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prolonged and built up; it has a dramatic shape of increasing tension, striving toward a climax.’ (85) He offers situational examples for the reader to observe what actually happens into people's minds. One of them is a military instance from the Vietnam war (83). The soldier is under pressure, danger is everywhere, there is an atmosphere of tension and rage (85). Indeed, soldiers go through lots of feelings. Then, appears the need to fight in order to cease the danger (85). Courage and fear…

China is now in chaos. The people have been fighting and quarrelling for the past 250 years. Millions of people have been killed, and someone needs to restore order and keep the peace. This is a difficult task to complete, as the people are like a pack of ravenous wolves after a quarter-of-millennium long war. However, there is one particular solution that might work for China. I propose that the emperor should adopt legalism as his ruling philosophy, as the strict law and harsh punishments put…

Often we are asked if fighting a war is ethically right or wrong. However, without fighting a war ourselves and experiencing the pain and grief a solider has could we truly ever answer this question. Would it be ethically right to ask a veteran how it feels to fight a battle alongside his cavalry? Do most veterans think that what they did for freedom was ethically right or wrong and how do these experiences follow them through life? “I’m occasionally asked, “What’s it like to kill someone?”…

When You Gotta Go, Go! “Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States *** Many years ago, I decided to get out of Bangkok for a couple of days of rest and relaxation in Kanchanaburi. The city is the home of the Bridge Over the River Kwai, made famous in the movie and novel of the same name. The bridge is the start of the Death Railway that leads to Burma (formerly Myanmar). Constructed during World War II by POWs and slave laborers, thousands lost…

The 1960s in the United States can only be described as a turbulent time, marked by the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the revolution in criminal process rights. The Vietnam War was not going smoothly and the American public, viewing the whole thing on the evening news, was growing increasingly disenchanted with the war effort. The Civil Rights Movement across the Southern states sought to resolve the prevailing problems remaining from Reconstruction, which drew violent backlash…

In interviewing Mr. Leonard Bertuli, a United States Marine from Mark, IL, my partner Seth Carlson and I learned more about his life before entering military, his experiences while in the military, specifically during those taking place during the Vietnam war. Leonard Bertuli’s life before entering the military was full of life and small town entertainment. Leonard grew up in a small, Illinois Valley town…

Rio Pact 1947 was a big year for United States history, for it had many life changing events. One of those events included the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact. The pact was created at the beginning of the Cold War for security amongst the Americas. The pact was heavily influenced by the Soviet red scare. The effects the Rio Pact had on the Cold War brought a mutual alliance that consequentially led to other treaties. The Rio Pact was brought in to…

Chicago convention became a symbolic event in history for the conflict between "old" and "new" politics. For many demonstrators, Humphrey's presidential candidacy represented the continuation of the back-room politics which ignored public dissent on Vietnam and other issues. “They viewed the convention as a confrontation between traditional machine politics, represented by Daley and the Democratic Party's old guard, and the new (and often idealized) politics of increased citizen participation,…

The novel With the Old Breed of Peleiu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge was very heart touching, for example, throughout the novel Sledge tells a story about his personal experience of fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. Meanwhile, I think this novel had gained Eugene Sledge the acknowledge of becoming an historian and storyteller. Furthermore, Sledge uses objective language, for example, Sledge demonstrates each training and boot camp he had to go through before he…

On September 30, 1991, a military revolution under the control of Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras has defeated the government of Jean-Bertran Aristide the president of Haiti. In 1992, during his presidential candidacy, Bill Clinton disapproved of the Bush administration for its rule on refugee return. He promised to increase pressure on the militaristic dictatorship by constricting economic approvals upon Haiti. President George H.W. Bush requested the reinstatement of democracy. He worked…