World War I Essays (Examples)

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How Media Coverage Of Operation Desert Storm Was Influenced By The

Pages: 11 (3336 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:61111774

… military was never able to live up to their leader’s claims, the political and social fallout from this successful prosecution of this regional war by the United States had long-term implications for American political and military leaders alike. This topic is important to analyze today because the … political or military leadership, the U.S.-led coalition initiated an 5-week bombing campaign of Iraqi command and control centers an effort to dilute their war-fighting capabilities (Taylor, 2015).
Following the cessation of the bombing campaign and despite concerns that Saddam Hussein might unleash chemical weapons at the time, … backdrop of other military conflicts prosecuted by the United States, the 300 or so casualties (see Appendix A) that resulted from this “100-hour war” were incredibly minimal, but the corresponding human behaviors that resulted from this war were not. As noted in the introduction, some of the behavioral responses to this conflict included……

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Curtis, J. (2015, November). Reflecting on strategic results of Operation Desert Storm. Army, 65(11), 24-27.

Khan, H. (2011, July 1). An unbiased estimate of present American competitiveness from deontological and teleological perspectives of utilitarianism. Competition Forum, 9(2), 348-352.

Klotzer, C. L. (2002, October). A lesson for Americans: Desert Storm operation reports were full of lies and distortions. St. Louis Journalism Review, 32(250), 34-39.

Lindsey, J. M. & Smith, C. (2003, Summer). Rally 'round the flag: Opinion in the United States before and after the Iraq War. Brookings Review, 21(3), 20-24.

Operation Desert Storm. (2020). U.S. History. Retrieved from  https://www.ushistory.org/  us/60a.asp.

Stilwell, B. (2015, September 12). 21 facts about the first Gulf War. Military.com. Retrieved from  https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2015/09/21-facts-about-the-first-gulf-war .

Taylor, A. (2016, January 14). Operation Desert Storm: 25 years since the first Gulf War. The Atlantic. Retrieved from  https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/operation-desert-storm-25-years-since-the-first-gulf-war/424191/ .

Tilford, K. H., Jr. (1993, Summer). Review: The meaning of victory in Operation Desert Storm: A review essay. Political Science Quarterly, 108(2), 327-331.

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The American Friends And The Peace Movement

Pages: 8 (2337 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:47374510

… and the Religious Society of Friends was always tenuous as the activism of the organization was something universal that many non-Quakers around the world could celebrate, while the actual tenets of Quakerism were not nearly as popular as the peace movement that the Religious Society of Friends … goals of the committee were limited; however, over the 20th century, AFSC epitomized the pacifist convictions and social-change driving forces of Philadelphia’s Quaker-led world-class fight for peace (Ingle, 2016). The AFSC essentially helped to support and come to the aid of the victims of war, whether they were Jewish, Russian, European, African, etc. (Frost, 1992). This paper will discuss the background of the organization, why the Nobel Committee … whether they were Jewish, Russian, European, African, etc. (Frost, 1992). This paper will discuss the background of the organization, why the Nobel Committee war them the Peace Prize and what that means……

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Franklin, S. (2020). American Friends Service Committee. Retrieved from  https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1167/american-friends-service-committee 

Frost, J. W. (1992). " Our Deeds Carry Our Message": The Early History of the American Friends Service Committee. Quaker History, 81(1), 1-51.

Ingle, H.L., (2016). "Truly Radical, Non-violent, Friendly Approaches": Challenges to the American Friends Service Committee. Quaker History 105(1), 1-21. DOI:10.1353/qkh.2016.0004.

Mechling, E. W., & Mechling, J. (1992). Hot pacifism and cold war: The American friends service committee's witness for peace in 1950s America. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 78(2), 173-196.

