...Cold War, what do people really think? Valerie Corpening Kaplan University 5-28-2013 The Cold War as described in the free dictionary online as “(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a state of political hostility and military tension between two countries or power blocs, involving propaganda, subversion, threats, economic sanctions, and other measures short of open warfare, especially that between the American and Soviet blocs after World War II (the Cold War)” (Free Dictionary, para. 3). I had the pleasure of asking around and getting responses from people what does comes to mind when they think of the Cold War. I interviewed a lady named Genevieve, Barbara, and Nicole. According to the three interviewees the common answer I got when they thought of a phrase that came to mind pertaining to the Cold War was “In-direct conflict”. Their definition fits the overview definition of “one of the biggest issues that citizens and politicians confronted during the 1960s was the Cold War, which might be defined as the geopolitical tensions, and proxy wars fought between the United States and the Soviet Union” from the unit 2 assignment. They understood very well that a lot of the Cold War was made from Communism and the tension the government with the Soviet Union; this is because for decades they U.S and the Soviet Union competed for things such as education, economy. Genevieve associated the Cold War more of an emotional feel from her account of “separation, pain, tears, and heartache”...
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...The Cold War By Gloria Rodriguez Exploring the 1960s: An Interdisciplinary Approach December 17, 2012 Hector The first person that I interviewed was my Uncle Hector. He was in the Vietnam War as a Marine and served his country for 20 years. I remember as a child when he had told me that his best friend died in his arms he was split in half. I will never forget the sadness in his eyes. I started to cry because it broke my heart seeing my Uncle so sad. Every year on that day of the death of his best friend he is quiet and wants to be left alone. That is why I chose him and he was willing to talk to me about his thoughts about the cold war and what it means to him. What the Cold War means to my Uncle Hector, is that it reminds him of all the terrible things he witnessed in the Vietnam War. Watching innocent people dying, civilians and soldiers. And then whole villages being moved whenever the leadership figured they were in the way. For Uncle Hector the Cold War was very hot. He continues to say that the troops could not wait to get out and return home to their families whom they missed so much. The soldiers would talk to each other and they would say, “If I don’t make it send this letter to my family so they would know how much I love them.” “I Thank God that I came home and had a chance to see my children grow up, get married and that they did not have to enter into the military like I did.” George George is my roommate and best friend. He was in grade...
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...United States during 1957 and is about a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who discovers and develops a friendship with a giant alien robot that crashed landed near the fictitious town of Rockwell, Maine. The government agent named Kent Mansley, sent to investigate the crash, is determined to destroy this robot, while Hogarth Hughes along with the help of a scrap yard owner named Dean McCoopin try to prevent this. This film makes many allusions to the Cold War, but how accurately does The Iron Giant portray the Cold War? Also, why was animation used to portray this relationship to the Cold War? The Iron Giant begins with a scene in space and we see a beeping round satellite with 4...
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...Assignment The Cold War By: Deborah Rodriguez While doing these interviews, I was very amazed at the amount of information I received. I interviewed my friend who was in the marines for about 6 years. He knew many things also, since he just studied about the Cold War in school. It helped him to elaborate more on his answers. I next interviewed my father which was very interesting. My father is very into the military and that is all he watches. The first question I asked him turned into an eleven minute conversation. Lastly, I interviewed my sister who is not fond about that era at all. In fact, she refused to give me the interview, but I made her. Before I get into the interviews, I want to give a brief look at the history of the Cold War. The atomic bombing of Japan by the United States ended World War II, but it marked the beginning of an intense rivalry between the two new superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. So began the Cold War, an ideological and political conflict lasting nearly 50 years. The competition spawned great developments in among other things, military technology, civil defense, and space exploration. The Apollo II landing marked a major political and scientific victory for the United States in the Cold War. The U.S. and Soviet Union continued having various conflicts until the Soviet Union’s breakup in 1991 ending the Cold War. My friend I interviewed said that the words that came to his mind when he thought of the Cold War was Soviet...
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...Dr Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, written about the butter side-up Yooks and the butter side-down Zooks, is just one of his greatest, well-known books. In The Butter Battle Book is the story of the back and forth conflict between the Zooks and Yooks trying to out do each other with inventions of machines. Throughout this book Dr Seuss uses his narrative elements like his rhymes of course, theme, and allusion to hook the reader and make it enjoyable to read. The way he uses these devices in a lot of his other popular books people know as Green Eggs and Ham or even The Cat in the Hat, is the reason people say he’s one of the best authors and in result makes him so successful. As everyone knows, Dr. Seuss is one of the best at writing...
