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    predominantly was white male and in the age range of 18 years to 25 years old. Many of the reasons found for their suicide was mostly related to job satisfaction, money problems, or relationship issues. However, since the military has been engaged in war after September 11th, the demographics have changed. No longer is the demographic profile predominantly white, but now it involves several races, as well as age ranges that extend up to 44 years of age. The issues that have been found includes the stress

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    Administration declared war on terror. Following the invasion of Afghanistan to hunt down those responsible for this horrific incident, the U.S. swiftly changed its priority to invading Iraq and overthrowing its government by capturing its president, Saddam Hussein. In this mission, the U.S. scrambled to find a connection between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist organization al-Qa’ida. Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, many scholars have focused on the effects of the Iraq War, speculating on the

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    following wars have been divided between 1.) Wars caused by ethnic issues and 2.) Wars not caused by ethnic issues. After determining the cause of war, I will focus on particular aspects of the war predominantly the death toll, how long the war lasted, if core states got involved in the conflict and if so how far removed were they from the region of conflict. Finally and most importantly, I will compare and contrast the two types of wars (1.) Wars caused by ethnic conflict and 2.) Wars not caused

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    his 1960 Farewell Address, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower brought attention to the “military-industrial complex”, a term that is used to describe how the government uses private industry to meet its various demands during war or peace. Since World War I and World War II, the United States has witnessed a greater connection between the public and private sectors as private industry pumped out the goods to keep the government and country going. Similarly, there were changes on the battlefield

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    Running Head: Post-traumatic stress disorder leaving Iraq Post-traumatic stress disorder leaving Iraq Introduction Recently a study has been carried by the American Army on the health of the military troops that have just returned from Iraq. It has been found that one in every right soldier is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Another important fact mentioned in the report is that more than half of the military soldiers from these are in a need of help but do not make their conditions

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    then contentious social rights issues together, such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Shortly after the culmination of the counterculture, several significant acts of progress were made, such as the Voters Rights Act, to curb the influence of racial segregation within America, which resulted in the end of the movement shortly thereafter. By 1973, the United States withdrew its troops from Vietnam, and with little remaining to unify the remnants of those still involved with the counterculture

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    Before I dove into this book, I read the liner notes to gather a little information on what the book was about, so that I had a little understanding of what to expect. Just from the liner notes I could tell that this was going to be an interesting read because Anderson Cooper was the author, and he tells different stories that he has experienced while being a correspondent. I did not watch a lot of the news like CNN or Fox, but from the little bit I did watch I remember being intrigued by whichever

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    uses mental and emotional processes from psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic therapy focuses on improving the patient's life. In therapy, therapist's review emotions to support the knowledge of that person's life. Patients try to use defense mechanisms during therapy such as denying and repression. Unconscious thought influences behavior and once vulnerable or painful feelings are processed, the defense mechanisms reduce or resolve (Leichsenring, 2006). Psychodynamic music therapy is one main approach

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    One of the many challenges the founding father faced,when creating the system of government we still follow to this day, was what powers should each part of government be given. After winning the war against the Great Britain and declaring freedom one of the concern they had was in creating a leader that has a great deal of power and becoming almost like the monarchy they fought against. Creating the president, which didn 't exist under the confederation, was seen as one of best outcomes of the convention

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    and significance of the Munich Agreement will be analyzed. The Munich Agreement was produced in hopes to stop Hitler; he was threatening to unleash war upon Europe if he did not get the Sudetenland. With Hitler’s tyrannical pleas, the leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the annexation of a large portion of Czechoslovakia out of fear of war (Munich Agreement). It is important to note that Italy was an ally of Germany. Benito Mussolini, Italy’s leader at the time, was one of Hitler’s greatest

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