One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... Whole companies and naval units mutinied and refused to carry out orders. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ...

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This was an obvious fear of death in war. ... It was understood that Tim would go to war. ... Erik did not want to be in the war. ... While under Alpha Company, Tim and the soldiers planned ambushes and gunfire in My Lai and Pinkville. ... The reasons why Tim did not want to go to war did not match other people's reasons for going to war. ...

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Before Wilson's announcement of war, the United States had taken several social, military, and economic steps to ensure the United States was prepared to fight the "war to end all wars." ... Quick effective action was needed to win the war. ... The War Industries Board met all these needs. ... For example when strikes threatened telephone and telegraph companies, the government simply seized the company and ran it. ... Only nominal actions were taken prior to Wilson's actual declaration of war to organize the United States for their war against Germany. ...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. ... Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. ... The war not only affected whites, but also affected black people in America as well. ... The war also shaped the economy in various ways both during and after the war. Companies that had been previously dormant were now overflowing with activity. ...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... Contrary to mercenaries, private military and security companies are transnational corporations legally registered which obtain contracts from governments, private firms, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations. ... The activities of humanitarian non-profitable organizations and those of military and securit...

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With the Civil War over, there was another war to be fought. This war, although not physical, was a war to reconstruct the union and rebuild the failing economy. ... The Civil War was a defensive war for the south. ... The transcontinental railroad led the way for various new railroad companies to develop. ... Jay Cooker, a banker from Philadelphia, helped to finance the railroads when he took over the transcontinental line, the Northern Pacific; however, Cooke outran his investments and in 1873 his company went bankrupt. ...

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While at the stadium the boys of Bravo Company are subjugated to various activities that promote the American image. ... The ability of Bravo Company to call upon the flaws on the ideas of what American patriotism is comes from their experiences in a war that stands for America but not understood by its people. ... "(Albow) His point is proven when Billy and the rest of Bravo Company are taken to the locker room of the Dallas Cowboys by Norm and when on his way out is confronted by the player Octavian who could be seen as an American icon, ask if some of the players could go overseas and figh...

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Attack on Cuba Would Mean Nuclear War, the Soviet government speaks to all governments during the Cold War in 1962. ... Cuba was affected socially by the cold war. ... " Guatemala was affected politically by the Cold War. ... Operation PBSUCCESS occurred when, In response to the expropriation of idle farmland assets, the United Fruit Company asked the US Governments of presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to act diplomatically, economically, and militarily against Guatemalan President Árbenz Guzmán. ... Guatemala was economically affected by the Cold War. ...

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King Philip's war was named after a Pokanoket leader (not after an Englishman) who was from the Pokanoket tribe. During King Philip's war, there were many acts of violence. ... He had the power to get the Pilgrims and the Pokanokets into a war. ... Philip's hatred started King Philip's War. ... Avarice over land was one of the reasons King Philip's war started. ...

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The British East India Company was a trading company. At one time the company was the leading power in India. ... The Spanish American War was a 5-month war dealing with Cuba. ... When pleas to Queen Victoria were unanswered, Opium grew into a war. The Opium War (1839-1842) resulted in the Treaty of Nanking (1842). ...

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After a while he was assigned as the assistant adjutant because the former one, Lieutenant Schwartz, was going to take command of a rifle company. ... Not long after, he volunteered for a line company in the First Battalion. There, he was put in charge of a Platoon leader for C Company. ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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Philip Caputo, author of "A Rumor of War," was born in 1941. ... "A Rumor of War" is divided into three sections. ... The last section Caputo titled "In Death's Grey Land" and it is in this section when he gets reassigned to his rifle company. ... He states in his book that, "this is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." Caputo stated that his purpose of the book was just to inform American readers and all readers about the Vietnam War, including the whole ugly truth of the Vietnam War and wars in general. ...

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Calverley 6 May 2003 History Essay: Final Draft The Foreign Policies of Woodrow Wilson: Why America Entered the First World War After Declaring Neutrality in 1914 The Great War was an incredible landmark in the history of mankind. ... The American government was also of the view that entering the war in Europe would not be economically beneficial because the war potentially meant that America might be prevented from trading with opposing countries. The economic savings of not entering the war were significant as well; by not entering the war, the United States did not have to be...

