...The Laotian Civil War was between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from November 9, 1963, to December 2, 1975. The CIA Special Activities Division and the Hmong Veterinarians in the conflict know it as the “Secret War”. The war took place in the Kingdom of Laos. The Pathet Lao and the Lao Government fought for the same belief, as to have political power, Pathet to establish the Democratic Republic and the Lao Government to remain as a monarchy. The Kingdom of Laos had America, Thailand, South Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines supporting them, and lead by Prince Souphanouvong. The Pathet had North Vietnam and the Soviet Union on their side. They fought for twelve long harsh years with fatalities and painful, life-threatening...
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...Have you ever heard of eighty acres of Hell? No this is not a haunted house… We know what you're thinking. This isn't just a piece of land, It’s a piece of history. It’s also known as one of the dirtiest camps around. Before the Civil War, this campground was nothing. It was just a piece of land. Some People used this land as a training and enlisting facility in 1861. Ulysses S. Grant captured roughly 5,000 Confederate soldiers in a victory at the Battle of Fort Donelson at the Tennessee-Kentucky border. (Meribah Knight) “During the Civil War, Camp Douglas was Chicago’s principal connection for the Civil War”, says Theodore Karamanski. Nearly 500 men escaped from this camp. This camp had really bad sanitation and it caused diseases known as; Smallpox, Typhoid. Tuberculosis, Dysentery, and many more. 17% of the men died in this camp due to this illness. There were only 3 men from this camp that died on the battlefield. Most of the other men died from illness....
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...In the Civil War, a soldier’s life depended on the weapons that he had. Weapons were often in short supply, but most soldiers brought their own weapons from home. From the single-shot and inaccurate muskets that took way took way too long to load to the revolutionary Spencer repeating rifle that changed the way people battled with its deadly accuracy, multiple shots, and faster loading time, the Civil War was full of different weapons that had their pros and cons. The Revolutionary War period smoothbore musket was very inaccurate and took a very long time to load. The normal rate of fire for infantry men was three shots per minute. The musket was a troublesome weapon. The flintlock musket was the most important weapon of the Revolutionary...
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...Oxford anthology is not a sign of greatness but a status of accessibility to a public reading. Belonging to the Literary Canon confers status; social, political, economic, and aesthetic, belonging to the canon is a guarantee of quality. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair, to English parents Richard Walmesley (a civil servant) and Ida Mabel (Limouzine) Blair in Motihari, Bengal (now Bihar) India in 1903 and died a year after writing Nineteen Eighty Four in 1950. He graduated from Eton College in 1921. His political beliefs follow those of a democratic socialist. His interests include fishing, carpentry, gardening, and raising animals. He served in the Spanish civil war as well as World War II where he held the rank of sergeant. George held many jobs during his career as a writer he was a police officer in Burma, a dishwasher in Paris, a teacher in England, as well as a shopkeeper, he also produced educational radio programs for the BBC. Among his writing accomplishments he wrote fiction as well as nonfiction novels his two most famous being “Nineteen Eighty Four” and “Animal farm” both of which have been adapted for film. In “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty Four” warn that the growing power of modern governments; regardless of their philosophy threatens to wipe out such widely held ideals as love of family, tolerance towards others, and the right to make up one’s own mind. Orwell constantly found himself in disagreement with the ideological mass movements of his time, ranging...
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...Running head: WOMEN'S RIGHTS, THE STRUGGLE IS FAR FROM OVER. Women's Rights, The Struggle Is Far From Over. Gerald Lee Ashford University American History Since 1865 HIS204 Gregory Lawson May 13, 2012 Women's Rights, The Struggle Is Far From Over. During the course of history, women have always fought to improve esteem, equivalence, and to have equal rights as men. Nevertheless, this mission has been challenging because of the notion in which men are higher to and have the right to rule over women. This way of life has saturated the societal construction of civilizations all the way through since the creation of man. The free-for-all of women rights was even more problematic for women. Wifehood and parenthood were considered to be the women's most important jobs. In the 20th era, however, women in some countries won the right to vote and improved their educational and job opportunities. Conceivably most significant, they took an enormous step by changing everyone’s thinking of the customary visions of their roles in society. This value has drenched the social structure of societies throughout the world. Even in today’s times, women are still struggling for rights that men take for granted. The struggle of women rights was even more problematic for women of color because not only did they have to deal with issues of sexism. They also had to deal with discrimination. The first known women’s right conference was held in Seneca Falls, New...
