Normandy

Our Scars of Opportunity For years I have harbored a secret – one that has guided my life. It is the reason I gaze at my scars – and smile. It provides the reassurance to face adversities – our Achilles’ heel. Indirectly, we learn through the adversities we face every day and only through these adversities. True education is only received through “what goes counter to you,” as French writer Andre Gide deemed. Some may argue that our current education structure relies on a…

Throughout learning human history, we have learned that how a single person can affect whole humanity in different ways. When it comes to classifying those historic figures who influenced humankind enormously, there are two main categories: heroes and villains. Heroes and villains performed entirely different, and those consequences are distinctive. According to Maya Angelou, a hero is any person really intent on making a better place for all people. The statement proves that a hero is who…

A Normandy-type amphibious landing would have cost an estimated million casualties. Truman believed that the bombs saved Japanese lives as well. Prolonging the war was not an option for the President. Over 3,500, Japanese kamikaze raids had already wrought…

Summary of Ghost Army The ghost army can be credited for some of the most successful missions that took place during WW2 and yet most people have never heard of them. They emerged during WW2 as a secret tactical deception unit that had one goal: fool the nazi’s. Using inflatable tanks, sound effects, and other militia, the ghost army was able to carry out 22 deceptions and successfully fool the Nazi’s on numerous occasions. The inspiration for the unit came from the British who had used similar…

There are various ways to understand and explain reality depending on the ontological and epistemological positions of each author. The opus magnum of Niccolo Machiavelli could be a perfect example to illustrate these positions. In this sense, and as David Marsh and Paul Furlong (2002) argue, “ontological questions are prior because they deal with the very nature of being; literally an ontology is a theory of being”. In an attempt to identify an ontological position in The Prince and in any…

King John of England, also known as John Lackland, was born either in late 1166 or early 1167 at the Tower of London. He was the youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, the latter controlling a ‘territory that stretched from the pyrenees in the south of France to the very borders of Scotland’. His father held considerable claims of territories at the time, and was part of a Royal House known as the Angevins. Due to the size of his controlled lands, they collectively became known…

MOBILITY & SURVIVALITY BOS Rommel’s initial recommendations for the refutation of the Atlantic Wall consisted of descriptions of where the Allies would land and why, and how to best use Germany’s limited resources to fight off the intruder. Rommel’s recommendations consisted of massive minefields, foreshore obstacles such as concrete bunkers and underwater devices, and air–landing obstacles. The use of minefields as a means of defense for the Atlantic Wall was influenced by Rommel’s campaign…

By June of 1944, the Allies had succeeded in capturing Rome. Canadian forces continued to fight in Italy until February of 1945. C. D-Day and the Normandy Invasion 1. More than thirty thousand Canadian troops were involved in D-Day, the day scheduled for the Allied invasion of Europe. 2. American forces were to attack at the western end of Normandy Beach, and British and Canadian troops were to land farther to the…

two do not have a correlation. And although this stereotype has slowly faded, there is still an association of witches and women. Richard Hutton helps support the argument of male witches with his evidence from areas such as Finland, Iceland, and Normandy (Hutton 123). In these areas the main group of people accused were male and these societies had the same social structures as the ones where women were the main gender being accused (Hutton 123). Hutton helps to expose how men are apart of…

It had been just little over fifty years since the march in Birmingham, Alabama. Its largest group of participants were children, known as the Children’s Crusade. The SNCC was created just a few years prior to the Children’s Crusade after they became tired of waiting for King to make his next move. Children from all over the North and South would travel miles to participant in different campaigns, the most important being the march in Birmingham, the “Freedom Riders”, and Sit-Ins. If it were not…