Barbed wire

government, and even Khrushchev had begun joking that “soon there [would be] no one left in the GDR except Ulbricht (the German Communist leader) and his mistress.” In order to maintain a functioning sector, on the night of August 12- 1961, a low barbed wire wall was placed between East and West Berlin, splitting the city in two, and dividing thousands of families as a result. This “Wall Of Shame”, allegedly, was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the…

The article Fourth generation operations: principles for the ‘Long War’ written by Michael J. Artelli and Richard F. Deckro is a fantastic article that goes over the ways in which strategies or war have changed over the years and have adapted and built off of each other to give armies a better advantage. This article specifically talks about the ways that the fourth generation of war operations came to be as well as how it is used today. The article does an excellent job of talking about the…

temperature was 98 with a heat index of 105 and it didn’t help that we left at noon. I look at the gate of the orphanage with suspicion, it clearly had a fresh coat of black paint, and colorful flowers grew on a vine about the gate, intertwined with the barbed wire that went around the wall of the property. This place does not look like it belongs in Haiti, at least not that part of Haiti that I am in. Michael, our translator, knocked on the gate and yelled over the gate in Creole, the native…

Background/ Early Years Louis “Louie” Zamperini, “the son of Italian immigrants, who had come into the world of Olean, New York on January 26, 1917” was “eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire” (5 Hillenbrand). The Zamperinis soon decided to move to Torrance, California when Louie was three for his father’s job as a railroad electrician. Louie grew up in Torrance with his parents, older brother, and two younger sisters. Louie was the second of four…

The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands began. There would be no more ocean liners taking refugees to America anymore, so the Blumenthals, as said before, were truly trapped. Daily roll calls began, barbed-wire fences were put up, and Westerbork became a transit camp where more than 100,000 jews were sent to Auschwitz, in Poland. Auschwitz was called, “the death camp” and for good reason. Here was where many jews met death in gas chambers. They were given…

closed. Our house is almost at the edge of the seam. I only have to pass a few gates to reach the scruffy field called the Meadow. Separating, the Meadow from the woods, in fact enclosing all of District 12, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops.” The movie shows the seam during the morning of the reaping day resemble this description from the book. It was important for the movie to capture the essence that the reaping day causes. The reaping is not a happy occasion it is very…

Osama: I will sue the Hungarian Camerawoman, because of her I lost my chances to seek Asylum in Germany. “It wasn’t an easy trip" With these words began Osama, 52, his speech to the "Huffington Post Arabic," pointing out that what has increased the difficulty of his journey, “[the] foot trip made by the Hungarian Camerawoman [Petra László] in an attempt to stop me and my child Zaid from fleeing the [Hungarian] border police, she got us to the ground [and we were arrested] and that was the…

Life under Saddam Hussein in Iraq was full of immense terror, fear, and distrust. Political dissenters of the regime were forced into detention centers, facing some of the most inhumane treatment, while leaving their families in fear and question. First, Iraqi families of political dissenters in detention centers, such as the family of Amer, were left in fearful wondering on the condition of their loved one. Families were not given any news or updates on their loved one in prison, nor were…

1. This statement conveys a realistic message of how the world has become controlled by narrow-minded people. Paul refers to intolerant citizens who are oblivious and desensitized to what the final consequences could be. They often desire to achieve what they have set in mind. For instance, small-minded people attain this by using cleverness and convincing phrases. This generalization relates to Paul’s schoolmaster, Kantorek. He can express his thoughts in a sophisticated manner in relation to…

At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was divided into the East and West in an attempt to prevent Germany from starting a third World War. However, this solution was not wanted by many countries; it was merely a compromise. Thus came the German Question. No one would give in and agree to unify Germany, especially the United States and the Soviet Union because the Cold War had just begun. The U.S. was afraid that if they gave in then communism would spread. At the time, leader of…