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individualistic pride developed by countless generations of hobos was immediately undermined by state run welfare programs whose promise of free money heralded amoral behavior in a vulnerable population. In the aftermath of the Second World War, rising Cold war tensions created a culture of fear that heralded non-traditional behavior as antithetical to the American way of life. As the author describes from his own experiences, when walking out in the Arizona desert he was stopped by multiple…

By taking his friend the war took away his goodness and he now wanted cold revenge upon this buffalo when it had done nothing to him. Rat started shooting the buffalo all over so it felt every single piece of the pain he had felt, systematically shooting every possible appendage. One of his platoon mates Mitchel Sander responds…

The feudal Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was all fought based on world dominance and who could control most in their sphere of influence. Once McCarthyism began to truly appeal to the average American citizen, Senator Joseph McCarthy began…

The art of war is a strategdy guide dealing which deals with military, emphasizes the necessity of a state. It also promotes the concept regarding armed citizenry. It’s a matter of life or death, either used to provide safety or to ruin the safety of others. The book was written in China by a man named as Sun Tzu in 4th century. There was no greater war leader and strategist than Chinese military general Sun Tzu. It’s a complete military strategy guide that covers many types of strategy and…

Exponential Innovations: The Tensions of The Cold War The world was thrust into the Atomic era by Fat Boy and Little Man, the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII (Nelson 212). These bombs served as a demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear…

Since the 1920s, Soviet communist advisors had been sent to help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) become organized and carry out the communist revolution, but the Soviet communist advisors’ advice almost led to the complete and utter destruction of the Chinese communists at the hands of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, hereafter KMT). Another issue between the two parties was the fact that Mao based his communism on the idea of the mobilization of the Chinese peasantry, which was not…

Westmoreland initiated an aggressive training schedule to prepare the Rakkasans for future deployments against the North Korean Army and Chinese. This training also included training jumps that he also joined in on and on one jump his chute failed to open until the last minute nearly killing…

On the 25th June the fragile peace in Korea was shattered when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea and ultimately leading to a conflict that would span three years and cost an estimated 2.5 million lives. Korea had been liberated from Japanese control in 1945 by Soviet troops who moved down into the north of the country and US troops who landed in the south. After this the country was divided along the 38th parallel of latitude until the country could be…

payload that I feel forever changed history; Sputnik. The man who was behind the success was Sergei Korolev, he alone spearheaded the development of the R7, pushed for the launch of Sputnik, and several other accomplishments. “The road to the stars is open.” (Sergei Korolev, 1957) Matter in fact the USSR feared that if America learned of his identity he would be assassinated, so until his death very few knew his name, fewer knew his face; he was truly the “Invisible Man”. Though over the years…

A few days ago I finished reading Jonathan Swift’s classic work of satirical narrative, which was made into numerous cartoon and even film versions--Gulliver’s Travels. It has been a few months now since I made it a goal to read at least one ancient or classic literature in a month, and it’s nice to read and re-read these classics that welled from great literary minds of both the Western and non-Western traditions. While I find Gulliver’s story for the most part entertaining, I also find it hard…