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  • Silent War Machine

    Silent War Machine

    Silent War Machine Since the beginning of man, people have been fighting for what they want. Tom Clancy shows that through his main character, Marko Ramius, who was doing everything he could to save his crew from the grip of Communism. In Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October, Clancy depicts that what someone will do to fight for their freedom. Tom Clancy was born on April 12th 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland. He and his

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    Essay Length: 930 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Anna
  • America and the War on Drugs

    America and the War on Drugs

    Sarah Urbanek May 6, 2000 Perhaps Americans take what they have for granted and forget that there are other countries with problems. Why does America care about what is happening in other countries like Columbia, when they have their own problems with drugs? The Untied States of America has a rather large drug trafficking problem but compared to Columbia it is fairly small. To help Columbia solve their problem the U.S. senate has decided to

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    Essay Length: 1,252 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Russian Opposition to the War in Iraq

    Russian Opposition to the War in Iraq

    Introduction The events of September 11 2001 were major events in the world. The United States ruled by George W. Bush decided to take revenge and launched what would be known as the war on terror. Russia has also declared the struggle against international terrorism as one of its top foreign policy priorities. Just one month after the collapse of the twin towers, the United States attacks Afghanistan to remove al-Qaeda forces and oust the

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    Essay Length: 2,692 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • World War 2 & Star Wars

    World War 2 & Star Wars

    In the movie, written by George Lucas, Episode IV - A New Hope. There are many mythical, religious and spiritual symbols portrayed. The Jedi's believe in the Force, which is a religion of which they abide. The Force is the backbone of the Jedis and they turn to this when in trouble. The opposite of the Force is the "Dark Side of the Force." The Dark Side is lead by and evil Jedi named Darth

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    Essay Length: 439 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Top
  • The Peloponnesian War

    The Peloponnesian War

    The Peloponnesian war was fought between the Athenians and the Spartans in the fifth century. The war was fought on both land and sea; the Spartans on land and the Athenians on sea. The Athenians had the stronger navy and the Spartans the stronger army. Additionally, the Athenians were better prepared financially than their enemies. However, what determined the winner of the war had far less to do with military superiority as it had to

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • New World Order of Politics & Religion: The War on Terror and The Neo-Christian Crusade

    New World Order of Politics & Religion: The War on Terror and The Neo-Christian Crusade

    New World Order of Politics & Religion: The war on terror and the Neo-Christian Crusade. On March 6, 1991 George Herbert Walker Bush, then President of the United States in a speech before the U.S. Congress, uttered the words "new world order". This revelation spoken by Bush created controversy and speculation. The occasion for the congressional address was to speak concerning the Persian Gulf War that expelled Saddam Hussein's Army from Kuwait. Bush said," Now,

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Victor
  • The War in the Pacific and East Asia: Japan on the offensive - 1941-42

    The War in the Pacific and East Asia: Japan on the offensive - 1941-42

    THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA: JAPAN ON THE OFFENSIVE: 1941-42 When the nations of Western Europe became embroiled in World War II, Japan began to expand into the Southeast Asian colonies of the European powers. After the United States retaliated with economic sanctions, Japan planned a concerted attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, and other Pacific and Asian targets. For a time Japan was master of the central

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    Essay Length: 5,017 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • World War II

    World War II

    World War II began I 1941 for the United States when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. World War II had already been raging for years before the United States entered it. Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and the seizure of Manchuria by Japan where big factors for the beginning of war II. The Axis powers stood against the Allied powers by the end of World War II. Germany, Italy, and Japan stood together

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    Essay Length: 1,325 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Vietnam and the Young

    Vietnam and the Young

    The sixties were turbulent times, a generation of youth banned together for political and social reasons like no other time in history. Demonstrations, protest and rallies became a way of life for some, whether they protested for civil rights or anti-war sentiments this time in history represented what was great about America and exposed what needed to be changed. The microcosm of the times could be depicted on college campuses across America. College campuses were

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    Essay Length: 546 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Top
  • Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    In James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, a superficial reading might depict the novel as the story of a battle between societies. Yet there is an underlying depiction of a far more vast conflict. From the beginning of the novel, the reader is guided by descriptions of the struggle between the two entities. Cooper writes, “there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Chocolate War

    The Chocolate War

    The Chocolate War By: Robert Comier Jerry Renault is not the best-liked kid in his school. He barely had any respect, even though he is the quarterback for his school's football team. In the beginning Jerry had lots of friends. But no one knew what is in store for Jerry. Jerry had no idea how his life is about to change. It is a tradition at Trinity to have a yearly chocolate sale. It is

