acceptable societal constraints. Then the question regarding freedom of expre...

Hodding Carter III's Speech 'We're Losing the Drug War because Prohibition Never Works'

This speech addressing the 'war on drugs' is analyzed in terms of speaker rhetoric effectiveness in five pages. There are no othe...

Government Prohibition of Tobacco Advertising and its Youth Impact

al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...

U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

US Cities Prohibition of Alcohol Sales as 'Unconstitutional'

Increasingly, cities within otherwise "wet" areas seek to prohibit the sale and use of alcohol within specific areas of these citi...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Prohibitions Against Gay Marriage are Just

opposite sex. There is, in fact, a federal law (the Defense of Marriage Act) that prohibits such marriages (Hotakainen, 2009). ...

Gay Discrimination is Wrong

immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...

Potomac Army Commanders: Comparison

choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they had little time to was...

Joan of Arc

was located within the realm of the Duke of Burgundy, but while the Burgundians were in alliance with the English, Domremy had con...

The Battle Of Gettysburg

as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

20th Century Time: Conflict & Turmoil In The World

that veered off into the direction of Communism and/or democracy when in the company of Soviet dignitaries, inasmuch as one slip o...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...