Napalm

The Vietnam War The Vietnam war was the first war that the United States of America lost. This war was one of the bloodiest that the United States had fought since the civil war. A total of around fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed, three hundred fifty thousand were wounded, and two thousand were captured as Prisoners of War. The Vietnam War was utterly devastating for our troops and potentially for our country. Robert J.McMahon states in his book, Major Problems in the History of the…

Strategy and Tactics are a pivotal part of both old and modern warfare, remaining fairly consistent due to the influence of Napoleonic Warfare that dominated Europe. Carl von Clausewitz defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war"1. Strategy and tactics have contributed greatly to changing the nature of warfare having varying levels of effect during the wars between 1845 and 1991. This can in part be attributed to significant advances in technology as well as…

THESIS Pictures that are impactful, timely and contribute significant news value cannot be discounted due to their violent nature. Shocking and violent photographs have the power to garner public interest and provoke social change. Patt Blue from the International Center of Photography writes, “reality is not a framed and frozen image - it is chaos, loud, dirty, and grossly disorganized” and so we should expect our news photography to properly showcase that. While many aspiring journalists drift…

Death is a part of life which affects everyone in various ways. Therefore, people find different ways to cope with their loss. The poems ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Prayer before Birth’ by Louis MacNeice, ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ by Alice Walker, ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe, ‘Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas and ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti explore and present different attitudes of death. ‘War Photographer’, ‘Prayer before Birth’, ‘Do Not Go…

How does the work of Banksy illustrate the changing role of graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the…

small percentage of the German fighting force. d. that there was very little loss of life. e. the German use of blitzkrieg on the battlefield. 7. A new and potent defensive weapon in World War I was a. the automatic pistol. b. poison gas. c. napalm. d. the helicopter. e. the machine gun.* 8. The most significant naval battle of the Great War was the a. Battle of the Marne. b. Battle of the Boyne. c. Battle of Jutland.* d. sinking of the Lusitania. e. sinking of the Titanic. 9.…