Essays Tagged: "tactic"

Gwendolyn Brooks

echniques can be separated and explored in the above mentioned poems. Each work contains a specific tactic, which effectively promotes her ideas. It is for that reason, tactics mixed with ideas, which ... echniques can be separated and explored in the above mentioned poems. Each work contains a specific tactic, which effectively promotes her ideas. It is for that reason, tactics mixed with ideas, which ...

(9 pages) 132 1 3.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Machiavelli's views

e the place of the one that they believe to be weak.Machiavelli thought that the importance of this tactic should override all others. Although, he believed in emanating a sense of fear to the people ...

(2 pages) 123 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

The Power of Language

ntrol thousands, even millions, of people and bind them together in search of one common cause.This tactic of persuasion is also called propaganda. Propaganda is the spreading of information in order ... evolutionary, realized the value of propaganda to indoctrinate educated people. He employed another tactic toward the uneducated, called agitation. This process involved the use of slogans, stories, h ...

(5 pages) 283 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

The Torture of the Innocent, Iraq's long and vicious attack on Kuwait

did this in many ways. Strasser reported that 'blotting out the word 'Kuwait' on road signs was one tactic, ripping off the fingernails of people displaying the emir's picture was another.' There is a ... lative in his or her presence then threating the detainee with such acts.' (Internet 8) These scare tactics often threw the prisoner into shock where he or she would fall to the ground crying begging ...

(4 pages) 102 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers

Faces on the Wall: "The Yellow Wall Paper" The husband's intention is for his wife to get well, however, his way of doing so drives her to depression and insanity.

gh, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing." (209) Rather than help the narrator, the tactic used drives the woman to depression and insanity.Though she would rather stay in the much mor ...

(1 pages) 109 0 5.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Study the rise of Swiss heavy infantry. Describe the arms, armor and tactical formation of the Swiss heavy infantryman.

Study the rise of Swiss heavy infantry. Describe the arms, armor and tactical formation of the Swiss heavy infantryman. How is the Swiss heavy infantry different from ea ... e power of the mounted knight was so relied upon during the Hundred Years' War, this heavy infantry tactic was by no means a new concept, but considering the time of its reemergence, it was revolution ... Battle of Laupen in 1339.The Swiss pike formations of the fifteenth century were able to use shock tactics because the greater cohesion of Swiss formations and their audacity allowed them to maneuver ...

(3 pages) 37 0 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Life in the Trenches" This essay gives a description of life in the trenches in WW1 and talks about how the government prevented the public from knowing the truth about the conditions.

all gain in territory. The most important aspect of WWI that made it so unique was its use of a new tactic of digging a series of connecting trenches that carved up the landscape of the Western and Ea ...

(7 pages) 72 0 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Racial Profiling in America.

ty. This issue fairly new, in terms of being recognized is old in its ways. Racial profiling is the tactic of stopping someone because of the color of his or her skin and fleeting suspicion that the p ... e and the "typical cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite."(Harris 7) But law enforcement tactics are concentrated in the inner city. This continues to feed the perception that most drug dea ...

(7 pages) 259 0 3.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Muhammad ali biography.

slip a punch, the traditional defensive move, it was his habit to sway back, bending at the waist-a tactic that appalled the experts. Madness.Neither did they approve of his personal behavior: the ...

(3 pages) 95 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

WWI paper through the eyes of a reporter in the middle of the war.

models of rifles, and also chemical and biological agents. WWI was also a breakthrough for military tactics. WWI was the war of trenches which means that this was the first time that trenches were use ... in hitting that which they could not see.The Germans used the term of "blitzkrieg" to classify the tactic of swift accurate bombing then punching through the battle lines with their tanks. The newly ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Review of Movie "O" Film Adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello.

bjective of the entire movie is; to get teenagers interested in Shakespeare. Some may say that this tactic cheapens the great play but I feel that it merely allows people that would not normally be ex ...

(2 pages) 64 0 1.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Terrorism and efforts to fight it.

acticed by state and non state actors throughout history and throughout the world. Terrorism is the tactic of the powerless against the powerful. Thus it is not at all surprising that political, relig ... saries avoid direct engagement with military forces. Instead, they devise and carry out strategies, tactics, and weapons to exploit perceived weaknesses. As a result of September 11, 2001 attacks, oth ...

(9 pages) 520 1 4.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Racial profiling-Gives examples and real instances where blacks and minorities were victims of racial profiling.

o search for contraband. Universally attested and detested, racial profiling is a widespread police tactic. Although blacks and foreigners experience different forms of racial profiling, they both sha ...

(3 pages) 200 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Recruitment, censorship and propoganda in world war 1- in both britain and germany

rs to sever the stalemate and instigate a major offensive. Primarily, censorship is fundamentally a tactic of propaganda, while the theme of war is glorified to promote recruiting.In Britain, the outb ... nothing to lessen the incentive to go off to war because 'Britain needs YOU!'Propaganda was a major tactic used on the home front to have people believing that it is there own duty to go to war and to ...

(8 pages) 87 2 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Deforestation

elieve this is a key way to get the readers attention and take notice in their cause. Another great tactic the article employs is the affect deforestation will have on finding potential cures for dise ...

(1 pages) 56 0 2.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Why was the spanish armada defeated

required ramming, so the type of opponents they were fighting against were using totally different tactics. But all this did not mean that the Armada would definitely have lost the battle against the ... that the Armada would definitely have lost the battle against the English. The English had another tactic that to there surprise, worked a lot better than they expected it to.The English sent several ...

(2 pages) 37 0 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Psychopath

by Joyce Carol Oates, the depiction of a psychopath is quite apparent. His mannerism, thoughts and tactic all create the perfect portrayal of a truly deranged character. Arnold Friend follows Connie ...

(3 pages) 41 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

What is marketing?

MARKETING IS NOT TACTICSWhen most people think of marketing, they think of marketing tactics. People associate market ... en most people think of marketing, they think of marketing tactics. People associate marketing with tactics, partly because they're fun. Advertising is fun, promotions are fun, and so is sending out e ... vertising is fun, promotions are fun, and so is sending out email campaigns and every other similar tactic. But tactics, while the most salient aspects of marketing, are similar to the tactics of spor ...

(3 pages) 219 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Is It True To Say That The Soldiers In The Trenches Of WWI Experienced Boredom, Brutality and Comradeship?

ignificantly change people's views on war. The First World War was a war of new technology, but old tactics. Generals commanded their men as if any serious damage could only be done at close range (as ... ease. The war was played out stubbornly in this way for years - commanders refused to change their tactics, resulting in death and little else apart from it.It was technology coupled with the also ne ...

(10 pages) 41 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Illusion of Reality in John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse"

ool used by authors to make a place seem real, in need of disguising. John Barth explains that this tactic is merely an "illusion of reality." In the following pages of this story, the theme "illusion ...

(1 pages) 36 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American