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Careful analysis of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and Harold Moore’s and Joseph Galloway’s “We Were Soldiers Once… And Young” reveals two markedly different portrayals of the United States’ army during the Vietnam War. This change mirrors the dwindling optimism of the American people from Moore and Galloway’s account of the 1965 Battle of la Drang and O’Brien’s more comprehensive account of the later stages of the war and post-war period. While O’Brien, Moore, and Galloway all served…

and brave person he was to be able to find a good hiding spot and then also keep quiet enough to escape the smart Vietnamese enemy. Another character that I really thought was important was Captain Matt Dillon. He was one of the leaders under the Bravo Company alongside General Herren. Dillion gets mentioned in a Dawn Attack where the US soldiers were completely caught off guard and didn't know what to do. Dillion seemed very relaxed though this whole process and continued to follow orders even…

Colonel Magnus was furious over the loss of the team at the airport. He ordered the culprits that were responsible hunted down and executed. He became even angrier when the reports came in that they couldn’t find those responsible for the attack. Not only were his men killed, but all of the aircraft that they could have potentially used were destroyed. However, the Colonel recognized there would be other opportunities to gather aircraft, since they were now headed to Harrisburg, which was the…

2.1 Ageratum conyzoides Ageratum is derived from Greek word, which is “a geras” meaning non-aging, referring to the longevity of the flowers or the whole plant. The word “conyzoides” is derived from word “konyz” meaning resembles (M.X et al., 2016). Ageratum conyzoides is belongs to the Asteraceae family. Plant species in this family are herbaceous plants which trees and shrubs are rare. This plant is very common in West Africa and Asia. It has softly hairy stems and leaves, erect and branched…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

into those who cook for a living by hosting celebrities on its cooking shows (Harris & Guiffre, 2015). That increasing interest in chefs has also been observed in the growing number of cooking shows streamed on other networks, such as NBC, Fox, and BRAVO, that were not originally interested in food (Pearlman, 2013). Besides, the spread of food blogs and websites have allowed diners to share pictures of meals they had in a popular restaurant, track restaurant openings, or even critically and…

How could one country destroy the land and lifestyle of another in the name of peace? Bikini Atoll is located 850 kilometers northwest of Majuro on the northern fringe of the Marshall Islands and it has more than 23 islands and islets. The four islands are Bikini, Eneu, Nam and Enidrik. Out of the four islands, Bikini and Eneu were the only islands that have had a permanent population. On August 1945, United States dropped two nuclear weapons in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 120,000…

then able to return in the 1970s but had to leave again in 1978 due to consuming high levels of radiation from eating foods grown in the radioactive soil (Agence France-Press in Majuro, 2014). One of the first bombs that was used is the 15-megatonne Bravo, this was a thousand times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, that meant it left thousands vulnerable to radioactive fallout in the surrounding area (Agence France-Press in Majuro, 2014). A recent nuclear disaster happened in…

Codenamed the “Manhattan Project,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 was the single-biggest military construction project in history (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). Responsible for approximately 200,000 casualties, the atomic bomb left a path of total destruction and devastation in these two major Japanese cities (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). It was the only time nuclear weapons had been used on civilization, which gave us a true idea of what the effects…

the two countries. The border between Mexico and the United States spans six Mexican states and four US States (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas). In addition, there are forty five Mexico-US crossings, 330 ports of entry, two rivers, Rio Bravo and Colorado and two deserts, the Sanoran and the Chihuahuan that straddle both countries. According to the Migration Information Source, in 2004, 660,000 passengers and 12,338 trucks crossed the border every day. (Los Angeles Times 2012)…