A Review of Archy’s Final Act in Gallipoli-1981

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When examining Archy, he was filled with some sort of mischief from the beginning of the movie.  We start out the film with a commitment to a foolhardy barefoot race across the desert against a man on horseback.  Later he insists on competing in a legitimate footrace, albeit with shoes this time, a mere three […]

Paper on Terrorism

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I wrote this when pursuing an MA in International Relations. Introduction Over the course of the war on terror, more than 700 people have been incarcerated in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility; stories of torture abound.  Many in the government have justified any alleged mistreatment as necessary for security of the citizens of the United […]

Henny Penny Takes Off: A Novel of War and Human Spirit by Odene Braithwaite

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The following was originally written for the AFROTC detachment newsletter at the University of Florida in a column titled X-Specht, the UnX-Spechted The title does not do it justice, but Henny Penny Takes Off, is a shocking tale of a young man in the early 1940s. Hobbes Spitz was a US factory worker supporting his […]

Disappearing Spaghetti Fields

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I originally wrote this for my high school newspaper for April Fools in the spring of 2001. I used it again for a column I had in the Air Force ROTC Detachment Newsletter at the University of Florida. My Column was X-Specht the Un-X-Spechted. ——————————————————————————————————————- Here is another of my rare but serious articles. Because […]