Gulf War

As an Army leader I have learned to appreciate the sense of accomplishment, yet guard against premature celebration when my leadership and guidance has gotten my team to the finish line. As General George Patton said, “ A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.” In my early days as an Army officer, I wanted to know the “secret” to successfully leading men in this organization through challenging waters to the top of the objective. However, I have now realized that there is no

During the time of the Cold War, many people lived in fear of communism and terrorism. In 1983, several Americans were taken hostage in Lebanon by a terrorist group. This terrorist group was loyal to Iran, so President Ronald Reagan stated he was against Iran. In addition, he told American allies not to sell weapons to Iran which would help them in their war with Iraq. Reagan proved to be against Iran, however, in 1986 President Reagan allowed the selling of weapons to Iran. By the selling of

Hollywood likes to reenact moments of history for the viewer’s pleasure. The retelling of these historical events are usually used to make money, so the accuracy of some movies are not always one hundred percent reliable. This was the case in the movie Jarhead. Piece by piece, as the movie continued some small and large differences between Hollywood magic and reality were very evident. Even so, Jarhead has some historical value, but it was used predominantly as a money maker. The movie begins with

repeating the same cries, asking for blessedness from God, Prophet Mohammed, 'Ali, and Hussein. The hysterical cries of the soldiers are heard along with sounds of explosions and machine guns. The young man wakes up and it turns out to be his dream. The war is thus presented as this young man 's timeless and eternal nightmarish present. Similar to the rest of the soldiers, he calls onto Hussein, the Prophet 's grandson, but he also shouts that his friend, Hussein, has been slain in the same manner. The

reinstatement of the old regime would result in turmoil throughout the world. After communism was overthrown in the former Soviet Union the world went through big changes. There was no longer two world super powers, and all of a sudden a 40 year cold war ended. As stated the U.S. uses foreign aid as a tool to implement their political views in other countries.

The blockade of Qatar is throwing the long held status quo of the region into disarray. All of the Arab Gulf states are allies of the United States and currently Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain are imposing the blockade on Qatar, with Kuwait staying neutral. The involvement of the United States, Turkey and Iran seems to indicate that this conflict was more than just a petty dispute between the gulf states. In this unipolar world, it would make sense that once a dominant power chooses a side, a conflict

Censoring music will limit the creativity and viewpoint of other people; which is causing our freedom of speech becoming eradicated and adds on to the shortcoming of understanding other people’s perspectives. People have different stances on life, and want to canvass the things that they lived through. This is where foul language and censorship is most debated. Cons of Music Censorship Music censorship is the editing and cutting of specific words or phrases for a purpose in order to bound distinct

and in 1980, invaded Iraq. The country had the support of many nations, including the United States, for doing so. The war ended eight years later, and Iraq didn’t achieve what it had desired. The war caused thousands of deaths, left Iraq with a debt of billions of dollars and slowed its development on oil export. Kuwait was one of the states that supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, the country was also scared of the Islamic and Revolution and wanted to prevent Iranian hegemony in Kuwait. Even though

The life journey of a decorated special forces marine, my father Rodney Wayne Simpson. My father grew up in a poverty stricken neighborhood with a non-existent mother who laid in bed all day and a sister who was blind. His grandmother, a major influence in his life, made him see his potential to overcome the situation he was in. My father remembers going over to their house to “get away from it all.”, but on his birthday, she was admitted into the hospital and later pronounced dead. After the

almost become cliche. The thrill of watching fake violence is waning and being replaced by the drama of watching real violence. And the higher the body count, the more we watch.   Nothing manufactures violent images on a larger scale than a war and, consequently, American television reaches its zenith of violent images and mass