Liberty
Essays

The Founding Fathers of the United States were passionate proponents of "equality and liberty" of "all men" as they so famously declared in the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The Gettysburg Address marks the finale of the American Civil War. In the address, President Lincoln hearkens to the birth of the nation and its founding principles. Lincoln notes that when the nation was founded "four…

Vietnam Memoirs -- The Same Conflict, Seen Through Two Different Pairs of Eyes memoir is a literary document that, unlike an autobiography, attempts to provide a specific window into a period of the author's life,…

The focus of this article is to provide an analysis of how international relations theory explains the contribution of the United Nation to peace. This paper begins with an analysis of the field of international relations and the explanation of the international relations theory. The next part of the paper provides an outlook of the theory as related to the UN peacekeeping. The final section describes how the theory explains United Nations contribution to peace.

The United States and the United Kingdom are today great partners on a divided world stage. Ironically, we may argue that this is a relationship which in its worst straits would help to plant the seeds for a…

In order to understand the importance of the right to bear arms, one must have a clear understanding of the events leading up to the American Revolution. The American colonists were being subjected to a form of…

This paper discusses the famous philosophers Descartes and Locke. Descartes was a rationalist and believed in the mind as the ultimate instrument to arrive at 'truth.' Locke was an empiricist who believed in the value of observed experience. An empirical approach to inquiry is also supported by the scientific work of Isaac Newton, who founded the modern scientific method.

The English theatre lived the most expressive period of its history during the forty-five-year supreme rule of Queen Elizabeth I in the second half of the 16th century. Queen Elizabeth I who was refined and had great…

One of the most effective and fastest growing programs in the nation to help alleviate jail overcrowding is a program called Community Corrections. The program works to complete the sentence outside the confines of a…

Human Behavior Explored in the Works of John Milton