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obtained the hydrogen bomb. This was extremely important as in the post war era defense entailed the protection of Western Europe against the threat of Soviet invasion. Britain played a huge role in this. This occurrence is now famously known as The Cold War. The next aspect that was changed was the moral codes. The moral codes in 1945 no longer are considered appropriate. This was because of the legal changes that occurred in the 1960’s. Homosexuality and abortion became legal, they got rid of…

The Bay of Pigs Invasion, which also occurred during the Cold War, was an invasion of Cuba by 1500 Cubans who were exiled by Fidel Castro in 1961; this invasion was funded by the U.S. government and had been planned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1960 (“Bay of Pigs”). This plan was initially decided by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but was finalized by the recently inaugurated President John F. Kennedy (“Bay of Pigs”). This incident ultimately lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis of…

immediately and the worst is that there are many wars occurring in different places of the world simultaneously. The major problem about wars is that it violates human rights. There was no war in the history of humanity, in which no one died. Even if Cold War was the edge of the real nuclear…

to an end and a new threat was emerging in the world. Communism was spreading and spearheading the movement was the Soviet Union. This was very worrisome for all who opposed communist rule. There were many events and spans of time that shaped the cold war and caused the United States and its allies to adapt. I chose three that really stuck out to me. I chose the Korean war, the red scare, and the space race. These were only three crises but they changed the landscape of the world greatly. …

Sometimes bad things happen to good people because of the wickedness of others. In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, he writes a detailed account of murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that shows this type of wickedness by sharing the graphic details of the murders. Charged with murdering a family of four in cold blood with no true motive, the heartlessness and evilness of the two killers is inarguable. Truman Capote also shows their humanity, which draws sympathy from his readers.…

In Cold Blood recounts the story of the actual murder of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. Taking place in 1959 the book tells of the murder of the Clutter family, Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage kids, Kenyon and Nancy, we also get to see the events that lead the killers to commit the chilling murder. Living in Holcomb, Kansas, November of 1959, the family was brutally killed, with no apparent motive, by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The family was discovered bound and shot to…

The contraposition between the US and USSR in the cold was prominently expressed in terms of military capabilities: how many and what type of weapons were the Soviets acquiring, what technological improvements they were working on, and how would they use them. With the technological advancement of the US collection methods, the analysis of the Soviet capabilities became fairly accurate and realistic, especially due to the fact that the large forces, weaponry and military exercises or deployments…

Plot/Structure: From the begininng of the novel, one can already see that a murder is going to happen, for Part I is labeled as “The Last to See Them Alive.” Capote, through his vast descriptives, takes his time to get to the murder scene itself. He takes the time to describe the town of Holcomb and the Clutter family, as well as introducing the murderers themselves, before telling about the crime. Capote describes the day that the Clutters died, from the start of the day until its end in great…

Throughout the 20th century, there were many sources of major conflict. From World War I, to World War II, to the Cold War, the world has often been at war, both ideologically and militarily. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, American President George W. Bush declared a new war, called the War on Terror, a fight against terrorist groups in the Middle East (The White House's Coalition Information Center). A coalition lead by the United States is at war with one of these terrorist groups known as…

criminal instead one thinks about the victim. There are only a few people who take the time to study the criminal in hopes of learning more about what motivated that individual to commit the crime. One such person was Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, who took the time to acquaint himself with Perry Smith. Perry Smith was one of the criminals, along with Richard Hickock, charged with the murder of the Clutter family. The Clutter's murder took the whole town by surprise, however once…