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  • Victory of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars

    Victory of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars

    The Ancient Greek city-states of the 5th century BCE took on one of the most powerful and dangerous empires of the ancient world in a struggle to maintain independence from the Persians. The Persians represented the opposite in ideals of everything that is Greek and threatened the end of political sovereignty, higher thinking, and innovation. Overcoming the Persians was a critical accomplishment by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian wars of the 5th century and can

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Peace Novel

    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Peace Novel

    War is a tragic experience that can motivate people to do many things. Many people have been inspired to write stories, poems, or songs about war. Many of these examples tend to reflect feelings against war. Kurt Vonnegut is no different and his experience with war inspired him to write a series of novels starting with Slaughter-House Five. It is a unique novel expressing Vonnegut’s feelings about war. These strong feeling can be seen in

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    Essay Length: 1,434 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Stenly
  • War & 20th Century Poetry

    War & 20th Century Poetry

    An individual’s personality, opinion and even the way they perceive things are highly influenced by experience. Many experiences are documented, whether positive or negative, in the form of film, story, song or poem. The twentieth century was an era of imperialism, nationalism and decolonization which would all contribute to the outbreak of both world wars. Each war was both surprising to many people, as well as damaging. The state of a nations economy, moral and

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Vika
  • Vietnam Memorial War Memoriabilia

    Vietnam Memorial War Memoriabilia

    The Vietnam Memorial Wall remains one of the most tentative and reserved memorials today not only Washington, DC, but the entirety of the United States. Created in order to remember the soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam War, the memorial is meant to symbolize their honor and spirit as passed Americans and combatants. As much as a statement the memorial makes by itself, it is the endless thought and emotion that can

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Top
  • World War Ii: Battle of Stalingrad

    World War Ii: Battle of Stalingrad

    World War II: Battle of Stalingrad The post D-Day Allied assault that swept through France was halted by Hitler's unexpected counter-attack through the Ardennes, resulting in a confrontation named the Battle of the Bulge. The Allied battle front in the autumn of 1944 made an end to the war by Christmas look likely. They had liberated most of France in a matter of months, and were now marching towards the Ruhr River, which was the

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Yan
  • The War in Iraq

    The War in Iraq

    The War in Iraq The war in Iraq is a controversy clouded with misinformation and confusion. To get a proper view of the war we need to step back and examine both sides, pro-war and anti-war, of the facts leading to the war, execution of the war, and the effects of the war. President Bush’s premise for going to war was to prevent potential weapons of mass destruction, specifically nuclear weapons, and not only to

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • What Was World War 2 Like?

    What Was World War 2 Like?

    What was World War Two like? 1. What was your/ your family’s reaction to hearing about the war? Everyone was scared. I remember sitting in the front room listening to my aunt tell us. 2. Where were you when you heard about the war? I was at home, on the farm. We didn’t have a radio so our aunt from Toledo came and told us all about it. 3. Did most of the men goto

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • A Peaceful Isolated Life

    A Peaceful Isolated Life

    “A Lifestyle” by Fernando Sorrentino entertains the reader with its humorous story of a young bank employee who gets locked in his apartment. He contacts a locksmith to open the door for him, but the locksmith finds out that he does not have any money with him to pay for the service. He informs the young man that the rules that govern his trade will not allow him to open the door without payment. The

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a very controversial war happening back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Everyone involved in the war whether in Vietnam or here at home in the United States had differing opinion’s concerning the war. There were many here in the United States that felt the war was justifiable while on the other hand just as many felt the war was unjust and was a war the United States should not have been

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Religions for Peace

    Religions for Peace

    To the Editor: When it comes to the question of whether religion can be a factor for peacemaking, I agree with you 110%, Religions for Peace indeed. Whether it is Christianity, Buddhism, Muslim, or Islam, which in fact in itself means a religion of peace, all religions do accept the common destiny of humankind, teach justice and peace, and promote forgiveness and reconciliation. On another note I agree with your statement of how even though

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: July
  • A Class War Runs Through It (summary)

    A Class War Runs Through It (summary)

    A Class War Runs Through It James Cox Kennedy head of Cox enterprises bought 4000 acres in the Montana Ruby Valley and transformed the area into private hunting and fishing retreat. Though it’s an admirable way preserve habitats and restore its natural surroundings, it has caused problems with the locals that have lived in the area for decades. The two problems that this has caused are Montana’s stream-access laws and the conservation easements. Montana’s stream

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Fonta
  • War

    War

    Summary: Chapter 1- Human beings since the beginning of time have not been able to escape war. There has always been some sort of conflict between each other since the beginning of time. War always seems to bring a sense of reason with it or need to the people. It makes them feel like we are fighting for a just cause. This past century war has been at its worst. This last one hundred or

