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that the hero needs to face. The guide is often wise and gives the hero advice, wisdom, and knowledge to help the hero progress in their adventure. The supernatural aid can also be a symbolic aid to the hero. In Billy Jack, the aids are his green beret training, his indian background which provides him with spiritual strength, and his personality and character that helps him through the tough situations experienced throughout the movie. Billy Jack 's guides are the Chief that helped him through…

Savanna Walker, Assignment 8, July 11,2017  "Eisenhower Diplomacy: Guns, Butter, Nukes, and Space" In the Introduction lesson, the thesis seems to be that Eisenhower was so effective in the use of his power and influence that he managed things such as: a balanced budget, keeping the economy stable, the containment of communism, and ending the war in Korea. In 1952, Eisenhower only spent about 1/10 of our annual budget and the Soviets had spent so much money they had to choose between guns or…

his phots became iconic symbols of the struggle. He was instrumental in organizing student walkouts, a leader of the organization Catolicos por La Raza, and ran twice for California state legislature. Gloria Arellanes was associated with the brown berets but left due to sexism running rampant in that organization and became a strong leader of the Chicana feminist movement and organized a group called Adelitas de Aztlan. Rosalio Munoz was a key figure in the Chicano antiwar…

Sweet Heart of The Song Tra Bong In Tim O’Brien’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley, a superfluous storyteller, recounts the story of Mary Anne Bell, a sweet country girl who is shipped into the Vietnam War by her boyfriend, Mark Fossie. Once there, Mary Anne embraces the people, the culture, and the war and transforms. As Mary Anne is a character in the story, one can come to the conclusion that that is all she is, a character. But Mary Anne is much more, and in other ways less. Mary…

The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack that was carried out by Timothy McVeigh along with two co-conspirators. Timothy McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, in Pendleton, New York. McVeigh lived with both his parents until their divorce in 1978, after their divorce he mainly lived with his father during his school years. McVeigh 's nickname was "Noodle", he was a scrawny, nonathletic loner which left him a target for neighborhood bullies (Linder 2006). He began to develop an interest in…

After high school as a young adult I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do as a career and I what direction I wanted my life to take. I decided to try something different and enlist in the Army. While in the Army as a recruit I made a life altering decision to volunteer for the 75th Ranger Regiment. Nothing has had a stronger impact on my life than my 9 years in the Ranger Regiment because there I learned that if I put my mind to a task I could succeed, I found a career field that I am good at and…

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; this very popular phrase is from The Declaration of Independence, listing the unalienable rights of the future citizens of America. However, long after America gained her independence, many people were still struggling to earn their basic right as being treated as a citizen. Because of this, the Black Panther Party was formed by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The logo of the party was simple in appearance yet powerful in design, in order to call out…

Vietnam was definitely not a popular war with the American public and unlike the time in and around World War II, producers stayed away from making any movies during that time. There was one John Wayne classic from 1968 titled The Green Berets that was produced that even portrayed that dislike of the war. A main character in the movie was that of a reporter that was very critical of not only the war, but in some cases the soldiers fighting in the war. John Wayne was able though to put…

California at Los Angeles (UCLA); Sal Baldenegro of the University of Arizona; Ernesto Vigil of the Crusade for Justice in Denver; and Manuel Gomez, a former member of MASA” (Acuna 322). The National Chicano Moratorium Committee formed by the Brown Berets hold its first demonstration on December 20, 1969. The group staged a protest on that 6000 Chicanos participated on February 28, 1970. On the morning of August 29, Chicanos from all over the U.S arrived at East Los Angeles to protest the…

Girl taken on June 8,1972. This photograph illustrates the dramatic elements of Vietnam through the use of imagery. The photo of the naked girl demonstrated the war’s inhumanity that would forever be stapled into the national consciousness and woven into the cultural awareness surrounding Vietnam. These photographs were able to tell a personal story through images and not words. Absent in these stories were political twistedness and manipulation. These primary sources and narratives would…