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • It’s Not Just Another War

    It’s Not Just Another War

    “It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it,” said the famous American general, Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War. The United States has found herself in war once again, and the nation is torn on whether or not to support President George W. Bush in his unilateral attack on Iraq. The country is full of veterans of the Vietnam Conflict and the Gulf War and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Artur
  • Advantages of the Civil War

    Advantages of the Civil War

    Advantages in the Civil War No war has killed as many American men as the Civil War. This is because it was a war between ourselves. Leading up to the war were disagreements about slavery and Presidents and other things like that. The South on one side, and the North on the other. When Lincoln was elected, who the North wanted as President but the South didn’t, all hell broke loose. The South attacked northern

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    Essay Length: 398 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • French and Indian War Dbq Essay

    French and Indian War Dbq Essay

    DBQ ESSAY (ROUGH DRAFT, but a good idea starter!!) The French and Indian War altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American Colonies in a way in which ultimately led to the American Revolution. The colonists had grown farther from Britain and didn’t enjoy the British soldiers coming into North America. The colonists had to use their money during the French and Indian War. These factors had weakened an already distant

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    Essay Length: 405 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Wendy
  • American Invovment in Vietnam

    American Invovment in Vietnam

    In American History, the nineteen sixties and the nineteen seventies were extremely turbulent and controversial times. Protest rights were being tested and occasionally suppressed, new moral and political values began to develop, and the Vietnam War dominated the twenty-year period. Vietnam invited many young activist people to begin a huge movement of anti-war protesting denouncing the war, the government, and even the soldiers who were picked against their will to fight. Reasons for American entry

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • World War II

    World War II

    I. Wartime Conferences Prepare for Peace a. U.S. took part in 15 major international conferences b. Cairo- • November 1934- FDR, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo, Egypt. Agreed on two issues: 1. Korea, then under Japanese domination, would be independent, and 2. Formosa, now Taiwan, would be returned by Japan to China. c. Teheran- • In late Nov., FDR & Churchill proceeded to Teheran, Iran. Promised Stalin that a second front would soon

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • What Was the American War of Independence's Impact on Europe?

    What Was the American War of Independence's Impact on Europe?

    What was the American War of Independence’s impact on Europe? Use the example of 3 countries. The impact of the American War of independence was as diverse as it was complex. It’s ideology rendered the masses in Paris aflame and ultimately some historians suggest it caused the French revolution. However, outside France it’s ideological effect was more subdued and it’s main impact was economic as a result of the war. There were some advantageous long

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery, which had been introduced into North America in early colonial times. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Causes of World War 1

    Causes of World War 1

    Causes of World War 1 The Causes of World War I The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on the 28th of June caused the lead up to World War I. The Archduke heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in his car during a drive in Sarajevo. The assassination was the work of a terrorist group known as the Black Hand. This caused Austria-Hungary to call on Germany as an ally

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    Essay Length: 1,133 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Janna
  • Tomorrow When the War Began

    Tomorrow When the War Began

    The Tomorrow series is a series of invasion novels written by Australian author John Marsden, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are told in first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerilla war on the enemy garrison in their fictional home town of Wirrawee. The name of the series is

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    Several paralles can be drawn between I believe the majority of human beings are born with a clear sense of what is right and what is not right, ethically speaking. Now, assuming that we are all “born” with this sense, and that our ethical beliefs develop over time and with life experiences, I do not believe it would be appropriate for an organization to make attempts to alter a person’s ethical “make-up”. I also believe

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    Essay Length: 660 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Georgia's Role During the Civil War

    Georgia's Role During the Civil War

    Throughout the 1850’s a division in the country between North and South widened. However, in spite of the rising rhetoric, the state of Georgia was far from becoming a “war machine.” In Marietta, the Georgia Military Institute went to the state for funds only three times between 1852 and 1863. Throughout the state, railroads were being built up for economic reasons, not reasons of war. Atlanta was concerned about fighting equipment for its newly formed

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    Essay Length: 685 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to

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    Essay Length: 1,912 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fonta
  • War

    War

    War is a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. The First World War, known as the Great War and as World War I, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers led by Britain, France, Russia until 1917, and the United States after 1917, defeated the Central Powers led by the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and

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    Essay Length: 439 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike

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