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- 1851: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday The war in Vietnam was escalating and protests were being staged everywhere. This was a war that the U.S. people felt we didn't belong in. The truth is we weren't really wanted there either. More people would die in this conflict than in the previous Korean conflict. All ... King trials, and many others. Lou said Bill didn't agree with violent protest (Eszterhas, 233-257). He probably wouldn't have taken part if he thought it would be one. Bill disagreed with the war and the entrance into Cambodia, as many of the time did (Cusella). He was in the ROTC and because of the overbearing power hungry government decided to drop out (Eszterhas, 233-257). Allison Krause, ...
- 1852: Simpsons Vs Wells
- ... in, reducing the general public s vigilance against dangers to society in any form. This lack of vigilance, due to an unwarranted faith in authority, is depicted and questioned in H. G. Wells s The War of the Worlds. Published in 1898, the message of Wells s work remains relevant, even in the present day. Criticisms of an unwarranted faith in authority manifest themselves in modern culture in multiple media. The ... townspeople themselves receive their fair share of reproach as well. In both works, the people criticized include not only the general middle- to upper-class communities, but also those responsible for the criticizing. In The War of Worlds, the government plays a silent role that finds its reflection in the attitudes of the townspeople upon the first arrival of the Martian cylinder. Here, the ignorance of the public manifests itself in ... the plan previously discussed in the town meeting, which involves the use of a missile to intercept and destroy the comet. This criticism of an unthinking populace differs slightly from Wells s focus in The War of the Worlds. While The Simpsons presents a censure of a witless populace that overly relies upon the guidance of authority instead of their own intellects, Wells includes the dimension of emotion to his ...
- 1853: Biological Warefare
- ... has been used frequently by police to stop riots. But other chemicals can be fatal just in one breath. History of Biological and Chemical Weapons Biological and chemical arsenals are not a new tactic to war. Humans had developed primitive forms of biological warfare for thousands of years. In Medieval times, corpses were catapulted into an enemy's fortress. The body would be infected with a deadly disease that would spread ... BC, when the Athenians used hellebores (skunk cabbage) to contaminate the River Plieisthines. The defenders of Kurha suffered violent diarrhea that led to their defeat. The first use of poisonous gas was in the Peloponnesian war between 431- 404 BC. The Spartans would burn wood that was saturated with pitch and sulphur, to release a sulphur dioxide gas. In 200 BC, a Carthaginian general ordered his soldiers to retreat and leave ... person fall asleep. The enemy soldiers drank the wine, and while they were sleeping the Carthaginian soldiers slaughtered them. The Britains covered North American Indians with blankets that were infected with small pox. In World War 1, biological and chemical arsenals started to be used in large scale attacks. A abandoned island named Gruinard, off the coast of Britain was dedicated to experimenting with biological weapons. No one is allowed ...
- 1854: Analysis Of The Machine That W
- The Machine That Won the War, by Isaac Asimov, is a story that teaches a valuable lesson about humanity and also has an ironic twist at the end. The setting is the future of Earth, and a great war had just been won against an enemy race. Two men, Swift and Henderson, are debating over who really won the war for Earth: the giant strategy computer known as Multivac, or the men in charge of making the maneuvers and programming the computer. John Henderson is an excitable man, while Lamar Swift, the military captain, ...
- 1855: Operation Linebacker
- ... session. He and Nixon feared, as written in Earl Tilford’s book Setup-What the Air Force did in Vietnam and Why, that the Democratic controlled congress would “legislate the United States out of the war... and give Hanoi a better peace agreement by default”. (Tilford: 253) Nixon wanted to wrap up the peace talks before that happened. How could the United States accomplish in two months what it hadn’t ... the B-52 had the ability to shock the mind and undermine the spirit”. (Kissinger: 448) Hanoi however would prove to be no easy target. Colonel (Ret) A. L. Gropman is quoted in the book, War in the Third Dimension as saying, “no target in history was so well defended...not London, nor Ploesti, nor Berlin during the Second World War.” (Mason: 56) High altitude, nighttime bombing had to be used to reduce the effectiveness of Hanoi’s air defense triad. Anti-aircraft artillery couldn’t shoot down the B-52s from 30,000 feet ...
- 1856: Forrest Gump
- ... speak.” Throughout the book, Forrest is always trying to do what is right, but it never seems to turn out for him. For instance, he tries to participate in a big demonstration against the Vietnam War at the U.S. Capitol “at which a bunch of Vietnam veterans is gonna take off they medals an thow them on the steps of the Capitol.” When it becomes his turn, he throws his ... play football at the University of Alabama, but he flunks out after a year. College is where he met up with Bubba and later meets up with him again when he is in the Vietnam War. Bubba, who dies in the war, teaches him to play the harmonica, and they decide that they are going to start a shrimp business together after the war. After Bubba dies, Forrest learns about growing shrimp from a little Vietnamese ...
- 1857: ... of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges for themselves, have evolved into a different ...
- 1858: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... her, and she turned him down. Like Jay Gatsby, he was too young and he had no money, and she could not be sure he would ever amount to anything. So he went off to war but, unlike Gatsby, he never got to Europe. By the time his regiment had been sent overseas, the Armistice had been signed and his dreams of military glory had to be set aside with the ... younger generation--men and women alike--were rebelling against the values and customs of their parents and grandparents. After all, the older generation had led thousands of young men into the most brutal and senseless war in human history. People of Fitzgerald's age had seen death, and when they came back, they were determined to have a good time. "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that ... in the say way that Nick both loves and criticizes Gatsby. THE GREAT GATSBY: THE PLOT Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a young Midwesterner who, having graduated from Yale in 1915 and fought in World War I ("The Great War"), has returned home to begin a career. Like others in his generation, he is restless and has decided to move East to New York and learn the bond business. The ...
- 1859: 20s And 30s
- ... many of these areas, while other areas remained in continuity. From the 1920s to the 1930, there were several factors that contributed to the changes in American society. The 1920s began shortly after in World War I when the United States and the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918. Many Americans were fed up with Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president from 1913 to 1921. The first election of the 1920s scoured ... In Hardingˇ¦s ˇ§hands offˇ¨ policy, the government did not intervene with peopleˇ¦s businesses and helped them profit. Anti-trust laws were avoided, and the United States was in debt from the first Great War. The Secretary of Treasury, Mellon, tremendously reduced taxes, which moved the economy because there was more money to spend. Eventually, the United States profited in more money to pay off the enormous debt. The United ... time and showed a noticeable separation between the classes. Foreign policy of the 1920s was manifested by isolationism in reaction to the idealistic foreign policy of Wilson. After Wilson had helped the Allies in World War I, the United States suffered great losses with no payments in return. Thus, America isolated itself from the rest of the world and promised that the U.S. would not get involved in any ...
- 1860: A Separate Peace
- ... know that it is normal behavior. Each person feels rivalry or competition to other humans, for the majority of their lifetime. This rivalry greatly affects our ability to understand others, and this eventually results in war, discrimination, and enmity. Children are definitely culprits for acting inhumane to each other with teasing, competition, and often hurtful remarks. Although this is the way children often act, it is in the teenage years realization ... Gene, and his battling of jealousy, paranoia, and inability to understand his relationship with his best friend Phineas. Yet the larger battle of man’s inhumanity to man is portrayed by the backdrop of World War II. Gene Forrester is an average, studious, young man attending Devon school in New Hampshire during the second World War. His roommate at Devon, Phineas (otherwise known as Finny) sends Gene on an unexpected journey of self discovery. Finny represents man in his innocence, a kind of edenic2 Adam. He is very athletic, honest ...
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