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Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, more than one hundred and sixty men prepare themselves with a mission to capture the two men. Following the starvation of Somalis, food is brought into the country but the people do not benefit from it as warlords store it and in turn, cause further starvation among the people. However, the mission on that day targets the two men, Salad Omar and Awale Mohammed, the lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The rangers manage to capture the two men ...

In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews a number of doctors who have very specific ideas on cancer treatment and prevention – namely, that radiation, chemotherapy, and mammography do not work, and can actually cause more harm than good. They then proceed to offer their own alternatives, usually from their own field of medicine, which they claim are much better solutions for preventing and treating cancer. Somers then goes on to detail her own experiences working with doctors in the face of a misdiagnosis of cancer, and how that led her to seek alternative treatments and preventative measures. Upon reading this book, I ...

This book is the great work of a renowned scholar throughout the field that deals with weapons of the nuclear origin and also international relations. The book tries to examine the crisis of order emerging due to existence of mass destruction weapons. Therefore the book is majorly skewed towards the issue of nuclear power and if there could be any measures aimed to control the impasse caused by this problem.
The book cites that the key problem regarding the international order originated in the period of nineteenth century, a time when new sciences were coming about, industrialization was also on ...

The declaration “It must and will not happen again” in reference to war has been repeated over and over again by people from all over the world. Indeed, freedom from war has become an essential component of human well-being. This is in an attempt to stop people from fighting, harming and killing each other, scenes that unfold in various battle grounds around the world.

Sebastian Junger’s documented experiences of the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan perfectly exemplify the adversities of wars. The film, Restrepo directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, explores the life of a US ...

The end of war is a book by John Horgan that looks at war on a different perspective. Jus as the title of the book suggests, Horgan has ideas and suggestions on why war can be brought to an end and the strategies that can be followed. Contrary to what many believe, Horgan believes that peace can be as natural as people look at war. War is not a gene that people are born with but a vice that people acquire basing on the external environment. However, looking at the external environment, it cannot be absolutely blamed for war. War is caused by ...

Introduction

This report scrutinizes international terrorist threats, events, responses and policies, as well as analyzing the worldwide use of apparatus available to fight terrorism, from international cooperation, international relations, covert action, constructive dedication, economic sanctions, military force, to objective security improvement. A contemporary style in terrorism emerges to be toward self- financed insecurely organized, international association of terrorists. Ever more, fundamental Islamist groups who use religion, or as a excuse, pose a grave threat to United States of America interests and to its friendly establishments. But of great unease as well is the growing political involvement of extremist Islamist gathering in foreign ...

Technological advancement has completely revolutionised the war fare in the past decade. The impact of technological development in military affairs has successfully armed the forces with advanced machines that could bring havoc to civilized society. Hiroshima was one such incident. The atom bombs completely paralysed the civilisation during the World War II. Hence it may be mentioned that technological advancement has barbarised the warfare. Advancement was not limited to development of atop bombs, the devices like AK-47 rifle, aerodynamic technology and drones have power bring havoc or end of the world in near future
The essay here would therefore ...

8. From Postwar Demobilization Toward Great Power Status, 1865 – 1898
9. The Birth of an American Empire, 1898 – 1902
The Mexican Governor Valeriano Weyler initiated the re-concentration policy to cede independence to United States. America watched the Cuban war from a bird’s eye view since they were opposed to the humanitarian issue while any disruption effort to avert the war would threaten American investments. The American nation proclaimed neutrality while it was hard to maintain the coastal patrols, and it was costly to prosecute offenders. According to the authors, President McKinley was pro-intervention since he considered concentrating ...

Hiroshima. By John Hersey (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1989). 160 pages. Reviewed by Your Name, Date of Review.

John Hersey (1914 – 1993) decided to write a story about the atomic bombing of Japan that would explain the catastrophic consequences to the people on the ground there at the time. Hersey spent weeks in Japan interviewing eyewitnesses to the event and eventually produced a long article entitled “Hiroshima” which appeared in The New Yorker. Two months later Hiroshima was printed as a book. The general story is that of six people who were on the scene when the atomic bomb was dropped ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or “blistering” conflict it was referred to as the cold war. Therefore the Cold ...

