Haley Coles Theissen SPH 131 17 November 2013 U.S. vs. John Lennon My overall reaction to the movie U.S. vs. John Lennon was that the government was wrong and acted unfairly towards John Lennon and Yoko. Before watching this movie I was not aware of any of the incidents that had happened. I had heard of John Lennon and that he was part of the Beetles but I didn’t even know that he was dead or was murdered. I was very shocked to find out how the government had treated him and the lengths they had went to, to try to get rid of him. It was very interesting to learn about the story of John Lennon and Yoko.
The director shows this by the sounds and angles of the camera during scenes and by the way many people talk at once shows the differences of life between the city and the peacefulness of Samuels home. The close up on Samuel’s face during the murder with the expression of terrified face with a wide open eyes and the tension of the music shows us the corruption of his innocence and the conflict with the world around him there is also another evidence when he tells Eli that he would only kill the bad man. Schaefer, McFee and Fergie go to the Amish world looking for john book they are faced with many obstacles. When thewy first enter arrive at the farm, the soundtrack and the close up view on the guns are there to remind us the violence and show us that that is the only way they could keep their corruption. The gun fires between John Book and McFee are there to represent the violence and even earlier in the film at the parking area, the guns are used as a symbol of thriller and crime.
At the end of the conflict, all of the involved countries were technically able to claim some kind of success or benefit. However, no country achieved its original goal, for example, USA still had poor relations with other countries that they wanted to make peace with and communism was still not contained. To make matters worse all countries had significant human, economic, physical, or political damages. The USA claimed minor success by containing communism to an extent, protecting democracy in South Korea, and protecting Japan and its related US interests. Additionally the conflict in Korea allowed the USA to demonstrate its military capabilities to the world, as Kennedy said, he wanted to prove America’s credibility and Vietnam was the perfect place to illustrate this and, in the bigger picture, help to increase UN credibility.
The war was pointless in the American’s eyes and they thought that America had no right to impose its views on Vietnam. Napalm, a jellied gasoline, was used in the Vietnam as tactic for the Americans. As they drop Napalm onto Vietnam, it lures out the Vietcong from their hiding places due to the black smoke spreading from the explosion. But by doing that, the bomb killed many innocent villagers, children and women that had nothing to do with the war. Source A suggests that US used the air raid for chasing out the Vietcong that were hiding because it shows in the source that many Vietnamese Children are running away from the danger that the American troops are causing.
Armed security will more than likely always be a deterrent for terrorism which is a strong reason why I believe our border patrol is a major strength in the Department of Homeland Security. On the contrary, I believe the transit security department in Homeland Security is fairly weak. Our airport security is not as tough or as strict as it should be since 9/11. I believe airport security was extremely lax and weak before 9/11, began to strengthen for a few years post 9/11, but never really reached the level I believe it should be at now, almost 10yrs since that day. I firmly believe all TSA personnel should not only be thoroughly screened and evaluated, but trained and armed after successful completion of training and evaluation.
We can control our own actions whether they are right or wrong and be held accountability for them. We can teach others from right and wrong. We cannot control the actions of others even if they are good, but we can definitely hold them accountability for the wrong actions. Having more information about the timeline and events of 9-11 makes me wonder if the President would have acted on some of the information would so many people have died that day. President George W. Bush declared, “Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.
Furthermore, many of the lives claimed during the atomic bombings were those of civilians. Unlike the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor, or the numerous casualties of other segments of the army, these people did not sign up to serve their country. The soldiers that were killed at Pearl Harbor or anywhere else during the war had signed up for the army with full knowledge of the risks they were taking. They knew there was a chance that they would be killed in action-but the victims of the atomic bombings didn’t. They were simply innocent bystanders
Another Major flaw was that “the country, whose president, Woodrow Wilson, had dreamt up the idea of the League - America -, refused to join it.” The league’s most powerful militaries Britain and France not only suffered casualties, but also economically as they were greatly in debt to the United States. Because of this neither country was enthusiastic to get involved in disputes that did not affect Western Europe. Therefore the League had no military might and could only enforce economic sanctions in hope that they worked against aggressive nations. All these flaws point to signs that the League of Nations was a failure. However, even though there were a few setbacks, the league was a success in many ways.
Some words in the English language are “strictly meaningless, in the sense that they…do not point to any discoverable object” (Orwell 531). Meaningless words have had their original meaning altered so many times that there are different perspectives for that word; without there being a real meaning, politicians can manipulate how people associate certain words with positive or negative feelings. In his State of the Union, Nixon states, “America’s military strength has always been maintained to keep the peace, never to break it. It has always been to defend freedom, never to destroy it” (3). When
It would also not have been popular amongst the American people as the majority did not despise communism so much that war was a possibility and so the idea did not have the peoples backing. Another factor which meant that the cold war was not inevitable by 1945 was the fact that the current leaders Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill were holding peaceful negotiations including the naughty document a document that was drawn up in Greece between Stalin and Churchill before the end of the war to divide of the land they had won. This suggests that at this time cold war was completely avoidable. Not only were the countries willing to be peaceful but they even began negotiating the terms of their victory and were able to agree on the division of Europe temporarily. Though they began they agreed upon the divisions they had made after 1945 this became a large cause of tension the most famous being the berlin wall which was an attempt by the communists to starve supplies from western berlin.