Biological warfare

Throughout history there is always one prevalent factor which we as individuals are oblivious to. What? You might ask. It is how our government, peers, and even our loved ones tend to circumscribe us to limited information due to numerous reasons. Throughout this book you will notice the specific forms of how deception, racism, secret government experiments and extraordinary characters impact the theme of hidden secrets in various situations. Author Chris Abani an exhilarating African American…

Wars of any kind can not only affect the physical state of soldiers but they also greatly affect their emotional state. The Vietnam War was no exception and it is seen many times throughout the The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien how the events of the war change the character’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. As the novel progresses and more of the stories are told, it is seen how damaging the war is to characters such as Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell, and Rat Kiley. Each of these characters…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a story about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. One of the characters by the name of Kiowa ends up dying in a field of sewage. While First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross believes it is his fault, a young soldier that Kiowa had grown close to also believes it is his fault as well. Their thoughts are both right, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and the young soldier are the ones to truly blame for Kiowa’s death. While neither one of them meant to get…

1. The novel begins in Nazca, Peru, in the year 454 BCE, as a mysterious creature commands native Peruvians who worship him to bury themselves alive along with a mysterious object that continuously bleeds without stopping. Then, in the year 2006, Todd Maddox is hired by Richard Ridley to work in his company Manifold Genetics as a researcher of human regeneration, mainly focusing on the Hydra, a mythological creature that Hercules fought during the second of his nine trials. Then, archaeologist…

Have you ever heard of the Manhattan Project? Well, the Manhattan Project was a project during World War 2, to build a nuclear weapon. President Truman briefly discussed the idea with Joseph Stalin. There were advantages and disadvantages to the way Truman broke the news to Stalin. In the Secretary of State James Byrnes' versions, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's version, and President Truman's version, they noted that that Stalin lacked emotion once President Truman mentioned it to…

The viking attack on Paris in 885 was a splendid representation of medieval warfare. Where the two sides met beforehand in order to attempt a relatively peaceful solution, where the viking Siegfried asked, basically, for all the goods of the city and the bishop responded with the obvious ‘no’. The battles themselves were showing how the defenders of Paris held their city from the vikings for just long enough so that Odo could return with aid from the emperor to finally drive off the vikings.…

Atomic Bomb The congregation of the Atomic Bomb is possibly one of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we…

The Manhattan Project Have you ever wondered what would happen if the most dangerous bomb ever was created? Atomic bombs are made of many things and take a lot of effort. Tests were made in the U.S. The Manhattan goal changed and evolved quickly,and secrecy was valued so much cities were created.Japan was devastated by the two bombs created by the project.The Manhattan Project is a project to research new science and technology. The final goal of the manhattan project changed quickly. The…

The United States and Britain were not justified in bombing cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, and Kassel which were bombed in Germany with a casualty rate anywhere from 10,000 in Kassel to 42,600 in Hamburg(OME). The USAAF and the RAF used strategic bombing in destroying what they believed to be military strong points, like industrial factories and military bases. The U.S believed that this would shorten the war by destroying all of there resources, the British…

I was born on February 28, 2001 in Kilmarnock, Virginia. I have a younger step-sister, Jolie and a little sister, Keira. When I was born I had a single mom working in Williamsburg, while my grandparents took care of me at home and an immature father cleaning pools in California. *Insert parent interview! However, my birth was not the only exciting thing to occur on this day. On February 28, in 1944 test pilot Reitsch pitched a suicide squad to Hitler, in 1953 Watson and Crick discovered chemical…