W. Somerset Maugham

Bush received a resounding applause when he utter those words at thee recent GOP Debate. What does a desperate candidate do when he stumbles upon a possible "catch em" leverage for high end bay boomers. He repeats his he false prophecy. https://youtu.be/ALMzMslx4SE (9/22/2015) Of course, you recall Jeb Bush's comments to Fox News's Megyn Kelly that he would (based on what we know now) follow his brothers disastrous charge into Iraq. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?" If you have any…

Yeah, I know I could have just called or even invited you over to dinner, but I figure writing a letter would not give you time to say no, or more probably, spit profanity back at me immediately. Didn’t anyone tell you that you sailors swear too much? I wasn’t in the USMC long enough to pick up that habit. Anyway, ever since our years teaching at the Naval Academy back at Annapolis, you have been quite obviously my best friend; you do not need me to tell you that. For that reason and a few…

After the event of 9/11 it catalyzed a nation wide awareness of national security. In the face of this devastation, a conversation began regarding the national security at the expense of privacy. As the years progressed this world of data mining and collection began to grow and extend beyond itself. With the fear of terrorism engrained into political topic, the encroachment of privacy became a concern for an average American. This world of interconnected compilation of information became a vast…

Ali Tahabrown Mr. Seehafer Humanities II: American Studies 13 April 2016 America's Responsibility Winston Churchill once said, "Where there is great power, there is great responsibility." By enforcing the regime change that brought down Saddam Hussein, America saves 60,000 lives every year (Alexander). By invading Iraq, America has helped facilitate the Iraq economy's nominal GDP growth by 317% (World). By acting forcefully in the world, America has spread democracy to over 4…

In the “Fighting for Our Lives” article, I found the statement about the “boy who cried wolf” effect in our societal dialogue interesting. The author wrote that heated, warlike argument is so common that we are losing the ability to differentiate between debates over extremely important issues and over unimportant, and unnecessarily sensationalized issues. This reminded me of an article I read about the effects of sensationalization in news media. For example, CNN presents the news relatively…

Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Sandy I remember waking up that October morning. It was unusually cold and windy outside, especially for Orlando, Florida, where I was vacationing with my family at a Walt Disney World resort. We weren’t going to let a little cold weather stop us from enjoying “the most magical place on Earth,” so we bundled up in layers and headed out for another day of fun. After a long day full of memories and laughs, we returned to our hotel room and turned on the…

Mandelbaum believes that U.S foreign Policy has failed since the end of the cold war through different factors. Mandelbaum makes a strong case ideologically crusading into regime change, which invariably fails regardless of how virtuous the intent is. We first need to define what foreign policy and the cold war is in order to evaluate Mandelbaum and whether he thinks U.S. foreign policy has failed or not. He mentions that the years of 1991-2014 were very distinct from any previous period in…

I did my FOA on the influence of Donald Trump’s words in a speech he delivered in West Palm Beach, Florida. In my presentation, I analyzed his language and its impact on his audience through the form of a presidential speech. I gave a speech to convey the feelings that might have been felt by his audience on that day, to my fellow peers. In my FOA, I used the speech terms taught in the first semester to help discuss what the person who wrote Donald Trump’s speech might have wanted the audience…

I agree with Krakauer’s answer. Krakauer’s entire story is an integration of war and Pat’s life, and it reaches a point in which they meet. By the end of the story Krakauer exposes how war placed a false value on Pat’s life. It became a deception when Pat Tillman was posthumously awarded with the Silver Star. The government placed a value on Pat’s life, for something he did not deserve because he wasn’t defending against the enemy, he simply died of an unfortunate death. What I learned from…

Are you afraid of flying in planes? More than 20 million people are afraid of going on planes and unfortunately I’m one of them. My mom, dad, and sister Harman boarded the plane at MCI. We were off to Las Vegas. I know that Las Vegas is a weird place to go with your family but we went anyways. Las vegas wasn’t the only place we were going, but it was where the adventure began. We had arrived at Las Vegas. As soon as we stepped outside we were sweating. It was 114 degrees! It felt like the sun…