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'March of Folly' and 'Fog of War', 2007.
This paper discusses the writer's reaction to Barbara Tuchman's 'March of Folly' and the movie 'Fog of War'.
1,261 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that Barbara Tuchman's 'March of Folly' and the movie 'Fog of War' provide different historical lenses with which to view contemporary problems and issues. The writer explores each of the projects and shares reactions to them in a personal manner. The writer notes that it is important to learn from the past so that society can avoid making the same mistakes in the future and one of the ways that this can be avoided is to understand contemporary issues and how they impact the world. The writer concludes that in Barbara Tuchman's 'March of Folly' and the movie 'Fog of War' one can obtain a sense of contemporary problems as well as the importance of understanding history in the effort to avoid repeating mistakes.
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Introduction
Fog of War
Conclusion
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"This man was brilliant. He was supposed to be someone who could look at a problem and produce the best solution. If that was possible he would have surely advised against the wars that he helped improve."
"The one thing the film and the book do have in common is the repeated evidence that history will repeat itself.
McNamara went through World War II and presumably saw from that experience that war should be avoided at most costs, however, he was more than willing to advise during the Vietnam conflict."
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"The Fog Of War", 2005.
An analysis John McNamara's "The Fog of War".
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes McNamara's "The Fog of War." It also explores John McNamara's motive for making the documentary.
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""The Fog of War" is a documentary filmed by Errol Morris that features an interview with former U. S. defense secretary Robert S. McNamara who served under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Over the course of the film McNamara delivers eleven lessons regarding war learned from his experience. The title refers to the fact that human knowledge is incapable of full understanding of the complexities of military warfare. As Stephen Holden says in his review of the film ..."
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War and Human Nature, 2007.
A discussion of the documentary "Fog of War" directed by Errol Morris and Andrew Niccol's movie "Lord of war".
3,506 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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The paper discusses the central ideas of the movie "Lord of War" and of the documentary "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". The paper explores the common theme of human nature during war and the need for power, especially over other countries. The paper looks at McNamara's "eleven lessons" learned during his tenure as secretary of defense. The paper relates that "Lord of War" is the acknowledgment of humanity's darker nature; men created weapons of mass destruction and used them to kill. The paper portrays how both the documentary and movie are a study of the moral complexities of war and those who fight it.
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"McNamara discusses his experiences and shares some lessons he learned during his tenure as secretary of defense. He talks about his work as a bombing statistician during World War II, his presidency at Ford Motor Company and the Kennedy administration's triumph during the Cuban Missile Crisis. On the other hand the documentary focuses primarily on his failures in Vietnam. The main themes of the movie are his "eleven lessons" learned during his time. Some of these include: understanding the enemy, accepting that in order to do good it is necessary to engage in evil and the fight to try to change human nature will always be unsuccessfully."
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Raphael Hythloday vs. Folly, 2004.
A character comparison of Thomas More's Raphael Hythloday in "Utopia" versus Erasmus's use of Folly as a narrator and character in "The Praise of Folly".
1,092 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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The use of Raphael Hythloday and Folly, although both spring from documents that attempt to highlight a truth about ?real? society through the construction of fictional worlds, differ substantially in the way that these characters are used in their respective Christian tales. This paper explains that, while Folly is a allegorical name whose title represents his character and the world he is located within, Raphael Hythloday functions in a more multi-faceted fashion as an ?everyman? and also an idealized conception and model for the reader to follow through Utopia. It shows how Folly is all the reader aspires not to be, while Raphael Hythloday is a guide.
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"The differences between these two characters is primarily evidenced by the fact that More attempts to construct a genuine Utopian vision, while Erasmus? work uses his titular character to take the reader on his satirical vision through a world even more wrong-headed than the true world. Although both men were colleagues and Christians, these two individual?s ways of expressing their mutual dislike with the current state of Christianity in the political environment around them had a completely different narrative and tonal gloss than the other author?s and Christian?s vision. More perceives idealism, with certain gentle notes of humor to be the best way to guide a Christian reader to truth. Erasmus sees a scathing wit to be the best way of forcing the reader to look within him or herself and apply a critical eye upon his or her character."
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Folly and Philosophy, 2002.
Compares the character of Folly In Erasmus' "Praise Of Folly" to the character of philosophy in Boethius' "Consolation Of Philosophy."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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Through the use of ironic humor and logical wisdom, the two writers present the misconceptions and reality associated with human wisdom, mocking the perceptions of humans in their so called wisdom by devaluing materialism in face of spirituality.
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Proverbs: Wisdom and Folly, 2002.
