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Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

collection of religiously indoctrinated causes speaks to how entrenched gender equality is in relation to the meaning of Marys ima...

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

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...

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

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

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...

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...

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...

to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...