Essays on Machine Gun

Technological Change and the Naval Culture in the Era of the Battleship

Revolution took place in the 19th century as the land welfare was changed by the utilization of new weapons. Steam powered ships, however, became sophisticated that paved the way to the revolution of naval battles comprised of board vessel, ram opposing ship, overtaking crew via traditional combat, whereas new methods comprises of disabling or sinking ship via use of the cannon fire. Additionally, ship can be used for transporting weapons for profit motives. However, the mechanization of the ships of navy ineradicably modified the culture of navy. Navy, however, had tradition, which was reduced to automatic procedures with the ...

Dear Susan,

It is my sincere hope this letter finds you and our baby boy well. I am faring well since my last letter a month ago and I must say I miss seeing your lovely smile (at least when you’re not mad at me). I am writing from the Middle East, Gallipoli Peninsula. Today marks exactly one year since I joined the war and I cannot help but remember the instance I decided to fight in the Great War. I remember seeing the Secretary of War, a mustachioed Lord Kitchener’s poster. His stern and cutting look in his ...

Vladek's Mental Illness in Art Spiegelman's Maus

In recent years, a lot of comics are very mediocre, quite often they have similar super-heroes and antagonists. Not many comics evoke some powerful emotions, not many of them have a strong sense of compassion for the characters. They shock the readers very rarely. One of the graphic novels, which cause such a feeling, is "Maus." This is a comic of Art Spiegelman. He used the stories of this father. This is the book about the life of one family, about the survival of the mind and body in conditions where the word "destruction" is not an abstraction, but ...

One of the heartbreaking truths about World War 1 was that millions of innocent men needlessly died because civilian and military leaders were slow in changing their war strategies and effectively employing new technologies. Thus, the war typified a fight between an inefficient nineteenth century warfare which witnessed lot of casualties on both sides, and a twentieth century technology-driven battle in which many decisive technologies were tested. As for America, the trend of industrialism and mass production of machineries and war equipments had begun fifty years prior to the onset of the war during the American Civil War. With ...

Psychology:

Psychology: The first issue in the relation to the field of forensic psychology in which will be discussed is that of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Before discussing the relationship between PTSD and the field of forensic psychology, it is crucial to have an understanding as to what exactly Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is. Taken from the Canadian Mental health Association Resource, it is a mental illness which “involves exposure to trauma involving death or the threat of death, serious injury, or sexual violence. Something is traumatic when it is very frightening, overwhelming and causes a lot of distress” (Canadian Mental Health ...

Introduction

There was a time in American when agents of law enforcement could only watch as a law violator walked away. A time, when the agents were unable to return fire during a gunfight. A period when there existed no means of tracking criminals. A period when a state line acted as a great and impassable wall for law enforcers. A time when one’s criminal exploits made him a legend. These men stood unopposed and took whatever they wished to take on a whim. In the year 1924, a young man started a journey to revolutionalize the modern day American law enforcement took off. This man was J. ...

Introduction

The Vietnam War took place between 1961 and 1975. The technology of helicopters goes back to the 20th century. The US army had acquired experience on the effectiveness using helicopters during the World War II. Mobility set the pace of the war. Time, policy, politics, and circumstances converged with technology and adequate funding to create the Vietnam War. The US army entered Vietnam in May 1965 to find they were fighting a different kind of war than that for which they had been trained. However, they did not enter blindly. There were a large number of army officers already serving in ...

Introduction

The 82nd airborne division is the one in duty for the airborne infantry division in America. The division are skilled in parachute assaults in a war zone or battle. The work of the 82nd airborne division in the military is to coordinate, execute, plan rapid forced and combined arms operations. The operations can be operated alone or on a joint force with others. The 82nd Airborne Division was formulated or became part of the national army in 1917. It was based at Camp Gordon in Georgia. It has been claimed that all the original members of the division hailed from all ...

“Hey, where’s the bread? I told you to get it yesterday!” yelled my elder brother at me. It was the same miserable morning that had greeted me for the past many years. It was as if every morning, my misery looked down upon me with a smirk and whispered, like the movie character Mask, “Somebody stops me!” I grabbed the money from the shelf, thrown to me like a bone is thrown to a dog and left my house in search of the ever-needed bread. Usually, my journey to the bakery is very uneventful. However, that day, the monotony was ...

Introduction

The First World War mirrored a technological trend toward the use of mass production procedures to the use of weapons for warfare. This development started half a century before the First World War and persisted in various conflicts in which weapons were brought to test. The Civil War was heavily influenced by new advancements in technology, especially railroads and guns. However, when the First World War began, the United States discovered itself to lack military technology. The earlier periods of World War I symbolized a clash of the twentieth era technology with the nineteenth era combat in the form of unsuccessful ...

Introduction

Characteristic of World War II reveal intensive use of lethal types of both offensive and defensive weaponry. A global activity employed all efforts from the warring sides to ensure victory. The recent inventions and discoveries in science and technology contributed immensely to the manufacture and transportation of the lethal weapons of mass destruction that were used during the war. A wide variety of weapons was deployed by the opposing sides. Such weapons include Handguns, grenades and explosives, nuclear weapons and machine guns. All these weapons were deployed in to use by different parties in the war due to ...

Evolution of Warfare

Since existence, human beings have always waged war. It is claimed that the first action the Homo sapiens engaged in on the global stage was genocide with the complete obliteration of the Neanderthals even though there is no implication of a prearranged war endeavor. The Neanderthals where physically stronger than the Homo sapiens. However, the Homo sapiens could commune and unite to push the Neathadals to areas that were not very favorable for continued existence hence dominating better settlements.

Though many people would think of war as a morally and ethically unacceptably action, it is still a very important form of human ...

Arguably, we go through various experiences, of which we act according to our potential. Since childhood, many people have undergone an experience that is either good or bad. As a matter of fact, after the experience we learn various skills on how to deal with issues, as well as test our potentiality. As an individual, I have undergone many challenging experiences, but the most memorable of all happened as Iraq. The challenging experience was worth stepping in and shifting a situation. Certainly, my first firefight in Iraq as a United States marine marked my most challenging experience. In this challenging situation, ...