War Essays

Introduction A proper understanding of Soviet women requires an understanding of the political and social framework of a particular historical period. This context is a product of the interplay of socio-cultural factors and the complex heritage of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet regime. Such complexity results in varying perspectives as …

Introduction For the first time, in 1914- 1915, the world in its entirety participated in a war whose threshold encompassed the whole globe. The war itself saw the world polarized into two groups. One side of the globe was headed by Germans, while the other comprised the United Kingdom and …

            The American civil war forever changed face of the nation and the way different groups interacted with each other. In the attempt to understand these effects, concurrent sections of this essay shall highlight on plights of several groups involved in the production process, including: factory workers and owners, plantation …

Bernard Edelman’s Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam anthologises a broad range of experiences of and attitudes to the Vietnam War from those who were ‘humping the boonies’, ‘the rear-echelon types’ in administration compounds and the photographers who documented the action. We read commentary on the pressures and atrocities of …

Abstract Germany came under the influence of the Nazis for a short period of twenty years, from the mid twenties until the end of the Second World War. This period was the most traumatic the world has witnessed in recent times and was marked by global warfare, racial atrocities and …

It was during 1920’s when the great power of the United States was put into test. Based on history, Americans had greatly suffered from two major economic chaoses. First was the Great Depression year. This economic turmoil had a major impact on the country’s economic stability and had spread towards …

Introduction In the pre-World War 1 era, the monetary policy of major economies was based on the amount of gold a sovereign country possessed. The concept was simple. Central banks in major economies pegged their currencies to the prevailing price of gold. For example if a $100 bill was exchanged …

            Elie Wiesel’s Night is an autobiographical novel based on his experience as young Orthodox Jew witnessing the death of his father, his growing disgust with mankind and his loss of faith in God. The book narrates about being alone in the world, no fathers, no brothers and no friends …

            The reign of Queen Elizabeth I in England had a tremendous impact in the history of Ireland in particular for it caused many lives out of drive to make Protestant religion a compulsory to all under the Draconian laws.  Her reign from 1558-1603 as …

The Moral Case Against the Iraq War by Paul Savoy was written in the heat of the 2004 US Presidential campaign when Americans were still ambivalent over their true, enlightened stand over the Iraq War. The paper does not include recent developments in American political life such as the victory …