Invasion of Grenada

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. —Charles Swindoll” Entrepreneur https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247213 Due to the war, Ishmael needs to react in a certain way for him to stay alive. During all of chapter eight, it is just Ishmael reacting to what the war has come down to for him. He is all by himself in a forest and has to find ways to survive. In order to stay alive, Ishmael needs to find food, water, and somewhere to sleep fast. So to conquer his hunger…

The Cosa Nostra formulated the Sicilian Mafia Commission or “La Cupula” to resolve intermafia issues. In 1962, La Cupula was formed between all of the Cosa Nostra bosses. La Cupula was instrumental in ending the first Mafia War. Keeping the peace between the Mafia bosses was a tough task, but it was necessary in order to complete political actions. As long as the mafiosos could cooperate and not give up other mafiosos positions, the entire operation would benefit. This was all that was…

This documentary was mainly about the start of the war on terror due to the 9/11 attack in New York City. At first I thought this would be reliant on Bush and his actions taken before, during, and after the war. This documentary wasn’t about Bush nearly as much as I had thought, but mainly about Cheney and Rumsfeld. This documentary showed the actions of the White House as well as outside contributors, and what happened in Iraq due to these actions. The war on terror started out great.…

Humanity has strived, even survived off of progress. It is what drives our evolution and continues to ameliorate ourselves. In Adlerian psychology, it is theorized that the main strife in any given individual is to progress and improve themselves, as well as the society in which they reside. Considering this, we may have taken progression to a damaging level. Innovation is a delicate and ambivalent matter that must be taken cautiously. It is both beautiful and terrible, and the outcome is solely…

Tree Of Heaven Thomas Hairston, Laura Drake, Will Young, Joanna Sanford, Skyler de Regt, Boyd Anderson PSS 3133 Introduction Ailanthus altissma or more commonly known as the Tree of Heaven was introduced to the United States as an ornamental. The Tree of Heaven originated in Northeastern and Central China and Taiwan. It was introduced to the U.S. in 1748 by a Pennsylvania gardener. The Tree of Heaven is a deciduous tree that can reach 80 ft. and 6 ft. in diameter. It has smooth pale gray…

When looking at the data provided, the trends of native-species increase in the restored area and the abundance of exotic species seen in the degraded areas provides an idea of how effective the restoration efforts where at restoring them to the reference site. To begin, the data provided in table 5 gives an idea of the distribution of the number of species found at each site, and how much of a contrast is shown between the restored and degraded areas and how they compare to the reference site.…

Specifically, Delsol claims that “man is the imperfect being who imperfectly directs himself through perfection” and “what characterizes man is not any unity that is finally, perfected achieved, but the activity and effort undertaken in view of unity, the action by which he progresses toward communion without ever completely realizing it.” The importance communicated by Delsol here is that people seek unity through recognizing each other for differences, not becoming replicas of one another.…

The Involvement of Iraq is a Lesson the US Need to Learn Since the end of World War II, the US have been intervening on the region and country of the Middle East more than anywhere else in the world. Americans consider the Middle East as a luxurious region to settle due to the high quantity of oil found in that region. Despite the vast amount of economic and political change to many Arab country doing that period, The US created different foreign policy. These different policies have seemed as…

The ‘Postmodern’ War Karmasin et al. (2013), believes that under the premises of globalization and digitization, we are once again witnessing a change in the technical possibilities of communication, which will in turn bring about change in the nature of warfare (xiii). “Wars are no longer fought by regular armies only but also by paramilitary groups, criminals and regular armed forces alike (Karmasin et al., 2013, xiii). Stephan Russ-Mohl (2013) argues that in a globalized world, media…

The film, The Fog of War, is about a life experience of Robert McNamara who is a former Secretary of Defense, President of Ford Motor Company , and President of World Bank. McNamara reflects back on his life and shares 11 lessons he had learned as he lived and served during one of the most dark times of human history. He aims to show McNamara describes the event of Cuban Missile Crisis to demonstrate how opposing nations can come to an agreement without resorting to a war that could…