|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 3101 - 3110 of 8016 matching essays
- 3101: The PLO
- ... as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people". Subsequent to this, Arafat addressed the United Nations where the organization was given official observer status. In 1970 the PLO commandos fought a short but bloody war with the Jordanian army after which they were expelled from that country and settled in Lebanon. Little by little, they became a state within a state, and thus contributed to the disintegration of Lebanon after ... for Palestine from 1920-1948. It was formally annexed by Jordan in 1950 -- an act that was not recognized by the Arab League, the United Nations or the United States. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the area came under Israeli control. The Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a narrow area of desert land along the western Mediterranean Sea. It is about 42km (26 miles) long and 6.5 to ... 8km (4 to 5 miles) wide. It too, like the West Bank, was a part of the British Mandate from 1917 to 1948. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948 until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (except for a brief period of Israeli occupation in 1956- 57) when it passed to Israeli control. The Gaza Strip is densely populated -- an estimate in 1993 gave the figure as 800,000 -- with ...
- 3102: Policies on Cuba
- ... more able and discrete in doing that type of work. The only ancient legacy that remains in our foreign policy towards Cuba is a political and economic embargo implemented at the beginning of the Cold War in an attempt to crush a third world country. At the time of the embargo its supporters assured the country that Cuba would not survive a year without political or economic aid from the Western ... fear in the United States. Cuba and the Soviet Union started a relationship in which Cuba benefited the most. Like many relationships, Cuba's and the Soviet Union's ended after thirty years of Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the economic stability of Cuba. In 1991 as the Soviet Union disappeared and the former Eastern Bloc countries struggled for their own existence the future of Cuba ... little more open once again the death of Fidel Castro's Cuba was being predicted as the United States led another attack on it's economic livelihood. Now in 1996 a relic of the Cold War, Castro , is once again under attack by an other relic Jesse Helms. With the urging and political contributions of Cuban American groups, the fact this being an election year and the the quick trigger ...
- 3103: Making The Corps
- ... since the Marines have been established, and the reason for that is because of American Society’s ignorance of military affairs. The military has led and played an important role in helping shape and win war victories for the United States, but the Marine Corps’ role today is questionable to many. Why? Because “For the first time in our history, we are maintaining a large military establishment during peace time” (p ... blacks? One black had a different if at all transformation, and that is Marine Winston. He admits that although things at boot camp were hard, the streets he says are hardest because it’s a war out there everyday. Unlike the other new Marines he still understands, and does not feel bad about what his friends have to do in order to live (sell drugs, violence). He feels this way because ... since the Marines have been established, and the reason for that is because of American Society’s ignorance of military affairs. The military has led and played an important role in helping shape and win war victories for the United States, but the Marine Corps’ role today is questionable to many. Why? Because “For the first time in our history, we are maintaining a large military establishment during peace time” ( ...
- 3104: Les Miserables
- ... stay with Valjean. 20 years later in Paris we find that Cosset is grown up and Valjean has grown old and withered. This is now the time of the French Revolution and you can smell war in the air. But an old face shows up, Shaver. Who is the sheriff that kept incarcerated for so many years. He has come back to take Valjean again. He has been hunting him for ... is crushed that he kept this information from her for so long. But she gets over it by finding her love. A young gentleman and her fall in love but are kept apart by the war. Him and Valjean go to war together and Valjean ends up saving his life. In the next scene there is an interesting twist! Everyone is on the battle field and Shaver is also fighting in the battle but is mistaken ...
- 3105: Odysseus Vs. Achilleus
- ... It can also be used in reference to a mythological or legendary figure, often of divine ancestry, who is favored by the gods, endowed with great courage and strength, and celebrated for his bold exploits. War or dangerous adventure is the hero's normal occupation. In my opinion, Odysseus is much more heroic than Achilles. Throughout both the Iliad and the Odyssey, Odysseus showed more cunning and acts of bravery than Achilles. Both men did make an attempt to avoid fighting in the Trojan War, however, neither succeeded. After Odysseus was tricked into serving the Greeks, he was sent to recruit Achilles. Disguised as a peddler, he approached Achilles, who was dressed as a woman hiding among the maidens, and ... This shows that Odysseus was smarter and cleverer than Achilles. Odysseus also showed cunning when he came up with the plot to defeat Troy, using the Trojan Horse. Odysseus fought bravely throughout the entire Trojan War, whereas Achilles spent quite awhile in his tent pouting after Agamemnon kidnapped his prize maiden, Chryseis. He also lets his best friend, Patroclus, go into battle alone to die by Hector's spear. It ...
