Munich massacre

In 1974 Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tested the obedience of ordinary people. The experiment began with three participants: • The “Proctor” (Milgram’s helper who controlled the experiment) • The “Learner” (The accomplice to the experiment who acted as though he was being shocked upon giving an incorrect answer) • The “Teacher” (This was the unknowing true subject of the experiment. He was the person who thought that he was truly administering shocks to the learner upon receiving an…

One of the most regretful and saddest battles in american and indian history is the Wounded knee massacre, Wounded Knee was the last battle that killed the last indian tribe. On the morning of December 29,1890, on wounded knee creek near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S Army opened fire on the encampment of a band of miniconjou and sioux indians. The beginning of this battle started when the american military forced the indians to live like and live with white men, the…

the ghost dance or even why they invaded our camp. We had to fight back but we couldn't do anything to stop them after they were in before we knew it. Sitting Bull had died a few weeks before the incident but that wasn’t gonna stop the dance. The massacre of Wounded Knee, also so called “The Ghost Dance” War happened because the U.S.felt threatened of all of these indians doing something that they didn’t understand or know what it melt. They can’t be blamed because how would they…

On December 29, 1890, the United States’ Seventh Cavalry surrounded a camp of Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months…

important and true information was missing due to the fact that certain parts of the war and America’s actions make America look in the wrong. An example of this is said by Loewen when he writes the quotation by John Kerry speaking of the My Lai massacre during Vietnam, saying “how American troops ‘had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads... cut off limbs ..randomly shot civilians(pg. 250)”. These acts had occurred during the Vietnam war and when the war was talked about in later years…

One of the worst cases of failed reporting of mental health checks was the Virginia Tech Massacre, in April 2007, where a Virginia Tech student named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others, then killed himself on the college campus in Blacksburg, Virginia (“Mental Health Reporting”). Cho bought a gun despite going through two background checks through licensed gun dealers and having a mental health history in the records that should have prevented him from receiving a gun.…

My story covers the topic of the shooting that took place at Northern Arizona University during the early hours of the morning on Friday, October 9. A freshman and pledge of Sigma Chi at the university became involved in a fight with other students around 1:20 a.m. He then proceeded to run to his car and picked up a handgun. He shot four members of the Delta Chi, another fraternity, multiple times, killing one of his victims. Students that attend the university were upset because the university…

I really enjoyed reading The Panic Virus, and believe it or not, I even more excited to write about it. I learned a lot while reading the book and I chose five out of the seven questions that I thought I knew the most about and also what I thought would be the most interesting to write about and do further research about. The five questions I chose were right in a row on the introduction sheet numbers 1 through 5. I am going to talk about the questions in the order they are listed. The first one…

By looking at the political weight of the My Lai Massacre, internal documents and the agenda of the House of Armed Services Committee, it is clear that Nixon initiated the campaign to sabotage the My Lai massacre trials to salvage his presidency and reunite the country at a vital moment during the Vietnam…

the United States. People had started calling out against the war, especially after the war crimes that the United States committed against Vietnamese citizens. The prominent and most widely talked about was the My Lai massacre, which opened the eyes of many people. The My Lai massacre was an important event in the Vietnam war that caused the citizens of the United States to have a strong doubt in their military which can still be felt today. The idea of the strategy of war had changed…