1. How did the Cold War emerge after W.W.II? How did the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. view actions such as the Berlin Blockade and a policy stance such as the Truman Doctrine differently?
First off, after WW2, the U.S emerged as the sole superpower, mostly because of its nuclear bomb capacity. In addition, the Soviet Union had millions of citizens and was in no position to engage in any new militaristic operations. At that time, the US and the Soviet Union were uneasy allies, because of their mutual fear of the Nazi influence. Their partnership was “born of a ...

The Second World War has been regarded as the Good War for many reasons, and many have defended the participation of the United States in it as morally and rationally justified. This justification is based on the belief that Germany and Japan were threatening the power balance of the world and would have posed an impending danger to America and the rest of the free world if they were not stopped.
The book was written in 1972, in a time where the United States had waged many other wars, and the public had started to question the stand taken ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Book Review: One Minute to Midnight

It is almost two decades since the occurrence of the infamous Cuban missile crisis. The events that unfolded in the fall of 162 have attracted many researchers, who have focused on the analysis of how Cuba, a small island nation, became the focal point of the Cold War. One of the most researched and written about events in the Cold War is the Cuban missile crisis. Prominent researchers have taken this course to give the political view and possible consequences of this infamous event. Various authors and experts have compiled extensive amounts of information from a number of different written sources ...

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Climate change comprises the interaction of environmental, climatic, technological, political, social, institutional and economic processes. Climate change involves the stabilization of green houses gases. It is inevitable and cannot be dealt with in isolation of societal goals such as equity and sustainable development. Technology and policy instruments should be integrated into equity and sustainable development so as to eliminate climate change. Climate change should be carried out in such a way that food production and economic development are not compromised. It should also allow the ecosystem to adapt naturally. Sustainable development is the capacity of existing generations to fulfill ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

The revolutionary war, taking place from April, 19, 1775 and ending on September, 3, 1783, is one of the important turning points in the history of United States of America. Anne M. Todd gives a thoughtful insight into the circumstances leading to war, the battle locations, weapons used during the war, and the crucial authorities leading the war in her book (The Revolutionary War). According to Todd, the Revolutionary War occurred because the colonists wanted to separate from the Great Britain, and form an independent nation. A series of legislative mistakes by the British parliament emboldened the revolutionaries call for ...

Book Review - Contagious Divides

Nayan Shah's 2001 book Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown provides a unique portrait of the different representations of Chinese immigrants in the twentieth century, particularly in San Francisco, and how they have changed in the intervening years. The book itself takes a dramatically close look at public health issues surrounding Chinese immigration as well, as the portrayal of Chinese immigrants at first was extremely negative. The urban landscape of San Francisco was dramatically changed by the large influx of Chinese emigrating to the US, and the public health concerns that followed were dramatic and stifling to racial ...

Chapter 6

Chapter six of this book addresses technology and reason in war. This chapter basically illustrates a theme of reason being more important in war than technology. Looking at this theme from all perspectives, there is some truth in it. The chapter draws its contents from battle of Mexico who took place in the 16th century.
As the battle continued, the outnumbered Spaniards fought with all available resources ranging from swords to cannons which dropped their opponents from 100 yards or more. This technology made them superior in the war though they were fighting a losing battle.
The Spaniards were ...

Book Review: Thirteen Days by Robert Kennedy

Thirteen days is a book based on the actual thirteen days between October sixteenth and October twenty eighth in the year nineteen sixty two. It is a period of time when the world stood at the blink of nuclear war that could have caused total obliteration of the Earth. This period was branded with the name ‘Cuban missile crisis of nineteen sixty two’. President John F. Kennedy selected a team of specialist to manage the tense situation created by this threat. The book offers an in-depth account of the meetings of this Executive Committee (ExComm) as told by Robert Kennedy. He was ...

