Silence reigned, and the click of the door behind him echoed jarringly loud. There had been a time when there was never a moment of silence in this place; when laughter could be heard, when loud voices rang above the buzz of the television, when footsteps sounded as the members of Team Baron went about their day – training and planning, testing out their latest moves and practicing their routines, or just plain hanging out and lazing around. Now, though, there was only him, Kumon Kaito. He could still remember the looks of utter betrayal on Zack and Peco’s faces as he dismissed them; the rest of the team had gotten off lightly, but for the two he considered to be his most trusted, his words had been harsh and his tone hard – he had had to be tough on them, especially them, because he couldn’t drag them into this battle, this war. ‘I don’t need people who can’t fight, and right now, you’re useless to me.’ And, there was only Jounouchi Hideyasu. The leader of Team Invitto – or former leader, as Kaito soon discovered, Jounouchi had too disbanded his own team – had turned up at his doorstep, his usual smirk in place, but his eyes colder – sharper and darker – than Kaito had ever seen them. There was no explanation as to where he had been, where he had come from or even why he was here; he looked neither threatening nor particularly eager. But, he was clearly here, at Kaito’s doorstep, with a purpose. ‘I would like to offer you a deal.’ So, here they were – the two of them - no longer leaders of Beat Rider Teams, no longer young adults with naïve dreams and illusions about their futures. After all, who would spend the time and energy to think of the future when they didn’t even know if they were going to live past tomorrow? ‘... ... middle of paper ... ...room. Unconsciously, his hand retrieved his deck of cards from his pocket, and he began to shuffle it. ‘Oh, and Kaito,’ the former Invitto leader popped his head back in, as Kaito started laying out the cards on the table, ‘remember, this isn’t your war to win.’ Don’t forget what you are really fighting for. Kaito’s eyes landed on the cards that he had pulled from the deck. Ten of Diamonds. Jack of Diamonds. Queen of Diamonds. King of Diamonds. Ace of Diamonds. Gaim. And, her. Takatsukasa Mai. The cards said it all really. Kaito would not – would never – lose sight of his goal; he knew what he wanted. They weren’t riding out to win a war; they were riding out to reclaim what they had lost. And, like Jounouchi, he was going to do anything to get it. And, this time, they would not regret the choices they made; the price they had to pay. No matter the cost.
Victors and Vanquished by Stuart Schwartz attempts to explore differing perspectives of the conquest of Mexico as the historical narratives are from both the outlook of the Spanish conquistadors as well as the Nahua peoples. In these primary sources, there was a fundamental focus on the encounters between the Spaniards and the Mexica. The first source is an excerpt from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a Spanish conquistador, who participated as a foot solider in the conquest of Mexico with Hernán Cortés. Although Díaz del Castillo was a witness of the conquest, he wrote his account of what he had witnessed decades after the Spanish victory, in 1521. In his account, Díaz del Castillo concentrated on the ways in which the Spanish viewed the Nahua peoples. The second source is taken from the Florentine Codex and is one which was collected twenty
Reiman and Leighton continue to expand on the Pyrrhic Defeat Theory and ways how the criminal justice system continues to succeed by failing to reduce crime. They speak of some reasons why the policies enforced by the criminal justice system, maintain crime rather than reduce it. The system makes use of excuses as to why it fails at the reduction of crimes. While continuing to serve the interests of the powerful and maintaining the view of the poor being the most dangerous to society.
The history of the Western hemisphere is full of war and conquest. One of the most significant and defining of those conquests is the downfall of the Mexica/Aztec Empire. While there are many other events to choose from, this one stands out since it was one over one of the largest empires in Central America. It is also important to look at because of the immense cultural impact it had. The story of this takeover reads like a movie script, a small band of Spaniards single handedly takes down the most powerful empire in Central America. It was an epic battle, which unfortunately led to the destruction of a magnificent culture. As in any major historical event there are many underlying themes and storylines that come together to make the event happen. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec is no different. Three major themes are seen in this struggle. One of them is the incredible advantage that the Spaniards technology gave them over the Aztecs. A second major theme is the greed that fueled the conquests in the New World. The last major theme was the effect of the political divisions and rivalries within Montezuma’s Central American Kingdom. As this historical event progressed each one of these themes began to intertwine until they became an almost unstoppable force.
