Another game that became very popular around the same time of Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness was Diablo. Diablo was released by Blizzard Entertainment, However the game was made by a small video game company named Condor and later be called Blizzard North after Blizzard Entertainment bought the company. Diablo was a dark “Hack and Slash” role playing game or RPG for short that put the player in a dungeon under a town of Tristram. The game included many things such as maps, dungeons,…
The US federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs. This equates to $500 per second spent on battling this epidemic. (New York Times 2014) From President Richard Nixon launching Operation Intercept 1 in 1969, Ronald Reagan’s Operation Condor in the early 1980’s to President Obama’s “narcoterrorism” in the 2000’s the US has a long standing battle against drug trade in Mexico. The War on Drugs contributes to multiple challenges in the United States; Health Care…
. In May 1984, he borrowed money from a co-worker and bounced several checks trying to repay him. In July 1984, Pollard’s supervisor received a letter of indebtedness from the Navy Federal Credit Union reporting that Pollard was delinquent in repaying a loan. His supervisor failed to report the letter to the OIC and did not record the financial troubles in Pollard’s file. In post-arrest interviews, Pollard claimed to have perceived anti-Israel/anti-Semitic sentiment from coworkers and…
choices made in preparation for and execution of the war. While each nation’s understanding and usage of air power differed, they all had to contend with projecting power across large distances while balancing the demands of competing theaters of operations. Additionally, each of the major belligerents was forced to consider their social and economic resources. The influence of air power on the strategic choices of the Allies and Axis powers can best be seen through the experiences of four…
Through 1964 to 1985 the world was in a clear divide between leaning towards communistic Russia and the democratic capitalistic United States. During this time many governments had fallen into turmoil due to the events from World War II. The world was scared that any international body could cause such disaster again. At the end of the war you war soon left with two options communist or not. With the United States and Russia emerging as the two largest international powers, each one had very…