Is Ethics Important in war? Explain
What was life like for the Cowboy? What have you learned about their actual life, what is the myth, and what have historians said? 2. What was the attraction of the American western movie during the Cold War and what has contributed to its lasting box office power? What are the myths presented and what have historians said? 3. How were women and minorities depicted in western films during the 1950s and 1960s and why did the depiction begin to change in the 1970s? What are the myths presented and what have historians said? 4. Can we argue the American West in the 21st century still represents that sense of hope and new opportunities as it did for those crossing the Oregon Trail in the mid-nineteenth century? Why or why not? Where is the historiography at the beginning of the 21st century? What have historians written about this? 5. In week one, I asked you if western “culture” was different from other parts of America. Has your answer changed based on what you have learned throughout the course and why or why not? What have historians written about a unique western culture? 6. The Four Corners region of the United States has been labeled a national sacrifice zone. Do you agree with this statement and do you think we must have such a thing?
How can democratic societies forestall terrorists attacks while still safeguarding their basic freedoms?
Friends and associates of the Tsarnaevs expressed shock after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. At no time did the brothers reveal any radical views. They had lived ten years in America and the younger brother, Jahar, had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012. Two years later, on December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, wearing combat gear and black masks, stormed a holiday party for employees of the San Bernardino county public-health department, where Farook worked as an inspector. Fourteen people were killed in the hail of bullets fired by the couple. Farook was a native-born American and his wife had recently emigrated from Pakistan. There was nothing in their backgrounds to indicate they were anything but ordinary, middle-class young people. On December 6, 2019, a shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, killed three U.S. sailors and severely wounded eight other Americans.