BANG, BOOM, BLAM,TAT-A-TAT, TAT. My ears are assaulted with noise, my eyes witness squirting blood a soldier is shot. I observe soldiers blown away by bombs. I see blood that saturates an infantry man. I view maimed men and observe limbs with fragmented bone. I witness militia dead on the ground. I listen to screams, grunts and gurgling blood in a man's windpipe. WHOOSH, flame throwers make a path with flames blazing burning men instantaneously. My eyes reveal the emotion that rips through my heart, tears drip down my cheek. I turn my head. I cannot watch a soldier cradle his buddy as he dies.
Cathcart looked at the envelope and paused for a brief moment, and then flung it onto his desk without a care in the world. He then focused his attention back to the mess of cards on his desk, gathering the playing cards quickly so he can try again.
at the same time lost no opportunity to purchase their lands and thrust them farther
The Myth of the Lost Cause was edited by Gary Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan, and other several editors have taken the challenge of a difficult task of trying to summarize of what happened in the end of numerous of misrepresentations of this historic event. The book has a total 9 essays, giving me a different kind of reading style and showing its precision in showing it. I think what the editors were trying to convey was that the final analysis of the book is trying to explain how the Lost Cause myth was created and how it is still in effect to our national memory of the Civil War.
According to John Grenier, colonists used unlimited and employed irregular tactics, or The First Way of War, which Grenier describes as a small war tradition that nonprofessional soldiers to pursue unlimited objectives, using irregular means to obtain it. These tactics included ruthless warfare that included targeting elders, women and children, burning and raiding towns, destroying food sources and supply and assassinating enemy leaders. The arrival of colonists to America, did not introduce the concept of lethality in warfare; instead it introduced new technologies that changed the balance of offense and defense, making open battle more lethal and successful. The English’s mission was to exterminate the natives, in order to establish their
After the Civil War ended many southerners were devastated, families lost fathers and sons, farms were destroyed, and the pride of the being southern had taken a serious blow. To bring back a pride of what it means to southern many groups arose to help shift the blame of why the war was lost. One of the most prominent groups was the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who were founded in 1890. With the founding of the group the UDC had one purpose in mind “… the desire to educate the young with proper histories lest they forget the sacrifices of their fathers, and mothers,…”. This was done through numerous conduits, the first being influencing the reading material children had access to. Books that were not seen to agree with the UDC version of history were removed from libraries because they did not present a “true history for children of the South”. The books that remained in small town southern libraries reinforced the tenets of the Lost Cause, along with the removal of books the UDC also authored an answer booklet called “U.D.C. Catechism for Children”. This booklet contained a series of questions and pro-south answers. In Major Problems in the History of the American South a copy that was published in 1912 contains passages like
Some nights I lay awake thinking about the future—thinking about the cities that haven’t been built, the planets that haven’t been found, and the people that I will never get to meet. I am scared for those people.
“Yonus reared back, yanked Dawit by the shirt, threw him to the ground, and Knelt on his chest. He had a choke hold on Dawit’s collar, jerking him up till they met face-to-face. “Am I a coward to you?” he hissed”
It’s also discussed in the lecture that Japan’s leaders were unwilling to contemplate surrender, even as defeat stared them in the face. (Introduction to Grave of the Fireflies) They just can’t simply accept defeat even they know that they can’t
THE POWER OF THE MOMENT: The ability to stay in the present is a virtue. Most people are always living either in the past or in the future. So they are either worrying about the past, worrying about the past pains, the past results, the past failures, past relationships, past struggles, or they are ruminating about the future fears, the future impossibilities, the future achievements, future possibilities. Worrying about the past or future would not benefit you as you are putting yourself in a position of disadvantage.
The hindsight bias, as defined in the article Hindsight Bias and Developing Theories of Mind by Andrew N. Meltzoff and Geoffrey R. Loftus, occurs when “people armed with advanced knowledge of an outcome overestimate the likelihood of that particular outcome, in essence claiming that they ‘knew it all along’” (Meltzoff). People who are victims of this very common bias can be drawn to the idea of going to the past to fix all of their problems because they live in the present. Knowing what the present holds, people believe that if they went back in time, they could change the future and, in turn, have a better
If you use the futures time to your advantage it can greatly help you “the now alone can furnish all our needs'; allowing you to accomplish whatever you want or set out to do in life. Allow you to attain things that will outweigh and help overcome the tribulation that might present itself in your future. Almost anyone who is successful in life has taken advantage of the future and used it to overcome things and get places.