Booby trap

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”(Churchill, Winston) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known as one of the greatest war time heroes of the twentieth century. He was also a British officer, author, historian, artist, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He had a strong influence in not just the United Kingdom, but all over the world. People have been inspired by his books, and his work in the army. Sir Winston…

Completely out-of-touch with his people, he fiddled the figures to produce a turnout for Saigon of over 650,000 when only around 425,000 were registered. This fiddling of elections showed what the Americans’ real priorities were – rather than focusing on installing democracy, they were focusing on not installing communism. In an almost entirely Buddhist country, Diêm was a devout Roman Catholic, one who favoured the rich landowners over the peasants – a mistake that, combined with his…

different world, there is so much to be concerned about. From media violence to child pornography to black markets (where people can buy illegal items and substances). The internet is like going into an open field stepping on booby traps randomly. You don 't know where the next trap is, viruses, pop ups, ads. Most parents are clueless about their children and the media (Children, Adolescents, and the Media). Which means that parents don 't know how much time their child spends on the electronic…

The Harsh Realities of War War is an unchanging human interaction that has been present in history for as long as humans have. Although every war has its own mitigating factors that started them and are fought by different people, the abstract concept of war has yet to change since humans fought each other with sticks and stones. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides specific insight into the effects War had on the soldiers of the American Alpha Company in the Vietnam War and…

Many people commonly associate archaeology with Indiana Jones, a risk taking adventurer who seeks distant lands to gather treasure. Booby traps and aggressive natives also concord with this instinctive fantasy. This is often not at all the case. Archaeologists are attributed to have curiosity, passion, determination and critical thinking skills. They take an unknown area of history and think to ask questions that no one has ever attempted to answer. How an archaeologist excavates an…

The Things They Carried: A Psychoanalytic Study The Things They Carried was published in 1990 by Tim O’Brien, approximately fifteen years after the United States departed from South Vietnam and twenty years after O’Brien left. Although at the time of publishment O’Brien hadn’t been in Vietnam for nearly two decades, the memories and stories he depicts within his novel are fresh and filled with colorful dialogue. The Things They Carried allows readers to view a minuscule portion of the brutality…

The first one was the North Vietnamese Army. They were a uniformed army that was similar to other armies. The other army was the Viet Cong. This was ununiformed militia fought on the behalf of North Vietnam. The would hide in villages, set up booby traps and use guerilla warfare. They dressed in normal attire and blended in with the villagers. Ths made it extremely difficult for the United States military to find these soldiers. Another challenge that made the war difficult was the terrain of…

Following after World War II, Berlin split in two and Tyranny was shown to prevail due to this. On the ninth of November after almost 30 years the wall was broken down put up by the Soviet Union. Tyranny from the Soviet Union led to the “overnight” building of the Division of Berlin. The Berlin wall was built to halt immigration but with research, it was proven that there's more than meets the eye. The wall didn't go up without a fight, at least once it was up. Protests along with conflicts rose…

Vietnam, the United States began to encounter problems in Vietnam with the Vietcong, the Vietnamese communist soldiers. The Vietcong used a style of fighting known as guerilla warfare, this means that tactics such as ambushes, blitz attacks, and booby traps were used to defeat their enemy. This worked because normally fighting would go on in dense jungle areas that the Viet Cong knew well. The United…

When diplomacy fails, war steps forward. Tensions may escalate dramatically to war until diplomacy works again. Since war is another political instrument, political outcomes should be the motive for the powerful military states to wage, escalate and terminate wars. But sometimes, and despite its military power, these states struggle to reach its political outcomes due to many factors that stand in the way of achieving political outcomes smoothly. For instance, military power restrictions and…