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- 811: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... to soldiers, were a few of the toils U.S. soldiers had to deal with. Also on the tactics side, the entire U.S. offensive consisted of a myriad of 'search and destroy' missions. S & D missions involved a patrol, (usually 10-35 soldiers), going out of the base and finding (then killing) the enemy. Unfortunately, the booby traps placed by the VC and the fact that they knew the land and could hide, meant the S & D missions were like throwing soldiers away. In fact, more U.S. soldiers were killed from booby traps than any other cause of death in Vietnam. Weapons were another problem in Vietnam. Again going back to ... American warfare. Other difficulties with weapons were rampant. The M-16, a revolutionary new infantry rifle, was prone to frequent jams as well as water damage. And in a country when it rains almost every day, that wasn't good news. Also, U.S. commanders underestimated the power of the Viet Cong's weapons, thinking that they only had muskets and bolt-action rifles. But since the Chinese and Russians ...
- 812: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... m. and the other at Miami International Airport at 8:20 a.m. Both planes were badly damaged and their tanks were nearly empty. On the front page of The New York Times the next day, a picture of one of the B-26s was shown along with a picture of one of the pilots cloaked in a baseball hat and hiding behind dark sunglasses, his name was withheld. A sense ... the B-26 with "FAR" markings [Cuban Air Force], the agency overlooked a crucial detail that was spotted immediately by professional observers . . . . All Castro's people had to do was read the newspapers and they'd know that something was going to happen, that those planes that had bombed them were not their own but American. In The New York Times of the 21st of April, stories about the origins of ... revealing the CIA's involvement. By the 22nd, the story is fully known with headlines in The New York Times stating that "CIA is Accused by Bitter Rebels" and on the second page of that day's issue is a full article on the details of the operation from its beginnings. The conclusion one can draw from the articles in The New York Times is that if reporters knew the ...
- 813: Personal Writing: The Sightless Explanation
- ... her life easier when we saw she had nobody to care for her. She always had a caretaker that would help her with her daily tasks that she would pay lots of money to each day. I was skeptical the first time she asked me to stay with her, because of school, but I decided I would do it to be charitable. I would go over there at 6:30 each ... It was a crime that devastated a small South Carolina town and horrified a nation. Susan Smith had killed her two sons by strapping them in their car seats and rolling the car into John D. Long Lake. The tragic event began on the Tuesday evening of October 25, 1994. Susan Smith, a 23-year-old mother of two, was careful to strap in her two sons for an evening ride ... blacktop roads of Union County, South Carolina, for nearly three hours, until long past dark. She had contemplated suicide for a while before arriving at a boat ramp just veering off Highway 49 at John D. Long Lake. She could not handle the distress any more. So she opened the door and stepped out of the car for a moment to catch some fresh air. The car slowly began to ...
- 814: Hypnotism Is It Magic Or Reality
- ... come to the conclusion that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. A hypnotist helps to guide and develop the hypnotic trance, but the person being hypnotized is initially in control (Alman 8). As Karen Olness, M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio explains, "All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. We all tune things in and out all day long. For example, I can focus on the conversation we re having and choose not to notice that I have a slight pain in my right shoulder. I can choose which signals to pay attention ... do or reveal anything suggested while they are under a hypnotic trance. The truth is that hypnosis is safe. A person cannot get stuck in hypnosis. Since everyone goes through hypnosis at least twice each day, it is a natural process of the mind. People put themselves into and bring themselves out of hypnosis all the time (Goldberg 18). People remember everything from hypnosis ninety percent of the time. The ...
- 815: Apathy
- ... wage and Pell Grant minimums are issues that turn the heads of younger voters. Other issues that effect young people and make them get involved include birth control, use of tobacco products and A.I.D.S. research to name a few more. In 1991, Montanas state Legislature enacted a unique referendum. It allowed the states high school students to determine whether or not tobacco products should be sold to young ... www.mtv.com/chooseorloose). Thus the Presidents support amongst young people was a significant percentage higher then Doles. With very little extra work Clinton had given young people the attention they craved. Therefore when Election Day rolled around Clinton again had his young support. When asked why he voted for Clinton, student Mark Whitmore replied Clinton is the only one who would even give us the time of day. He only gave us a little, but it was better then the nothing Bob Dole gave us." Therefore only showing meager support for the causes of the younger generation of voters Clinton was able ...
- 816: The Superstring Theory
- ... of it is rightly in its impact to the Physics community regardless of deference or validity. Please keeps these points in mind, and remember that Aristotle said, "All men by nature desire to know." One day, a promising physics student walks into a professor's office wanting to find out what physics could teach him. This student, only having a rudimentary knowledge of physics, asks, "Can you give me a definition ... both. Supersymmetry, like mentioned before, relates the fermions, fractional spin particles or matter, to the bosons, elementary particles with integral spins or energy (12: 353). This overly simplifies the ramifications of supersymmetry. Symmetry (unlike common day aesthetic symmetry, in physics it is the search for relations between basic particles, and the grouping of such) in nature at a universal level is obscure at least. Case and point, supersymmetry has not been ... the preceding paragraph spoke of the conquering of this problem, data has yet to be seen. (14) One might then ask why do people not use technology or tangible means to ameliorate this? Ger! ardus D. Bouw, Ph.D. of Baldwin Wallace College edifies the particle accelerator untaught in that: It only takes about 10 volts to tear a molecule apart while it takes about 100 volts to strip an ...
- 817: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... computers to take advantage of these advances. Both the U.S. Census Bureau and General Electric owned UNIVACs. One of UNIVAC's impressive early achievements was predicting the winner of the 1952 presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower. First generation computers were characterized by the fact that operating instructions were made-to-order for the specific task for which the computer was to be used. Each computer had a different binary-coded ... ever installed: one in the Lawrence Radiation Labs in Livermore, California, for which the computer was named (Livermore Atomic Research Computer) and the other at the U.S. Navy Research and Development Center in Washington D.C. Second generation computers replaced machine language with assembly language, allowing abbreviated programming codes to replace long, difficult binary codes. Throughout the early 1960's, there were a number of commercially successful second generation computers ... Honeywell, IBM, Sperry-Rand, and others. These second generation computers were also of solid state design, and contained transistors in place of vacuum tubes. They also contained all the components we associate with the modern day computer: printers, tape storage, disk storage, memory, operating systems, and stored programs. One important example was the IBM 1401, which was universally accepted throughout industry, and is considered by many to be the Model ...
- 818: Employee Theft At Staples
- ... beckoned, so I followed them into the break room. I rounded the corner just in time to see Martin zip up his book bag, concealing a large box. I knew what was going on. Id heard about employee theft occurring at Staples in the past, but this was the first time Id ever witnessed it first hand. The day before, Rich and I had a conversation about it. Were the only ones who dont steal, he said. And I knew we were. Over the course of the next few weeks, I ...
- 819: The Watergate Scandal
- ... The Washington Post published a small story. In this story the reporters stated that five men had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The headquarters was located in a Washington, D.C., building complex called Watergate. These burglars were carrying enough equipment to wiretap telephones and take pictures of papers. The Washington Post had two reporters who researched deep into the story. There names were Carl ... Massachusetts. Congress, however, remained under Democratic control. On January of 1973, two months after Nixon had won the presidential election, the misdeeds of Watergate began to surface. The Watergate burglars went on trial in Washington D.C.., courtroom. James McCord, one of the burglars , gave shocking evidence. A former CIA agent who had led the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, McCord worked for the Nixon re-election campaign ... people, the public felt that it was very gripping and made them distraught A official told the court that Nixon had tape-recorded all the conversations on tape. Nixon had hoped these tapes would one day be used by historians to document the triumph of his term, instead they were used to prove that he was guilty. The president refused to release the tapes, claiming the executive privilege gave him ...
- 820: Carl Jung
- ... conscious level serves four functions. The following are the functions of people (not types!): A. Thinking: connecting ideas in ordered strings. B. Feeling: evaluating ideas upon feelings about them. C. Sensing: wanting to get experiences. D. Intuiting: following unfounded ideas. A & B are called rational, and C & D are called irrational. If they don't make much sense, they will be explained in more detail after explaining Types. There are also 2 classes of conscious behavior: A. Introverted, which are people who are ... with perfectly balanced classes of behavior. Jung said that an ego is a filter from the senses to the conscious mind. All ego rejections go to the personal subconscious. The ego is highly selective. Every day we are subjected to a vast number of experiences, most of which do not become conscious because the ego eliminates them before they reach consciousness. This differs from Freud's definition of ego, which ...
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