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...Cold War Ella Cooke Prof: Sharon Squires April 28, 2014 Cold War When people hear the word war, what are some words that are used to describe it? Most people would naturally say battle, conflict, fighting, injuries, death, opinions, and these would all be true, however when we hear of the “Cold War”, would it also include all the words that were just mentioned? Wars are typically fought between two opposing sides who don’t agree with one another, and it usually involves using weapons. With that being said is the “Cold War” the same type as other wars such as the Civil War, World War 1 and 11, the answer could be yes and no. While it was a war involving two different sides, it wasn’t fought using weapons, but with words, which some might find confusing. Upon doing research on this particular subject it finally made sense on how a war could be fought without using weapons, only words, stay tuned. The easiest way to start anything is to start at the beginning, so what is exactly is the “Cold War”, what parties were involved, and why was it fought. Although there is not concrete answer as to when it has started, it is estimated to have begun in 1947-1991. It was between two different countries the United States, and the Soviet Union, but keep in mind that it wasn’t fought with weapons, rather in words. Both parties wanted to be in control of the world that we refer to as America and since neither one was going to give in or compromise they were going to war. The only positive...
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...Are Nuclear Devices Global Peacemakers or Killing Devices? Right after World War 2, after two nuclear bombs were dropped in Japan by American Aircrafts, the war gradually and eventually ended. But with it began a new kind of war called the "Cold War". It is technically not war rather tension amongst nations. The two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States were probably the most tensed nations. Some nations took side of the Soviet Union and some decided to stay neutral. The world has been in a peace state has been and a lot more stable since the cold war has begun. But can it stay that way? Nuclear weapons are scary and deadly. We all know that. They can wipe out a whole city in just a fraction of a second and kill millions and millions of innocent people. Their radiation is long lasting and fatal which can be found up to several hundred miles away from the impact zone, and can last over for decades. They can cause changes in our genes which last several generations. In Japan you can still find disabled children and adolescents due to defect in their genes cause by nuclear radiation. Well, now technically speaking nuclear weapons are killing devices, but it’s indeed wrong to say that since the invention of it, we haven’t had global peace. Actually, right after the bombing and the massacre, we have realized how terrible the consequences can it be. It’s that sudden realization that is keeping the peace. Deadly weapons are designed to annihilate, but in the right hands...
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...Cold Mountain Cold Mountain, a novel wrote by Charles Frazier, is a Civil War story, a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely, dangerous journey to find the way back home, and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. Cold Mountain opens with Inman staying in a Virginia hospital trying to recover his wound from the war. One day he speaks to a blind man he usually saw through the window of the hospital’s room. When the blind man asks Inman to “cite me one instance where you wished you were blind,” Inman doesn’t know where to begin. There are many like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, but “Fredericksburg was a day particularly lodged in his mind.” At that time, he wishes that he himself had been blind at Fredericksburg when his regiment shot down thousands of Federal troops. He wishes that there is no war that takes many lives of soldiers, partitions families and makes him shatter by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army. Inman returns to the ward and opens his copy of Bartram’s Travels at random. He finds...
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... |ORAL PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION | |Nuclear has been the biggest fear in the world when it is used as |Nuclear Threat Nuclear weapon and its physical damage | |weapon and it has insurmountable negative effects on societies in |Nuclear weapon deterioration of health – what kinds of radiation are | |terms of its physical destruction and deterioration on human health. |emitted in a nuclear explosion and what effect do they have on human | |Not a thesis statement but a statement of fact. |beings? | |Try: Why is it best for nuclear attack victims to be right at Ground |http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011| |Zero? |/living_future/4_nuclear_radiation1.shtml | |Working Thesis Statement: Countries may use the nuclear weapons in |Oral Presentation Thesis Statement (must be based on PART of the | |future because of the possibility of religious war and the other |research project): The time between 1946 and 2012, no atomic bomb had| |reasons. |been used even as an overt thread threat in any warpolitical crisis, | |I will argue that there is a strong possibility that nuclear weapons |the reasons … (I will find by researching...
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...What do you think about when you think about chemical warfare? The mustard gas and VX gas used or the atom bomb? Would the hydrogen bomb come to mind? This is the most notorious bomb ever created to eradicate anything within a forty-seven mile radius. Any man-made weapon falls short of a hydrogen bomb’s destructive capability. You probably don’t know a lot about this weapon, but that’s already covered in this paper. Everything has to have an inventor, and that’s where we start. The inventor of the Hydrogen bomb is Edward Teller. Teller has received the Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, Harvey Prize in Technology, National Medal of Science of Physical Science, and the presidential Medal of Freedom. He was assigned by President Harry S. Truman. He got his education at Leipzig University, and later got another at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology....
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...in Peace and Conflict > The Cold War 1945-1991 > Overview of US-Soviet relations and the Cold War The Cold War 1945-1991 Overview of US-Soviet relations and the Cold War David Mclean Charles Sturt University Principal Focus: Students investigate key features and issues in the history of the Cold War 1945 - 1991 Outcomes Students: H1.1 describe the role of key features, issues, individuals, groups and events of select twentieth-century studies (Extract from Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus Board of Studies NSW 2004.) Key features and issues: • origins and development of the Cold War • influence of ideologies on the Cold War • impact of crises on changing superpower relations • the arms race • reasons for the end of the Cold War This is the transcript of a talk given at a seminar co-sponsored by the History Teachers’ Association of New South Wales and the US Information Service in Sydney on 2 September 1995. From this tutorial you will learn about: • influence of ideologies that led resulted in the division of the world into two opposed camps from 1945 • emerging differences between the superpowers Contents 1. US – Soviet relations were not synonymous with the Cold War 2. Chronology of the Cold War 3. Influence of ideologies of communism and capitalism on the Cold War 4. Soviet Objectives 5. American objectives 6. The Arms Race 7. The Third World was important for the Cold War 8. Why did the Cold War not end earlier? 9. Did the...
