WW1 Blog Chance

America and all of the people that live in this great country need to prepare for war. War is right around the corner, and we must be ready and prepared. Nationalism is a devotion to ones culture or religion, or in this case a devotion to our country. So if you believe in America and support America with your whole heart, prepare for war, because we are on the brink of it. One demonstration that shows the war is very near is that alliances have already started forming. One alliance that has formed is called the triple alliance, which includes Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The other alliance that has formed is called the triple entente which at first included Russia and France. If we go to war we will join the triple entente alliance and help Russia and France against Germany and the others. The reason that we will join that alliance is not only because we hate Germany and their alliances and what they stand for, but also because of the ancestral ties to France and Great Britain.


One of the main reasons that the war started is because Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian radical named Gavrilo Principia. There were other smaller events that helped cause tension and pressure, but the killing of the Archduke was the turning point. After this Austria-Hungary and Serbia declared war on each other. Each country got their allies involved in the war. The Untied States needs to step into the war and help our allies out. If you are with me go to Uncle Sam and enlist today. We need to prepare and get ready for when we enter the war. That way when full out war occurs we wont be surprised or caught off guard, we will be prepared and we will have the upper hand in the fight.

Chance's Muckracker Blog

The article I read was about two men, James Mitchel and John Jessen, who teamed up with the CIA to make more effective torture programs and techniques to use against captured civilians. The article was written on October 16, 2015. It tells about how these two men, who devoted their lives to teaching American soldiers to resist using forceful and abusive interrogation tactics, changed and developed a program for the United States. President Bush gave the two men and the CIA the right to test their experiment because he said they were not violating any foreign laws and the CIA got legal cover for the experiments they wanted to run. The CIA's goal with the new interrogation tactics was to make enemy hostiles feel helpless and scared and it is supposed to force information out of them. Some of the tactics they used included beatings, hanging the prisoners above ground just so they could barely breathe, putting them in painful positions for days, starving them, playing psychological games with their heads, and using Chinese water torture. On the patients they tried these interrogation tactics on they accomplished their goal. They made them give up all the information they knew and they left them feeling helpless and lost. Today many of the patients have life long psychological damage. They feel lost and helpless. The torture still had lasting effects on the way that they have to live their lives. Now both Mitchell and Jessen are facing charges for cruel, inhumane treatment, nonconsensual human torture, war crimes, and for violating humans rights. Many of the patients they tested on are dead today. They completely broke their will to live and they sanity and so many of them committed suicide, were tortured to death, or died from other severe affects caused by the torturing techniques. Other victims who are still alive still suffer from lasting physical and mental affects and will continue to suffer the rest of their lives.


 http://muckrakerfarm.com/2015/10/out-of-the-darkness-how-two-psychologists-teamed-up-with-the-cia-to-devise-a-torture-program-and-experiment-on-human-beings/