Military history by topic

homes were beautiful. The speech honors the ancestors who built this city and their support of the say of many. Pericles says that in speaking of the greatness of the city, he the greatness of the soldiers. Another topic was that Athens is superior to the other city states in military, government, and education. Athens was the ideal model of Greece in the age of Pericles. This is greatly important to scholars as it gives an understanding of life in Athens.…

a historian. He has written many articles that have been published in scholarly journals such as Naval History, Naval Aviation News, and the Journal of Military History (Balano 217). Clearly, Godspeed is an expert on the topic of naval aviation. I personally chose Hill Godspeed’s article “Doyle’s Dauntless Dory: USS Nassau and the Evolution of Carrier-based Close Air Support” because the topic of close air support caught my attention. I had heard and read stories about aircraft carriers, but…

”War is kind” is poem written by Stephen Crane and is about war and its aftermath. Stephen Crane perfectly summarizes war and those affected directly and indirectly in five stanza’s, the message of the poem is directed more towards the loved ones of the soldiers who died on the battlefield. Stephen Crane used blank verse poetry and is well suited for the subject of war because it doesn’t have the harmonious patterns of rhyme or rhythm. The second and fourth stanzas characterize a change in the…

other countries’ affairs in the last days of the nineteenth century. With an obvious gendered dialect, American government officials on both sides of the civil arguments over war and colonialism summoned an assortment of thoughts of manhood, including topics of generational contrasts, the reverence of the men who created this nation, and many differing meanings of exactly what masculinity invoked. Hoganson believes that the purposes behind the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars had…

In Germany and France, Nationalism was strong. Germany was proud of their new military strength and industrial leadership. The french wanted to recover the lost border province of Alsace and Lorraine because they were outraged about their defeat in 1872 in the Franco-Prussian War (textbook pg. 456). Later, Russia formed Pan-Slavism…

Intro The American civil war was quite on of the bloodiest wars in the history of America. The civil war started in 1861 and ended in 1865. There were a lot of causes for the civil war. One reason was there was uncompromising distance between the free and slave states. The southern states had broken away from the north. The civil war did have a less devastating effect on the north than the south because the north had much more advantages. Most of the combat in the American civil war was fought…

Political violence is a recurring theme throughout history and is widely used today in many cultures. It can be defined as a tactic to influence numerous onlookers to affect or resist political, social, and/or cultural change by inflicting damage physically or psychologically. These tactics are aimed at injuring and intimidating populations by attacks on property, assault, or use of weapons. Violence is a range of actions that respond to the changing environment of society and is shaped by a…

Morton, like Alperovitz, also comments of the lack of military leaders within the decision and discusses the explanation given by Henry Stimson, who Morton says is “the man who more than any other was responsible for advising the President.” (Morton 334). According to Stimson, once the Manhattan Project began…

pretty much as long as society and a justice system has existed. There are many methods of carrying out the death penalty because people have had so long to get new ideas. Nowadays it is pretty humane though. There are many ways today and throughout history that people have been executed. They have lethal injections which is basically a shot that puts you to sleep and then stops your breathing and heart. For a long time hanging someone…

writing of Daodejing was in Chinese.Laozi was well-known as a philosopher and he was worshipped by many Chinese as an imperial ancestor during the period of Tang dynasty up until recent age(Edward 2005). He was consider a central figure in Chinese history, culture and philosophy. Before the noticing of Laozi by SI Maqian, Laozi was also a historian, his wrote a book which has five thousands characters about his ideas of Dao (…