Division I

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down” -Malcolm X. I’m certain that every sane person reading this has never wanted to literally kill someone. We all joke around saying “I’m going to kill you!!” but obviously, we never actually do. What if that actually meant something? What if we really are going to kill you? This has happened many times in this course of human events; and it is by no means wrong to have such serious thoughts. This is not only on the singular person scale,…

life. Throughout the movie Jason also, receives flashbacks of his previous life, which caused him to gain his memory quicker than normal. Most individuals will gradually start to decipher flashbacks and gain their memory back. Based on my knowledge, I believe with different methods to jog Jason Bourne’s memory, will eventually help him recall more aspects of his previous life. One factual way Jason Bourne could’ve recovered from retrograde amnesia would be therapy. Therapy could help create new…

“Ronald Reagan owned the first eight years of the 1980’s. He set the national agenda, defined most of the terms of the national dialogue, and dominated what passed for national political debate… he had more pervasive impact on the country than anyone since Franklin D. Roosevelt” (Reagan 1). So when Reagan began supporting the Contras during the Nicaraguan Civil War it was a major political topic. The civil war in Nicaragua became a personal mission for Reagan. Reagan saw the Contras as freedom…

In 1948, within NSC 10/2, George Kenna surmised that covert actions are “planned and conducted that any U.S. government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the U.S. Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them” (Johnson 2007). This statement entrenched a high standard for future covert operations to strive to remain clandestine, which is a seemingly improbable feat to achieve. Indeed, most covert operations have the intention to…

Cuba. Initially, they overwhelmed the local militia, however, within a few days, they surrendered and were put into Cuban prisons. On April 21st, President John F. Kennedy acknowledged the failure of the mission and laid the blame on himself. However, I argue that by evaluating the Bay of Pigs Invasion through the lens of the cognitive approach, we will be better able to understand the failure of the mission and the reasoning behind the decision itself. The cognitive approach to studying the…

ONE morning in the mid year of 1999, 47 individuals were captured in the Texas Panhandle town of Tulia and accused of managing cocaine. From the begin, the arraignments ought to have seemed suspicious. The majority of those captured were dark; in truth they spoke to one in each five dark grown-ups in Tulia. Is it safe to say that it was truly dependable that such a noteworthy extent of a little group were merchants? What's more, who were they managing to? They were blamed for managing in…

themselves and others they associate with. Kathryn Bigelow’s style includes challenging the expectations of the audience and exploring the impacts of certain war-related behaviours on relationships. When viewing The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty I applied the practice of reading for Bigelow’s style using the principle of auteur theory, this provided me…

defend our nation against a relentless opponent during WWII. The Army has always fought great battles against its enemy. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were tests of our nation’s might. To this day, our nation has the strongest forces ever. I believe it is because of our special operations forces; the Navy Seals, the Delta Forces, the Green Berets (special forces), Civil Affairs, and the only special operations aviation in the military; the 160th Special…

Transnational terrorism consists of individuals and or groups who organize acts of violence across national boundaries. These individuals are not native to the country in which they attack but are the ones responsible for the missions. For example, on September 11, 2001 the was carried out by 19 Islamic radicals who were members of the infamous terrorism group Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was managed and controlled by a Yemeni Kindite national known as Osama bin Laden who was known as the leader of…

From Nicaragua to Guatemala, The Philippines to The Middle East, U.S. covert operations have played a significant role in past conflicts. The implementation and impact of these operations can be seen in many different instances, but the most noteworthy occurred during the Vietnam War. From 1963 to 1975 The CIA, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam(MACV), and other defense and intelligence agencies planned and conducted countless counterinsurgency and covert operations in Vietnam and the…