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...McCarthyism Paper HIS 145 Week 2 Civil Rights in the Sixties Paper HIS 145 Week 3 The Counterculture and Sixties Movements Paper HIS 145 Week 4 The Trends of the Eighties Paper HIS 145 Week 5 The Internet Paper HIS 145 Week 5 Presidential Speech Presentation ----------------------------------------------------------- HIS 145 Week 1 Anti-communism and McCarthyism Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.his145.com Themes of anti-Communism preoccupied the American media from 1947 to 1954. Major topics included the coup in Czechoslovakia, the Korean War, the House Un-American Activities Committee, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy. Identify at least three different articles from the ProQuest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor) written between 1947 and 1954 to see how these events were covered by the media. -Communism and McCarthyism during this period, including examples or quotes from each of the three articles you located. Prepare a 700 to 1,050 word paper in which you address the following: o The differences between anti-Communism and McCarthyism o The perspective from which the media covered anti-Communism and McCarthyism o American foreign policy decisions impacted by anti-Communism o How Americans’ lives changed because of the Red Scare ------------------------------------------------- HIS 145 Week 2 Civil Rights in the Sixties Paper...
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...Butte, South Dakota near present day Rapid City sometime between 1840 and 1842. Often known as “Curly” during his childhood, Crazy Horse was a skilled warrior, becoming more respected by his father and other tribe members. Crazy Horse was sent to live with his uncle Spotted Tail to receive valuable fighting tactics. According to the American Indian Relief Council, Crazy Horse “witnessed white soldiers attack a group of Sioux Indians while in the middle of settling a dispute. Later, while on a buffalo hunt, soldiers burned the village to the ground and killed eighty-six people. Crazy Horse learned later that a U.S cavalry was responsible for the massacre”(Crazy Horse 1842-1877 2). At the age of twenty, Tashunca-Utico had already earned his adult name of Crazy Horse. Moving his way up the ranks of Sioux warrior’s, Crazy Horse earned the respect of Chief Red Cloud, even enough to earn a spot as leading warrior in Red Cloud’s War of...
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...Perhaps the Most famous battle of the Civil War took place at Gettysburg, PA, July 1 to July 3, 1863. At the end of the battle, the union’s Army of the Potomac had successfully repelled the second invasion of the North by the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Verginia. Several months later, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg to speak at the dedication of the cemetery for the Union war dead. Speaking of “new birth of freedom,” he delivered one of the most memorable speeches in U.S. history. On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The orator of the day was Edward Everett, a famed speaker, former senator, and candidate for vice president in 1860. Lincoln received a late invitation to make "a few appropriate remarks." Lincoln's brief Gettysburg address became a cornerstone of American expression of the nation's ideals, mission, and patriotism. On the first three days of July 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, had fought the Army of the Potomac, the principal northern army, to which General George G. Meade had been assigned command only four days earlier. In early May, Lee had won a smashing victory at Chancellorsville, Virginia, over a Union force approximately twice as large, and then had boldly determined to carry the war to the enemy by invading Pennsylvania. Drawn into an offensive battle at Gettysburg, Lee attacked both wings of the Union army before launching...
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...Buffalo Soldiers in America A buffalo soldier was an African American serving in one of the U.S. Army's African American units. The term buffalo soldier comes from an Indian term that described the resemblance between the soldier hair and a buffalo's head hair. It is unclear from which the term originated in the Cheyenne, Apache, or Kiowa tribe. It is still unclear whether the Indians meant respect or disrespect by using this term for them. There were many recruits waiting to be enlisted but black officers were hardly heard of. African Americans were eager to enlist as the army gave them the chance for social and economic prosperity something difficult to achieve in a society that was all but closed to them. Many knew nothing of the world outside the world beyond the city or plantation they had spent their whole life on. They could not go back now they were free but many did not have skills to go forward or a place to go. So many felt that the army would be a new home to others it was the adventure of being sent west to help tame an untamed wilderness. This could lead them to their great dream the dream of building a new life on their own land. The Buffalo Soldiers wore the same uniforms as the rest of the U.S. Army of the same time period. The only difference was due to delivery times. New uniforms and equipment were delivered in the order of the units. 1st Cavalry received the first shipments then the 2nd and so on. That meant that the 9th and 10th Cavalry received their uniforms...
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...The Civil War was a remarkable moment in history. This war went from 1861 to 1865, between the North and South of the United States. It started because the North wanted a unified country, while the South wanted state right’s, not a federal government. The war continued because the South wanted slaves, unlike the North. This war is a time in history that will never be forgotten. The North and South had always been drifting apart because of the major differences in civilization and economy (Guelzo). The main factor being slavery. Since the South was so agricultural, they thought that making slaves do their work was acceptable. They had many big farms and needed workers, so instead of working themselves, they made slaves do their work for them. The North had their own agricultural resources and did not...
