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Essays on War Is Futile

  1. Bayonet Charge Vs Futility
    Compare how the poets present the experience of soldiers Whilst Bayonet Charge focuses on a more physical approach to war, Futility provokes a Philosophical response...
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  2. Winston Churchill
    Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer <br /> <br /> <br /> Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's ancestral seat in Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874. He was the older son of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a British...
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  3. The Things They Carried And Guernica
    The Things They Carried War is full of death and sadness. It is a tragedy to anyone that it involves and brings nothing but death. The book deals with the hardships...
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  4. The Futility Of The Vietnam War
    Vietnam was a Futile War. Do you agree or disagree? The Vietnam War began in 1957 and ended in 1975. Vietnam itself was a small country in South-east Asia and was...
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  5. Was The Gulf War a 'Just War'?
    Aggression is the largest, if only, justification for war, according to the just-war theory outlined by Michael Walzer’s “Just and Unjust Wars”. In performing an act of aggression what Walzer describes as the ‘floodgates of war’ are opened...
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  6. Significant Presences In War And Peace And Anna Karenina
    The two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina are both revolutionary tales encompassing philosophic themes, hidden truths and the unfaltering importance of society in a country where internal turmoil and instability reigns. These societies are...
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  7. Comparative Analysis Between War Is Kind On Being Asked For a Warpoem
    Comparative Analysis:<br /> <br /> Both Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind” and William Butler Yeat’s “On Being Asked for a War Poem” have varied and different techniques and the two poems best illustrate to us the sub-theme of war...
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  8. Roger Mcgough - "No One Wins In Nuclear War"
    How does McGough’s Poetry support the concept that “nobody wins nuclear war”? Throughout the poems “Mother, the Wardrobe is filled with infantrymen”, “Noah’s Arc” and...
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  9. How Do The Poems Of The Boer War Demonstrate The Pity And Tragedy Of War?
    The Boer War began as a struggle between British and Dutch “Boer” settlers for control of...
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  10. Cause Of Cold War
    the tipping point. Because the Cold War came about through a complex combination of events and causes, it may be a futile exercise to single out any one specific...
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  11. Why Was World War One a Global War?
    World War One was a global military conflict that involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two conflicting alliances consisting of the Triple Entente and the...
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  12. The Seven Years War
    trade, but humiliating their Royal Navy. In the early stages of the war privateers would often come across HMS vessels, and attempt to engage them. Although...
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  13. Pre-Civil War New Orleans
    site of the Battle of New Orleans (1815) in the War of 1812. During the Civil War the city was besieged by Union ships under Adm. David Farragut...
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  14. The American South During Civil War
    economic and social life which had continued on until the Ci! vil war. The special economic life which the people of the South lived upon...
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  15. The Civil War: The Path To Disunion
    more. Wilmot Proviso- 1846 After the United States went to war with Mexico, a win meant more land but, the Missouri Compromise of 1820...
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  16. United State's Involvement In The Vietnam War
    br /> he wanted it to happen. Perhaps the officer was simply fed up with the war situation. He may have been tires of having responsibility for not only...
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  17. Who's To Blame For The Cold War?
    and Churchill, disagreed on how to settle up with Germany after the end of the war, and unlike the US and Britain, the Soviet Union wanted to punish Germany and make...
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  18. Spanish-Amerincan War
    also went to Columbia University Law School. He also wrote a book called "The Naval War of 1812." He went to balls and opera's. And was a very busy man...
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  19. World War Ii (In-Depth Look Into Effects Of The War)
    they were even more outraged. They knew the huge amount of loss life during the war and thought it would be in the world's best interest to divide the land up...
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  20. Was Germany Responsible For The Outbreak Of World War i?
    As the past records, Germany and her allies were the primary instigators to the War. This conclusion cannot truly serve a just ending to this chapter in history, as...
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  21. Wartime Propaganda: World War i
    such as John Dewey and Walter Lippmann, also voiced their support for the war. Even in the face of this trend, however, a few scholars refused to fall...
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  22. The Brink Of War
    This was when a country believed its power was reflected in its army. They believed that war was the right thing to do and that all countries needed to be ready for...
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  23. Industrialization Used In World War i
    During World War I, countries used technology to help them become more powerful and stronger against the enemies. Unlike the days where spears and...
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  24. World War i
    ties did not keep us neutral either. Americans feared that if Germany won the war , loans that had been made to the Allies would never be repaid. And, a British...
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  25. World War Ii
    their pledge to protect Poland. While Nazi armies conquered Warsaw, the Allied mobilized for war. In the spring of 1940, Hitler took his next step to more...
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  26. Is It a Chocolate Sale...Or a Chocolate War..??
    sale, he made it actually seem as if the whole thing really was a war and he wanted to win it badly. Brother Leon was planning to pay...
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  27. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi The War Story
    Kipling’s Rikki Tikki Tavi has all the necessary parts of a battle story. It is full of battles, war tactics, good, evil, motive, song, and drama. <br /> A battle story needs a gripping introduction, one that hints at the battles to come and...
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  28. Star Wars: Episode i: The Phantom Menace
    Being a Star Wars fan for many years, I was greatly interested in the upcoming prequels (Episodes I, II and III). So, when Episode I was released, I was at the theater the opening day and I was just absolutely mesmerized. The movie was like a fine...
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  29. What Caused The Second World War? Who Was To Blame?
    War was declared by Britain and France on Germany, September 1939. World War II lasted for six years killing millions; injuring and traumatising many more. Two decades earlier, World War I had taken place also killing, injuring and traumatising...
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  30. The Italian Wars
    The Italian Wars 1494-1559: - <br /> <br /> Introduction: <br /> <br /> The key issues over which the Italian Wars were fought were primarily financial incentives for Charles VIII of France. He declared that he intended to use Naples as a...
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