- 3106: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... stopped it. However, it may have slowed it down or made it more benign" (Garthoff 1994:1123). Perhaps détente could be viewed, not as a method of preventing or deterring tension which might lead to war, but as a way of postponing their effect until the United States could more effectively deal with them. By 1976, détente was a controversial term with both left and right hands of the disagreement criticizing ... All of this convinced the Soviets that SALT II was lost and that détente had collapsed (Vadney 1998). As this set of policies collapsed, the Soviet's were deciding whether to intervene in a now war torn Afghanistan. In December 1979, some "85,000 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan" (Ambrose 1997:287). Carter's sentiments were extremely hostile towards this invasion and saw it as an event that "could pose the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War" (Ambrose 1997:287-8) and moved to boycott the upcoming Olympic games to be held in Moscow. Washington seemed to be floundering in the Cold War attempt at détente and the very ideology of ...
- 3107: Events Leading To The French R
- ... to preserve the constitutional monarchy, while the radicalsdistrusted the king and wanted a republic. These were the causes of the French Revolution. Many peoples' liveswere changed during this time. Peoples' ideas also changed. After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increaseddramatically, and food shortages occurred. When Louis XVI and his wife fledto the Legislative Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for anational convention to write a new constitution ... the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the Frencharmies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia.But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went alongwith Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerfulnations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very hard for France. This war caused manydeaths at home due to starvation. At this point in the Revolution, somepeople thought that the Revolution had gone too far and should be put to ...
- 3108: Terrorism
- Terrorism JUNE 1914: a young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The 1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France, German SS troops take revenge, massacring 642 villagers. August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the world's first nuclear weapons. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them civilians. Within days the second world war has ended. Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved anything? Which, if any, will history judge as justified? And whose history? Terrorism is not the simple, sharp-edged, bad-guy phenomenon we all love to condemn. No clear line marks off politics from the threat of force, threat from use, use from covert or open war. Who is or is not a terrorist? The suicide bomber, the rebel guerrilla, the liberation front, the armed forces of the state? Terrorism is fundamentally a political act. Terrorists act to advance a cause ...
- 3109: "All I Know Is What I Read In The Papers" - Will Rogers
- ... Hitler!"(13). Propaganda has always been an affective form of manipulation and has stood the test of time but there are other forms of media manipulation that have altered viewpoints. The time that preceded world war two in Canada the issue of conscription was a very volatile issue which Prime Minister Mackenzie King endeavored to deal with a referendum. Barring the result of the referendum, Mackenzie King new he would have support on any decision he made as most periodicals knew whom they had to aid during the war. In a letter from J.W. Dafoe, editor in chief of the Winnipeg Free Press, to George Ferguson the editor of the news room , Dafoe clearly states, in regard to Mackenzie King's "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription" policy: Of course, the coming of the war will change the [approach to] the editorial page…unless something happens that we simply cannot stand, our business will be to go along with the government and help them out in every possible way ...
- 3110: Elizabeth 1
- ... Henri III named him heir presumptive, the Catholic League, headed by Henri 3rd Duc de Guise refused to recognize him and persuaded Henri III to send an army to force his conversion. In the resulting "War of the Three Henries," Henry de Navarre defeated Henri III at Coutras (1587) but came to the king's support in the troubles of 1588, and after Henri III's death (1589) defeated the League forces at Arques (1589) and Ivrey (1590); he was unable to enter Paris until 1594, after he had abjured Protestantism -- allegedly with the remark, "Paris is well worth a Mass." His war with Spain, the ally of the League, ended in 1598 with the Treaty of Vervins. In 1598 he also established religious toleration through the Edict of Nantes. With his minister Sully he spent the rest ... the last male member of the House of Valois. His recognition of Henri de Navarre (later Henri IV) as heir presumptive was opposed by Henri, 3rd Duc de Guise, head of the Catholic League (the "War of the Three Henrys" resulted). Having procured the murder of Guise (1588), the king was faced with a revolt of the League and was expelled from Paris. Henri de Navarre came to his aid, ...
Search results 3101 - 3110 of 8016 matching essays
|
