William B. Sandys

Q 1: Mr. Caputo, why did you enlist in the army to serve in Vietnam? A: I enlisted because I was convinced/influenced since I was young that joining the military was 'patriotic' and that I should serve my country for the greater good. I was also heavily influenced by President Kennedy's inauguration speech: 'Do not ask what your country can do for you, rather ask your country what you can do for it.' Q 2: How did you feel about the involvement of the U.S. in this war? A: Initially, I just…

Born in 1941. Bernie Sanders started out his political career in the early 70’s but wouldn’t come to actually hold a political office until 1981 when he won mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont’s biggest city by a mere 10 votes. Bernie ran as an independent and winning the race was a big shock for many knocking off a six-term local mayor. I chose to do this paper on Bernie Sanders because, over the last 6 years I have become heavily interested in the political state of this country and world. The…

In the Constitution, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, states “We hold the truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Base on the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), affirmative action are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically…

Opposing Forces The people in the military is the weaker force in the documentary and the society is the stronger force. The weakness in the society is become vulnerable if the military stops taking care of them here in American by going other countries to fight. The goal of the weaker is survive and come back home after being expose to war. Signifiers The first signifier is the large amount of pictures with messages that were in the walls after 9/11 attack. This means that the other people were…

I was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally named Michael King Jr, but later changed it to Martin. I am both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, I would like to believe I have a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. It all began in the 1950’s. Among many efforts, I headed to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through my activism, I would like to have the idea that I played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American…

Have you ever wondered why your mouth waters when for example the microwave beeps that it is done? Or why your dog gets hyper or drools when he hears you from a far distance yelling dinnertime? The way we learn these things are through a process called Classical Conditioning. It all started when a “Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov found that before he fed his dogs, when they smelled, saw the food, or even the person that feeds them, they would slobber. Pavlov figured out that dogs had…

Out of The Blue: The Search for Truth The question has existed since man has walked the earth; are we left to exist in the universe alone? In this review, I will explore Mr. James Fox’s approach to this question and whether I think Mr. Fox has any validity in his documentary with the evidence he puts forth. Our journey starts with the Drake equation formulated by astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Frank Drake in 1961, which states that there are 10,000 communicative civilizations in the milky way…

In order to truly understand the history of an era, one must first gain a sense of the people who lived it. In the introduction to their book The Century, Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings wisely note that experience, not the simple act of memory, constitutes a living history. They also observe that true history is not made up of the noted people but from the unknown masses. During the years between 1960s and 1970s society experienced great loss and pride. The Vietnam War, the Kennedy…

"There were more than 140,000 American, European, and Australian prisoners in Japanese Prisoner Of War camps" (HistoryOnTheNet). Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments, or from diseases. Louis Zamperini was a survivor of these dreadful camps. Throughout his life, Zamperini exemplifies what it means to have moral courage. Louis Zamperini was born on January 26th, 1917, in Olean, New York. He grew up in Torrance, California where he smoke, drank, and stole on a regular…

The air was electric, waiting for a reaction to the obvious. They were all there as promised. Lining the streets, crawling through cracks in the pavement, like dandelions – bold and unappealing. They were poised, minds set in protest. It was the war that was why they were all there. To stand against the waves of pain evaporating off the country’s decisions. Vietnam. That was their reason, a protest, standing against war and pain. Against all the suffering that comes with combat. So they all…