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First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

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...

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...

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

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...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

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 ...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...