YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Stories of Edith Wharton
Essays 151 - 180
fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...
There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...
This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
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 ...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
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 ...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
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...
that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...
2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
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...
and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...
began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...