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Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Greek War God Ares

In seven pages Ares and his passion for war and brutality are examined as is the God of War's love affair with the married Aphrodi...

Times of War, Art, and Music

In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

Comparing the Gulf War and Vietnam

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

The Cold War: Causes and Ongoing Tensions

that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

How the Storm Helps Readers Understand Ann’s Character in “The Painted Door”

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

Louise Erdrich: ”Fleur"

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

Saving Face: An Analysis of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

The War of 1812

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

The War in Iraq

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

Why Do We Fight Wars?

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

Post-Cold War Policies to Facilitate “One Europe”

be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Ford: “Michael’s War”

This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Michael’s War,” about the IRA. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...