SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Weapons and Their History

Essays 151 - 180

History of Cosmetic Surgery

such as a procedure to repair a cleft lip described in early tenth-century literature, the firm scientific foundations found in Gr...

Democracies vs. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes: the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

but also the only one to have ever actually used them aggressively. The reality is, however, that democracies inherently are less...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

“A Hero’s Journey”

interest in mythology to his exposure to remnants of that earlier history, his exposure to Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and to the...

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...

The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

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...

A Police Officer Steals Guns

held to a higher standard that the rest of the society because they have power over the public. Even so, their behavior on-duty an...

Proper Weapon Clearing and Respect for Firearms

failed to clear the chamber of a loaded firearm before showing it to a friend (Adams, 2007). Then, in January 2007, another soldie...

Post Cold War Relations in the Middle East

US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Rome Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

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...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

Life in a World With Either Conventional or Nuclear Weapons

decades. He also rejects the notion that governments that are controlled by the military would be quicker to employ nuclear weapon...

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...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Literature Review on Threat Posed by WMDs

If Pakistan came under the control of Islamic extremist, this would put nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime that almost certa...

London's Early History

for his death (Wells, 1931, 469). In effect, Caesar was consumed with one goal: to satisfy the desires and urges of Caesar. Well...

International Politics and Terrorism

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

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...

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...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

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...