A look at proverbs and the concepts of wisdom and folly.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper examines the concepts of wisdom and folly in the Biblical book, "Proverbs". It identifies the definitions of wisdom and folly in "Proverbs". Then it compares and contrast the two terms.
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The Folly of the Clergy, 2002.
An analysis of "A Praise of Folly" by Desiderius Erasmus.
1,137 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper analyzes "A Praise of Folly", written in 1509, which expresses the views of Desiderius Erasmus toward such topics as the church, humanism and the clergy. The paper shows how Erasmus is of the opinion that popes, cardinals, priests, and monks gave in to their human temptations and did not live up to the example set by Christ.
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"He expressed his views through The Praise of Folly, a book that is about a muse named Folly, who acts as the vehicle through which Erasmus criticizes the church. Erasmus wrote the book to express humanist views and to criticize much of society. The book uses examples of the clergy?s misdeeds to show how they cannot control their human weaknesses and demonstrated how they are not living up to Christ?s example."
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"Praise Of Folly" by Desiderius Erasmus, 1991.
A critical analysis of the 16th century satirical work on human folly.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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"Introduction
This paper is concerned with Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus. Johan Huizinga considered it as the one composition for which Erasmus was destined to be immortal, and apparently he was right, for this work is the one for which Erasmus is the most noted in the twentieth century. The idea for this book came to him in 1509, while he was traveling across the Alps on the way from Italy to England. Erasmus composed it in a short time while he was staying at the residence of Sir Thomas More, to whom it is dedicated, with a playful suggestion of appropriateness because moros means "fool."
The fools of Erasmus were those pilloried by the medieval preachers and moralists such as Geiler of Keyersburg and Sebastian Brand, who gathered in his Ship of Fools all those whom..."
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Female Folly, 2002.
Explains how Owen Wister and C.S. Lewis define their beliefs about women within the characters which they created in "The Virginian" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
876 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines how Owen Wister and C.S. Lewis utilize their characters in the novels "The Virginian" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" to narrate their ideas about erroneous female ambition and the "proper" roles women are destined to occupy in order to achieve happiness.
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"Battles are ugly when women fight,? notes Father Christmas to Lucy in the children?s story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis 119). Since Lewis created Narnia, and Wister the Virginian, there has been speculation that each wrote with a misogynistic mindset. While the authors disguised their views in fairy tales and fiction, each displayed what could be interpreted as ideas regarding women being inferior to men. Lewis uses symbolism to depict his Christian beliefs in his tale of English children, while Wister imagined a heroic cowboy?s adventures in Wyoming. Each author speaks through his characters; depending on them to articulate certain notions about society. Lewis capitalizes on his portrayal of the White Witch as an evil woman and Wister utilizes Molly to make remarks about ?appropriate? female behavior."
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Literature as Folly, 2002.
An essay which shows that literature creates false expectations in society as expressed by the neo-classical works of "A Tale of a Tub", by Johnathan Swift, "Vanity of Human Wishes" by Samuel Johnson and "The English Malady" by George Cheyne.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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The paper shows that by providing readers with a realm based solely on the imagination, authors are able to manipulate reality through literature, creating unattainable expectations in society. The paper examines three examples illustrating this in the Augustan Age: "A Tale of a Tub" by Jonathan Swift, "The Vanity of Human Wishes", by Samuel Johnson, and "The English Malady" by George Cheyne. The paper describes how each work uses a different mode to express and effectively critique the inflated significance placed on intellect and the written word that both caused and resulted from the print explosion of the neo-classical period. It shows how all three writers voice a realization that the materialistic Empire was falling into a downward spiral from the spiritual and moral decay initiated by the overindulgence in the luxuries of excess.
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"In section two of this work, Swift uses the metaphor of three brothers who abandon the principles of their father?s will at the whim of current fashion to convey the movement of literature from its classical roots to the image based ?tailor deity.? As the brothers deface the coats, that were the only legacy left to them by their father, they are metaphorically distorting classical literature which was their predecessors sole method of preserving their wisdom for posterity. Therefore, any reader coming into the sphere of this type of influence would be accepting knowledge with no basis in the accepted archetype or tradition of human understanding."
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War and the Media, 2003.
Examines how the mainstream media's methods of coverage provide a limited view of the Iraqi war zone.
1,414 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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The paper discusses criticisms of the Iraqi war coverage as discussed by reporter Jon Sawyer and author Susan Carruthers ("The Media at War.") It argues that this "fog of war" amplifies problems in reporting that occur in peacetime, giving the public distorted information on well-known events such as the Jessica Lynch incident. Further, it argues that in the early stages of war, the media is sometimes too complicit in agreeing to government censorship, a problem that is now exacerbated by the prevalence of "embedded reporting" from the field.
