...nuclear program in Norway during the Second World War. In the large picture, Thomas Gallagher wrote the book to recognize the soldiers that conducted this decisive strategic mission resulted in delaying the Nazi research for a nuclear bomb. Gallagher was a prizewinning author, and in “Assault in Norway” he tells a narrative, chronological story of this difficult and challenging special operation. He collected material from first-hand sources in his search for why and how these brave men succeeded. Thomas Gallagher (1918-1992) published as an author eight books. He graduated from Columbia College in 194 and served as a civilian attached to the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. In 1959, he got the Edgar Allan Poe Award for nonfiction for his “Story of the Monro Castle”. For writing the book Gallagher interviews people with first-hand experiences, and he uses original reports from Norwegian, British, Canadian and German sources. It is possible to criticize Gallagher for not recognizing work by other authors published several years before his book. Especially one of his named sources and a participant in the operation, Knut Haukelid, who published a book about his...
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...discrimination, and totalitarianism. It was created after World War I when the Kaiser at the time was removed from power and a semi-presidential...
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...significantly harder to measure than material capability. Because of the difficulty of measuring military efficacy on the state level, individuals may use a country’s historical performance in war as a heuristic measure of efficacy. This article attempts to test the importance...
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...draw for the learner and the teacher was fixed so that the real participant would always draw the teacher and the learner was secretly always one of Milgram’s confederates impersonating a real participant. The teacher (real participant) read out a list of word pairs for the learner to memorize in which the learner would be tested on later (ex: yellow is to banana as orange is to Clementine). The learner (one on Milgram’s confederates) was led into a room, strapped to a chair with electrodes attached to his arm and the teacher would be brought into the room next door with an electric shock generator with a row of switches marked from 15 volts (slight shock) to 375 (danger: Severe shock) to 450(XXX). The teacher would begin to test him on the word pairs, he would name a word from the list and the learner would have to find the corresponding one out of 4 possible choices. The teacher is instructed to administer a shock every time the learner makes a mistake and to increase the shock level each time. The learner would mainly give the wrong answer on purpose and the teacher would conduct an electric shock. Whenever the teacher protested, the experimenter would read out a list of prods to encourage the teacher to keep on...
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...Before I start my speech, I would like to define curriculum as the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college. Now, I have a proposal, a proposal for three new programmes to be implemented into the secondary school curriculum. Right now, at this very instance, we have a variety of studies which provide students broad exposure and holistic development, but we, believe that it is incomplete without the following additional programs that will further improve students of all kind. Before I officially start on why you should impose such programs to the current curriculum, allow me to do a short summary of what I will be talking about in the following minutes. For my first starting programme, I will introduce to...
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...Listening pairs with leadership to form a crucial skill in our ability to communicate well with others. Personally, I define leadership as a quality a leader has to motivate his or her team and work with them towards a common goal by utilizing each group member’s talents successfully. To successfully accomplish this, a leader must listen to its group so he or she can learn how to best utilize each member’s strengths and weaknesses. Everyone can understand what it is like to work within a team and to look towards the leader for understanding and help. Within many work or professional environments and situations, leaders have basic responsibilities, which are modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart. I believe it is important to look at each of these and realize how they would be unattainable for a leader without effectively listening to his followers. This can be accomplishment by understanding provided information, showing interest in the topic being discussed, and providing...
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...Thalia Capilla July 26, 2014 POSC146: Mass Media and Public Opinion Thalia Capilla POSC 146 Justin Nelson Downfall of News Coverage In Depicting War The ideal news coverage is a mirror image of reality, thousands of Americans tune in to their local or national news channel for quality coverage and accuracy. In the 1960’s Vietnam became the first war to be televised, resulting in a large disapproval rating on the war. However, the American people saw the truth and gave their opinion. Today the media is nowhere near the ideal news coverage, being characterized as corporate, concentrated and conglomerate. News Media is a profit making enterprise owned by a few companies. So what changed? How did the media evolve into something so filtered by the government? In this Literature Review I will cover how international affairs and war coverage quality has drastically declined to fit corporate news norms. It sacrifices quality over quantity, framing the American people. News media in a democracy should provide a forum for diverse views and provide the people with the truth of what is happening around the world, (McLeod 2009). That is what I would like shed light on in this paper. News framing, agenda setting and priming are broadly examined by Scheufelel and Tewksbury (2007) to see how all three are related and what the potential relationships can infer about the effects of mass media. This is an important analysis as these three components of the subtle effects model can...
