Booby trap

The fall of the Berlin Wall not only symbolized the end of the Cold War, communism, and dictatorship in Eastern Germany, but it was also a great impact on European history. The Berlin Wall, despite its monstrous purpose, brought some positive consequences to the people of Germany. During the twenty-eight years the wall stood, many friendships and families were torn apart due to a physical separation, as well as metaphorical due to stigmas, controversies, and stereotypes. As the wall was built up…

War, as many people know, creates massive casualties of humans, hatred among humankind, and overall, catastrophe. Many soldiers, who are also the leading generation for our future, are forced to take part in what could be known as “homicide” as they would go on to kill their enemies, most of them belonging to same age. It is no wonder that the horribleness and atrocity of war is a common theme among poets. The literary works of Owen, Jarrell, and Komunyakaa asserts that war causes severe damages…

Introduction The Vietnam War changed America forever, being, without question, the most debatable incident in United States history. It lasted from 1955 to 1973, becoming the longest war fought in America’s history. In the words of John F. Kennedy, North Vietnam was only a “raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country”. The US could not permit the loss of Vietnam to the Communists. America used the Domino Theory as an argument pro the Vietnam War. They believed that if South Vietnam became…

Throughout history spanning from the Egyptians to the Middle Ages, all cultures have a different and distinct view on the representation of power through architecture and artworks. The six architectures/artworks that best describes their cultures view of power is The Great Pyramids, Parthenon, Augustus of prima porta, Hagia Sophia, Lindau Gospel bible, and the Notre Dame Church. The Great Pyramids were created by the Egyptians in 2551 – 2472 BC. The Great Pyramids were based on the…

A man with red curly hair walks through the door and sits in the front row. No one suspects him of anything. The lights go down; the room goes quite. Approximately twenty minutes into the movie, the man receives a phone call. He stands up and exits through an emergency exit leaving it propped open to return. A couple minutes later, he re-enters wearing a gas mask, SWAT gear and holding a shotgun, rifle, two pistols, and two cans of tear gas. Tossing the tear gas into the audience, they never…

since its inception. In the Korean War CWS units continued to conceal operations with smoke generation. In Vietnam, the CWS used Herbicides to take away enemy cover in the vast jungles. Flame devices were also used to clear large foliaged areas of booby traps and anti-personnel…

They would then undergo training to prepare for the battle ahead, and would be set loose into an arena-like area where they cannot escape and must fight each other to survive. On top of having to find resources and ways of staying alive, there are booby traps and creatures set upon them. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen, ends up being the last one standing is then crowned the victor and sent home to her district, District 12. This film give hints to the tale of Theseus and his slaying of the…

There might be secondary devices that will harm them (Emergency Response to Terrorism Self-Study, 1999). This could be done in several ways, including booby traps and the use of armed resistance with weapons. When terrorists use toxins, viruses, bacteria or other biological attacks can affect family members when the emergency responder goes home and is not aware they are infected. Terrorist attacks…

What A Soldier Carries Nowadays very few authors of fictional writings decide to use the mixture of fact and fiction in order to demonstrate the main ideas and themes of their writings. In the fictional novel The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien used the mixture of fact and fiction to demonstrate what the soldiers had to carry in and after the Vietnam War, and how these things affected their actions. The Things They Carried is a two hundred thirty three page novel that…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…