British Invasion

Dave Schultz by Jesse Mendez The historical figure I am presenting is Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Dave was born on June 6, 1959 in Palo Alto, California to mother Dorsey and father Philip. When Dave was five he tried wrestling for the first time and hated it, and quit three weeks into it. As he got older around the age of nine to thirteen he started to put on a lot of weight and became overweight. Since he was an overweight kid in middle school kids had no mercy on him and often bullied him…

“The hardships and sufferings to which our nation is to be subjected hereafter will certainly be great… However, it is according to the dictates of time and fate for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is not sufferable” -Emperor Shōwa, “Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War,” August 14,1945 The date is September 2, 1945, the Second World War has finally ended and America officially established itself as a dominating world…

While sitting in a C-17 aircraft with an M4 in my hand and a full ruck of battle gear under my foot, I realize I am going into war for real. Even with the extremely loud airplane engine screaming in my ears, I can’t stop thinking how only three weeks ago my life had suddenly taken a drastic turn. It feels like a dream, yet it is so real. Thinking back, I could see a fresh new soldier just comes out of training standing in front of an in-processing desk with a lot of expectations about his new…

The meaning of freedom has changed a lot over the years. There are many who do not even care about anyone in the military or anyone that has served. Seth Thornblade was one who had served in the military. He didn’t have much time to see his little sister or family. He was always working and lived literally across the world from the United States. We Skyped only once a day and for 5 minutes. He never had any time for his family. It is not that he never liked to, he even said sorry to his family,…

With so much wrong in America today, I believe that it can only get better. Because many veterans struggle when they return from war, they will be provided with a variety of programs to help them deal with life after war. Shootings and other gun accidents will go down immensely, especially school shootings. People will not be living on the streets and go to bed hungry. Cars will be made cheaper and more efficient. I foresee changes like these in America’s future. When soldiers come back to…

the war and when the protesters were doing their acts of wanting the violence and the war to end. October 21, 1967 there was 100,000 protestors and four students were killed by the guard troops because they wanted to demonstrate against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia (Super 910). More than 58,000 people were killed or had gone missing during the war, 527 were wounded, and this cost the U.S. twenty-five billion dollars as a result. When the war was coming to an end there was about two thousand…

In the eyes of the government the Vietnam war was a worthy endeavour, at the time. The people however, were less than please that more of their young men were being shipped off to an unknown battle front. Protests were common throughout the country, even in the nation's own capital, Washington D.C. One More subtle example is Dorothy Day’s Union Square Speech. Dorothy Day, a journalist, activist and catholic convert, stressed that action should be taken against war, in the name of god. Even…

Geneva Convention Iraq Reevaluating the Geneva Convention The Geneva Convention originated in the year 1864, designing the main principals of the committee, and only 16 states were represented. That was only the first successful conference as the quickly gained reorganization. They hosted many well-known conferences like the convention in 1907, which talked about adapting the principles of the convention on the wounded and sick, and the convention of 1929 that discussed the rights of prisoners…

Stereotypes regarding public opinion of wars are often disputed throughout many facets of society. Edward Luttwak makes the argument that the primary factor affecting public opinion is the loss of American lives. Recent polling data makes the opposing argument; that public opinion is reliant on several factors. This essay will look at each perspective and then analyze how the arguments align themselves, if at all, in regards to the same issue; drone warfare. In “Toward Post-Heroic Warfare”,…

The film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Don Siegel is a classic science fiction horror film, published in 1956. The film shocked the world, and made a huge impression on audiences. The shocks from the audiences created a slang word, “pod person,” which means a person who pretends to be someone else. In Siegel’s film, Invasions of the Body Snatchers, took place in a small village in California. One day, the mysterious alien creature pods appeared in the village. The pods abducted the…