...Robert S. McNamara was the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century. Serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, he oversaw hundreds of military missions, thousands of nuclear weapons and billions of dollars in military spending. McNamara was involved in almost every war in the 20th century. His years of experience have brought upon many challenges, many American’s believe that McNamara was singlehandedly responsible for the devastation and loss of the Vietnam war. In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct in that war, confessing that it was “wrong, terribly wrong.” In Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary, The Fog of War, McNamara shares the eleven lesson that helped shape his role and crucial impact in these wars. I am going to explore the 4 lessons that I believe had the most considerable effect on war and peace....
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...Internet Assignment 1 Marketing Strategy Analysis Wendy Willard Genesee Community College A high-profile service called Games2U claims to be “America’s #1 Provider of Mobile Entertainment!” G2U (2013,) Games2U brings entertainment to the customers’ place of choice. They have ten separate experiences and price by piece of equipment you schedule to rent, and how long you would like your event. The mobile gaming industry is relativity new and upcoming field. Games2U has an extensive marketing strategy. Games2U was premiered on them on Shark Tank and I found the experiences they were showing something I would love to promote or start a franchise in. They really have used the marketing concept. It is obvious that the social and economic justification for Games2U’s existence is satisfying the customer’s wants. The pieces Games2u rent are fun and each has it’s own characteristics. Their product is an experience guided by the theme/piece the customer would like to rent. My favorite piece is the life size robot you get into and control. It is 7 feet tall and you use joystick controls to move it around. It changes your voice with a voice synthesizer so you can talk with a robot voice. It also gives you the control of a fog machine that pours out fog all around the Ubot. Some of the Ubots have tennis ball launchers as arms. The one on Shark Tank had the launchers and it was even fun to watch. The Ubots have to be one of Games2U’s stars because it is a fast-growing...
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...OR lighting style and choices inform its narrative form, genre and theme(s). Consider the film or show in its entirety and demonstrate your understanding and awareness of directing OR editing qualities. How lightning style and choices inform Ridley Scott's “Blade Runner”(1982) narrative, genre and theme. In early 1940s, soon after the second World War, a new film genre started to develop. Almost, twenty years later Nino Frank, influenced by the France “Black Book”, gave it the name Film Noir. “Product of a multifaceted interaction between developments within particular genres – the gangster/crime film and the Gothic melodrama – fluctuating conditions of production and reception within the American industry, and more diffuse cultural movements.”1 The early Film Noir was profoundly influenced by the depression of the war. Hard boiled, dark, devious and cynical, it was originally based on German expressionism and later on Italian neorealism in order to create it's individual style and unique iconography. “As expressionists motifs supplied Noir's dark undercurrents, the Neo-Realist influence that appeared after war introduced a documentary flavour to American thrillers”2 As Film Noir kept progressing many elements were added to the prime features, expanding the range of the genre. Finally, even though Film Noir undoubtedly changed the visual language of cinema, after few decades it started decaying and merging with other genres. Film Noir is a genre, however is...
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...Sources Research, taught by Leland Erickson Abstract "Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war." -Carl von Clausewitz When one talks of those who fought in war, names like Patton, Churchill, Napoleon, and Gallic comes to mind. But the words and strategy of Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz works appear more than anyone in history of war. Although separated by centuries between them, their principles, ideas, and theories are studied thoroughly by militaries across the world. Although they shared many of the same ideas, does not mean they were in total agreement. In fact their theories diverge in certain areas. The most diverged area amongst the two was their idea of reaching the end of victory. Sun Tzu defines victory as taking a state intact. He says it is better to capture the enemy then to destroy them. “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme skill.” Sun Tzu also states that you should not allow your enemies to come together; you should severe and destroy your enemies’ alliances. The preferred methods for success in these matters would be the use of diplomacy, propaganda, and secret agents. By undermining the enemy’s plans and allies in this way, the need for actual battle became unnecessary for victory (Sun Tzu, The Art of War, p. 78). Carl Von Clausewitz view on this is in total disagreement. He...
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...Alexia Gonzalez Political Science 4823: The Holocaust/ the Shoah Final Paper December 12, 2013 The Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Ethnic cleansing and genocide are considered to coexist in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. These threats were more prominent during the 20th century which caused massive violations of human rights and jeopardized the overall security of humans. Determinants of ethnic cleansing and genocide root from socio-political factors influenced by deeply embedded ideologies which are manifested by political leaders of specific regime types. During World War II, German authorities targeted Jews and other minority groups like the gypsies and Pols due to their perceived racial inferiority. The German ideology in attempt to eradicate these auxiliary groups led to the conflict known as the Shoah. The Shoah is the biblical word meaning destruction and it is the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry. The Shoah was the systematic, bureaucratic and state sponsored persecution of six million Jews. Comparable to other ethnic based genocides, Germans believed they were racially superior and that Jews were inferior; and deemed a threat to the “German racial community” resulting in their mass murder. Various interpretations of the Shoah has given rise to similar attitudes and opinions regarding its historical events. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, is one of the largest resources of its kind which includes...