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...- genaflevering Are the horrible memories from the Irish Civil War still lingering in the grass on the field? What does the tears of the grandfather symbolize? “Field of Tears” is a short story written by Declan J. Connaughton in which he tells the story about an old man and his granddaughter called Rita. She frequently comes to visit him at the nursing home where he has to stay against her will, simply because he is too old and weak. She knows this and it’s also one of the reasons why she goes to see him that often, to spend time with him before it’s too late which makes every second she has with him precious. Rita wants to take him out for a drive and the grandfather guides her to a field he remembers from when he was stationed during the Civil War. As he sits in the car facing the sea, he starts to recall a memory from the field and suddenly Rita isn’t there anymore but his comrades from the war are. “Field of Tears” is a historical fiction short story that follows a man who took part in the Irish Civil War which followed the Irish War of Independence, where the Irish people fought for the right to be an Irish Republic. England wouldn’t let them have their will but they made a treaty that ended the British rule in most of Ireland. This wasn’t satisfying enough for some of the Irish republicans that didn’t want to take part in the “Provisional Government”, who supported the treaty and this lead to a civil war between these two opposing groups. The story gives us a...
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...The Novel Project Your name: Giselle Gonzalez Your Novel: 1984 – George Orwell 1. Explain how the novel represents two or more concerns of its historical time period; these concerns may be economic, political, cultural, social, or moral concerns. Clarify the author’s view on one of the following as s/he presents the concerns: right vs wrong; conservative vs radical, or elite vs commonplace. Orwell published “1984” in 1948 just after the end of World War II. Although at this time, Hitler’s reign was brought to an end, Joseph Stalin, another ruthless leader was still in power. Though they were adversaries during WW II, both men shared acute similarities in their success towards creating a totalitarian government much like the one seen in “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The ghastly, but impressive ease with which each ruler rose and remained in power is possibly what caused Orwell to focus so heavily on political concerns in his novel. While there are no direct allusions to the Adolf Hitler or Stalin, the political devices used by the Party to control Party members in Oceania are undeniably parallel to the manipulation and brutality that each ruler used to control government. Big Brother for instance, is a fearless leader who is loved by all of the Party members. Though it is never confirmed whether or not he is a real person or just an idea, citizens praise him almost instinctively, posters of him are found in every building, and badmouthing him is not only an act of audacity, but punishable...
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...George Orwell’s political views have been developed throughout his life based on personal experiences, although some may argue Orwell had no political label, due to his many different facets and aspects. Orwell witnessed Stalin’s Soviet Russia, the dictatorships of Mussolini and Hitler, the Spanish civil war and World War 2. Orwell’s literary works such as 1984 and many others, touch on aspects of imperialism, anarchism, socialism, Nazism, capitalism and totalitarianism. “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical” in 1984, is a text within a text that Winston reads to understand many things about the totalitarian world he lives in. The purpose of the text within a text is to parallel the corrupt socialist world of 1984 with that of Stalin’s USSR, expand on Orwell’s ideas of imperialism, and to sound an alarm to warn readers of what a worst case scenario totalitarian world could be like. Firstly, “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical” was to provide greater insight, for Winston and the reader. Goldstein’s text takes apart each section of the party’s slogan “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is strength” (Orwell, 1), and explains what they mean to the party. After reading the text, Winston learned some new things, but the text mostly just reinforced things he already assumed or knew. Secondly, when thinking from a political standpoint, one could say that the point of this text within a text was to parallel the corrupt socialist world of 1984 with that of Stalin’s USSR...
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...that hinder our country's progress. He is funded by the people, not dictated by a small handful of wealthy interests that ties strings between their donations and the candidates they fund. Just like how the 1960’s needed JFK to pass the Civil Rights Act, Bernie is need to mitigate Civil wrongs being perpetrated by a government being increasingly influenced by wealthy interests. Bernie’s campaign focused on the welfare of the people and the issues they care about. In 1963, Bernie participated in Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights March. He lead the first Civil Rights sit-in, in Chicago history to protest segregated housing; he even resisted arrest at a demonstration protesting against segregation. In today’s politics most candidates tailor their beliefs to suit mass opinion but a moral leader like Bernie Sanders stands for his convictions. Bernie identifies as a Socialist in a country where that is seen as taboo. As a lone Independent Congressmen Sanders, takes hard stances; his stances on same sex marriage, gun control and inflated drug prices pits him against many conservative religious groups, the NRA and the pharmaceutical industry. Even Though he is steadfast in his beliefs he is very good at compromise. Bernie has opposed all war, yet he is still a strong supporter of veterans’...
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...engine. Elijah McCoy was born on May 2, 1844. Elijah was born in Colchester, Ontario, in Canada. In McCoy’s older teen years, he invented the lubrication system for the steam engines. Over his lifetime he would invent many more inventions. McCoy would eventually receive over sixty patients for his inventions. He died at the age of eighty five, in Detroit, Michigan, on October 10, 1929. He is buried at a cemetery in Warren, Michigan. McCoy was born on May 2, 1844, in Colchester, Ontario, in Canada. McCoy’s parents were George McCoy and Mildred McCoy. Elijah was a African-American from a family of twelve children. He wa the...
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