Sargasso Sea

Sherman’s Total War Sherman’s March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign employed total warfare, an essential tactic to defeating the Confederate Army. Union General William T. Sherman’s plan was a key factor in winning the civil war. His plan was to lead a destructive march to the sea and through the Carolinas, a risky idea. On this brutal march Sherman guarantees success with total war; a tactic he pioneered. The resistance that was left to face Sherman’s army was a picnic for him to defeat.…

Themes from The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway once said, “there is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed,” (“Ernest Hemingway Quotes” 1). For Hemingway, writing came naturally. He had the ability to write deceptively simple stories that have a huge amount of depth beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway utilizes many different themes in his novel The Old Man and the Sea. Some of these include age, religion, and love. Hemingway developed a fixation on age…

commanding officer of the carriers, wanted to take charge in the Pacific by putting all of their power into taking a small island in the Pacific. The United States Navy was in shambles with the losses at Pearl Harbor and the exhaustion felt after Coral Sea, but the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had its underestimated depth and morale. The victory…

who called themselves the Sons of Light, and the God of Israel. The Sons of Light believed that God would come to the “battle of annihilation for the Sons of Darkness” and “bring[ing] a permanent solution for the problem of evil (War Scroll, Dead Sea Scrolls). The battle for the Iron Throne between Azor Ahai and the White Walkers with their army of Wights and the battle between utopia and dystopia in Westeros exemplifies the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in the…

My paper’s topic will be focused on the historical context of China and its maritime disputes in the South and East China Sea, particularly with the ongoing dispute between the Spratly, Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and Diaoyo/Senkaku Island in the East China Sea. Currently, there are six countries that lay overlapping claims to these islands, an area that is rich in natural resources and worth trillions of dollars of global trade flow. As China seeks to expand its maritime presence in…

THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND A WORLDWIDE CYBER WAR Developments in technology and information systems have created a new world and provided numerous benefits. Individuals, states, and international bodies take advantage of such benefits; however they are under some risks as well. As Miller and Kuehl (2009) note, “The increasing dependence of modern technologically-advanced forces (especially American forces) on networks and systems create new kinds of exploitable vulnerabilities.”…

discovered he had a love and a gift for writing, and immediately after graduation he became a journalist for the Kansas City Star, which majorly influenced his declarative and prose writing style as seen in his books. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea proves that Hemingway is a man of deep faith by re-writing his life through use of characters and themes of the book.…

In the short passage by Dalton Trumbo he shows that the father and son have a trustworthy relationship. The author showed this mostly when the son said that Bill Harper was coming and they were going to go fishing. He also shows that they have a strong bond with each other which helps his father have a trustworthy bond with his son. Bill Harper had no fishing rod so the son told his dad and then his dad said that Bill Harper could use his sons rod and his son can use his rod. This shows that…

The short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted place” by Ernest Hemingway, is able to use the characters that it presents in the story, in order to give representation that once a person reaches a certain age, there's nothing left. The story is about two waiters, who are waiting for one old man to leave, before they can close the cafe. In the story are three main characters that the it revolves around, a young waiter, an older waiter, and some old man who recently attempted to kill himself. The…

crystal blue sea, and had been surfing for around 4 years at the time. People often described Matthew as the “extremely lucky one.” Matthew began his day with his usual routine and later found himself all alone in the freezing sea, for 32 hours not expecting to live through the night, till Matthew heard helicopters even then not believing he would make it. Matthew was said to have clenched onto his surfboard and waved it in the`air, later found that night 13 miles off the Scotland sea. There are…