Book Review of Henry Kissinger’s

MEMORANDUM

This book review aims to analyse the content of Henry Kissinger’s On China. The content will include critical evaluation of arguments, theories and viewpoints presented in the book as well as summarize the geopolitical and strategies mentioned therein.

1 On China – Points to be noted
For over two decades before Henry Kissinger visited China as president’s Nixon’s delegate, no high level diplomatic interaction had taken place between the U.S. and China. Very little was known about the nation and its foreign policies. However, post the cold war and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., China ...

Introduction

The Second World War was one of the biggest wars to be witnessed in the world history. Countries ventured into the Second World War in order to settle their scores that were left unsettled during the First World War. German was the main problem causer and other European countries teamed up so as to oust Hitler who kept on conquering Europe. Hitler ignored advice from the military personnel but insisted that they push on further. Japan on the other hand wanted to become the world’s super power and so continued with its scathing attacks to the countries that ...

Introduction

In his book “Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”, Stephen Kinzer examines the various overthrows the government of the United States has undertaken since 1893. According to Kinzer, the invasion of Iraq was not an isolated case. It was just a continuation of the list of very countries America has invaded and aided its overthrow. Kinzer examined 14 overthrows that the U.S government has been involved in the last 110 years (Kinzer 8). According to him, the intension of most of the overthrows are not what the government tells the public, both the American citizens ...

Sociology

Book Review
Critical thinking is crucial for navigating through the numerous arguments people come across in daily life- in the form of advertisements, political speeches and even college level debates. Capaldi and Smit provide an essential handbook for readers to identify arguments, analyze them, present cases, attack arguments, defend cases and undertake cause-and effect reasoning.
The very foundation of modern discourse rests on identifying arguments. It is necessary that people identify the premises and conclusions of arguments through their context, instead of grammatical location in sentences. The authors highlight the concept of interlocking arguments, where a conclusion acts as ...

The reading, “Three Narrative of Our Humanity,” was informative, but difficult. The so-called, “sanitizing,” of Japanese history to wipe clean any remnants of the country’s part in World War II is both insulting, but understandable, as the reading admits preoccupation with the country’s own suffering is natural . American’s seem preoccupied with wanting an apology from the Japanese. At the very least, the world wants acknowledgement that the Japanese were involved. Perhaps, however, the Japanese are simply attempting to wipe out one of the most gruesome and violent parts of their history, perpetrated on them as a ...

Overview of the book

Yunus, Muhammad, and Karl Weber. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. New York: Public Affairs, 2010. Print.
The book was authored by Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, which is a microcredit institution. Through his economic policies, Yunus made an immense contribution to the fight against poverty and through his economic paradigm; he manages to espouse an economic model that places humanity at the heart of polling resource together for positive potential. His efforts in the promotion of social business enabled him to win the 2006 Nobel ...

It is important to comprehend the reason why Hiroshima was a likely target. According to Hersey (107), “the ruined city had flourished and had been an inviting target mainly because it had been one of the most important military- command and communications centres in Japan, and would have become the Imperial headquarters had the islands been invaded and Tokyo been captured.” In other words, how had the dropping of the bomb changed the lives of the survivors? Was the decision by the United States government to hit Hiroshima with the atomic bomb necessary? Should the Japanese have been forewarned about ...

Koreans during their rich history, unfortunately, many times had to uphold their independence from the enemy invasions and friendly embrace of powerful neighbors. Korean War, which was the first open conflict between USSR and America, was a bloody conflict that for a long time concealed terrible crimes against humanity. We will raise the pages of the Korean War, see it preconditions and consequences. The paper’s main argument is to examine the historical elements of the book The Guest, written by Hwang Sok-yong, and to analyze the conditions of the Sinchon Massacre. We will discuss Hwang’s description of the deep ...

Chapter Summaries – Shaking the Gates of Hell

Chapter 12: Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO
In this chapter, Delgado talks about the influence and key role in the global economic crisis of the three main financial and economic international organizations: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO. The author says that these organizations claim to be the torchbearers of the economic stability in the world, but, in truth, they work for their own benefit. The ground realities of the global economic horizon contradict their claim that their rules help improve the standard of living and lives of general population of the world. The main ...

