Spanish Civil War

its Monroe Doctrine to intervene in support for the nationalist movement in Cuba in a clever move to defend western democracy and finance capitalism in its foreign investments. This move wasn’t made without disagreement, and the consequences of the war posed new questions. Questions about the nature of the new American empire…

he explored America’s motivation for war, and the likelihood of America winning any such war with such meager manpower and lack of tactical reasoning. The following points are arranged in a comprehensible order, made so that the reader can confront the flaws in America’s plan to go to war with England with considerable ease. The first of such issues addressed is the utter lack of reason to go to war in the first place, followed by the incapability to go to war at the colonies’ current state, and…

about to come against the conspirators. In this piece, Antony begs pardon of Caesar’s dead body for having been nice to his murderers. He predicts that Caesar’s spirit will be ranging for revenge, and it will be followed by chaos and destruction of civil war in all of Italy. Antony is calling for revenge, as he wants the conspirators to pay up for what they have done to Caesar. He implies this by using an angry tone and connotation of aggressive words, the…

highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of reading. The civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud had been waging for years. It is the summer of 1138, in Medieval England. This makes the process of solving a murder more interesting, as there is no modern CSI. There are, however, good old…

This panel demonstrated the importance of how an interdisciplinary approach to global issues, such as terrorism is pivotal if we want to fully understand the reasons behind these tactics of war. Moreover, it is in the intersection of these disciplines what will facilitate deeper understanding and greater communication of our global problems in the future. Thus, an interdisciplinary perspective provide us with the opportunity to draw from the…

economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981–99, to conclude that “growth is strongly negatively related to civil conflict: a negative growth and that the impact of growth shocks on conflict is not significantly different in richer, more democratic, or more ethnically diverse countries” (p. 275). For example in the case of Rwanda a country that has suffered the consequences of civil wars for decades, Serneels and Verpoorten (2012) using micro level data estimated that during the early…

The Hero’s Journey W.P. Inman, the main character of Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, undergoes a transformation during his Hero’s Journey. After being hospitalized from a bullet to the neck, Inman leaves through the hospital physically and spiritually wounded. Eventually, Inman begins his journey back to his hometown, Cold Mountain. The author wrote the novel through the critical lenses of archetypal criticism, often drawing parallels to Homer’s Odyssey (“Cold Mountain as a Spiritual Quest”)…

France and Spain, in the Pyrenees mountain range. They live in three regions on the Spanish side of the mountains and three on the French side. The Basques refer to these regions, together, as Euskal-Herria, or Land of the Basques. The population of Basques is almost 3 million, but there are about one million people living the Basque regions that are of other ethnicities. In the early 1500’s, the Basques on the Spanish side won the right to a small degree of self-government, but in 1876, all the…

of civilians is one of the primary purposes of the UN department of peacekeeping, yet evidence for whether or not they are actually effective in prevention of civilian deaths is a topic that has been controversially debated since the end of the cold war when peacekeeping interventions escalated. While the UN has been criticized for it’s failures, there is no doubt that some of their peacekeeping missions have been highly effective in the protection of citizen lives. There are diverging reasons…

The movie Battle Los Angeles has one of the most inspiring fictional characters there is. He is not some superhero that can’t die, he is an American soldier. He fights off the face of evil and in the end dies protecting his squad and his country. Even though it is just movie it is inspiring to see a character that doesn’t have a magic super power, all he has is his courage, his fellow marines, and his intelligence. Lieutenant Martinez lead his marines into a fight with alien combatants filling…