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...WGU- SST1 USE THESE SUBMITTED AND ACCEPTED ASIGNMENTS TO HELP YOU DO YOUR OWN WORK AND CHECK YOUR ANSWERS/USE THIS OUTLINE. I COMPLETED 67 CU'S AT WGU IN 1 TERM USING THESE ASSIGNMENTS. DO NOT PLAGERIZE, WGU USES TURNITIN TO MONITOR PLAGARISM, THESE ARE TO BE USED AS GUIDES FOR YOUTR OWN WORK ONLY. I WORKED HARD TO COMPLETE THEM. WGU- ATTACHEMENTS PROVIDED WITH FULL TASKS. SST1: TASK 1, 2 Social Science SST1 Task 1 Words like country, nation, state, and even nation-state are used to define social, cultural and political relationships in the United States and around the world. There are many defining characteristics that allow countries and groups of countries to understand each other, and in some cases, for unions. The purpose of this essay is to briefly discuss nations, states, and nation states, how the United States constitutes a nation state, and the European Union. A nation is a union of people who share social similarities such as language, beliefs, culture, possibly religion, and values. A state is defined by laws and politics, uniting people by geography, population, and government. The modern nation-state is more of a combination of nation and state and is defined as “a single or multiple nationalities joined together in a formal political union” (What is a Nation-State, N.D.). Basically, a nation-state makes the general regulations for large decisions such as what language the general population will speak, what form of currency will be accepted, and...
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...There are few societies in the world’s modern history that have been more invested in the concept of race than the United States. In fact, the first black president, Barack Obama, will end his term in office in 2016 and while this may seem like a respectable accomplishment for the United States in regards to our history with racism and inequality, I only have to speak to my relatives to understand we have a long way to go until Americans see individuals for their accomplishments rather than their race. In President Obama’s inaugural address he made a hint to the end of a racial era. “…because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds...
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...Involvement in the Vietnam War; Playing Both Sides. Although Canada “officially non-belligerent” in the war against Vietnam they were active and played a huge role for and against the war. It is a common belief that Canada’s position during the Vietnam War was strictly neutral but the government was more involved than many Canadians realize. The Canadian government aided the U.S by sending Medical equipment, providing technical assistance as well as diplomatic aid. In 1981, it was discovered that Canada had been secretly involved in testing U.S chemical warfare agents for Vietnam. The Canadian government also welcomed about 30,000 American war resisters and draft-dodgers who did not support the war across the Canadian borders; at the same time about 30,000 Canadians crossed the border to volunteer to help the U.S soldiers fight in Vietnam. Scholars like Jessica Squires spoke on The Canadian Anti-Draft Movement, which “was a network of groups in Canadian cities that actively supported the immigration of War resisters”. This Network was active from 1966-1973 and its activities were seen as a sort of resistance to the American War on Vietnam. At this time in the early 1970s there had been protests and demonstrations in Canada and various parts of the world, which denounced the war on Vietnam and the actions if the U.S Government and this Anti-Draft Movement was one of the ways Canadians were able to influence or oppose the Vietnam War. In 1966, Hans Sinn who...
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...The Stanford Prison Experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life. Subjects were randomly assigned to play the role of "prisoner" or "guard". Those assigned to play the role of guard were given sticks and sunglasses; those assigned to play the prisoner role were arrested by the Palo Alto police department, deloused, forced to wear chains and prison garments, and transported to the basement of the Stanford psychology department, which had been converted into a sort of jail. What was the lesson learned from Zimbardo’s (1971) Stanford Prison experiment about the influence of social roles on an individual’s behavior? Several of the guards became progressively more sadistic — particularly at night when they thought the cameras were off, despite being picked by chance out of the same pool as the prisoners. The experiment very quickly got out of hand. A riot broke out on day two. One prisoner developed a psychosomatic rash all over his body upon finding out that his "parole" had been turned down. After only 6 days (of a planned two weeks), the experiment was shut down, for fear that one of the prisoners would be seriously hurt. Although the intent of the experiment was to examine captivity, its result has been used to demonstrate the impressionability and obedience of people when provided with a legitimizing ideology and social and institutional support. It is also used to illustrate cognitive...