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On Monday, March 17, 2003 America went to war with Iraq. ... My goal, and the goals of all of those against the war, is to hopefully open the eyes of those who are pro-war and help them to realize this war is a mistake. ... It violates the Christian doctrine of "just war." ... We should not wage a war for oil. ... Iraq has the second largest proven reserves of petroleum, and US oil companies, which exercise immense influence over the current administration, are eager to tap into Iraqi oil, which is wrong. ...

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Why War on Iraq? This assignment has strengthened and given support to my stance against the war in Iraq. ... The Iran-Iraq war was among the last breaths of a U.S. ... This is a point that most average-Joe war supporters (and dissenters, for that matter) won't ever come across in anybody's justification for this war. ... -) framed the question of Iraqi oil in the larger oil market and global economic scene to say that it is certainly not the entire picture, nor the driving force for Bush and company to go to war over. ...

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The Civil War and the following period of Reconstruction resulted in change but left many serious problems unsolved. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern part of the United States and the Southern part of the United States over several issues. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. ... Homer Plessy, a black citizen of Louisiana, sued a railroad company for preventing him from entering a railroad car set aside for whites. ... The Civil War was both a victory for the North and a draw for the South b...

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With our world soon at war, our country faced racial controversies that would later accompany its victories at war into the history pages of the year 1952. ... The 65th would later own its fair share of victories during the world campaigns of World War I, II, and later the Korean War. ... War Department until the 1898 Treaty of Paris. ... It was not until the mass court martial of Company G during the Korean War that the Regiment suffered a devastating blow by the actions of its American Commanders. In the wake of the Korean War, the Regiment was reorganized into three Infantry Battalions, a...

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During the French and Indian War of 1754, British troops provided blankets that had been infected with smallpox to the American Indians. ... During the 19th century, when President Lincoln and 12 other public officials were assassinated, these were acts of terrorism connected to the Civil War. ... Because of the global concern about terrorism, the U.S. war on terrorism is justified. ... Moreover, economist feel that once the worst of the war is over, the stage would be set for a healthy recovery, probably even sometime next year. In the past, wars have ha...

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Augustine's Just War Theory St. ... "We do not seek peace in order to be at war, but we go to war that we may have peace. ... Augustine accepted that there would always be wars, and that war was generally a sin. But he also stated that war could be a consequence of sin and that war could be an accepted remedy for sin, thus war could sometimes be justified. ... Augustine and company's basis for war is a very fair and just way of thinking of conducting wars. ...

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Ashley Kurz purchased shares in the following companies: ATK "Alliant Techsystems "is a $2.1 billion aerospace and defense company with leading positions in propulsion, composite structures, munitions, and precision capabilities. The company employs approximately 12,000 people and has three business groups: Aerospace, Precision Systems, and Ammunition. ... Because the United States had just entered into a war with Iraq, he had guessed that the war would have a powerfully positively impact on the aerospace and defense industry for at least as long as the war lasted. ... He had hoped...

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The repercussions of the war in Iraq are far reaching, transcending not only Iraq's economy but our own. ... Depending on how the reconstruction goes and congresses efforts to support or hinder the company's funds. ... Many people in our current government have had close nit relationships with the company. ... What are the motives of the US for the war in Iraq? ... Some people in our country even accuse the US government of going to war with Iraq solely for the fat war contract that would be handed to Bechtel. ...

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The reason for going to war against Iraq is not justified. ... So what is the war really about? ... It has the second largest reserves of petroleum, and US oil companies. ... Going to war against Iraq will cause thousands of deaths. ... War would not the answer to this problem. ...

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During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. ... Black people were looked lowly upon during World War II. ... Training companies wouldn't train black people for various job skills because they believed " since no one is hiring blacks it would be a waste of time to train them. ... Some Negroes didn't think it was fair for them to fight in the war. ... Of the black people that chose to serve in the war there were about one million black men and women. ...

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