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...McMurphy didn’t understand everything that went on in the ward, but it took courage to stick up to Nurse Ratched. There was an immense amount of control and fear going on in the ward and McMurphy stepped right in and tried to change what was happening. The men trusted McMurphy and in the end they started to understand that he sacrificed himself to help the men regain who they were, which shows his character. McMurphy, a man with no knowledge of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, helped Chief Bromden see through the cloudy fog that brought him in and out of reality to a point where he decided that he was sick of the ward. McMurphy had an impact on the men that no one else had, and it taught them that everyone is a little crazy but they were certified crazies and they didn’t belong in a mental...
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...Use Clausewitz’s “paradoxical trinity” to analyze a specific war from the H100 block. Which of the three magnets of Clausewitz’s paradoxical trinity is most important for understanding that particular conflict? “The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle… It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.” Ecclesiates 9:11 is an often cited passage of the bible used to explain the unexplainable or as an excuse for failure. I will allow that circumstances will always arise (whether in war or everyday life) that could not be predicted; however, the relative reaction to those circumstances is what separates the truly great from the merely average. I will show in this paper that the ability to creatively control ‘chance’ is the single most important factor of Carl von Clausewitz’s paradoxical trinity in understanding the greatness of Napoleon Bonapart. He called this ability in a battlefield situation, ‘military genius’ and although Clausewitz believed in the equity of the three points in his trinity, I would posit that the ability to successfully apply military ingenuity and initiative to the probabilities and uncertainties of war is what was ultimately the deciding factor in the Napoleonic Wars. A closer look at the Battles at Austerlitz, Borodino and Waterloo will demonstrate the role of chance and the military genius in victory and defeat. It is necessary first to briefly explain Clausewitz’s...
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...TERRORISM, WAR, PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS FACULTY GUIDEBAC 445 FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY OPTIONS BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will explore ethical, theoretical, and practical questions relating to terrorism, the engagement of war, cultural and ethnic conflicts. This course will explore why we wage war, the development of terrorism and its impact on societies, society’s quest for peace and the methods attempted to achieve peace. This course will also explore the concept of human rights and how terrorism and war impact these rights. © Copyright Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO, January 2007. COURSE OVERVIEW TOPICS • Historic and philosophical positions on war • Contemporary moral foundations on war • Human rights • Terrorism • Humanitarian intervention and preemptive war • Religious positions on war • Toward a theory of just peace COURSE OVERVIEW INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO FACULTY The subjects of war, peace, terrorism and human rights are daily fare in the media. While people form strong opinions on these matters and tend to regard them as right or wrong, many do not have the skills to analyze and clearly articulate a rationale for their positions. The purpose of this course is thus twofold: to equip students with the ethical theories needed to make a judgment...
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...Battle of Brandywine. This battle possessed the opportunity to defend Philadelphia and stopping the British advancement at least for a short time. The American loss at Brandywine was due to the British executing a number of the essential premises of war better than the American troops. In the Battle of Brandywine, the British used the element of surprise and outmaneuvered George Washington’s plan and was the reason why Philadelphia was overrun by the British. In the defense of Philadelphia, the capital, George Washington selected Chadds Ford as the location for the battle. He liked the tactical advantage the high ground offered his troops and was confident the British Army could be stopped. Washington centralized his troops at Chadds Ford and other fords around the area. The British commander, General Sir William Howe, recognized Washington’s goal of defending the other fords and Chadds Ford. In response, General Howe sent a small section of his army with instructions to make it appear as if they would meet the American troops at Chadds Ford. In the meantime, the rest of the army marched to a ford that was not being protected and flanked Washington’s men to the south. On September 11, 1777, the battle occurred. Between the fog and reports from reconnaissance teams that varied greatly, Washington was confused as to the location and size of the enemy troops. He sincerely believed that all of Howe’s troops would attack from Chadds Creek. The British’s main element seized...
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...Features 4. Conclusion 5. Bibliography Quitz 1 1. Introduction When Navarre Scott Momaday first published his award-winning novel House Made of Dawn, literary critics celebrated the book as the Renaissance of Native American Literature. The novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, has influenced both readers and well-known Native American writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko or Sherman Alexie since its first publication. Moreover, it has certainly made the success of Native American Literature possible. This is one of the reasons why Momaday can be considered as the “dean of Native American writers“ (Hager 2). House Made of Dawn is about Abel, a young Native American who returns home to Walatowa from World War II. There, he struggles to reintegrate into the tribal community as he is torn between two different worlds. On the one hand, it is the traditional environment of his pueblo where life depends very much on the rhythm of the seasons. On the other hand it is the world of a modern and industrialized America. As one of the first Native American writers, Momaday combines both native and non-native features of storytelling in House Made of Dawn. Throughout the years, many fields of this complex and ambiguous novel have been interpreted by a remarkable number of...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date An analysis of the film Apocalypse Now The Apocalypse Now is an outwardly delightful, weighty perfect work of art with surrealistic and typical arrangements itemizing the disarray, roughness, dread, and nightmarish franticness of the Vietnam War. On first look, Apocalypse Now may resemble a war film or maybe even a dramatization. It felt like a thriller, loathsomeness, an epic and also a film that was past the typical limitations classification to me. O'Donnell (p 19) points out that lighting is as a key segment in the film close by fogs and shadows. The general appearance of the film is dull and shadowy concerning the subject of war and the faint experience that the officers grasp in that. As the enterprise begins, the lights are steadily raised. Willard starts his vessel ride in nightfall. However, as the excursion gets more profound, the movie gets gloomy, the shadows get maintained, and light is darkened. The movie’s lighting is profoundly illustrative of the risks of the conflict in the wilderness and the allegorical voyage that the warriors attempt in the otherworldly domain. The vessel, relevantly named "Erebus" (the dim locale of the netherworld, the one that the dead must go before they achieve Hell; the underworld), is not lit by any stretch of the imagination, yet is the only asylum in the profound wilderness around. The lights are flashy and difficult to the eyes (Hell’s fire) whereas the blacks are demanding to the...