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"In a strong critique of the role played by both the military and journalism in the recent war in Iraq, Jon Sawyer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch argues that the media failed to provide accurate coverage of the conflict in proper context, leaving news audiences with an incomplete and sometimes downright inaccurate picture of the hostilities taking place. Certainly, war coverage is one of the most fundamentally daunting tasks for the media to report on. There is a fundamental disconnect between the goals of the military, which seeks to operate with as much secrecy as possible, and the media, which thrives on openness and public access to information."
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The March First Movement, 2002.
Historical account of The March First Movement of 1919 in Korea and its consequences for Korean independence.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 97.95
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The March First Movement saw many rallies staged in Korea during a two-month period in March 1919 for Korean independence. The Movement technically started on March 1, 1919, when 33 nationalist leaders declared the country's independence from Japan at a park in central Seoul. The declaration sparked protests by ordinary Koreans across the country. The Japanese colonialists oppressed the uprising by brutal force. Consequently, the March First movement failed to achieve its objective of Korean independence.
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Sherman's March, 2007.
A look at Union General William T. Sherman's fateful march from Atlanta to the sea.
1,796 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The paper describes Sherman's vicious and destructive campaign to dismantle the forces of Confederate resistance along the 300 mile march to the sea. The paper shows how President Lincoln needed Sherman's march to be as effective and destructive as possible in order to dismantle the psychological and physical tie that kept the southern people and its army holding out against the Union forces. The paper illustrates the violence involved but concludes that Sherman's march was both militarily and psychologically necessary to bring about a close to the war.
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Introduction
The Need to Succeed
The March to the Sea
In Summary
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"In September, 1864, when Atlanta fell into the hands of the Union's General William T. Sherman, the march to the coast, especially the last five miles of that march, would prove the most difficult faced by Sherman's Union forces during their 300 mile long march through the south. "Sherman's march," or the "march to the sea," which has become historically synonymous with a 300 mile path of death and mindless destruction inflicted upon the Confederate Army, southern civilians, and refugee-slaves by the advancing Union Army under the direction of General Sherman; was in fact not just a strategic victory, but a psychological victory for the Union Army, and served as a turning point in the American Civil War."
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The March of Dimes, 2004.
This paper discusses the fund-raising organization ,The March of Dimes, and the disease, poliomyelitis.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper explains that, by the time of the Great Depression, paralytic poliomyelitis was one of the most feared diseases known, much as with AIDS today. The author points out that the success of the March of Dimes is greater than other health campaign, such as the Christmas Seals. The March of Dimes as a symbol was well-known and widely accepted as the mechanical means through which the public could support campaigns. The paper relates that, after the defeat of polio by the Salk vaccine, the March of Dimes was redirected to other health problems, such as stem cell research.
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"Alarmed by decades of worsening polio epidemics and the devastating toll it was taking on America?s young people, Roosevelt, established the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in January 1938, emphasizing the nationwide significance and non-partisan character of the polio crusade. Believing that the war on polio should be led and directed by one national body, yet, as a private organization without access to government funds, Roosevelt realized that a new approach to fundraising would be needed. It was clear that the Birthday Balls would be insufficient to finance the Foundation and its work, since they rarely raised more than a million dollars a year, with over half remaining in the communities in which it was raised and the rest applied to financing the Warm Springs operation."
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The Marching Percussion, 2004.
An examination of the evolution of the marching percussion band.
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines how drumming historically has been used as a means of communication and how marching percussion has followed suit. It looks at how marching percussion has evolved in large part from the military drum lines of history; drummers were used during the Revolutionary War and Civil War to keep armies in line and to signal friends. It shows how the marching percussion has evolved from a simple group of military drummers to a group of civilian musicians that pound out orchestral quality music, still communicating to the public, whether in the form of a school?s cheer, a warrior?s status or cheer, or public message information.
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"The marching percussion can now be found in schools, universities, organizations, federal establishments and still in the military. The formation of the marching percussion has changed from the simplistic 10 man line up of early military times. The most basic marching percussion section now has 5 areas that incorporate the following: snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, cymbals and a ?pit? or area on the sideline with any other related musical fare (Rhythmspice, 1999). The equipment used in marching percussion has also changed with time. The heads of snare drums are typically bulletproof and made of very durable material that is durable, because the plastic head of old used to stretch and cause problems with sound quality (Rhythmspice, 1999)."
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