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...and is very judgemental in assessing different aspects of them. He comes across as quite cold and unforgiving with other people and aspects of this are shown in his relationship with the major. He doesn't give the major much time and is short in his responses “I’ve been in France.” The major asking a simple question and Hilliard is almost sarcastic in his response. This could be because Hilliard is tired of the home fronts view of war and that he doesn't want to continue what feels is a discounted view of what war is. However the Major is an old man and perhaps he is a little out of touch but this may be because people don't update him on how war changes. This shows a hypocritical nature within Hilliard as he is angered by the home front’s naivety but doesn't elect to tell them how its changed. It creates a relationship between the characters of discontent in Hilliard’s view of him within their relationship. Also this use of short, sharp and blunt sentences in common within Hill’s writing style which usually represents annoyance when used in speech. This quote is representative of this. Another aspect of the Major and Hilliard’s relationship is the idea that they don’t really have conversation they just talk at each other, without really listening on responding. “you weren't a cavalryman”… “oh, i do,” especially when the major talks back to Hilliard, he doesn't really take in what he says and responds he just talks at him. This shows a invalidity in their relationship....
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...The Path to Salvage War will change one more drastically than in others do in their entire lives. It has the ability to alter one’s mental state so radically it can be hard to conceive. In Stephen Galloway’s, The Cellist of Sarajevo and Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong, the ongoing war around Arrow and Stephan force them to search for a renewed purpose in life and a new reason to carry on living. Ultimately, the characters attempt to achieve this goal but, due to the intervention of others, self-realization and the traumas they face the characters become more humane. One of the most prominent reasons the characters change throughout the story is because of the interventions of others. The characters come to realize that the people whom they resent are truly better people than they originally thought. In Birdsong, Stephen is relentless and cold towards a fellow soldier named Jack Firebrace, but when Stephen is in a tight spot and no one comes to help him, Firebrace is the one who saves his life. At one point, he even goes out of his way to find Stephen when he is in trouble, “‘You mean he’s dead?’ ‘They didn’t take him to the clearing section. He must have had it...’ ‘Jack recovering from his fright climbed over the wall and went closer…” (Faulks, 181). Firebrace was the last person that Stephen would expect to come save him. When he does, despite the fact that Stephen was deemed dead, Stephen finds it in him to create a new resolve to never be so cold to anyone ever again. The people...
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...The Vietnam War My grandfather is a Vietnam War veteran. That alone drove me toward choosing this topic for this research paper. A few months ago, my grandfather had let me read his manuscript that he wrote when he had gotten home from his twelve year service for the United States. This novel he wrote is increasing my interest in the Vietnam War each page I turn. People often ask me whenever we’re talking about the war, which side I’m positioned on. I say that we shouldn’t have “helped” in the war. Because in my opinion, we could have done better for the country if we would have kept our noses out if the excitement but as for people like my grandfather, he opposes that perspective. I do have a firm grip on both paradigms of the war but as you can tell, I want a world with no war possible but honestly, who doesn’t? I guess you can call me a dreamer. But I know I’m not the only one. I thank John Lennon and my Mother for that lesson. I love my mother and my grandfather just as much. But, like I said, because of that, I know and understand two, very different opinions or viewpoints of the Vietnam War. My Mom is somewhat a flower child from when she was just a teenager. That all began because she never really got along with my Grandfather all that well. My Grandfather (my mom’s step dad) was the stereotypical; stern but fair, strict yet loving, harsh yet respectful step-father. Due to that reason my Mom was a rebel to the degree of a flour child. She is always opposing war any which...
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...International Relations Theory The new edition of International Relations Theory: A critical introduction introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind each theory. Key features of this textbook include: • discussion of all of the main theories: realism and (neo)realism, idealism and (neo)idealism, liberalism, constructivism, postmodernism, gender, and globalization two new chapters on the “clash of civilizations” and Hardt and Negri’s Empire innovative use of narratives from films that students will be familiar with: Lord of the Flies, Independence Day, Wag the Dog, Fatal Attraction, The Truman Show, East is East, and Memento an accessible and exciting writing style which is well-illustrated with boxed key concepts and guides to further reading. • • • This breakthrough textbook has been designed to unravel the complexities of international relations theory in a way that allows students a clearer idea of how the theories work and the myths that are associated with them. Cynthia Weber is Professor of International Studies at the University of Lancaster. She is the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of international relations. International Relations Theory A critical introduction Second edition Cynthia Weber First published 2001 by Routledge Second edition published 2005 by Routledge...
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