Cold Turkey

Bordetella pertussis, also known as whooping cough is a bacterial infection of the upper respiratory system. Symptoms range from that of a common cold too short periods of apnea and in extreme cases death. Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that can affect anyone but is more common in children and in infants. Although this disease is preventable and treatable it is currently and continually on the rise. The whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. B.…

the PRC also knows as the Sino- soviet split happen due to the difference of political ideas and ideological relation between the people republic of china (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the period of the Cold War. During the Cold War both the USSR and China was the largest communist nation in the entire world. The split between the USSR and the PRC was the first and most serious confrontation to arise in the communist world at that time. The growing tension…

The Cost of Freedom As Americans continue to heavily rely on digital means of media and communication, surveillance over the population becomes easier than ever for the government to carry out. One of the main institutions created in the United States to gather intelligence is the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA monitors the phone calls, emails, text messages, contacts, photos, video calls, and many other aspects of digital communication utilized in today’s world as a means to protect…

America had a head start in the nuclear realm, and its political leaders would use it to their advantage to avoid another WWI or Korea. The way they attempted to accomplish was by creating numerous treaties with nations that surrounded USSR and China. This was Eisenhower’s administration’s diplomatic approach to stopping another Soviet influenced attack on the “Free World”. The second solution was to take advantage of the US technological prowess. The United States in the earlier 1950s and 1960s…

During the Cold War the United States helped only the allies that they viewed as “strategically important” (Bueno de Mesuita and Smith 2009; Boschini and Olofsgard). Using Lake’s statement that an aided state gives up some of its power to the aiding state for “protection and other services”, the U.S. has an increased security interest in the states it provides aid to. The survival of these states against threats directly influences how much aid is provided as seen during the Cold War in Honduras…

The most important topics discussed in this debate were the Cold War civil rights in the south. When asked whether we are doing as well as we should be in the cold war, Nixon first says that we will never be doing as well as we should be in the cold war. Then he says that we are doing very well, despite other opinions. American prestige is as high as it has ever been and Communist prestige is very low.…

important American role in preserving a “semblance of global order”. For Kagan, reliance and resentment for American international dominance are not new. He argues that current resentment is a result of the expansion of American dominance in the post-Cold War era and the talks about a multipolar system and European…

Hearts and Minds begins with footage on a village that is northwest of Saigon in Vietnam named Hung Dinh. Without any type of introduction the film starts off in this setting and leaves its viewer unexpectant of what is to come. You see the activities of farming, children running around, and other normal day to day activites. What seems as a calm and normal environment for villagers to live there lives has a unexpected future in hold. The documentary follows this by showing rare footage dating…

The rhetoric of the Cold War portrayed the United States as leading the fight for freedom against a repressive, evil, and totalitarian regime. This regime was portrayed as ultimately wishing to instill its methods of repression on the rest of the free world. So the strategy employed could be considered one of containment. This strategy, in practice, meant making sure Soviet influence was stifled in all free countries. This practice was found in Central and South America. Through military…

The Things They Carried is a fictional account of the nature of men during the Vietnam War. The power of the novel comes from the blurring of the line between fiction and non-fiction. O’Brien used his actual memoir as a Vietnam soldier with a collection of what appears to be fictional short stories that he attributed to the members of his platoon. This style of writing shows that sometimes a person 's subjective thoughts and feelings about an event, which O 'Brien calls story-truth, is more…