Lieutenant Colonel

Headshots: Violent video game and the targeting of our children The proliferation of violent subject matter in marketing and entertainment is nothing new. Mass media and its deluge of blood soaked mechanisms have long served as a form of entertainment for consumers in search of a release from their mundane lives. Multi-national corporations plot ways to hype their newest video game to consumers hungry for a more realistic experience. Game studios produce hyper-violent fairytales where humans…

not always cover up her look, and many knew her true identity as a female. Because many knew of her true gender including the General of her troops, she had a difficult time gaining appreciation. However, she was eventually granted the title of lieutenant. (Salas, p.…

CIVIL WAR It was not until the Civil War that there was a large number of African Americans in the military. When the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, many African Americans wanted to join the Union army. Sometime in 1862 Colonel Higginson from Massachusetts was given command of the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. They were the first United States regimen made up of slaves. By the end of the Civil War, there were over 180,000 African Americans who had…

Tikita Tikita: The story of an apolitical music in a politically charged time Punta is upbeat music with lyrics that are mostly about having a good time. What was happening in the country to necessitate this musical distraction? Time between the late 1960s up until 1990 were eventful times in Honduras in which the country was going through cultural, economic and political changes. The question being was that punta an escape for its listeners, as escape from the unstable affairs of Honduras.…

The Korean War The Korean War, a war that started out with a quick victory in mind, quickly became a war with between the two superpowers of its current generation. With communism hoping to spread to all corners of the world, only thing stopping it is democracy, it laid its sight on South Korea. A war that showed no promising result for both sides, yet committed over 1.3 million casualties. The war ended with both sides receive severe losses and gained very little in return. This war showed the…

Videos and social media posts pour out of East Aleppo, and the world weeps. For the seven-year-old girl facing her death, for the man seeking prayers as a bomb explodes in the distance, for the activist pleading, “Save Aleppo. Save humanity.” The aerial footage of the city is apocalyptic, but it is the images of individuals grasping for hope as they face death that has truly captured and horrified the masses. We have seen this before: the figures leaping from the World Trade Center, the story of…

Mountain man, Indian agent, soldier, and freemason describe one of the most famous people to ever set foot in New Mexico. Who was Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson and was his role in New Mexican History so important? Kit Carson was born on Christmas Eve in 1809 and he became one of the most famous men in the American West. He was raised on the Missouri Frontier. It was dangerous living on these lands and his family was afraid that Native Americans would attack them and their cabin. Carson's…

Violent Video Games in a Violence Saturated World Video games have come a long way since Pong first showed up in the 1970’s and even farther since the first known video game, Tennis for Two, was created by Physicist William Higinbotham to be used as a science display in the 1950’s. When that simple game was unveiled to visitors, long lines formed full of people wanting to try this new technology. They would press a button to whack a tennis ball over a net represented by a couple of white…

John Brown; hero, criminal, or insane? John Brown was a 19th-century belligerent abolitionist who is well known for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. Growing up with a father who strongly disapproved of slavery, Brown was highly motivated in creating a slave insurrection. He strongly believed in violently taking care of entities. The actions taken upon by John Brown led others to view him in different ways. His work led him to…

This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. The key sources chosen to support this investigation are a book of compiled historical information from the United States Department of the Interior and an interview of a Native American woman that lived through both the Black Hills Gold Rush and the Great Sioux War. These are relevant because one has access to an extensive database of government…