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Torreon (Torreon, CRS 01/27/15, summary section). Regardless of whether the conflict is stand alone or part of a prolonged engagement and/or war period, a majority of these conflicts where American troops are involved do not have an associated authorization use of military force associated with them. To highlight this fact Mr. Timothy McGrath states that the United States is currently involved in 134 different operations in his 8 December 2014 article on US Foreign policy (McGrath, Global Post…

Just say no,” was a popular slogan when I was growing up. Throughout the 1980’s President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy created a powerful anti-drug campaign that used images like an egg representing a brain, and an egg frying for a brain on drugs. As a kid I couldn’t watch Saturday morning cartoons without being bombarded with anti-drug advertisements. Today kids get a different kind of message, not all drugs are bad regardless of the law. They are getting this message through the…

Racheal Orr Mr.LaForge US Civics May 19, 2017 The Hippie Counterculture A counterculture is a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or variance with the prevailing social norm. The biggest counterculture in America is known as the 1960’s Hippie era. The Beatnik or “Hippie” era was between the 1950s and 1960s and ended towards the end of the vietnam war. The hippies were mainly white, educated, young adults, who were born after World War II and the Great Depression (A.K.A. Baby Boomers).…

My Lai:The Causes and Morals Zak Brustman The My Lai massacre was a result of a long and grueling war that conditioned the American soldiers to see the vietnamese not as the people they were sent to protect, but as potential threats. The Vietnam war cultivated a culture of fear within the American troops, leading to rash behavior in the field. Racism, fear, ignorance, ambiguous orders, and a lack of training all contributed to the My Lai massacre,…

Based on my research of George H.W. Bush, I do think he was a very good and influential leader. I believe starting off serving the military gave him a better point of view of the issues revolving the nation at the time. By serving in the military he knew how to react to threats against his country in a quick and intelligent way. He gained many supporters after the Americans with Disabilities Act because the act affected more than 43 million Americans. However he had much support from Americans,…

Tom Hopkinson is not the first and certainly not the last journalist to face a difficult choice regarding the truth. The phrase ‘The first casualty when war comes is truth’ presumably was coined by the US senator Hiram W Johnson more than two decades before World War 2 (The Guardian, 2011). The larger the magnitude of conflict the more truth suffers. When national survival is at stake truth is no more than an impractical idealistic concept. Admittedly, there were many cases in which truth was…

Forrest despite his disability, is able to achieve personal best and other achievements such as being in the “Ping-Pong” team, help him to make it to the White House, the highest honor to be awarded. In the movie, Forrest Gump met the President of USA twice, once for being a hero in the army, and once for being part of the “ping pong” team against China. This chance of meeting the President, symbolizes that even a mentally handicapped person can have a chance make it to the top and be recognized…

A good speech can leave a positive impact on the listener. This is true for many great speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, President Reagan's Challenger Speech, and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. All three of these speeches come at a time of despair in America. Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. Reagan gave his State of the Union Address the same day the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Challenger, exploded. President Kennedy’s inauguration speech came at a time…

Music has always been present during American wars. In the Revolutionary War the song “Yankee Doodle” was set to dances was sung to keep spirits. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Lincoln’s favorite song during the Civil War, was rivaled by “Dixie” in the Confederate States. In the middle of World War I Irving Berlin gave us “God Bless America,” which has become the unofficial anthem of the United States. Composers like Samuel Barber were hired to write upbeat songs for the government during…

In Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home” a story is told about a young soldier named Krebs returning to his rural home in Oklahoma following the first World War. This story reminds me of the stories my grandfather told me about coming home after he served in the Vietnam war. My grandfather didn’t serve in active duty, he served in the Navy in Arizona. He was responsible for helping load up the jets for training missions. The line where is says “ Now the reaction had set in. People seemed…