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...Few inventions have changed how people live and experience the world as deeply as the invention of the airplane. During the both World Wars, government subsidies and demands for new airplanes vastly improved techniques for designing and building them. Following the Second World War, the first commercial airplane routes were set up in Europe. The industry has progressed to the point now where it would be hard to think of life without air travel. It has shortened travel time and altered our concept of distance, making it possible for us to visit and conduct business in places once considered remote. If the airline industry could be described in three words, they would be "intensely competitive market." In recent years there has been an industry-wide shakedown will have far-reaching effects on the industry’s trend towards expanding domestic and international services. Originally, the airline industry was either partly or wholly government owned. This is still true in many countries, but in the United States all major airlines are private. This airline industry is classified into four categories by the Department of Transportation (DOT): International - 130+ seat planes that have the ability to take passengers just about anywhere in the world. Companies in this category typically have annual revenue of $1 Billion or more. National - usually these airlines seat 100-150 people and have revenues between $100 million and $1 billion. Regional - companies with revenues...
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...Davon Keppel Professor Todd Craig English 112 3/19/16 What Is Happening to The Message? Throughout history, poets were known for telling the people what was going on in either their country or town. Hip-hop was born as a descendant from poetry. But as it began its craze was due to the DJ scratching different beats together. As the DJ began to like the music they created it became background sound to the lyrical Emcee. Everyone wanted to know what the Emcee had to say and how they would rhyme. I have noticed that the positive message in the Emcees rhyme’s and political statements that rap music started with began to deteriorate over time. It was as though hip hop went from talking about what was going on currently in a positive way, to rappers encouraging violence as promoting a negative message. Since the 1980’s to current time there has been a persistent problem of how hip-hop has changed. Grand Master Flash’s “The Message” is a sociopolitical rap song that is truly about poverty and how inner city life was in America in 1982. The first verse speaks to the apparent struggle in his time, “Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice”. Many people at the time, even though their surroundings were not safe, had no money to move away. Another verse from Master Flash “Rats in the front room, roaches in the back/ Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat” is a light way to show the public what is going on in some neighborhoods. In the 1980’s there was a crack epidemic...
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...whole nation has been of great concern and called urgently for efficient actions to fight against smog. The Chinese government has released several policies to manage the smog, ranging from limitation on private vehicles to closing heavily polluting factories or removing them away from the urban areas. However, the goal of cutting pollutants emission has not been achieved, since the sky in Beijing is still covered by dark smog occasionally. This essay will firstly discuss Northern China’s smog problem and how the politicians reacted to it. Following this, it will concentrate on Beijing’s air quality, since Beijing is universally considered as the cultural, educational and economic center of China. In order to understand comprehensively, the analysis will contain Beijing’s temporal situation and characteristics of air quality in Beijing, also examine the effect of Chinese implementation against smog crisis. Finally, it will shed some lights on the future trends. Northern China’s smog problem As a side effect of fast economic development and industrialization in the last three decades, China, especially Northern China, nowadays faces a tough battle against the prevalent, lingering and deteriorating smog pollution. However, it is not the first time for smog problem to raise wide awareness. Dating back to...
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...How to Tell a True War Story from The Things They Carried In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh." True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis. For example: War is hell. As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can't believe it with my stomach. Nothing turns inside. It comes down to gut instinct. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe. This one does it for me. I've told it before - many times, many versions - but here's what actually happened. We crossed that river and marched west into the mountains. On the third day, my friend Curt Lemon stepped on a boobytrapped artillery round. He was playing catch with Rat Kiley, laughing, and then he was dead. The trees were thick; it took nearly an hour to cut an LZ for the dustoff. Later, higher in the mountains, we came across a baby VC water buffalo. What it was doing there I don't know - no farms, no paddies - but we chased it down and, got a rope around it and led it along to a deserted village where we set up for the night. After supper Rat Kiley went over and stroked its nose. He opened up a can of C rations, pork and beans, but the baby buffalo...
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