These soldiers were fed up with the war because of all the burdens it put on each soldier. ... One soldier stated that soldiers seemed "pathetic" and not like warriors at all. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. ... Mental stress that impacted a soldier's psychological stability was another factor setting American soldiers up for combat exhaustion. ... Soldier Harry L. ...

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It is told that, Hateful soldiers prodded and kicked the old and sick on their march to the camps. ... Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... Jackson said he wanted this only for the good of the Indians. ... For the good of the Indians, Andrew Jackson humbly believed, but was it truly for the profit of himself and the country first before the good of the Indians (Andrew Jackson's case for removal of the Indians). ...

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Rest and Recreation (R&R) sites are established for the soldiers for their personal enjoyment. These R&R sites, otherwise referred to my the soldiers as I&I (Intoxication & Intercourse), are clubs and bars in which the waitresses (prostitutes) especially cater to the soldiers sexual desires. ... Rarely has a war been fought where the soldiers have not used native women of the country they are invading sexually. ... Also that they were concerned with the health of their soldiers and this way they could have sex with women in good hygienic conditions; this way no sexually transmitted diseases...

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One aspect of this is how journalists report on the casualties and if they should actually show pictures of dead soldiers. Respected journalist Ted Koppel, who is reporting from Iraq, does not believe that broadcast journalists should be "notifying the next of kin through images of the dead soldiers- (Kurtz). ... So, it seems that almost all of the troop movements and locations that are reported by journalists do not endanger the lives of any of our soldiers. ... A good example of the second type of leak mentioned is this: "Earlier, in a July 5th page-one report by Eric Schmitt that also ...

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What is often not emphasized when talking about the peace movements of the 60's and 70's is the negative effect they had on the soldiers fighting overseas. ... Movies such as "Apocalypse Now", "Platoon", or "Forrest Gump", are all considered good depictions of the Vietnam War. ... The next two years would unsettle the entire country as well as the Johnson administration, but most importantly, the soldiers on the front line.8 With this resentment began the peace movements within society. ... The motivation for the soldiers to fight for peace in Vietnam quickly weakened as a result of ...

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There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. ... Furthermore, when the king decided to discipline the unruly Americans by forcing them to keep British soldiers in their homes, they protested that he had given them no choice in the matter and were met with more hostility. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions near the close of World War I. A civilian-turned-soldier, Whittlesey proved to be a brilliant and fearless major when he and his troops fo...

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Killing the aggressor is no longer the act of loving punishment, but rather a necessary evil in order to satisfy a greater good. ... It is this balancing of good and evil actions that lead to the questions of proportionality and double effect. ... Thomas emphasizes that the sovereign has the responsibility for the common good of those committed to his care. ... Therefore it is his duty to defend the common good against external enemies by having recourse to arms. ... Indirect combatants are the unarmed helpers of the soldiers in military ways such as transporters of supplies, weapons producer...

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You must go through military checkpoints on a daily basis where soldiers can harass you or destroy your property with no compensation or even reprimand (reporters have witnessed Israeli soldiers casually destroying farmers' crops while laughing at them). ... However, if you're killed, whether it be at a checkpoint by a trigger-happy soldier or as "collateral damage" due to the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, you can take comfort in knowing that somebody in Israel will promise an investigation ... that quietly goes away without ever penalizing anyone. ... If your c...

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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... One of these, completed by the Knowlton's Rangers, was an operation of sabotage; to cut off support for the British, who had been receiving soldiers from the Germans. Congress approved this mission and sent mercenaries to encourage this support to defect from the royal army, stating that the German prince was receiving money for each soldier killed in action. ...

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Romanticism, is a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, United States and Latin America . It lasted from about 1750 to 1870. This epoch is characterized by the reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression and idealization of nature. This movement was developed everywhere, imagination was praised over the reason, emotions were over the logic and intuition over science. The literature will emphasized a new flexibility of form adapted to varying content, encourage development of complex and fast-moving plots and allowed ...

