Christina Greene Professor Sample AMH 2020 27 January 2015 Essay 1: Battle of Wounded Knee The Battle of Wounded Knee resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Sioux Native Americans and 25 United States soldiers (Wikipedia 2015). With the possibility of using a Time Machine, the following steps would have prevented this tragedy from happening. Forcing relocation, miscommunication of the Ghost Dance, and the seizure of Sioux weapons all lead to the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Tensions have
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Tristen Epling Cristina Trapani-Scott ENG 101 24 November 2014 My Lai Massacre The My Lai Massacre happened on March 16, 1968 in the village of My Lai, South Vietnam. The Vietnam war was fought between North and South Vietnam and it was about stopping the spread of Communism, which was greatly feared around the world. Especially in America. Anti-Communist countries like France and America backed South Vietnam the best they could, while countries like China and Russia supported North Vietnam
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war and its effect on those who had to fight it. (Edar) The My Lai massacre is not representative of American actions in the war, but it does hold a particular place in the effect that war had on those at home, a public that was horrified at some
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Deauntae Davis Final Draft Gun Control: The Stricter the Safer! Gun control, due to rights under the Second Amendment, has been a controversial issue for centuries. The Second Amendment of the Constitution states: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Had the amendment simply said the right to bear arms, gun control would not be a controversial issue to this day. The debate is whether
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4 December 2015 Fostering a Concealed Campus In 2007 during the Virginia Tech Shooting, a boy’s best-friend’s brother was there, in one of the classrooms that the gunman targeted. He escaped but this information gave him chills. That boy’s name is Jeff. Why is it that issues don’t matter until a horrifying story has a personal connection to its readers that it causes them to fully gasp the situation? There are many alternatives to students carrying weapons on campus. Advocates for guns on campus
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Conflict and war are inevitable and sometime necessary Of the many wondrous and beneficial qualities we as a society possess, our inclination toward war and conflict is not one of them. In fact it is one of our most destructive and damaging activities humans do. As horrifying, catastrophic and fatal as war may be, it is a necessary element for the survival for humans as a species. Before we talk about why war might be necessary, let us first discuss some of the major causes of war. The most
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Jordan Alexander Tuesday 6-8:50 History 1846- Present Document Analysis According to Black Elk, what atrocities took place at Wounded Knee? Black Elk as described it as just that a massacre that just destroyed a town/civilization, with no remorse whatsoever towards the people. Black Elk went into more detail about the whole fight and how it happened as to the others schemed over it. It was like a planned attack of these people and it wasn’t safe for any human being at that time. Kids, adult’s
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The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrendous instances to ever take place during any of the wars the United States fought in. A United States Army battalion directed by William Calley, entered then My Lai village anticipating to discover participants of the Vietcong. Instead, the Charlie Company killed approximately 500 innocent civilians brutally. This massacre was not stopped until Robert Thompson, a helicopter pilot saw all the lifeless bodies and flew down to figure out what transpired
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The Vietnam War was an extremely controversial and divided time in American History. From the government lying to the public, media favoring an anti-war viewpoint, to the graphic images and stories of what was occurring an ocean away, many people were affected by the war and lives were changed from it. Many are still alive today to tell their stories. Two different people were interviewed, one who experienced the war from the eyes of an teenager at home, and the other an Air Force veteran that served
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21st March, 2011 Downfall of Monarchy in Nepal Once declared “The most peaceful country in the world”- Nepal, is now facing the extreme political crisis ever in its history. It dates back to the Maoist’s insurgency from 1996 to the Royal Massacre and ultimate downfall of monarchy from the country. Maoist, in the name of maintaining equality among the poor and the rich, started a digression of no reason, which resulted in the war among the Royal Nepal Army and the Maoist Army. Then after,
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