United States Air Force Academy

lessons learned are a key foundation to making the necessary changes to a nation’s military to either remain or become a strategic and tactical superpower. Additionally, the advancement of technology will undoubtedly alter the strategy of a military force. By delving deeper into how we may compare and contrast these military tactics and strategies from 1916 until 1939, we acquire a more firm understanding of where we were as a nation during that period and how we viewed conflict on a global…

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason is about a girl name Sam who lives with her uncle who is a veteran from the Vietnam War. The story follows Sam’s journey as she tries to know more about the war in order to connect to her father, who died in the war. Mayson uses every day objects that allows characters in the book to connect to the war. In part one of the book Sam was driving past a family cemetery when she “shot up onto the exit ramp a little too fast, and the tires squeal” (3). An everyday…

Everyone speaks a language, but some people speak more than one language. To learn and understand a new language can be troublesome when first starting to learn said language. Both Amy Tan and Barbara Mellix experience these struggles. Tan’s multicultural Chinese- American life explains why Tan worries about the misunderstanding and stereotypes about the Chinese language. Tan explains in her essay, “The Language of Discretion”, how these misunderstandings and stereotypes affect her life. On the…

Culture has a different analogy in the retrospect of anthropology. Different groups have different practices and beliefs that make them unique, this all depends on their social learning. The United States is a large country of diversity that for many foreign and even local ethnic groups are still finding their place to call home. For many, religion is their sanctuary and have a strong bond with their ideals. In the film, “Jesus Camp” revolves on a religion known as Evangelical Christians. This…

were not for trying to seduce other countries into its way of thinking. Wilson’s Fourteen Points would eventually go on to creating a nation “committed to the principles of liberal democracy and free enterprise...the values distinguishing the United States itself (Bacevich, 11). Bacevich argues how that same Wilsonian paradigm is still present in our society today. After the catastrophe of September 11, President George W. Bush would go on to show that he also believed it was America’s destiny…

explains “Native Americans in 1928 found that half owned less than $500 and that 71 percent lived on less than $200 a year; Mexican Americans, too, had failed to share in the prosperity. During the 1920s, each year 25,000 Mexicans migrated to the United States. Most lived in poverty.” Race was a major factor in the likelihood of a positive perception of what the “good life” was. Mexican Americans suffered without meat and vegetables in their diets along with not being able to afford milk for…

The Oregon State Lottery There are still many improvements to be made to America’s health care system, but it has improved tremendously since 2010 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of uninsured people living in America has significantly dropped from 15.4% in 2008 to 10.4% in 2014. As this data and the Oregon health lottery case demonstrate, health care in the United States was either inaccessible or too expensive for many Americans and still…

made it so that wrongdoings, such as denying God, or fighting our Mother and Father carried the punishment of death. Statistics shows that crime rates continue to increase in states that has the death penalty verses states that does not. (Recinella, 2004, pg18-20) The death penalty should be prohibited in the United States of…

One Expensive Game When most people think of the Olympics, common words that first come to mind are pride, uniting, competition. But behind all of the glitz and glamour of ceremonies, games and celebrities, stands the hard truth of the cost of the Olympic games. From 1968 to 2010 an average Olympics costed the host city an average of 3.6 billion dollars, and the numbers have been skyrocketing ever since. A prime example of an immense budget overrun was shown in the 1976 Olympic games held in…

few U.S. states including: Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont (Kafer 2016). Although it’s legal in some places, there are many requirements and steps to applying for assisted suicide. These requirements are enforced by acts, such as the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act and the Death with Dignity Act (Friedman 2007). Most of the acts written to legalize assisted suicide in the United States were…