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On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... As more soldiers were needed to liberate the rest of Europe, France instituted history's first universal levy, the ultimate in state control over the lives of its citizens. ... Every citizen was required to carry an identity card issued by his local commune, called Certificates of Good Citizenship. ... A war was fought to be sure, and soldiers died in that war. ... After the Boston Massacre, when the British soldiers who had...

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An example of a child soldier who suffered from the effects of child labor is Emmanuel Jal. he was born in Southern Sudan, a village of Taj. ... After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers. ... There are a number of common deceptions for luring these victims into sex trafficking, including: a promise of a good job in another country, a false marriage...

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" (Hopkins, pg. 49) Although there were good intentions from the Americans, it was not the right or legal decision to get involved especially before elections in two years. ... " (Hopkins, pg. 31) It is clear why he seemed like a good candidate to lead South Vietnam and ensure that they didn't fall under a communist government. ...

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On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the fight to stop the flow of the "Red Tide". Much of the information regarding the origins of the Korean War is obscure, cloudy, and vague at best, but many scholars have recently begun to draw different conclusions and hypotheses based on their research. This different stance argues that the Korean W...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...

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As married couples sought out a life independent of kinship by moving to centers of community where employment allowed them to make a better life for themselves the good provider emerged as a predominately male role. ... As mentioned earlier, masculinity was tied to being a good provider with sexiness and virility endowed on a good provider. It was assumed that a good provider would put his job ahead of his family (Bernard 10). ... Stephanie Coontz, in Current Perspectives of the Family, says that many families put together a good imitation of this way of living but that many were actually ...

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A cruel man and a huge fan of Diaz, Huerta was skilled as a military tactician and professional soldier. ... No, I do not feel that it was justified, especially considering Wilson's previous immaculately reserved conception of how important it was to be a good example. ...

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Thankfully, in a twist of good fortune for this poor man, the real Hajji Fateh Muhammad was killed in a drone strike. ... To make a long story short, the most effective technique I used with this suspect was simply being a well educated soldier who hated Russians as much as he did. ... A fellow soldier that could relate to what he was going through. ...

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Increasingly the mourning toilette included a piece of memorial jewelry, often fashioned from a lock of the deceased soldiers hair. ... As a good 19th century woman, the domestic harmony she fostered was an expression of herself; her self-portrait in sacrifice. ...

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He meant that a country's diplomatic policies are only as good and safe as its military. ... British propaganda papers and word of cruel and inhuman treatment by German soldiers raised an eyebrow of disapproval in the U.S. ...

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There has been much good that has come from the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action. ... While all of this sounds well and good and the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action looks wonderful on paper, there are still many blatant violations against the declaration. ...

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The drug was also prescribed for the treatment of dysentery, which was highly prevalent among Civil War soldiers, and until 1937, it was listed in the U.S. ... Although drugs like Dronabinol, Marinol, and a new anti-emetic ondansetron called Zofran, manufactured by Glaxo Holdings, (all of which are synthetic forms of THC) are available for people to use as a anti-nausea agent, most people claim that its just not as good as the real thing, and some clinical oncologists also find it less helping than the effects of marijuana. ... For example, if you were to go to a "drug dealer" to buy a bag of ...

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1) While the Federalist and Republican parties were feuding and struggling for control of the growing country of America in 1800, the balance of power was beginning to tip. The two leading candidates for control were Federalist John Adams, who was at the time of the election of 1800 the president, and Republican and self proclaimed "champion of democracy" Thomas Jefferson. For both sides in the election, the outcome would be a major factor in which party would retain control of the government. The election was ugly and many of the supporters of both candidates resorted to tactics that wer...

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In total, 10 million soldiers and civilians were lost their lives in World War I. ... The twenties were basically happy times, but all good things must come to an end. ... The US was afraid that the situation with the Axis could escalate so far that the Axis could take over the world or a good portion of it. ...

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Nelson and Wallace make a good approach to classify these possibilities. ... They advertise the principles of liberalism to the citizens from the authoritarian states and show them how good and successful the people in these countries live, how well their economy works, and how much freedoms they have (Smith, et. al. 2008: 66). ...

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