American intervention in Vietnam began with a generation of boys born to the veterans of the second World War. Boys who lived in the afterglow and dreamed of the glory. Patriotism was thick in a country who came out of the second great war stronger than it had entered. We we...

The Unification of Germany The end of the Second World War led to an unusually long period of European peace. The nation states of Europe were closer to each other than ever before. The twenty-seven states that made up Europe at that time changed to thirty-seven within fifty years of the end o...

In 1917, T.S. Eliot created a poem dealing with spiritually exhausted people who exist in an impersonal, crude modern society. This poem, "Preludes" captures the poor spiritual lives of those living in a lonely, sordid, corrupt culture. Eliot focuses on imagery to bring this poem alive i...

FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt was considered to be the greatest president by many American people. He had done so many great things while being in office. One of his great achievements was the new deal. In 1933 the new president, Franklin Roosevelt, brought an air of confidence and optimism ...

Norman Percevel Rockwell was born on Feb. 3, 1894 in New York, New York. As a boy he grew fond of the country, where he moved to a few years after he was born, and stayed away from the city as much as he could, which would later be shown in his works (Buechner, Retrospective, 24). When he was 14, he...

Throughout America's long history, there have been 42 great men who served as president of this nation. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson have emerged as the "Greatest of the Great." Each served as president during a time of gr...

Balancing the Scales: World Peace vs. The Loss of Innocence On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in warfare. However, to this day, a debate as to why this city was bombed is occuring. On one side of the argument, the United States dropped the bomb ...

History is the study of the past. For historians the past dates back to 4,000 B.C., when events were first marked by writing, until present day. In its content history is everything. Historians spend their whole lives figuring out which events are more substancial than others. In order to achie...