Category: War
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War in “Maus” by Spiegelman and “Persepolis” by Satrapi
War is a term that has been used for a very long time. People have been fighting for centuries over land, resources, religion, and political expansions. It is almost a necessary evil that human beings continue to create despite their negative outcomes. Some of the infamous wars include the First and Second World Wars, the…
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The United States’ Decision to Enter World War I
There exists a certain number of factors that contributed to the U.S.’s entry into World War I. Despite much debate about the necessity of this action, the concomitant factors make it unavoidable. Any bad consequences of the decision to take part in the war are justified and compensated by some reasonable geopolitical evidence. In order…
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Trojan War: Change in Tactics and Outcome
Table of Contents Plan of investigation Summary of evidence Evaluation of sources Analysis Conclusion Works Cited One of the highlights of Greek mythology is the Trojan War described in the pages of The Iliad and The Odyssey, along with many pieces of Greek literature. The battle was fought between the Greeks and the Trojans. A…
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How War of 1812 Shaped the Transatlantic World
In June 1812, hostilities began between America and England, fought with varying success around the U.S.-Canadian border, the Chesapeake, and the Gulf of Mexico. Indians participated in the conflict on both sides. During the Napoleonic Wars, the United States and Great Britain fought in the Anglo-American War of 1812-1815 (Dudley, 2021). A major foreign policy…
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The History of American-Mexican War
US history is marred with controversial episodes that raise a lot of debate. One of these events occurred in the 1800s during the American-Mexican war. The background of this war is that Texas had gained independence from Mexico and was a slave state, making the US hesitant to admit it into the union. Mexico still…
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“War Dances” and “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie’s short stories “War Dances” and “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” describe the life of Native Americans who have to deal with vices and vulnerabilities in everyday life. Their values and suffering have different causes, but they are similar due to the degree of pain projected onto daily actions. The first story’s character…
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The Most Influential Wars in Western History
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Reference Introduction It is possible to identify wars that guided the development of the Western world throughout its history. The Greco-Persian wars prevented the subordination of Greece, then a center of the Western world, to Persia. The conquest of Alexander the Great heavily contributed to the penetration of…
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American Foreign Policy Since World War II
Structure of the Book and a Summary of its Contents This paper is a book review of American Foreign Policy since World War II, by Hook and Spanier (1). An acclaimed literary work, researchers have used the book in educational and political fields. It has only two parts. The first part has only six chapters,…
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The Iraq War: “The Accidental Guerrilla” by Kilcullen
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Bibliography Introduction In Chapter Three, “The Twenty-First Day”: Iraq during the Surge, 2007 of his book The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, David Kilcullen explores the Iraqi war of 2003. As the reader learns from the book, Kilcullen was present in…
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Post-War America in Historical Sources
With the end of World War II, the United States became one of the two world superpowers. The country helped Europe to rise from the ruins and experienced an economic and demographic boom; the process of abandoning segregation and racial discrimination has begun. At the same time, an anti-communist propaganda campaign was launched in American…