Man-of-War The Portuguese man-of-war if a member of the Kingdom Animalia‚ phylum Cnidaria(1)‚ class Hydrozoa‚ order Siphonophra‚ the genus Physalia‚ and the species Physalia(2). The man-of-war is not an actual jellyfish‚ but a Siphonophor. Also the man-of-war is not a single organism. It is made up of many different organisms that work together. These organisms are called polyps. The Portuguese man-of-war is usually found in the Northern Atlantic gulf stream. It can also be found in the tropical
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War Crimes: Freedom or Justice “No crime without law”‚ is a statement that was agreed upon for every power- wielding country across the globe1. Any discretion would normally result in the United Nations International Court of Justice to bring down the iron fist and resolve the situation in any way that they feel fit. Recently‚ there has been another method to solve disagreements throughout the world‚ not with petty crimes‚ but war crimes. War crimes are offenses that undermine the previously amended
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War has affected each generation in its own way. It has brought about gruesome deaths and sadness across nations. However‚ it has also been the reason for positive things such as beautiful war writings. Writers possess the skill to not only share stories from previous battles or personal memories they might have‚ but they also‚ in their own way‚ can protest war. They do this by simply using imagery‚ irony‚ and structure. These three things have enabled authors to help readers who did not go through
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The American Civil War lasted from 1861-1865‚ and is known as one of the most crucial events in the history of American. In those four years‚ more than half a million soldiers from both the Confederate and Union side were either wounded or died trying to fight for what they believed in. A nation was divided and mass social and economical changes occurred throughout the entire region. This fight over slavery and State rights would pit man against man and create a greater debt within the United States
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The Vietnam War: 1955-1975 The Vietnam War was highly controversial throughout the world it was one of the most recent wars as it occurred between 1955-1975 this was primarily a civil war until the United States got involved this in turn pulled several other countries into the midst of the war. This was one of the major wars that occurred after the two biggest wars in history World War One and World War Two‚ although it is on a much smaller scale for instance there was a significantly smaller playing
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devastating conflict to date‚ World War One was perhaps the most pivotal conflict in history. In the years prior 1914‚ there were many causes that contributed to the commencement of WWI. Nationalism and the glorification of war were the main forces which collaborated to foster an environment in which war was a desirable and likely prospect. Nationalism was an integral part of European culture in the 19th and 20th centuries and was a significant cause of World War One. As Fromkin illustrated in Europe’s
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Peloponnesian War vs. Vietnam War The Peloponnesian War is often times called the war to begin all wars‚ as there were many new technologies that occurred from it which can often times have historians and scientists view similarities and differences between other wars. The War consisted of two Greek military states that were seeking for dominance in the Greek Empire. These two states consisted of that of the Spartan and Athenian empire. Both civilizations consisted of two dominant militaries‚ one
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Vietnam War The war first began in 1959‚ five years after the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. Vietnam had been split into two. The communist government in the north was under Ho Chi Minh and democratic government in the south was under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War stated because France tried to make another attempt to takeover Vietnam by having a foreign power to rule. In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam front he had created in 1941. Ho and
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and that the disputed territory was theirs. In 1845‚ a group of troops were walking in the distributed area‚ when Mexican soldiers fired upon them‚ killing 16 of them. This was one of the reasons that the U.S went to war with Mexico in 1846. The United States was justified in going to war with
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Total War Total war was introduced to Britain in May 1915 and was to last until the end of the war in November 1918. Total War put the whole country on a compulsory war footing with the government controlling it. When war was declared in August 1914‚ a certain naivety enveloped the whole country. Many did believe that the war would be over by Christmas 1914 - hence the rush by young men to volunteer before the ’fun’ ended. This whole belief that the war would be a short and sharp affair with Germany
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