The Nobel Prize. (2020). American Friends Service Committee. Retrieved from  https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1947/friends-committee/facts/ 

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Mahatama Gandhi

Pages: 2 (655 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:95292861

… provided by Gandhian nonviolence tactics to all kinds of freedom struggles to later crop up, right from the US Civil Rights Movement, other war against colonialism (e.g., Ghana), anti-war, anti-nuclear, and peace movements, some elements of South Africa’s apartheid movement, and the latest Palestinian struggles, to the modern-day climate change-related Extinction Rebellion … forces was different for different nations: peaceful resistance was, perhaps, most actively utilized in the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and Belgium. The Nazi attitude war Eastern Europe (everyone far and wide is war of the fact that the Nazis aimed at purging Eastern Europe of its citizens and populating it with Germans) implied a different kind … places involved a bigger crowd than this (Sinclair, 2017).
Citizens such as the pacifists encountered the unique challenge of reacting to dictatorship and war-related cruelties. Even in Nazi Germany, direct peaceful…[break]…other Second world war traces: facing the Lieu de Mémoire……

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Ahmed, T. (2019). Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in civil disobedience. USA: Pluto Press. Retrieved from  https://s3.amazonaws.com/supadu-imgix/plutopress-uk/pdfs/look-inside/LI-9780745334288.pdf 

Anthology. (n.d.). World war II and peace 1939-1945.

Isalska, A. (2018). A French village committed to deception. Retrieved from  http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180806-a-french-village-committed-to-deception 

Sinclair, I. (2017). Resisting the Nazis in numerous ways: nonviolence in occupied Europe. Retrieved from  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/non-violence-against-nazis-interview-with-george-paxton/ 

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Carrie Chapman And The Women S Movement

Pages: 8 (2257 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:61754681

… firmly established culturally that a woman’s place was in the domestic sphere. That notion would not really be challenged until WWII and the post-war era, when the next wave of the Women’s Movement was getting started by Betty Friedan and her book The Feminine Mystique, which advocated … rights, and so on.
In the late 19th and early 20th century such steps would have been unfathomable. It was an entirely different world in those days and it took two world war to change it. The First world war helped to light a fire for Progressivism, which is why the 1920s saw so much social and political change in America. The Second … helped to light a fire for Progressivism, which is why the 1920s saw so much social and political change in America. The Second world war helped to set the stage for the Women’s Movement shifting into a……

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Blackwell, E. (1850). Elizabeth Blackwell on the 1850 Women\\\\\\'s Rights Convention. Retrieved from  http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/WomansRights/blackwell_comments.html 

Griffith, E. (1984). In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press.

History. (2019). Women’s suffrage. Retrieved from  https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage 

Lawson, E. N. (2013). Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City. SUNY Press.

Siegel, R. B. (1994). Home as Work: The First Woman\\\\\\'s Rights Claims Concerning

Wives\\\\\\' Household Labor, 1850-1880. The Yale Law Journal, 103(5), 1073-1217.

Van Voris, J. (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York City: Feminist Press at CUNY.

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Poland S Position In Europe

Pages: 3 (958 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:77800582

… spot, as the country seeks to enhance its ties with the U.S. by offering America a permanent base from which it can wage war, if necessary, against Russia, should the latter adopt an aggressive stance war the West. The fighting in Ukraine has also been seen as a problem for Poland, which seeks to maintain the stability it has … maintain the stability it has developed since the 1990s.
Poland’s place in central Europe makes it one of the more vulnerable countries, should war break out between Russia and the West, as the nation sits right in between the two. However, should peace prevail, the country could ……

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Bradberry, B. (2012). The Myth of German Villainy. IN: AuthorHouse.

