Hogan's Hero's

The Movie of the imperialism that I have chosen is sadly not a Movie but a TV Show called Hogan’s Hero’s. Which takes place in World War 2 in Nazi POW camp run by a  very“ Sad form of a commander” named commandant Klink and his unintelligent  head sergeant, sergeant Schulz. The allied command had placed Hogan and several other agents into the camp to provide acts of sabotage to the Nazi war machine from in the camp called stallage 13 from which no prisoner has ever escaped.

In the show Hogan’s Hero’s commandant Klink appears as a cowardly and demoted Luftwaffe commander reassigned to prison duty after displays of incompetence. The underlying theme is the fact that Hogan is able to manipulate the commandant into doing what he wishes but at the same time making sure their true intentions are not known to the commandant. In doing so Hogan is oppressing commandant Klink into doing what is necessary to complete the group’s goals letting access certain things. In the show Hogan and his men’s base of operations is located under stallag thirteen.  While Hogan is more talented in the way of special operations or spy work, which would make him stronger both in persuasive ability   and tactics to emplace his own intentions. While also backed by the Allied command with information on targets moving in enemy territory.  In the garrison stationed at the Stallag 13 are being constantly deceived from the true operations of the camp which leaves them unsuspecting and vulnerable for the Hogan and his saboteurs to manipulate them. Take Sergeant Schulz for example while the unsuspecting and unintelligent sergeant would unknowingly provide them with useful bits of information and German marks from gambling with Schulz and in many ways using his incompetence to their advantage like in the episode where stallag 13 was sent a shipment of dynamite to destroy high priority buildings.  Schulz was the “volunteer” driver of the truck that would carry the dynamite to the hidden storage areas. To discover the location of the dynamite Hogan was able to persuade Schulz into providing the location of a map of the storage areas. Which Hogan was using his abilities to oppress   Schulz’s situation with the driving what he called the “Suicide truck” Hogan obtained the location of the map. Hogan Was able to deceive the SS commander using their unsuspecting position as POW’s and then posing as fire inspectors to go into where they held the dynamite and the map with commander. After tricking those with smoke grenades to which the Nazi believed there was an actual fire and at the same time stole the map to the areas. This display’s creating and taking control of the situation for their own advantage to get what the need with out harming anyone and leaving no suspicion after saving the SS commander and stealing his maps of the region. In this case the Nazi’s were the one’s being out smarted and overtaken even when they do not even realize it. Which is what imperialism is in this article, taking over and dominating on a mental level and manipulative level.

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yellow mellow

Today Yellow journalism is used primarily in the news to gain views and rile the public up with something that normally is not very serious. Even in the business area to lure people into purchasing their products and services with deceptive advertisements when in reality they truly know very little. An extremely good example would be the H1N1 or swine flu, after the news's companies used the threat of a global pandemic to rile the public and attract attention to their news station.When in fact the normal seasonal flu killed far more people than the swine flu did in the course of the year. During the Spanish American war the headline "great sea victory for America  vengeance for the Maine begun" was when the news headlines knew little about what happened in the ocean and used the Maine as a railing point to rile the public.

post cold war

The selected article is from a war which occurred in 2008 between Russia and the the country of Georgia.
The reason for choosing this war was because of the ending of the war which ended  with  the weaker country of Georgia as the victor. After a military contractor withdrew support to the Russian military and military vehicles after apparently some of their facilities were attacked by the people they support. in this case it was  an economic form of imperialism, since both countries were equally involved in their economies and several contractors decided to withdraw support.
http://www.rferl.org/content/A_Year_After_RussiaGeorgia_War__A_New_Reality_But_Old_Relations/1793048.html

life of a canal builder

Dec. 1905
Just arrived at camp to start the production on the this canal the Americans want to build, the first thing I see is on my in was three old wagons. The first was filled with the dynamite for blasting, but  the other two wagons where for the bodies which are already being filled at the moment. As I spoke to the Foreman for the section he told me that they had just lost three men to malaria and said that I am to fill their replace them immediately. when I get to my work station I am told that I will have to venture to cliff face to deliver some of dynamite to the workers farther along. as i made my way farther up the canal found  after speaking with several of the young men working their that a  few months ago a man with my same job dropped his load of dynamite, disintegrating him instantly i was told that all they found were his blood drenched hat  what was left of his boots. I have a feeling it is going to be along stay in this deceivingly beautiful place.

the real monster to others?

While the site shows several indications of the school of the Americas, i believe that such an organization is needed so that, for U.S interest in the region, we will not have to sacrifice our own soldiers for the cause. Instead allow them to gain their own independence instead of us just taking over like we did with Iran which was a mistake that costs more and more with every passing day. but at the same time i feel it is also a risk that may come back to haunt the U.S since in  training these people in sniper operations, commando raids etc... This information could also end up in the wrong hands and some insurgents  may try to sell "their" services unknown to their Co's at the the school AAmericas  to be  used to train terrorist cell's which in turn may strike the U.S.It may also cause major repercussions to the countries that the reside in, causing uneccary loss of life, and poverty.