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D.C. Round 3 Captions B. Arlington National Cemetery, located in Arlington Virginia, has over 400,000 graves located at its site. If you are a soldier that dies on active duty, are a retired member of the armed forces, or a certain veteran or family member, you are eligible to be buried at Arlington national Cemetery. The site of the cemetery was where Robert E. Lee’s home was located until he was removed from it so that the land could become a cemetery. John F. Kennedy, William Howard Taft,…

lead up to the removal of troops in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War era, tensions were on the rise as anti-war efforts expanded and spread to college campuses all though out the country. At the height of the tension was the Kent State shooting, also known as the Kent State Massacre, which took place on May 4th 1970. The days that led up to May 4th were full of sit-ins, protests, and civil unrest as a reaction the President Nixon’s recent decision to put boots on the ground in…

Homeland Security Department According to the United States Government, Federal Agencies Department of Homeland Security website, The Homeland Security department was established in 2002 from a collaboration of 22 other departments and agencies. The homeland security is just what is names says it’s an agency that tries to find ways to improve security for America. Everyone knows that the military plays an important role in Homeland security, however there are a few parts to the department that…

I have a strong desire to become an officer in the United States Navy. To achieve this goal I wish to be accepted into Officer Candidate School where I will later graduate with a commission as an Ensign. I believe myself to be of both strong mind and body, and I accredit this to my commitment to my school, my work, and my training. I graduated top ten percent of my class in High School and Magna Cum Laude in college and I continually try to increase the diversity of my knowledge so to become a…

Porter Gross, or the new Director National Intelligence…

The period between 1945 and 1974 was a period of division of groups and countries while there were also protests of issues in the United States. Blacks wanted the Civil Rights they deserved, desegregating public places where they could have the same rights as whites. The world war altered the balance of powers in Europe, causing social and political alliances between different countries. The Wartime alliance, Soviet Union tried to take over Western Europe to establish a new regime in East…

commerce system. When the forces of General Justo José de Urquiza defeated him in a civil conflict, he fled to Great Britten to recluse himself in exile. In 1853 a new constitution was drafted and was patterned after the Constitution of the United States. It included the separation of powers, checks, and balances, and the right to own individual property. In 1954 Urquiza was elected president. From 1852 to 1916 Argentina was ruled by a liberal oligarchy that was fraught with corruption,…

In April 1917, the United States joined World War I with its allies—Britain, France and Russia. Despite that President Wilson proclaimed American neutrality and many Americans were not in favor of the United States entering the war, the United States finally did enter the war. So, why did the United States become involved in World War I and is it related to its growing power as an Empire? The main reason that the United States joined World War I because of the provocations by Germany and it is…

In many ways, the recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina were just as devastating as the storm itself. The United States currently uses a three-Tiered system consisting of State, Local, and National entities responsible for responding to natural disasters. Accordingly, these regional Commands have a responsibility to ensure that they are ready to respond to events of this magnitude. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, there can be faults found at every level. Perhaps the most telling fault…

in his biographical novel, Zeitoun, the experiences of a Muslim family during the chaos caused by Hurricane Katrina. Eggers’s purpose in his book is to address the inhumanity of discrimination within the foundations of a post-9/11 apocalyptic United States in order to impress upon his readers a sense of urgency to combat prejudice and advocate for justice. He adopts an indignant tone to pronounce his frustration and highlight the problematic influence of Islamophobia on a country that has…