Nations. (2018). Poland. Retrieved from  https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Europe/Poland-INFRASTRUCTURE-POWER-AND-COMMUNICATIONS.html 

Pew Research Center. (2017). Retrieved from  https://www.pewresearch.org/global/database/ 

Rempfer, K. (2018). Why Poland wants a permanent US military base, and is willing to pay $2 billion for it. Retrieved from  https://www.armytimes.com/news/2018/05/29/why-poland-wants-a-permanent-us-military-base-and-is-willing-to-pay-2-billion-for-it/ 

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Blinded By Sight Seeing Race Through The Eyes Of The Blind

Pages: 6 (1812 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:84125894

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One example of both the pervasiveness and the ridiculousness of racism cited by Obasogie is that which was fostered against Japanese-Americans during world war II. Before the attacks on Pearl Harbor, prejudice against Asian Americans was common. However, the war crystalized specifically anti-Japanese sentiments and created a constellation of prejudices specifically inflicted against Japanese Americans. “This singular act radically deepened Americans’ pejorative sentiments … crystalized specifically anti-Japanese sentiments and created a constellation of prejudices specifically inflicted against Japanese Americans. “This singular act radically deepened Americans’ pejorative sentiments war Japanese people, leading to them being perceived as a distinct group with intrinsic tendencies war treachery and duplicity” (Obasogie 12). Once such prejudices take root, they are very difficult to eradicate, and these prejudices still linger to this … (Obasogie 12). Once such prejudices take root, they are very difficult to eradicate, and these prejudices still linger to this very……

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Obasogie, Osagie. Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Organizational Situations

Pages: 6 (1663 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:92019167

… a fulfilled, motivated individual. To reach that point requires some exploration: Rogers (1951) states that “psychological maladjustment…[is the result of a person] denying war of significant sensory and visceral experiences” and that “the best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of … engagement on the part of managers. However, the benefits are that if managers get engaged with their workers to this high degree the war can be great because managers are showing the love to workers and workers will in turn pay it war to co-workers and to consumers who…[break]…making sure that all employees are getting enough paid leave time, are using vacation time (which should be ……

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Cañadas-De la Fuente, G. A., Vargas, C., San Luis, C., García, I., Cañadas, G. R., &

Emilia, I. (2015). Risk factors and prevalence of burnout syndrome in the nursing profession. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(1), 240-249.

Meacham, W. (2017). History of industrial and organizational psychology. Retrieved from  https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/History-of-Industrial-and-Organizational-Psychology 

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Alexander The Great War Tactics

Pages: 6 (1804 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Essay Document #:14983431

Introduction
While today’s war tactics involved precision-guided missiles and missile defense shields, the armies of ancient times relied upon cruder and simpler weapons, such as sticks and … missiles and missile defense shields, the armies of ancient times relied upon cruder and simpler weapons, such as sticks and stones, to make war. However, one thing that has not changed over the course of history is that war is about resources and the victor is the one who adapts to the times and to the environment as well as the one … to the environment as well as the one who has the most friends. Born in 356 BC, Alexander the Great modernized and revolutionized war by showing what it meant to assess the environment, adapt, and strike. This paper will discuss the tactics Alexander used, what knowledge he … man. Alexander quickly reorganized the army and incorporated the latest innovative……

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Archeology. (2013). Kamehameha. Retrieved from  https://www.archaeology.org/issues/95-1307/features/1094-kamehameha-moku-ula-maui-oahu 

Classics Dissertation. (n.d.). The Military Revolution: What were Philip II’s Reforms of the Macedonian Military and how Revolutionary were they? Retrieved from  https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/the_military_revolution_-_what_were_philip_iis_reforms_of_the_macedonian_military_and_how_revolutionary_were_they.pdf 

Hughes, T. (2018). Was Alexander’s army destined to conquer? Retrieved from  http://turningpointsoftheancientworld.com/index.php/2018/08/02/why-alexander-was-destined-to-conquer/ 

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants part 1. On the horizon, 9(5), 1-6.

