World Affairs
Essays

The Cold War and its impact on American society is reviewed. The history of the causes of the Cold War and how each aspect of the Cold War affected American society is examined. Particular attention is afforded how the circumstances surrounding the Cold War caused the United States to develop an entire new foreign policy by abandoning its historical isolation stance and transforming itself into the world's policeman.

The common confusion as to whether Jesus Christ was Jew or Christian basically derives from the unclear or misunderstood relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The importance of this relationship, in turn,…

What People Are Talking About on the Internet

Attitudes Towards Work in Progressive America

¶ … values influence decision-making. While no decision-making method is perfectly rational, perhaps weighted decision matrices come the closest to identifying optimal choices. However, even these are subject to…

The arguments most often used for limiting freedom of speech include national security, protecting the public from disrupting influences at home, and protecting the public against such things as pornography.

Released in 2001 to critical acclaim, director Henry Bean's The Believer presents a searing story of an individual's tragic struggle to form their own identity through overt acts of religious and racial intolerance. Played by Ryan Gosling, the protagonist of The Believer is a Daniel Balint¸ a troubled young man who has fashioned himself into a Neo-Nazi after violently rejecting his Jewish heritage. During his adolescence Balint rebelled against the orthodox authority of the Jewish religion, questioning the teachings of the Torah during his time as yeshiva student before ultimately refusing to obey a God he considers to be merely a bully. Set in contemporary New York City, The Believer tells the tale of Balint's slow descent into bigotry and fanaticism after he encounters a group of fascists organized by skinheads sympathetic to his existing prejudices against Jews and other minorities.

The Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union may have been consigned to the historical dustbins of failed experiments, but the Russia that emerged from these fiascoes retains many of the same problems and foreign policy goals…

To this day, the country of China remains an enigma, isolated from the Western world and shrouded in mystery conceptualized by the Communist Red. Its culture both ancient and modern fascinates one on many levels mainly…

The purpose of this work is to research Tallil Air Base in Iraq providing a brief history of the base from the time of Operation Desert Storm to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.