Colfax massacre

In the movie A Few Good Men, there is a large overlying problem in how Dawson and Downey succumb to blindly following their superior’s crude moral values. In his article “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” Erich Fromm studies the acts of obedience and the subsequent disobedience from a psychological standpoint. He begins by attesting disobedience to the beginning of true human life and obedience to the lingering doom that humans faced during the cold war. He continues to further

Section 1: I think one of the main reasons why the My Lai Massacre occurred was due to conformity. Conforming to a group of norm is powerful when it comes to ambiguous and confusing situations as what happened at My Lai. The soldiers were instructed to kill everyone in sight, whether they were old people, children, babies, or animals. The soldiers followed orders because they felt obligated to obey an authoritative figure who had power over them. The soldiers at My Lai were influenced by other

caught trying to run or flee was killed as well. American soldiers were straight up being gruesome to the villagers. “Some women were gang-raped. “Other were beaten, tortured and their bodies were later found to be mutilated.” At one point during the massacre, Lieutenant Calley “ordered the execution of as many as 150 Vietnamese civilians who had been herded into an irrigation

warriors. Between 1870 and 1880 all Sioux were driven into reservations, fenced in and forced to give up everything. Her family settled in on the reservation in a small place called He-Dog. Her grandpa was a He-Dog and told about the Wounded Knee massacre. Almost three hundred Sioux men, women, and children were killed by white soldiers. Mary was called a iyeska, a breed which the white kids

be so far a white man’s war” (Qtd. in Hines 30). The Indians that were killed at Wounded Knee committed no crime on their reservation in the time before the battle (Hines 36), they only practiced religion. The Ghost Dance movement resulted in a massacre at Wounded Knee which had a lasting impact on many people. The religion of the Ghost Dance started with a man named Wovoka. On January 1, 1889, he had a ‘vision’ during a solar eclipse in Nevada (Peterson 27). It brought a message of hope to

Imagine living in one place your whole life, that place is the only place you know. Now imagine people you have never seen before come, kill your family, spread disease, and take the land for themselves. That is what happened to the Native Americans in the 1700’s and 1800’s. One of the most disrespectful and saddest times in American History was in the 1850’s with Westward Expansion and the war on Natives. During that time, there were many new cities being built in the East and the United States

Presented in an engaging and intensely graphic visual style, Waltz with Bashir uses the medium of fluid animation to present layers of history and effectively communicate concepts surrounding how we deal with trauma. Often referencing traumatic events that which current society did not encounter directly themselves, Waltz with Bashir triumphs in the struggle against ethical and visual implications of animated form, evoking a strong emotional response in its visual style. A vector based, frame by

Nayan Myerson-Jain E Band Mr. Jacobs June 9, 15 A Pink Sunset: United States Policies and Their Affect on Charlie Company The massacre at My Lai 4, often referred to as the “Pinkville Operation” by military officials, quickly became an event surrounded by outrage on the behalf of anti-war activists and soldiers alike. As stories leaked from letters sent to congressmen, and interviewed soldiers, outrage quickly boiled and conservatives and liberals were forced to ask: how could American soldiers

Over 33% of the Lakota Sioux tribes homes in Pine Ridge have no electricity or running water. These Native Americans are living in poverty. The book Saga of The Sioux explains to us how these Indians ended up in this position. Author gives us developed themes throughout the story. He gives us more information on the harsh conflicts the Indians have gone through, and how it has only gotten worse for them. The two major conflicts of Saga of the Sioux are man versus society and man versus nature.

For years Americans have gone back and forth about the effect that guns have on our society. The murder rate keeps on climbing because guns are particularly the weapon of choice when it comes to violence. According to Senate Bill 11, anyone with a licensed gun can be allowed to bring it into classrooms, universities and dormitories across the country. The fact that Legislation passed a law that allows anyone with a handgun license to openly carry a gun on a school campus is baffling. School