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Americans and to use derogatory remarks against them. After McVeigh failed to make the Green Berets, he left the military. Without…

He set many examples for me to go by in my career as a Green Beret. This helped me tremendously when I would become an instructor during the Small Unit Tactics (SUT) phase of the Special Forces Qualification Course. Learning from MSG Rick helped me to be a better instructor. I learned from him how to teach, coach, and mentor future Green Berets. Since the SUT phase not only emphasized tactics, but leadership as well, this payed off for me and my students…

What was booming in the 1960's? Television? Sports? Film? Trick question, many things were going down in business. The money and efforts were focused on other things happening. The film industry especially, went down in business in the 60's. In the 60's, film was affected by the Vietnam War. In historical news in the 60's was the Vietnam War. The American population was greatly against this force of action. The memories of the war are still to vivid today. Most historians are detached in their…

Diana Vreeland, a known “empress of fashion”, once said, “Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes” (LeTrent 19). Fashion is generally defined as the clothing and accessories that are worn by individuals. Even though fashion seems like a simple and insignificant topic, fashion impacts almost every aspect of our society. Fashion reveals not only cultural changes that are occurring in society, but…

Chicano is a very common word in a Mexican American population dense area. Many say that the word Chicano is slang for Mexicano, and others say it’s a unique way to call those first-born Americans that come from Mexican parents. To historians and sociologists, the word “Chicano” was used for those who struggled between identifying themselves as Mexicans or as Americans. This word represents everything that we’ve overcome since WWII and before that. This word first came as a movement, The Chicano…

The film First Blood is first film in a series about John Rambo, a discharged green beret who struggles to assimilate into society and by failing to do so causes mass chaos. The film’s director is Ted Kotcheff, a director who got his start in England directing a film in 1957. Kotcheff has received praise for his role in increasing the film industry in Canada, Rotten Tomatoes states that Kotcheff should receive credit for, “all but single-handedly turned that country's film industry around”.…

“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. (Tom Clancy)” The Ministry for State Security or simply know as the Stasi had maintained a tight grip over the people of the German Democratic republic, or GDR, with the use of spies and constant surveillance over it’s people. The Stasi is still known today as one of the most effective intelligence…

On Saturday February 6, 2016, one day before Super Bowl Fifty; Beyoncé Knowles released a music video for her new song “Formation .” Filmed in New Orleans with the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina as a backdrop. The video featured a scenes where Beyoncé sits atop a half-submerged police car that continues sinking. Giving a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “at the end of the clip, a line of riot-gear-clad police officers surrender, hands raised, to a dancing black child in a hoodie,…

heard. In this Chicano History class we also talked about Rodolfo Gonzales also known as Corky Gonzales. He played an important role as a political activist as he was the one that led the first ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969. The Brown Berets started as a group of high school students which also played a huge role because they did demonstrations, had massive walkouts ,and became a national organization. They fought for what they believed…

She wants to move on from the Clinton scandal and get on with her life. At the end of the article, she ends with a great conclusion:“No longer. It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. And move forward.” It uses symbolism, but also proves her point as well. The beret and blue dress are symbols of her old life. They are symbols of the time she spent hiding after the Clinton scandal. Times she spent accepting the things people said about her. She burns them now…