As Jack Ryan, the key role played in the book, starts to analyze all of the data, he is given to thinking that the submarine is on a course to defect and not to start a neuclear war with the United States. ... Consequently, the US starts its own search. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book is of greater length and detail, the movie version does not do the book justice--especially tow...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... As the 1940's began to wind down, U.S officials started to understand the ineffect...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These countries have just acquired the capability of firing a nuclear missile and starting world war III. ... Smallpox was a virus that everyone thought that was gone for good, the last case documented in the United States was in 1949 and 1977 was the last reported case in the world. ... However, it is possible for non nuclear states to acquire the materials necessary to start a nuclear program. ... First, how and for what purpose do these countries prepare to use this weapon? ... Basically, military doctrine consists of plans that a country makes deciding how and when military force shoul...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. ... Thus, through the myths of an ethical confrontation, the authority of experience, and the inaccuracy of the enemy, The Green Berets exemplifies how noble-grunt films concentrate on de-contextualizing history to produce certain interpretations of the Vietnam War that will attract a receptive audience. ... The film's major problems are exemplified by his quote, "I started moving back in time, because I wanted to imply that ...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate