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- 3741: Women In Combat
- ... 31), they are still a major part in the armed forces. Their performance recently has generated support from Congress and the public for enhancing the role of females in the military. During the Persian Gulf War, women were sent to the Middle East to fly helicopters, service combat jets, refuel tankers, and load laser-guided bombs. Their performance has led the world to realize that women are extremely useful in combat. Defense secretary Dick Chaney said "Women have made a major contribution to this [war] effort. We could not have won without them." Leaders in the field agreed. The Gulf War had the largest deployment of women in the armed forces in history. These women encountered the same risks ...
- 3742: School Prayer
- ... obligated to express their beliefs in a group, there is plenty of time after school. There are so many things that could be argued in this amendment. If passed it would be a never ending war of religious beliefs. Oppressors to the amendment view that since education is mandatory, how can public schools impose one religious prayer on all students? (New American Coalition) If a religion was brought into the classroom ... particular religious belief on an everyday basis, teach their children after school, or form prayer groups at their own private homes. Citations: 1. The Bible. Matthew 6:5-6. 2. Concentric. (1999). Religious Freedom Amendment. [World Wide Web] Available:http://www.concentric.net/Dannemyr/rfa.htm. 3. Democratic Alliance for Action. (1997). Bible Believers Should Oppose School Prayer. [World Wide Web] Available:http://www.daa.org/prayer.html. 4. Free thought. The Case Against School Prayer. (1999) [World Wide Web] Available:http://www.freethought.org/org/fff/pray.html. 5. Haas, Carol. Engle ...
- 3743: Ceremony
- FEAR=DESTRUCTION "They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves." "They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve." "They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill ... The ancient Indian story that the passages are pulled from also explains how Indian witchery led to the invention of the white people and all the evil inside of them, causing them to destroy the world and everything else that inhabits it. When the wind blew the white people across the ocean, thousands of them in giant boats (Silko 136), they were faced with the unfamiliar culture of the Indian people ... he thinks about killing a fly or any animal for that matter. Old Betonie, the medicine man, recalled a time when the white people were extremely fearful of Indians. He said, "I was at the World’s fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the year they had Geronimo there on display. The white people were scared to death of him. Some of them even wanted him in leg irons" (Silko 122). ...
- 3744: Guerilla Warfare
- Guerrilla Warfare The term guerrilla (Spanish, “little war”) originated in the early 19th century during the Peninsular war when, after the defeat of Spain’s regular forces, Spanish irregulars and civilians rose up against the French occupying forces. The practice of guerrilla warfare, however, dates from antiquity; for example, the Bible tells of ... America, from the slave revolts against the Portuguese and Dutch in Brazil in the 17th century to the ranger raids behind Union lines led by the Confederate solider John Singleton Mosby during the American Civil War. In early 19th century Latin America, guerrilla actions such as those led by the South American patriot Simon Bolivar and the Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo Costilla were instrumental in throwing off the Spanish yoke. ...
- 3745: Terrorism
- ... deal with a certain aspect of terrorism, but I can't seem to keep my opinions based on one kind without comparing it to other acts of terrorism. Terrorism is defined in Webster's New World Dictionary as, "to use force or threats to intimidate, etc., especially as a political policy." Intimidate is similarly defined as, "to make afraid, as with threats." Threats is a common word used in both definitions ... providers and many others. (Terror from Within-MSNBC) However, some terrorist attacks are not preformed by Americans. An example of one of two documented cases of outside terrorism attacks on the United States is the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. (The Centre for National Security Studies, April 26, 1995) The US is now a big target for outside terrorism and we always will be as long as we are ... psychiatric problem. We watch the movies that glorify the hero going into a foreign land and fighting the bad guy. James Bond is a perfect example of glorifying terrorists' lives. He travels all over the world to stop the villains from blowing up England. He makes it all look fun and exciting while doing his job. Austin Powers is another example of terrorists. Austin Powers is a totally different view ...
- 3746: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... a father. She could do little to ameliorate the situation except carry out her husband's dying wish: he wanted his children to attend English public schools, which he thought were the best in the world (Howard 1). Consequently, at the age of six, while the annual journeys to Norway did not cease, Dahl embarked upon a new phase of his life: formal schooling. The commencement of this "awful process" of ... of water to the recreant for mopping up his own blood (Dahl, Boy 144-146). One of the most unusual and most pleasant diversions at Repton was the taste-testing sessions held there by the world-renowned Cadbury chocolate company. A representative of the corporation would provide the boys with boxes of new kinds of chocolate and ask them to rate the different varieties. This was the beginning of what Dahl ... a job with the Shell Oil company, which eventually led to a stint in the Royal Air Force. After writing a story for the Saturday Evening Post about being shot down in the desert during World War II, he began to write short stories for a living. After publishing several compilations, critics began to accuse him of plot repetition; in response to this, and also some interesting bedtimes stories he ...
- 3747: Utopian Communes
- ... socialism of these early communities was the kind that Marx, rightly or wrongly, would brand as ‘utopian,’ suggesting that it was idealistic and impractical. Rather than seeking to create an ideal government or reform the world, the members of these communal groups withdrew form the sinful, corrupt world to work their miracles in microcosm, actually hoping to imitate the elect state of affairs that existed among the Apostles, who were said to hold all things in common. The most interesting point of these ... only created out of feelings of guilt and hope for redemption. From Oveds book, two hundred years of American Communes, he describes the Amana as seeing their community as an island of redemption in a world awash with temptation, sin and avarice; the Elect could come and perfect themselves, if they were prepared to heed the Lord’s call to chastity, poverty, simplicity, hard work, purity, and brotherly love. 1 ...
- 3748: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- Jim Morrison: The Lizard King Jim Morrison said once, “A Doors concert is a public meeting called by us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we’re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.”(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and entertained for millions of screaming fans during their years on top of the ... Doors eventually move most of the act to New York and began gaining popularity. After all of this The Doors graciously went back to the recording studio. They began making music the rocked the entire world. Soon after Jim’s mother tried to get in touch with him and tried to get him to come home for Thanksgiving. Jim simply replied that he would be busy and probably would not be ... to interview Jim and he was pleased to tell them the things that they wanted to hear. In October 1967 the Doors performed for nearly fifty thousand people. Lots of things began happening around the world at this time as well. When the whole war broke out was when the Doors came out with the single of, “The Unknown Soldier” (149). Jim kept with his drinking and a few drugs ...
- 3749: Critical Review Of 1984 By Geo
- ... one part of the government. It was divided up into four parts. The Ministry of Truth, where Winston worked, was incharge of education and the arts. The Ministry of Peace, which was in command of war. The Ministry of plenty, which controlled economic affairs. And finally the Ministry of Love, which concerned itself with law and order. Orwell also uses description of technology to show how the government controlled it's ... an enemy of the people. The assembeled people go through several different reactions, some boo him, others scream and become violent. I feel that George Orwell accomplished his goal of telling how he viewed the world of the future. He used excellent description of places, events and people that I can't even attempt to repeat. He used the prospective of several different people through Winston's interaction of them, and their disscusions. He also used his imagination extreemly well to describe the technology that is used to control the people of the world. Even today we are making things that Orwell described like the telescreens. He also used comparisons of the real world to the world of his story. The image of Emmanual Goldstein was an excellent ...
- 3750: Deng Xiaoping
- ... job of running the country and did not keep their promise for land reform. Deng Xiaoping believed that a Communist government would do a better job of running the country. During the Nationalist- Communist Civil War, Deng greatly influenced the outcome in favor of the Communists by using effective military strategy. Deng Xiaoping was appointed Politcommissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army (the Liu-Deng Army) from 1938 ... liberated Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang government. Then his army liberated the entire southwest of the country. In October 1, 1949, China became a Communist nation. Without Deng Xiaoping's tremendous performance during the war, the Nationalists probably would have easily won. Because of Deng Xiaoping, the people of the nation were finally able to begin to modernize and enjoy a higher standard of living. From the day China became ... Four led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, a powerful member of the Politburo caused the third downfall of Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was forced to hide with old comrades from the Nationalist-Communist Civil War. He persuaded an old marshal, Li Xiannian, to join his side to fight against Jiang Qing. Deng Xiaoping also got the support of military leaders of northern and southern China. With all this support, ...
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