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Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Rome’s History

city was built, as Fabius writes, the adventure of stealing the women was attempted; and some say Romulus himself, being naturally...

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

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 ...

Argument Against Concealed Weapon Carrying

This paper opposes the right to conceal weapons in nine pages. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Threat to the US from China

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the threat to the United states from China. This paper includes issues such as Chinese weap...

History of Public Administration

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

Was the Iraq War Illegal?

In 2003 the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. The war was controversial, justified to many of the ele...

International Politics and Terrorism

Biological weapons have become increasingly popular within terrorist organizations since the 1990s because they can reproduce micr...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

American History

experience in the war for a soldier other than seeing battle, worrying about home as it became vulnerable, dreaming of freedom and...

Amerindian History, Culture and Accomplishments

developed; they were located along the "shores, rivers and creeks of southeastern Alaska to northern California," and they were a ...

Military Technology and New Personal Defense Weaponry

of the M16s with the M4 which is a newer carbine (Cox, 2007). "The Army started buying M4s in the mid-1990s but mainly reserved th...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Studies, 2007). One must perhaps also look at the fact that the United States has been at war in Iraq for several years now and th...

Weapons in WWII

submachine gun, with the common one being the MP40 for German soldiers (Heitmann et al.). With further development they finally "G...

Chemical And Biological Weapons: Dangers Posed To Human Existence

in 1984 with the implementation of its first agent. "Irans motives for seeking nuclear weapons stem from its rivalry with Iraq, f...

The North Korean Crisis

ability to add to these resources, the Yonbyon facility in North Korea was estimated at having sufficient resources and capacity t...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

Gun Control in Kansas

engage in crime far more often without fearing for their lives from the victims. This is emphasized even more when one understands...

Warfare and the Connection Between Tactics and Weapons

the "queen of the battle", this was not necessarily the case in all warfare. During the first years of this countrys history, for...

Treaty of Versailles and Propaganda

during the first war. This brief government was doomed to failure from the beginning, it can be said in hindsight. Consider that...

Middle East and Oil

itself was followed by an oil embargo (Stanislaw and Tergin, 1993). Although the Yom Kippur War was won in a matter of days by Isr...

National Missile Defense Laser Options

or not, but in any event, it is certainly possible to objectively evaluate the four particular types of weapons to see which is mo...

WMD, North Korea, the United States and United Kingdom

other hand, represents the request that protesters bring along with them whatever destructive devises they deemed worthy of such a...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...