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    Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Essay

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    The first reading I enjoyed was Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”. The main character in the plat is a sheriff, his wife, the county attorney, and Mr. and Mrs. Hale. The opening scene is all of them in John Wright’s kitchen. Mr. Hale tells the sheriff and attorney how he a visited the house on the day before day and Mrs. Wright greeted him but her demeanor was little suspicions. She told him that her husband was upstairs dead. She says she was asleep when someone choked her husband to death. All the

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    World War 3 1983 :

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    made, no matter what the outcome, was the right one to make. 1 Introduction Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, once lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system. This was a tense period for Russia and the US since it was during the second cold war and when there was heated tension between both countries. 2 The case Stanislav’s job was to register any missile strikes and to report them

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    instead ended up living in a time that may not even truly exist. This includes the Doomsday clock which symbolizes the coming of an end to time. A Doomsday clock is a symbolic representation of how close the world is to catastrophic destruction by nuclear war. At the end of each chapter, a doomsday clock appears that is counting down to midnight with it first being set to ten minutes to midnight. The doomsday clock serves a purpose as a symbol for the growing danger and violence in the story. Destruction

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    “With the loss of such a large chunk of the world population, militaries returned to slash and burn methods as they retreated, further damaging the environment. And, the loss of population also meant a decline of workers, which had a devastating domino effect on industry and those manufacturers that supplied the war machines. This resulted in rapidly failing economies throughout the world which then ultimately birthed the complete shutdown of governments, and politicians turning their backs on their

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    Abstract Expressionism In the early fifties, the United States witnessed the emergence of the hydrogen bomb and Miltown sedatives, a Cold War repression and consumerism began to shape the post-war society. In this unshaped world, the abstract expressionists materialized their desperate striving for spontaneity, freedom and the re-discovery of self and the human context. Their romantic, anti-capitalist hope, with all its weaknesses and contradictions, was telling them that the values embedded

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    evolution of mankind, the art of warfare has witnessed numerous changes. Over the years, military technology kept on changing and has advanced from rifles to the nuclear weapons. The 20th century saw a drastic change in the military technology and military thinkers adapted to this change and took it as a way to totally transform the war. These technological advancements added new dimensions to warfare through a combination of firepower, mobility, and maneuver. Warfare has now transitioned to become

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    population of Hiroshima. Nuclear warfare is a very dangerous threat to the human environment and to the humans who inhabit the land. Nuclear weapons are just to show other countries and people how strong you are. Nuclear warfare can claim millions of lives, millions.Nuclear weapons are for terror and mass destruction and have no legitimate military or strategic use and are useless in right now addressing today's situations, such as terrorism, climate change, and poverty. Nuclear warfare is the unethical

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    Let us first consider each text’s portrayal of the nuclear meltdown at Grafenrheinfeld. While both texts draw parallels between nuclear accidents and nuclear warfare, Pausewang’s emphasis on the latter highlights a Cold War era fear of intentional nuclear annihilation. Consider, for example, how the survivors of the Grafenrheinfeld disaster are publicly called “Hibakusha,” a direct reference to the survivors of the 1945 nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This name, according to Natalie Eppelsheimer

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    and political changes. In the European warfare it incorporated significant changes; rather than monarch against monarch, war became a fight between nations, namely nationalism. Intense nationalism influenced citizens to accept great personal sacrifice, included military service, for the commitments and objectives of the State. The Napoleonic model, epitomized in the writings of Jomini and Clausewitz, masterly managed the rise of nationalism to succeed in warfare. Perfectly applied the Clausewitz’s trinity:

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    world into a new era of warfare. Never before in the history of man had such destruction been wrought in the power of a single bomb. Thousands of civilians were incinerated and Japan’s war capitals were demolished. The horror and terror was unimaginable; yet the bomb had a purpose; to swiftly end the war. In today’s society, it is questionable whether the bomb should have been used. Some believe Japan would have voluntarily surrendered; yet others believe conventional warfare methods should have been

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