Call of Duty: World at War

besides, cleaning their husbands houses, raising their children, or making dinner was absurd. Throughout America, women were viewed as fragile and dimwitted, and nothing a woman said was taken seriously. However, when too many men left to fight in World War Two, more women were pressured into working “male” jobs. These male jobs were usually labor-forced industry jobs. Many women were convinced that working these jobs was a patriotic act from wartime propaganda, so many women…

In 1984 by George Orwell and Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, both governments obtain and sustain complete control over its citizens by breaking down the innate meaning of family and community. The Oceanian government and the Soviet Union instill fear into bonded relationships- through the threat of the obliteration of the individual physically and morally- with the totalitarian systems’ powers only threatened by the formation and renewal of these relationships. In both novels, the totalitarian…

repeat itself with links between global relations and the illegal opium markets. As in 1970’America President Richard Nixon made a decision to declare a nationwide “war on drugs” in an attempt to target dissident groups who were canvassing support against the Vietnam War. Nixon was in the middle of what we would now call a culture war (dvd 3). This action brought about both intended and unintended consequences. With the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and its crackdown…

causing harm to the country during their presidency. For instance, President George Washington role as president had a lot of significance because he was Commander and Chief of his army and led them into the Revolutionary War. He presided over the Constitutional Convention after the war, and he became the first president of the United States. Even though President George Washington was president of the United States, he encountered a few failures but also had many successes. In my research I…

Video games have been in the lives of American lives since 1970 . Many children and adults feel entertained by all the different consoles and video games there are to play. The constant marketing and exposure of video games, make it so easy for children to gain access and knowledge about them. Some consoles offer the single player the opportunity to invite online players to play with them, making the experience more appealing. Many video games can be categorized in genres just like movies.…

Desire” is a story that takes place in New Orleans following the Civil War. It consists of a character named Blanche who represents the old south trying to fit into the new. The film “Unfinished Nation” talks about how the old south became known as the antebellum period during the 19th century. The film also talks about how, the social and economic life of the wealthy was very privileged and held unrealistic ideals in their world of fantasy. People who were in the middle class and lower class…

George Orwell, a pseudonym for communist Eric Blair, was a prominent, political writer in the post-World War II era who eminently opposed totalitarian states. In 1984, he fabricates a dystopian society where the citizens are desolated of their humanity and that of the individual does not exist. The novel takes place in Oceania in Airstrip One, where the Party and its leader, Big Brother, seek absolute power over these citizens. Consequently, the suppression of innate urges, encouraged through…

Historically, the human race has not done a great job enforcing and protecting human rights. From serfdom to slavery and using rape as a weapon of war, humans are capable of terrible acts against their fellow humans. That is not the extent of the violations, which can include things like suppressing minorities and denying them access to rights that we in modern times feel are basic. And these violations still occur on a daily basis. Clearly then, someone or something must take charge and pursue…

formed because Mexicans were disregarded by the American Federation of Labor. There were also allies such as the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party. One particular agricultural labor organization, the Confederación de Uniónes Obreras Mexicanos (CUOM), focused on issues of pay and conditions but also “combined advocacy of class struggle with calls for the preservation of an autonomous cultural community in the United States” (Glenn 178). Division of race, class, and gender…

and student, the two have had interesting propinquity yet gradually they came to disagreements amongst their viewpoints. Plato concluded that the highest reality was the forms, or ideas, while Aristotle refuted such concepts, claiming the physical world to be the most real. Rooted in different philosophical origins, the two began to build vast networks of ideals, often having completely different conclusions as to how to accomplish day to day activities in practicality. One of the most important…