Provincetown Harbor

Hegemonic narratives are narratives created by people that have dominance over others, while a counter-narrative is a narrative of the marginalized, and the oppressed. The novel When the Emperor was Divine is a counter, historical fiction book written by Julie Otsuka that critiques the hegemonic narrative of WW2. The author writes about a Japanese-American family living in the US during World War 2, that are forced into an incarceration camp in Utah. The main characters of the book all changed…

Toward the end of the attack at Pearl Harbor, Admiral IsorokuYamamoto, on the Combined Fleet flagship, rose to his feet and said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Ironically, at the dawn of the World War II, of September 1, 1939, only a little more than two years prior, the United States did not have the security or the military alliances to engage in this full scale global struggle, World War II. Indeed, the predominant political…

Knuckle Knife with Scabbard Description This silver knife is made of steel. It has a handle that has four holes for the fingers. The blade is sharp on both side and meets at a point. The brown, leather scabbard with a security strap to securely hold the knife in place, has two cuts so the owner can attach the blade to a belt. There are no marks that shows who made these two artefact, but it has ‘93-2214’ engraved in black ink on it. Purpose and Use (197) These types of knuckle knives were…

Flying Tigers In this essay I am going talk about what were Flying Tigers. I will talk about there disbanded date and who made up this group. What were same of the missions of the Flying Tigers. All of this information take about how the Flying tigers started, and how the Flying Tigers end. So all this information will be included in this essay. So just set back and relax and just read this essay. The Flying Tigers are a volunteer group (AVG). A unit of american fighter pilots during World War 2…

had to be sent into dry dock to be repaired. Although we seemed to be fighting an uphill battle, the US would not let a terroristic attack keep them down. Something had to be done about the country who carried out Operation Z. The attack on Pearl Harbor proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers. They allowed a greater striking distance and quicker attack times for planes.…

“Never a day goes by for all these many years when I haven’t thought about it,” Stratton, one of nine still-living Pearl Harbor survivors remembers. “I don’t talk about it too much, but when December rolls around, I do. It’s important the American people don’t forget.”(“Dodd”). On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It caused many deaths and ships to be destroyed. A day after the attack, U.S. declared war on Japan which led them…

The purpose of this paper is to identify how the British Admiralty’s COMINT failures during the Battle of Jutland prevented them from destroying the German High Seas Fleet. The battle is re-imagined with a much better-trained and coordinated intelligence section. The British Admiralty’s intelligence failures prevented Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet from winning a decisive victory against Scheer’s High Seas Fleet. Because the Admiralty’s COMINT section did not maintain control over their…

during World War II . Okinawa is a big island by Japan that had underground tunnels and trenches so the Japanese soldiers could get around so they could sneak up on the American soldiers. America wanted control over Japan because they bombed Pearl Harbor. f America got control of Hacksaw Ridge it might change the tide of the war and it might make Japan stop helping the Nazi’s with suplies and recources. America wanted Japan to sign a peace treaty before the battle for hacksaw ridge started.…

Source C and Source D contain several similarities. For example, Source C states “[Japan] must continue to study and make use of Western methods” while Source D explains that “Japan had learned to emulate the West”. Both utilize remarks on the nation’s implementations of Western ideas as ways to improve their military strength. Furthermore, both Source C and Source D indicate the West’s disregard for Japan’s strength and their intentions to take advantage of this. Source C implies that “the…

taught in Universities and Defense colleges. The concepts of collection, analysis and dissemination are fundamental for an analyst to be successful. Improvement of concepts such as HUMINT and SIGINT have come a long way since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today we use a multitude of forms of Intelligence collection. HUMINT has become an important form of collection with agencies dedicated to HUMINT alone. SIGINT too has developed over the century, particularly due to the advances in technology.…