...Women in the Revolutionary war took on many roles. Women did things like nursing, cooking, and maids to more direct roles such as secret soldiers and spies, women did more than their share to help win America’s independence. One important woman was Abigail Adams. Abigail was one of our country’s greatest silent heroes. She went through war, pain, hardship, disease, and much more for the sake of the country she loved so much. Abigail Adams was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She married John Adams. He was the future president of the United States. Together they had six children. One of their children is still living today. Most of her marriage was spent at home while her husband was traveling. While the British fired on Boston’s harbor and...
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...Michał Duch Vietcong - The Guerrilla Fighters The Vietnam War was extremely specific conflict. The Americans possessed enormous army, huge amounts of money to spare and latest technology inventions. Vietcong, on the other hand fought using underground tactics with an underground army without modern equipment and air support. Here comes up following issue, namely, why Americans had so many difficulties with defeating Vietcong? To begin with, Vietcong fought using specific strategy called “guerilla war” (it is a warfare based on military actions where small mobile forces prepare ambushes and fight using unexpected tactics). Vietnamese used different tricks to surprise and eliminate American troops and vehicles. They ambushed US patrols using booby traps and landmines, civilian towns were often full of skillfully planted bombs. Common practice used by Vietcong soldiers was mingling with peasants to confuse Americans. US soldiers had serious difficulties with identifying who was real enemy. Another commonly used Vietcong tactic was called “hanging onto the belts”. The aim of this method was to stay in short distance with Americans. As a result US soldiers could not call an artillery backup because there was a risk of killing ally units. Vietcong troops were significantly supplied by Russia and China. Both countries provided them with weapons and rockets. In order to transport equipment safely Vietnamese used The Ho Chi Minh...
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...On January 18, 1788, the first park touched base in Botany Bay, Joseph Banks had proclaimed the right to punitive province after returning from a trip there in 1770. Skipper Arthur Phillip, the authority of the army, brought a small gathering of Marines and sailors on land, however, discovered the area inadmissible on the grounds that the port area was dangerous and needed fresh water. (The Oxford Companion to Australian History). The army then moved to Port Jackson. On January 21, 1788 Phillip, with a meeting of officers and sailors, has reached a point in anonymity, agreed to be the Camp Cove waterfront (known as the "Caddy" to close individuals Cadigal ). This event means the first arrival of individuals within the First Fleet in Port Jackson,...
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...the American 20th Century War and peacetime are losing meaning in today’s society. Most of the time, the standing army is active in some way. This is due to the U.S. involvement in foreign affairs. Fort Bragg just outside of Fayetteville, NC is a great example of this. What used to be peacetime is now time to prepare for the next war. This leaves distinction between the two almost impossible for the people in Fayetteville, who generally see war games played out sometimes involving the city. Due to this and the non-violence of the Cold War, civilians find it impossible to find distinctions between war and peace. Lutz explains in her narrative how our society is losing the time between wars once called peacetime. Now a days this time is used to prepare for the next war, as in war games, training and military exercises. These all put a major strain on society, especially ones that become involved with the war games, etc. This was apparent in Exercise Flash Burn. Here Fort Bragg was running a war game to practice for nuclear war. On maps used for the games, neighboring Fayetteville was dubbed “Pineland”. The local newspaper would cover these games generally in the “style of Reader’s Digest, ‘Humor in Uniform’: Soldiers participating in the games had mishaps as they bellied up to snakes in the woods or were bested by pickpockets on their bus trip in. And some featured a sporty rooting for the home boys against the ‘Aggressor Forces’” (page 88). This shows the interaction...
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...In the Book In the Movie Aliens are called Buggers Aliens are called Formics Ender eats pudding at lunch Ender eats a brownie at lunch Ender proves his dominance by killing those that bullied him including Stilson and Bonzo. He doesn't kill them. Ender starts the story as a 6 year old and at the end he is in his early teens. He is the same teenager through out the story. Ender hacks his chat feature on his desk to send the message, "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. - God" He sends the message "Bernard is living proof that they still send chimps into space." Bernard is friends with Bonzo and is with him when Ender kills him in the shower. He is not seen after that. Bernard bullies Ender, but eventually he joins Ender's jeesh. Ender breaks Bernard's arm when they are on the shuttle to battle school which leads Bernard to bully him. This doesn't happen. Peter was the character Locke there were no "Locke" character Valentine was the character Demosthenes. there were no "Demosthenes" character There were major parts which focused on Peter and Valentines involvement with politics no talk/plot of politics between Peter and Valentine After having his monitor removed he fought a bigger boy and Ender killed him we never learn of the boys fate but he appeared mostly OK. Ender fought Bonzo at Battle School he killed him. Bonzo was hurt and had a brain injury but lived. Ender never played the boy (he ended...
