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Social progression would not be possible without the doing of individuals coming together to take necessary stands in order to improve living circumstances for those who are or were oppressed. Homosexuality was not an idea that was popularly accepted and grew to be controversial when it first surfaced society. Many of those who characterized themselves faced tremendous discrimination solely because of the fact they went against societal norms. In the year 1969 of June, a group of LGBTQ…

special briefing paper titled “Chilean Executions” that they passed along to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when they found out that the events were happening.1 It was estimated that more than “13,500 Chilean citizens had been rounded up through raids and mass arrests aimed at officials of the deposed Popular Unity government, political activists, labor unions, factory workers, and shanty town dwellers.”2 It was said that they there were around twenty detention camps throughout the nation in…

The purpose of the French was to cut the supply lines of the Viet Minh and to maintain a base to use for attacks and raids against enemy forces. To counter this effort the Viet Minh cut all the Supply roads and only transported supplies through the air. To kick off the battle the Viet Minh surprised the French by surrounding the base with 40,000 men. They placed heavy…

Canadian confederation was not attributed to nationalism, nor was it achieved through bloodshed. Canada’s dominion came to be, due to the conferences and negotiations that took place on the first of July of 1867 and then on from there. This paper will examine the aspect of the negotiations and conferences that led to the confederation, the focus however will be to identify how the United States was responsible for influencing the Canadian Confederation. This paper will identify and elaborate on…

Ambassador to Afghanistan leaves the National Security Council with few options. One of the options is to launch a rescue mission. Mr. President, I implore you to not take this course of action. Our military is very good at launching precision raids. Nonetheless, the ambassador is trapped in a car with terrorists. He is likely being held at gunpoint. If we launch a rescue mission, you will almost certainly have a dead Ambassador on your hands. The US has launched rescue missions before.…

COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY The Frankenstein and Grendel novels both contain the stories of some of literature’s most famous monsters. These monsters exist to remind the world of the pains of being an outsider and of the consequences of that pain. Grendel and the “Monster” from Frankenstein explored the realms of men in search for acceptance from the world only to be met with cruel rejection. Grendel in the novel and the “Monster” from Frankenstein although their stories written during different…

The Consequences of Preventing Change In the Chrysalids by John Wyndham, the people of Waknuk try to protect against change. They constantly protect against it but they never think about the consequences of this action. The consequences of trying to protect against change are, no progress or improvement is made, people become closed-minded, and when the inevitable change happens it is more violent. When people try to protect against change they make no progress or improvement in their…

The riot at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969 was an event that had a massive impact on the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) rights movement. The riot started because of a police raid on the bar, due to it being illegal to be a LGB person at that time, the people in the bar had grown tired of the raids and fought against the police. The people involved with the riot did this through its effects on the movement by creating advocacy groups and made changing how LGB people were treated by police.…

officers resemble those of the Nazis from Germany. Star Wars creator George Lucas even refers to Imperial officers as “Nazis”. Another similarity would be the Sand People, who are xenophobic natives that attack foreigners and raid moisture farms set up by locals. The night raids, killings, and kidnappings are similar to the actions of the Taliban (Ciscell). Other battles also inspired Lucas, like the fight of the Soviets attempting to stop the Nazi movement. In The Empire Strikes Back, we are…

Controversy was spread all over the United States due to slavery. In general the South was in favor of slavery, whereas the North was opposed to it. The North’s main argument in this controversy was “Free Soil” and that slavery hurt white men and the economy. The South, however, claimed that without slavery, it would not be able to have a stable society or economy. The North believed slavery hurt white men and must be stopped from expanding throughout the United states; the South argued that…