Analysis of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

When reading about human history, there are patterns surrounding certain parts of the world, while other places don’t fit into these patterns; hunters and gatherers became farmers, spoken words became written language, villages became cities, etc. Most history books published in past decades contain a perspective that focuses on Europe when talking about the development of human societies. In the very same history books, it becomes obvious that the people of Europe and Asia were some of the first in the development of technology and their economy, but sometimes they were invaders and attacked others. This makes a person question ...

Introduction

The book by Charles C. Mann is a non-fiction book based on pre-Columbian America. In his book, Mann argues that a cocktail of recent findings from different of research implies that there were numerous populations in the western hemisphere. He also argues that the indigenous people in the Americas were more culturally sophisticated, shaped and controlled the natural landscape and came earlier than the scholars indicated. This critical review evaluates Mann’s book with regard to his arguments and the evidence he presents to back them up in the four sections of the book. These sections include the Holmberg’s Mistake, ...

Introduction

This book is a continuation of another fine work by Edward drea on the pacific war; a very mature judgment coming from an experienced scholar. Using the main text of the book, he utilizes a new generation of some Japanese publications, which are not biased products of a retired officer. The text is not about Japanese history in battles and wars; rather it is about the IJA (imperial Japanese army) in the perspective of an institution. It analyses groups, for instance the officer corps, the army demographics (conscripts), examines the budget, and considers operational and strategic tools. Although it is narrative in structure, ...

GMO is the abbreviation for genetically modified organisms. An organism is said to be genetically modified when there is alteration of its genetic constitution through genetic engineering methods. Micro-organisms such as mammals, insects, fish, plants, yeast and bacteria are some of the organisms that have been genetically modified in today’s world. Monsanto is one of the major companies that involved itself in the production of GMOs and it also controls the biggest and widest share of market of GMO crops in the world . The following are some of the products that Monsanto produced. Firstly, they produced RoundUp soy-beans ...

Chapter 7: Stratification.

Dalton has brought up the issues of social stratification in chapter 7 of his book, ‘You May Ask Yourself’. Social stratification refers to an unintentional drive within the family that determines the future of the family members. It also places members of the society into some economic groups. The society can shape an individual to become what it wants. For example, people from poor families are often associated with poverty and unfortunately most of them end up poor in their life. It known that it is the family where our life starts. Therefore the stratification places each family within a ...

Introduction

The Chinese government adopted free market economy in early 1990 and since then the country has experienced enormous economic growth. The rate of urbanization has also been increasing and this has brought new forms of crimes which the government must devise new ways of handling. The increased crime rate across the country is attributable to increasing economic inequality, disruption of traditional social control mechanism, massive rural urban migration, and introduction of western values, change in demographic features and decreased social interaction. In Caribbean countries the authorities have been unable to tame the increased criminality fueled by increased drug and ...

The Hunt for Red October Annotated Bibliography

Part I

“The Hunt for Red October” by Tom Clancy highlights the fact that submarines played a significant role in cold war politics . It is particularly significant that this book reflects real world events, the mutiny aboard the Storozhevoy and the defection of Captain Jonas Pleskys of the Klaipeda . Tom Clancy’s approach to war is an intellectual power game rather than a horrifying detailed recitation of physical injuries . It shares aspects of underwater strategies like crazy Ivan where a ship tries to discover if another is following it, and move into battle position if it is. It is also about the ...

A good author is defined by the magic of their work and this is just what Keith kennel is. In this, the seduction of the being the author uses his native candid words to describe the characters.’ As some soft john Williams plays, the camera zooms in on O’Malley’s bar in Pennsylvania and captures the face of a blonde seductive beauty with piercing eyes that can miraculously change from one color to another. From green to blue and then to grey as she looks at the lens with a stare that penetrates the minds of the readers. In this ...