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • John C. Calhoun: The Starter of The Civil War

    John C. Calhoun: The Starter of The Civil War

    John C. Calhoun: The Starter of the Civil War If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun -- Unknown. The fact that he never wanted the South to break away from the United States as it would a decade after his death, his words and life's work made him the father of secession. In a very real way, he started the American Civil War. Slavery was

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    During the decades leading up to the Civil War, annexation of territory was viewed within the context of the debate about slavery. No anti-imperialist organization was formed to oppose the Mexican War or the annexation of territory that resulted from it because it was seen primarily as a war for the extension of slavery and opposition was channeled through abolitionist organizations. It reluctantly approved the purchase of Alaska in 1867. In the early 1870's, it

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • A Critical Analysis of Spanish Society Prior to the Civil War

    A Critical Analysis of Spanish Society Prior to the Civil War

    [This paper is perfect for an advanced level Spanish-language student who wants to make a critical analysis of Spanish society prior to the Civil War.] En Garcнa Lorca pretende divulgar la situaciуn dramбtica que padecнan las mujeres en la Espaсa de la йpoca anterior a la Guerra Civil. La obra es una crнtica social hacia los valores tradicionales que denuncia la sociedad conservadora y represora, la cobardнa hacia el cambio, la ignorancia, la falta de

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Janna
  • African American Contributions During the Civil War

    African American Contributions During the Civil War

    Intelligence gathered during the Civil war came from many sources however we will look at on the African American role … African intelligence information was some times referred to as “Black Dispatches”, this was a term used by Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes. This source of information represented one of the most creative and productive types of intelligence information obtained and acted upon by Union forces throughout the Civil

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Yan
  • Victory of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars

    Victory of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars

    The Ancient Greek city-states of the 5th century BCE took on one of the most powerful and dangerous empires of the ancient world in a struggle to maintain independence from the Persians. The Persians represented the opposite in ideals of everything that is Greek and threatened the end of political sovereignty, higher thinking, and innovation. Overcoming the Persians was a critical accomplishment by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian wars of the 5th century and can

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Public Schools Vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending

    Public Schools Vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending

    Public Schools vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending Even though the Cold War era is a distant memory, encased in glass forever like some museum piece, our government is still spending as if the Soviet Union was in its prime. If the arms race is a forgotten memory, then why is the military still spending 86% of what it was spending during the Cold War. It's not that us Americans do not want a solid military,

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Wars

    The Wars

    War is a fact of life. As long as there are humans, there will be war. In past times, for a man to go to war, it was viewed as romantic and heroic. But, these ideas have faded and vanished throughout the course of the 20th century. War can be horrific, like a bad nightmare, and can easily break the human spirit, which is not a t all fragile. In his novel, "The Wars", Timothy

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Jessica
  • On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis

    On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis

    On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis History is written. It did not happen. What did happen can only be described and recorded. Of the records that exist today society judges which are "fact," which are and which are "fictional." One striking feature that all records share is a preoccupation with war. This is not surprising, however, since a convolution of all records during a specific time

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Anna
  • Resolved: That the Us Should Go to War with Iraq

    Resolved: That the Us Should Go to War with Iraq

    Copyright 2004 Devon M. Largio. All rights reserved. Introduction In the weeks and months that followed the events of September 11, 2001, the nation watched, listened, and read as the Bush administration declared a war on terror and the media began frenzied coverage of the military efforts in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. But in the midst of all of the chaos, speculation about the suspects at the heart

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Events Leading Ti World War 1

    Events Leading Ti World War 1

    Final Essay- Events before World War I World War 1, one of the biggest wars in history, did not begin because of one problem; it was a mixture of many different factors that eventually caused the final outcome. This war was so great because it basically included all of Europe. As we look back to the events that led up to the war, we see that one country looks like they are the cause of

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Top
  • Cuases of World War 1

    Cuases 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 and discuss how far Germany

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • Iraq War

    Iraq War

    The reason was to invade was to create space for Iraq’s leaders to reach an agreement to end Iraq’s civil war. I am against the Iraq war for a variety of reasons. At 15, I do not see the point of the Iraq War. I do not believe in the Iraq War because it is killing thousands of people, costing countries millions of dollars, and causing a lot of turmoil. The war must be ended,

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Top
  • America in World War 1

    America in World War 1

    In 1914 when war was declared in Europe, America adopted a policy of neutrality and isolation. When news of trench warfare and the horrors associated with it reached the shores of America, it confirmed to the government that they had made the right choice. Their approach had the full support of a majority of Americans, many of which could not believe that Europe, a civilized entity, could descend into the depths of carnage as depicted

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Fatih