Industrial warfare

For example, in World War Two they didn’t use trench warfare because it was too hard to overcome the conflict the first time. Instead, they used new tactics of war. One being Hitler’s surprise lightning attack on Poland. “It involved using fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces…

Results of the American Revolution Following the Indian and French War, Great Britain sought currency from colonist in America. Therefore, the British administration assigned taxes upon colonist. Great Britain believed settlers should compensation for warfare because it was fought halfway to protect the states. As a result, the Stamp Act was put in place, which required the buying of stamps for manufactured goods. Several settlers declined to compensate Britain. They negated to do so because the…

Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton discusses the industrial revolution through following the cotton industry. Beckert uses a global perspective to capture the foreign relations and disparities in a changing a world. Slavery is one of the elements of the cotton industry that cannot be avoided. Beckert sees the enslavement of people as only one part of a bigger strategy in having advantage in a revolutionizing market. Through an almost indirect approach, Beckert tackles slavery throughout…

People that lived during the Gilded Age experienced fierce divisions which caused distinct social classes. The poorest of these classes was the working class, consisting of society’s labor force. Despite working an average of 70-80 hours a week, most members of the working class “lived in constant poverty and economic insecurity” (1). It was common for families or single working men to live in dark apartments and overcrowded tenement houses. The driving factors behind the harsh living conditions…

In the beginning of the poem, he begins to expound on how his day was long and weary, saying it was “ The burnt-out ends of a smoky day” (Eliot). He also describes how It was long works days and Eliot’s tone shows how intricate the new found industrial life was. Not only does he show how long works days were, but he also shows difficult the work life was saying they worked behind “dingy shades” in “a thousand furnished room”(eliot). When placed in bad working conditions, people are brought…

The enlightenment spread across the world during the late 1600s up to the 1800s. During this movement, transportation and technology advanced, new economies were built, and methods of hunting and selling changed. This is from the variation of people that were coming into the new enlightened areas. These people were farmers, miners, hunters and trappers who had helped the new enlightened state emerge. In John Gasts’ American Progress, it shows a woman flying from east to west bringing the…

In 1983, the Cold War was in a heightened stated. Early in the year, Ronald Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech as justification for deploying NATO nuclear-armed missiles. The SDI or “Star Wars” plan was a sign of heightening tensions between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact ones. Other events, like the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines 007, Massive Nuclear Protests in Europe and the Able Archer exercises, were further signs of rising Cold War tensions. It was in this atmosphere that…

The Things they carried O’Brien’s story depicts a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War. The soldiers carry equipment, rations, weapons and personal items with them. Some of those items are a necessity such as the P-38 can openers, heat tabs, dog tags, ammunition, C-rations, guns and cigarettes. These are physical objects with a real measurable weight. O’Brien narrates the events and paints a picture of the burdens we do not see. Those invisible burdens the characters carry, are the…

soon starve from the inability to grow food (Consequences of a Large Nuclear War, 2016). It would be impossible for living organisms to survive the ever-changing temperature and precipitation; not to mention, the tremendous amounts of toxins and industrial chemicals emitted into the ground and atmosphere (Consequences of a Large Nuclear War, 2016). A nuclear war would definitely result in the massive decrease in the human population (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.). Even those…

Nuclear weapons have come into existence within the last decade. They have changed the way wars are fought as they could lead to the total extermination of humanity. These weapons can lead to mutual destruction of nations, which really have caused humans to reevaluate the way they conduct foreign affairs. Eric Schlosser’s article “Today’s nuclear dilemma” is about the nuclear weapons that countries control and what should be done with them. Schlosser argues that the current nuclear weapons…