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...much stronger resemblance and more in common with Krueger’s environments than the “happenings” of the 1960s. Today’s interactive art works are technology driven systems which can sense the world around them and can respond to it. While this bidirectional interaction is more similar to “happenings” where all participants can interact with one another and the “creators” of the event, there is a lack of interaction with technology. This technological element is at the root of both Krueger’s environments and modern interactive pieces. In this respect, both have closer ties to the interaction found in photography and film between the photographer/camera and the subject. This method of interaction is unidirectional but the interaction with the technology is key. Happenings came about in the 1960s while the art world was still in its post-war modernist period. The happenings followed in the footsteps of or in concert with “action” painting, the Fluxus and Dada movements, and the beatnik and hippie cultural movements. This anti-materialism, communal, rebellious attitude infused the happenings with a social commentary and an active investigation into the boundaries of Art. While the same could be said of some contemporary new media works, happenings are (technologically) unmediated and therefore, I believe, are closer in relation to previous art movements than modern technology-based works which emerged in the early...
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...responsibilities for communities that it may potentially affect. This response paper aims to analyse Melé’s paper, further discuss his ideas, and finally incorporate the role of ethics in human evolution to project the possible direction of business evolution. The article started by suggesting that there are two views of the firm. The former views the firms as a nexus of contracts, implying that the firm functions as an aggregate of agreements. The latter views the firm as an aggregate of interests, adding a human element of desire to the soul-less assembly of agreements. Extending the addition of human element into the firm, Melé argued that the main constituent of a firm is social bonds, and thus, a firm should be regarded as a community. Personally, I think that the progression of arguments is well organised. Contracts stem from self-interests, and self-interests are derived from interactions with other people in the community. Within a firm, individuals have their self-interests in mind but in a community of other firms, the interest of the firm takes precedence. The concept of contract stemming from self-interests is pretty intuitive, and as social beings, humans not facing survival threats generally derive and pursue their wants and needs based on social...
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...ARCHERY Sunnah Sport Centre has provides archery skill class since archery is one of the sports that encouraged in Islam. This sport is a sunnah as well. Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. A person who participates in archery is typically known as an "archer" or a "bowman", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a toxophilite There is a quote about archery from Louis Lord Mountbatten which saying that, during the fourth world war, people will use archery instead of nuclear. Besides that, there are a sahih hadith about this sport. The Prophet once passed by some people of the tribe of Bani Aslam who were practicing archery. The Prophet said: “O Bani Isma`il ! Practice archery as your father Isma`il was a great archer. Keep on throwing arrows and I am with Bani so-and-so.” (Bukhari) For archery, we hired eight coaches who are expertise in archery. The community who learn this skill would be divided to four teams. Each team would have two coaches with them and have different locations. We concern about the efficiency in learning this skill, which is the reasons why we divide them to groups. There would be no separation among the learners based on their expertise. They will learn from the most fundamental steps till they will expert. There are schedule for the classes. There are two sessions for a day which is on weekend...
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...university-based scholars of communication in the United States and Japan, and in other countries. The development of intercultural communication in the U.S. and Japan is analyzed here. Intercultural communication is one of the most important communications and also a structure of global communication as the world today is characterized by an ever growing number of contacts resulting in communication between people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This communication takes place because of contacts within the areas of business, military cooperation, science, education, mass media, entertainment, tourism but also because of immigration brought about by labour scarcity or political conflicts. Hence, there is communication which needs to be as constructive as possible, without misunderstandings and breakdowns. It is to belief that study on the nature of linguistic and cultural similarities and differences here can play a helpful and constructive role. Intercultural communication in its most fundamental form refers to an academic field of study and research. It seeks to understand how people from different countries and cultures behave, communicate and observe the world around...
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