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My artifact for this semester is going to be on Pearl Harbor the movie. This movie was made in 2001 based on the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941. My topic for research paper one is going to be on the attacks on pearl harbor. I'm going to try to find out the things that i do not know about pearl harbor. My topic for my research paper two is going to be on, what was war represented like in the 1990'2 to early 2000's? I was going to do it on the romance aspect, but it was to hard for me to find sources about romance in the 1990's. Pearl Harbor is my artifact and it was attacked on December 7th in 1941. In the mid 1900’s, there was World War 2 which started in 1939 and went into 1945. This was when Hitler was totally against all Jews, and pretty much anyone not being the “superior race”. My research question for my first paper was “how did the attack on Pearl Harbor happen?” In the movie Pearl Harbor, it briefly talks about the communication errors that happened to not let us expect that japan would attack Hawaii. Both my secondary sources go off of this, but “Pearl Harbor: Military Inconvenience, Political Disaster” is the best source to talk about the communication errors, this source also explores on the theories of why we got attacked in Hawaii. The other secondary source is "Pearl Harbor: Why Surprise?" This article talks about why America was surprised that Pearl Harbor was attacked. This source also goes overs what actually happened during the attacks. “Why Remember Pearl Harbor?” is one of my primary sources that talks about why it’s important for people to remember the attack. This source is kind of like my second, secondary source. My artifact is pretty good on describing how/why Pearl Harbor was attacked. The reason for that is in the movie it goes through a couple years of the war and it has President Roosevelt’s real reactions on what happened in the security aspect of it. The movie gives me some great points of my paper like the scene when Pearl Harbor gets attacked and even before this part off the movie gives me good idea on what really happened. The history is pretty accurate in this movie, but the writer of the movie could have said more about the trade aspect of what happened. My artifact is historically accurate on what actually happened.My sources all help me in different aspects of my research question. First "The View Before 9/11: America’s Place in the World” is one of my primary sources that states how the United States stood in the world. This source talks about how the United States was most likely to get attacked by someone or a group with weapons of mass destruction. My other primary source is "Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995.” This source talks about the military bases that closed down and the reasons for why they were shut down. The United States had some difficulties closing military bases to downsize their military. "American Grand Strategy from the Cold War’s End to 9/11." Is one of my primary sources, and this source goes over the period that I am trying to talk about with my research question. In this source the author talks about the Grande strategy that was made up by the United States leaders. “The article encourages readers to think about how future strategists might improve upon this legacy with clearer and more disciplined attention to priorities…” this was in the abstract of the article.My overarching argument is that in the 90's war was more of a good thing rather than a bad thing, that it helped rather than hindered the reasons why the war was fought. One sub argument would be about the base closures in the United States, which these closures made the U.S show that they don't need to have a huge military force to be successful in changing the world/ helping others out. The source to support this would be "Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995." Citation for research paper 1 Secondary sources Vidyalankar, Indira. "PEARL HARBOR : WHY SURPRISE ?" The Indian Journal of Political 	Science. Vol. 41, No. 4. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1982. pp. 847-69.

Mueller, John. “Pearl Harbor: Military Inconvenience, Political Disaster” International Security, 	Vol. 16, No. 3. The MIT Press, Winter, 1991-1992. pp. 172-203. Primary sources Stowell, Elle C. “Japan Attacks the United States” The American Journal of International Law, 	Vol. 36, No. 1. American Society of International Law. (Jan., 1942), pp. 87-89.

Alcott, Carroll D. “Why Remember Pearl Harbor?” The Antioch Review, Vol. 2, No. 1. Antioch		 Review, Inc (Spring, 1942), pp. 6-26

Research 2 citations Pew Research Center. "The View Before 9/11: America’s Place in the World." The View Before 9/11: America’s Place in the World. Pew Research Center, 18 Oct. 2001. Web. 9 Apr. 2014. .

Lockwood, David E., and George Siehl. "Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995." Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995. The Library of Congress, 18 Oct. 2004. Web. 9 Apr. 2014. .

Suri, Jeremi. "American Grand Strategy from the Cold War’s End to 9/11." Debating American Grand Strategy After Major War (2009): 611-27. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.

Tim Kane, Ph.D., Troop Deployment Dataset, 1950-2003, The Heritage Foundation, Center for Data Analysis, October 2004, at www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/troopsdb.cfm