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...This film has a very wide variety of camera shots this includes the way the camera moves, the different angles of the camera, the scenes of how the fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia really took place. This presentation puts the audience in the galoshes of Delta Force members other military positions on both sides of the war. This shows you the nightmare,tragedy, and graphic sights the soldiers endured. It was declared by William Arnold that "Black Hawk Down is a terrific trip movie that like Private Ryan plops us right in the middle of a harrowing combat situation, and forces us to experience' it for ourselves, as if we were one of the jangled participants" (William). The first scene of this film, the music producers, headed by Hans Zimmer use an ethnic African setting, This is a style of music that relates to the people of the home land and makes the audience uneasy. The uneasy feeling is matched by a the blue color screen which makes the mood depressing, this also shows how the Somalia people felt at this time and all this is followed up by The camera showing a man lamenting on a lifeless body then fades to a black screen, after this it is clear to the audience how severe this situation...
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...THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY 1066 was a remarkable year, England had: 1. 3 kings : a) Edward the Confessor b) Harold Godwinson c) William Duke of Normandy 2. 2 battles: a) Battle of Stamford Bridge 25th September 1066 b) Battle of Hastings 14th Octuber 1066 3. 1 comet: Halley's comet The Norman conquest (from the norman point o view) It is 1064. In the Royal Palace of Westminster Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042, is talking to his brother-in-law Harold, Earls of Wessex. After this Harold, holding a haek, makes for the south coast with his followers and hunting dogs. Harold's ship is driven across the channel, to Ponthieu, noth of Normandy, the territory of the fierce Count Guy. Harold is shown twice. At the left he stands on the ship, ready to land. As soon as he climbs ddown, he is seized by the soldiers of Count Guy, who directs operations from horseback. Harold, now a prisoner, is treated with respect; he rides in front, with his hawk, towards Beaurain, Guy's capital town. Guy sits on his throne and speaks with Harold. New is brought to William tha Guy has seized Harold. Guy obeys William's order and takes Harold to meet him. Guy ponts to Harold; both men carry their hawks. Harold accompanies William and the Norman soldiers as they set off to fight Duke Conan of Brittany. They pass Mont St. Michel, and they hace to cross the river. They hold their shields above their heads. Some soldiers sink...
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...2*108 m/sec. Identify each of the variables in your equation. (c) If the distances between nodes were constant (D) and each node (end systems and routers are nodes) can transmit R bits per second, what would the equation in (b) look like? (d) In the Internet, which of these would you expect to remain constant and which of these would you expect to change. Explain (one sentence). Don’t look for an obscure answer – choose the most obvious answer. The number of routers in the Internet The distance between a ground station and a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The size of IP packets transmitted in any given HTTP session (i.e., Web browser connected to Web server). The average round-trip time in any Internet based client server application (round-trip time is the interval between the time you send a request and the time that you receive a response). Answer: a) The four components of delay in a communication delay are: Nodal processing: This is the delay that occurs at nodes due to the processing for bit errors and determining the output link. Queuing: This is the delay due to the packet waiting at output link for transmission. Transmission delay: This is the delay caused by the data rate of the link. Propagation...
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...beginning of the greatest of global conflicts. In 1931, the Japanese army invaded Manchuria, a northern province of China. In July 1937, the Japanese moved again, this time directly against the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek. The atrocities that followed shocked the world. Meanwhile, in 1936, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler moved aggressively into the Rhineland, previously a demilitarized zone, and in 1938, he incorporated Czechoslovakia and Austria into the Third Reich. By this time, the Western world was fully alert to the menace of the fanatically ambitious and confident Fuhrer. Then, in the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, Hitler sent his armies into Poland. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. Within a matter of weeks the Soviet Union, which had recently signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler, attacked Poland from the east. Within a month, Polish resistance collapsed, and Warsaw fell. World War II had begun. In general, the American people did not want to have any part in a European war. They felt protected by great oceans on both sides of the North American continent. And they felt that, in World War I, American boys had fought and bled in France mostly to make fortunes for munitions makers and arms merchants. Moreover, the United States had allowed its armed forces to wither in the 1920s and 1930, so that when World War II broke out in Europe, its army of 190,000 men ranked about eighteenth in the global rankings, about...
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...The Viet Cong fighting style was centered around sneakiness. Because the jungle around the trail was so thick, they had the advantage of knowing the land. Because of this they were able to launch attacks Americans were not expecting. They used booby traps as a main method of attacks. In 1964, the first infantry units from the People’s Army of Vietnam successfully navigated the trail and infiltrated into South Vietnam. The trail had a secondary purpose. To get troops, not just supplies into the south (Meissner). “By the end of the year about 1,800 men had infiltrated into South Vietnam by using the trail” (Ho 4). The Viet Cong used guerilla warfare during this war. They used tunnels under the trail to get around undetected, set booby traps and...
