The story unfolds in the aftermath of the Gulf War; burnout Special Forces Major Archie Gates (George Clooney) figures out from a reporter that the Iraqis have stashed Kuwaiti gold in a nearby village, and that there is a map showing the location of the village. The map, as it turns out, has been retrieved from an Iraqi soldier's posterior by two grunts: straight arrow Sergeant Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and redneck Private Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze); later, Chief Elgin (Ice Cube) joins Barlow and Vig. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Categorizing The unwritten rules of putting oneself in a category are endless. No one ever sat down and wrote out the qualifications that a person needs to obtain in order to be in the category of their race. Is it the place where you were conceived but what if your parents were on vacation in...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Pacific theater of World War II was one unique and interesting progression and a stark contrast from the events taking place in the European theater of war. The war in the Pacific did not start out as a race war at all nor did its continuation necessarily qualify it as a race war. The United S...

• Word Count: 1432
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The various works of Michael Ondaatje entail themes of identity. Ethnicity is often incorporated as an essential property to identity in the works. These frequent occurrences may be a product of Ondaatje's immigration from Sri Lanka to Canada in 1962. In living the immigrant experience, Ondaatje is ...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"No argument has ever been advanced by any reasonable man against the fact of differences among men. The whole argument is about what differences exist and how they are to be gauged (Mulnar 1)." (Jacques Barzun, 1965) What are the differences that exist among men and what should mankind do about...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She continues on to describe white privilege "like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks." ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate