Destroyer

After facing Ras the Destroyer, Brother Clifton suggests to the narrator that "sometimes a man must plunge outside history...plunge outside, turn his back" or else risk insanity (Ellison 377). The pressure of the limelight of history has the potential to destroy one's hope, just as Clifton's hope in the Brotherhood was killed. By "plunging outside history," Clifton rejects the Brotherhood's ideology and denies the organization's importance to history. In becoming another man in "the void of…

defeated by people, although the monster seems undefeated at first. In the movie, Godzilla is killed by a prohibited technology called “oxygen destroyer”. The manufacturer of this technology destroys all the research data and chooses to suicide in the end because he doesn’t want the technology to get into the wrong hand. The destroy of the oxygen destroyer is a symbol of people’s aspiration of getting rid of all the hazardous weapons, like the nuclear weapons. It also paves a new path to the…

The Evacuation from Dunkirk was the largest, and most successful military evacuation in world history. Over 330,000 soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of France after a failed attempt at defending it from the Nazi occupation. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, the British sent soldiers to help in the defence of the country. German tactics and technology allowed the Nazis to beat back the French and the British to the coast line. Not being able to counter-attack, the British…

The fleet, led by Admiral Bertram Ramsay, was composed of 325 ships. This included destroyers, battleships, monitors, and cruisers. The convoy began to move across the English Channel just like they had practiced during Operation Tiger. However, this time the convoy was heavily protected for when the S-boats attack. When four S-boats did…

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” That’s what the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, recalled when he watched the first ever test of the atomic bomb. Many scientists who made the atomic bomb were against using it because of the amount of destruction they could cause. I’m going to explain to you what caused the start of the Manhattan Project, why it is called the Manhattan Project, the goals of the project, who were the people in charge, and why they dropped the…

Korea attacked South Korea, which in turn involved the United States. During the Vietnam war, however, the United States asked the Congress to send troops to South Vietnam because President Johnson claimed that North Vietnam attacked United States destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. The United States was attacked first in both wars, entailing the United States to assault the Soviet Union back. In both cases, the United States was…

Pablo Picasso it was the heavy critic of American intervention in Korea so that Massacre in Korea was considered as one of Picasso’s communist works. Communist of America was social political movement whose ultimate goal is to establishment of the communist society in Korea. Base on reading the history of this art work of Pablo Picasso that it posses strong reflection of first painting of the new age of Francisco Goya’s masterpiece The Third of May 1808 that derives the political statement…

aid, South Vietnam’s patrol boats were sent to collect data in an attempt to gather information to be used against the North (Vietnam: A Television). Because South Vietnam failed multiple times to gain information against the North, U.S sent in destroyers to the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was met with enemy fire because the Viet Cong were retaliating against attacks from the South the day before. Because the attacks were sudden, the U.S had no choice but to strike back…

first Canadian military response was made by the RCN less than two weeks after the outbreak of hostilities when three destroyers… set sail for the Far East.” “There was in total 3,621 officers and men and a total of eight ships of the Royal Canadian Navy had served in Korean waters.” The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) support the UN forces in many different ways. “The Canadian destroyers did things like blockading the enemy coast, preventing amphibious landings by the enemy, protecting aircraft…

Arelys Loriga Professor Theology 9 October 2015 Not religiously different after all In a world with many different countries, ethnicities, and cultures comes a variety of religious groups, such as Hinduism, Santeria, and Scientology. Religion is a sort of belief that people acquire from either a family tradition or personal beliefs. Religion tries to generate an explanation for many things, for example, why the earth was created and what purpose does human life have. Many people argue that…