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...Unit Visit Report (RCA use only) Date of Visit: Last Visit Date: Unit Number: Unit Name: Parade Night: Parade Address: Type of Location: Unit Phone: 10-Apr-13 2072 Dryden Army Cadet Corps Wednesday 34 Queen Street, Dryden, ON Royal Canadian Legion 807-223-3348 REGIONAL CADET SUPPORT UNIT - CENTRAL Canadian Forces Base Borden Borden, Ontario L0M 1C0 Phone: 877-781-5217 Fax: 705 423-7015 Affiliated Unit: Sponsor: Internet Access: 116 Independent Field Artillery Royal Canadian Legion High Speed - Functioning Primary Staff (name/rank): CO: XO/DCO: Trg O: Admin O: Lt Scott SILVER O/Cdt FISHER Sup O: UCCMA: SSC/Support Chair Cox'n/RSM/SWO: Cdt/Sgt Terry SNIDER Secondary Staff: Name Position Rank Name Position Rank Unit Strength (on parade) : Personnel (Type) Officers/CIs Cadets Quota (CRCSO) 2 24 Males 1 12 On Parade Females 1 10 Total 2 22 Succession Plan: Successor CO: None yet as current CO just started DEC/12 Anticipated COC: CO Designate Training / Development Plan: CO Course in 2013-2014 depending on Holidays from Civilian Job. Version 2.0 - 14 May 2012 Page 1 of 3 Unit Staff Development / Training Needs: O/Cdt FISHER will be attending BOTC in June /13 and will be attend her environmental training within the following year. Unit Administrative Operations (Concerns / Issues / Initiatives): Fortess training ongoing. Unit Strengths / Challenges: Corps has a good staff and love the program with the exception...
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...SS-General Felix Steiner to move Army Detachment Steiner to Berlin to help defend the city had been dismissed, this failure to obey orders would have made Berlin a much easier city to take, being as it was an unexpected attack by the Russians. When Hitler was notified of his General’s actions (or lack of actions) he made a speech to the public saying that he’d stay in the city and then at the end he would shoot himself. Later on the same day, he asked his physician Dr. Werner Haase the most reliable method to commit suicide, Haase recommended the “pistol and poison method” and said that it was probably the safest. By the 27th of April Berlin had lost radio communication with all defending units, Führerbunker Command Staff had to rely on telephone communication...
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...The War Production Board banned private automobile manufacturing in February of 1942. Spare parts were virtually impossible to find now as well due to there being no need for them to be produced (Bailey 158). Even with the fuel rations and the drastic decrease in automobiles and automobile goods Americans still made due with what they had. They carpooled with their friends and family members to save gas and fuel rations so that they could make more trips to their workplace. Even with this sometimes they couldn't carpool so they had to use public transportation; sadly everyone else had this idea and soldiers moved from army base to army base using public transportation. This crowding of the train and bus stations caused them to be very slow and wait times to be very long, this causing people to be late to their destinations and the cars, when they did finally get on them, were very crammed and uncomfortable...
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...Title Children: The new face of terrorism Background Recruitment of children in armed conflict is an old phenomenon, which is rooted in the violent history of areas like Africa, Middle East and South East Asia, that had a progressive increase in arming and equipping children for terrorism. However the documentation of these images by the new wave of terrorism anarchist led in a smart way, reopened the case, which was controversial square elitist confined to the corridors between human rights organizations and international institutions related to the general phenomenon posed by the media without criticism. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is one of the numerous groups established in 1975, appeared to fight for the Tamil minority rights against the Sinhalese majority, looking for an independent habitat for Tamil people in the north and east of Sri Lanka. After the Indian Peace Keeping Force attack in October 1987, the LTTE began abducting and forcing large amounts of women and children (many under 15) to fight. Children were immediately trained for massed attacks in battles, they have been the LTTE leader’s most preferred recruits as they can be easily brain washed into suicide bomber, which was their main purpose. Over 90% of the LTTE cadre had been recruited as underage. Child soldering is considered one of the most heinous war crimes committed against humanity. UNICEF statistics indicate 1,591 cases against the LTTE up to end may2007. Once recruited either...
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...Battle of Ia Drang Valley The “Battle of Ia Drang Valley” took place 14 November through 18 November 1965. The battle was one of the first major battles of the Vietnam War. The battles location took place in South Vietnam where the Drang River flows into Cambodia. (Historynet) Since the Vietnam War had started, this territory had never been occupied because the enemy, People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), occupied much of the area. The battle waged on for five days between the United States 1st Cavalry Division and the People’s Army of Vietnam. From a macro level, the United States got involved with the Vietnam War from the fear that communism empires were going to spread throughout South-east Asia. As for the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, American military commanders took the approach that it was solely a search and destroy mission of the enemy. (MilitaryHistory) Each side had slightly different war aims. The United States wanted to fly into a landing zone (LZ) and reconnaissance the area so they could find the People’s Army of Vietnam and destroy enemy elements in South Vietnam. The People’s Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong wanted to hold onto their territory and stave off the American’s advance into their stronghold. (MilitaryHistory) The operational environment for the Battle of Ia Drang Valley had an overlying impact on how the rest of the Vietnam War was going to be fought. The American’s were going to fly into the Ia Drang Valley with the 1st Cavalry Division and...
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