Myanmar’s Military Coup: A Real-Life ‘Hunger Games’?

This article, written under a pseudonym, is a summary-response paper that the author was assigned to write as part of their ENG 100 class. They wanted to write about their country\u27s ongoing revolution to raise awareness about it. One of the intriguing aspect of the country\u27s revolution is the usage of The Hunger Games\u27 three-finger salute, so they researched some articles about it, summarizing the primary sources and integrating them with a secondary source, which is an article about the three-finger salute in the Hunger Games series, to articulate a connection between The Hunger Games and Myanmar\u27s Spring Revolution. The author believed that connecting with popular culture would be a great way to communicate about their country\u27s revolution. Next, they wrote a personal response regarding what\u27s happening back home. This first draft was reviewed in class by peers, followed by a one-on-one conference with the professor

Strong armies, slow adaptation: civil-military relations and diffusion of military power

Why are some states more willing to adopt military innovations than others? Why, for example, were the great powers of Europe able to successfully reform their military practices to better adapt to and participate in the so-called military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while their most important extra-European competitor, the Ottoman Empire, failed to do so? This puzzle is best explained by two factors: civil-military relations and historical timing. In the Ottoman Empire, the emergence of an institutionally strong and internally cohesive army during the early stages of state formation—in the late fourteenth century—equipped the military with substantial bargaining powers. In contrast, the great powers of Europe drew heavily on private providers of military power during the military revolution and developed similar armies only by the second half of the seventeenth century, limiting the bargaining leverage of European militaries over their rulers. In essence, the Ottoman standing army was able to block reform efforts that it believed challenged its parochial interests. Absent a similar institutional challenge, European rulers initiated military reforms and motivated officers and military entrepreneurs to participate in the ongoing military revolution

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American bicentennial newsletter includes information on an expo being planned for Spokane

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Hand painted banner with 1873-1972 Our City and 1776-1976 - Our Countryhttps://openspaces.unk.edu/kc-kcc/1006/thumbnail.jp

DAR Insignia Ribbon

DAR insignia on ribbon belonging to Fay Webb Gardner. Insignia ribbon with 3 ancestral bars, chapter Benjamin Cleveland. Fay Webb Gardner charted the chapter in 1924 and was the first Chapter Regent.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/cleveland-county-historical-collection-ralph-webb-gardner/1008/thumbnail.jp

The Underground Railroad in New England

The Underground Railroad in New England. Published by the American revolution bicentennial Administration, Region I. Georgia E. Ireland, Regional Director; Mary Yeaton, Project Director (1976?). Credit for this publication is extended to Boston 200, The Bicentennial and Historical Commissions of the six New England states, and the Underground Railroad Task Force: Andrew Bell, Charles Carter, Gilbert Center, Cindy Coombs, George Cyr, Terry Harlow, Joyce Keeler, Richard Kuns, Gaunzetta Mitchell, Marcus Mitchell, Matthew Rillovick , Rowena Stewart, Carolyn Van Horn, Mary Wyatt, Dr. Robert York.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1032/thumbnail.jp

New Hampshire state history of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

A state history by state regencies, biographies of state regents and national officers from the state, chapter histories by chapter regencies and biographies of chapter regents