Roos, D. (2019). How Alexander the Great Conquered the Persian Empire. Retrieved from  https://www.history.com/news/alexander-the-great-defeat-persian-empire 

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Effectiveness Of The War On Drugs

Pages: 14 (4146 words) Sources: 18 Document Type:Reaction Paper Document #:69451857

Outline
I. Introduction
A. History of drugs, cross-cultural perspective
1. Opium war (ACLU, 2020)
2. Since Nixon, the modern “war on drugs” (Pearl, 2018)
3. History of drug use in different societies (ACLU, 2020)
B. History of government intervention in the private lives … 2020)
B. History of government intervention in the private lives of individuals via drug policy (ACLU, 2020); Baumbauer, 2012).
C. Effects of the war on drugs
1. Is it effective? Quantify the deaths related to the WOD, as well as the social entropy in communities, families, and … 2016).
B. Government, public policy, global affairs (Coyne & Hall, 2017; Godlee & Hurley, 2016)
C. Criminalization, justice (ACLU, 2020; “America is At war,” n.d.; Farabee, Prendergast & Anglin, 1998).
D. Other sociological issues
1. Organized crime and terrorism (“America is at war,” n.d.; Coomber, Moyle, Belackova, V., et al., 2018; Pearl, 2018).
2. White collar crime (tobacco……

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ACLU (2020). Against drug prohibition. Retrieved from:  https://www.aclu.org/other/against-drug-prohibition 

“America is At War,” (n.d.). Retrieved from:  https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/paradox/htele.html 

Bambauer, J. Y. (2012). How the war on drugs distorts privacy law. Stanford Law Review 62(2012). Retrieved from:  https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/how-the-war-on-drugs-distorts-privacy-law/ 

Benson, B.L., Kim., I., Rasmussen, D.W., et al. (1992, 2006). Is property crime caused by drug use or by drug enforcement policy? Applied Economics 24(7): 679-692.

Best, D., Irving, J. & Albertson, K. (2016). Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending. Addiction Research & Theory 25(1): 1-10.

Coomber, R., Moyle, L., Belackova, V., et al. (2018). The burgeoning recognition and accommodation of the social supply of drugs in international criminal justice systems: An eleven-nation comparative overview. International Journal of Drug Policy 58(2018): 98-103.

Coyne, C.J. & Hall, A. R. (2017). Four decades and counting. CATO Institute. Retrieved from:  https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs 

Farabee, D., Prendergast, M. & Anglin, M.D. (1998). The effectiveness of coerced treatment for drug-abusing offenders. 62 Fed. Probation 3 (1998).

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John Lewis Gaddis

Pages: 8 (2280 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Essay Document #:77530466

John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold war Historian
Blaming Stalin and the Soviets for the Cold war
Part 1: Life of John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis was born in 1941 and thus grew up and came of age during … Life of John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis was born in 1941 and thus grew up and came of age during the Cold war, which he would go on to write about as a historian to great acclaim. Gaddis was raised in Texas and received his education … of 27. He taught at Indiana University, Ohio University, founded the Contemporary History Institute, and became a Visiting Professor of Strategy at Naval war College in the mid-70s. He was also a Visiting Professor at Oxford, Princeton, and Helsinki. By 1997, Gaddis had accepted the position of … assassination of JFK happened in his home state the same year Gaddis earned……

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Alpha History, “Cold War Historiography.”  https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/cold-war-historiography/ 

Branch, Mark Alden. “Days of Duck and Cover,” Yale Alumni Magazine, 2000.  http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/00_03/gaddis.html 

Encyclopedia. “John Lewis Gaddis,” 2020.  https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/gaddis-john-lewis-1941 

Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kaplan, Fred. “America’s Cold War Sage and His Discontents,” NYTimes, 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/books/george-f-kennan-by-john-lewis-gaddis-review.html

Lundestad, Geir. "The Cold War According to John Gaddis." Cold War History 6, no. 4 (2006): 535-542.

National Endowment for the Humanities. “John Lewis Gaddis,” 2005.  https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/john-lewis-gaddis 

Paxton, Robert. Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Vintage, 2012.

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