264 Words For this just for me project I decided to read for pleasure. The book I am reading right now is Bones: The Forensic Casebook. This book is about forensic anthropology and it is very interesting. The main author Douglas Ubelaker is a forensic anthropologist that works at the Smithsonian museum and a consultant for the FBI in forensic anthropology. In this book he talks about all the many murder cases that he helped the FBI with and all the ancient remains that he has found all over the
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November 1st in 1918. It was named so as the battle was fought near the Somme river in France. On the first day alone‚ our side suffered more than 57 thousand casualties and by the last day of the battle we had lost more than 1.5 million men. Sir Douglas Haig was British commander on the Western Front during the majority of the first world war. The high casualties of the battle were caused mostly due to his military strategies. This made him a controversial figure in the eyes of many. Haig has been
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Douglas Haig was ’brilliant to the top of his Army boots’. David Lloyd George’s view sums up the attitude of many people towards Haig and other British generals of World War One. They were‚ supposedly‚ ’donkeys’: moustachioed incompetents who sent the ’lions’ of the Poor Bloody Infantry to their deaths in futile battles. Many popular books‚ films and television programmes echo this belief. The casualty list - one million British Empire dead - and the bloody stalemate of the Western Front seem to
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On the 18th November 1916‚ the Battle of the Somme ended when German troops retired from the final large British attack at the Battle of the Ancre amid worsening weather. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig called a halt to the operation‚ claiming the Somme offensive to have been successful. Haig used 750‚000 men against the German front-line. However‚ the bombardment failed to destroy either the barbed-wire or the concrete bunkers protecting the German soldiers. This meant that the Germans could exploit
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inevitable‚ an effort must‚ at least‚ be made to prevent it‚ along with the abundant amount of death and destruction that comes as a consequence. War is beginning to become nothing but destruction‚ as winning the war has no real meaning anymore. General Douglas MacArthur in his commencement address at the Michigan State University said it best: "The enormous destruction to both sides of closely matched opponents makes it impossible for even the winner to translate into anything but his own disaster" (53)
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Kirk Douglas Brown is a 53-year-old African American leader from Compton‚ California. Kirk is an honorably discharged combat veteran with 8 years of military service‚ and a non-traditional college student. As a veteran‚ he learned the value of tenacity and determination. Serving your country and attending college is a very challenging experience. In the mist of being a parent Kirk was able to matriculate through the California college system with an Associate’s in Art (A.A.) in graphic Design from
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In schools around the US‚ students are taught that past the civil war‚ slavery became nonexistent. However‚ as I read through Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery By Another Name‚ I realized that slavery did not stop in 1865‚ but that it had continued for decades after‚ with arguably worse conditions and restrictions. In his book‚ Blackmon describes the struggles of African Americans after the 13th Amendment’s enactment. He describes the south’s transition from pre civil war legalized slavery to the post
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mother always taught me to be a strong and independent woman. She told me to always strive to reach any goal that I set for myself‚ and she would always stand behind me on everything I ever did… I chose to read the book‚ Where the Girls are by Susan Douglas. I found this whole book interesting‚ mainly because it was the era that my mother grew up in. She grew up in the 1960s‚ a time where life was finally turning around for women. In the chapter‚ Mama Said‚ she actually talks about how her mother took
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Experiences that we have in Common" In "Learning to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass‚ Douglass describes the hardships of his life. Even though my life experiences are different from Douglass in many ways‚ they are similar in many respects. Frederick Douglas lived through slavery‚ and in my lifetime I lived through the ends of the Cold War‚ Gulf War‚ terrorist attacks‚ and a time in which a person’s right is being more and more protected‚ for example the Civil Rights Act of 1991. In Frederick Douglass’s
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Douglas Haig: One of the “Butchers” The level of violence and loss experienced during the First World War was unlike anything that the world had seen before. The number of nations involved far surpassed any war that preceeded it. Only a handful of countries around the world were able to remain neutral‚ thereby protecting their populations from the massive losses that destroyed Europe. Technological advances in weaponary‚ new battle tactics‚ and the largest european armies ever raised were put
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