Essays about War Page 63

August 20, 2014 think living under the threat of nuclear war had to have been quite a scary time for children being told to always be on the lookout for a nuclear blast. I honestly don’t think the threat was a real as the authorities made it out to be, but I guess it was…

  AbstractBeing a presidential candidate entails a clear grasp of relevant issues and sincere effort to address or resolve such concerns. This paper aims to present the issues of global warming and the Iraq War which were discussed by Barack Obama and John McCain. In doing so, the positions of the said candidates will be analyzed…

Abstract: This paper seeks to understand the purpose of the ironclads, their effect on the Civil War, and the effect they had on the sailors who operated them. While it remains the case that the land battles and personalities dominate the literature on the American Civil War, the naval battles were equally as important, and,…

            The stories collected in Ambrose Bierce’s “Civil War Stories” were originally published in 1909 as part of the two volume set “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce.” The sixteen works of fiction collected in “Civil War Stories” span a range of genres from memoir, as in “What I Saw of Shiloh,” to allegory as…

Thesis Statement: The Battle of Vicksburg was a very significant of the Civil War. The city was considered an essential asset for the Union to regain control of the Mississippi River and in all reality split the confederacy in two. I think that Ulysses S. Grant made a few key tactical decisions, which ultimately helped…

On January 20, 1942, at a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee, 15 men, all high-ranking Nazi Party officials and members of the German government, met to discuss what they called the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question. ” The head of this conference was a man named SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the…

This Newspaper Article is a secondary source of information because it is not a first-hand report. Secondary sources are sources that interpret and analyze primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them. E. g. Source 1 includes…

THE LIFE OF A BLACK CIVIL WAR HERO The United States of America was founded on the rules of equality and chance for all. In the 1800 ’ s these rules were non purely adhered to by all and a enormous conflict ensued. That conflict was the United States Civil War in which Northerners, wishing…

The novel Hiroshima by John Hersey contains an immense amount of descriptive, historical information that it is unbelievable that it is held in half an inch binding. Hersey writes the novel in a third person omniscient in which his desire is to completely write the novel with a “flat style”. In the following quote he…

What is the most important event in US history between the Civil War and today? I could say that it is the Great Depression, the downfall of the economy. I could say 9/11 a shock to the US that had started an 8+ year war. But I won’t, I think the most important even is…