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Human Rights Violations at Guantanamo Bay

What a Way to Spend a War by Dorothy Still Danner recounts the experiences of a group of Navy nurses who were taken prisoners by the Japanese in the Phillipines during World War II.

Before examining four scholarly articles that address this issue and assessing the ways in which each of the writers performed her or his research, it seems useful to provide a general definition of the concept of self-verification. To omit this step would make it far more difficult to evaluate the following articles. Self-verification is a model or theoretical perspective that is based on the idea that each one of us wants to be understood by other people, and especially by those other people who are most important to us such as family members. We also tend to be especially sensitive to the opinions of those who have power over us such as work supervisors. This accords with common sense, for in all psychological dynamics we are likely to privilege those whom we love and those we fear.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, the film is as much about the historical present of the audience as it is about the historical scene it portrays. Indeed, this may be even more so now that the issue of gays in the U.S.

Adoption between same-race children and parents is a difficult task. Filling the emotional needs of a child who has lost one or both parents presents a multitude of adjustment problems for both the child and adoptive…

Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Alvarez-Machain (1992) that "forcible abduction of a foreign national does not prohibit his trial in a U.S. Court" dealt a body blow to international law, the implications of which are…

Like many abolitionists, Hannah More built her philosophy on a firm foundation of religion and spiritual thought. Her poems "Sensibility" and "The Slave Trade" present imagery related to spiritual concepts and ideals…

- Ezra Pound was an American expatriate poet and literary critic. He worked in London in the early 20th century and helped to discover and popularize the works of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. He lost faith in England after the carnage of World War I and moved to Italy to support the Fascists and Nazis, causing him to be arrested for treason in 1945.

John W. Dower is a professor of Japanese history who received his Ph.D. In History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972 and has written extensively about popular culture in his scholarly work on…

The Cold War has been called the twentieth century's 'longest-running international morality play.' It was a play that lasted decades and produced thousands of players, both major and small, as well as two critical…