All posts tagged War
Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or worlddisarmament – and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet Unionadopt a more enlightened attitude. I hope they do. I believe we can help them todo it. But I also believe . . . Read more
As the war of the worlds collide between the more democratic Allies and the orthodox Central powers, there were numerous causes to the war in which they can be summed up into the –isms of modern analysis. In the 19th, 20th, and even the 21st century, almost all of the . . . Read more
It is a bad time to be a boy in America. As the new millennium began, the defining event for American girls was the triumph of the U.S. women’s soccer team. For boys, the major event was the mass killing at Columbine High School. It would seem that boys in . . . Read more
For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was anopportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first musteredinto the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, theGaribakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a “Polish Legion,” andhundreds of Irish American youths form Boston . . . Read more
Eisenbeis 1Courtney EisenbeisProfessor OttoComposition II4 October 2015The stories Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway, and The Things They Carried byTim OBrien both concern war tragedies and focus on the physical, mental, and emotional pointsof the lifestyle of war. Tim OBrien, the author and narrator of The Things They Carried,describes the physical, . . . Read more
What were the causes and effects of World War I? The answer to this seemingly simple question is not elementary. There was more to the onset of the war then the event of an Austrian prince being murdered in Serbia, as is what most people consider to be the cause . . . Read more
FROM FIRST CONTACT TO THE CIVIL WAR Name: Course: Tutor: Date: IntroductionThe survival of African Americans, whether enslaved or not, during the time between the 1619 and 1860 has been demonstrated to have relied very heavily on their culture and rites as practiced back at home in Africa. These cultural . . . Read more
Davidson, DeLay, Heyrman, Lytle, and Michael Stoff. 2014 Experience History Interpreting America’s Past: Vol 2. 8 ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill.By the nineteenth century the differences between the North and the South became so obvious it was almost like they were two different countries. These differences were due to their . . . Read more
The Economic Effects of the Civil War The Economies of the North and South, 1861-1865In 1861, a great war in American history began. It was a civil war between the north and south that was by no means civil. This war would have great repercussions upon the economy of this . . . Read more
St. Augustine’s Just War Theory and the Persion Gulf WarOn August 2nd, 1990 the first Iraqi tanks crossed into Kuwait, as part of an invasion that marked the start of a six-month conflict between the United States and Iraq. These tanks were ordered to invade Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, the . . . Read more