Ku Klux Klan :: Ku Klux Klan

In the spring of 1866, A year after the civil war had ended; Six confederate veterans formed a social club in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee. Just out of the war and looking for excitement they formed a secret society which they named the Ku Klux Klan. The name came from the Greek word Kuklos, meaning circle. This small group started as a harmless fun loving group, developed into one of the largest, most violent groups in American History. The original group only lasted a few years, and left a permanent impression, rituals that people today still use. Klan supporters saw the group as a protector of a certain way of life and the white race. The original Klan shut down in 1872. On Thanksgiving Night 1915, The Klan struck again. Sixteen men from Atlanta, Georgia went to the top of the mountain and set up for a Klan ritual. They built an altar of stones, on which they placed on American Flag, a bible and a sword. Then the men erected a sixteen-foot high cross and lit it on fire. William Joseph Simmons was the leader of the new Klan. William, son of an ex Klan member, heard his dad speck of Klan stories and wanted to â€Å"Frighten the Dark people† himself. In the early 1920’s the Klan traveled on a wave of terror in the south and southwest. As the violence spread a pattern appeared. The majority of the Victorian’s were whites who had broken some kind of moral code. Such as Bootleggers, Gamblers, were favorite targets. The Klan would parade the streets at night as a reminder of the constant terror they haunted a southern town with. By taking the law into their own hands the Klan made sure the laws were respected. Hooded Klansmen sometimes took their victims in brood daylight but mostly they piled into cars and went â€Å"nightriding†. Klansmen used whips to punish those victims. Once they finished whipping they would pour hot tar on them and sprinkle feathers on them. This would add insult to injury. I n 1921, the Klan was brought to trial for the murder of a black man who had been a known drunk in his hometown. Simmons, Klan leader, stepped up in front of congress and swore on the holy bible that the Klan â€Å"never had been and never will be involved in violent acts†. In 1922, the Klan used its anti-Catholic appeal to capture control of the Oregon St. Ku Klux Klan :: Ku Klux Klan In the spring of 1866, A year after the civil war had ended; Six confederate veterans formed a social club in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee. Just out of the war and looking for excitement they formed a secret society which they named the Ku Klux Klan. The name came from the Greek word Kuklos, meaning circle. This small group started as a harmless fun loving group, developed into one of the largest, most violent groups in American History. The original group only lasted a few years, and left a permanent impression, rituals that people today still use. Klan supporters saw the group as a protector of a certain way of life and the white race. The original Klan shut down in 1872. On Thanksgiving Night 1915, The Klan struck again. Sixteen men from Atlanta, Georgia went to the top of the mountain and set up for a Klan ritual. They built an altar of stones, on which they placed on American Flag, a bible and a sword. Then the men erected a sixteen-foot high cross and lit it on fire. William Joseph Simmons was the leader of the new Klan. William, son of an ex Klan member, heard his dad speck of Klan stories and wanted to â€Å"Frighten the Dark people† himself. In the early 1920’s the Klan traveled on a wave of terror in the south and southwest. As the violence spread a pattern appeared. The majority of the Victorian’s were whites who had broken some kind of moral code. Such as Bootleggers, Gamblers, were favorite targets. The Klan would parade the streets at night as a reminder of the constant terror they haunted a southern town with. By taking the law into their own hands the Klan made sure the laws were respected. Hooded Klansmen sometimes took their victims in brood daylight but mostly they piled into cars and went â€Å"nightriding†. Klansmen used whips to punish those victims. Once they finished whipping they would pour hot tar on them and sprinkle feathers on them. This would add insult to injury. I n 1921, the Klan was brought to trial for the murder of a black man who had been a known drunk in his hometown. Simmons, Klan leader, stepped up in front of congress and swore on the holy bible that the Klan â€Å"never had been and never will be involved in violent acts†. In 1922, the Klan used its anti-Catholic appeal to capture control of the Oregon St.

Part Three Chapter X

X Parminder worked late on Monday evenings, and as Vikram was usually at the hospital, the three Jawanda children laid the table and cooked for themselves. Sometimes they squabbled; occasionally they had a laugh; but today, each was absorbed in their own particular thoughts, and the job was completed with unusual efficiency in near silence. Sukhvinder had not told her brother or her sister that she had tried to truant, or about Krystal Weedon's threat to beat her up. The habit of secrecy was very strong in her these days. She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her, the world that Fats Wall seemed able to penetrate with such terrifying ease. All the same, she knew that the events of the day could not be kept quiet indefinitely. Tessa had told her that she intended to telephone Parminder. ‘I'm going to have to call your mum, Sukhvinder, it's what we always do, but I'm going to explain to her why you did it.' Sukhvinder had felt almost warm towards Tessa, even though she was Fats Wall's mother. Frightened though she was of her mother's reaction, a tiny little glow of hope had kindled inside her at the thought of Tessa interceding for her. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism? When the front door opened at last, she heard her mother speaking Punjabi. ‘Oh, not the bloody farm again,' groaned Jaswant, who had cocked an ear to the door. The Jawandas owned a patch of ancestral land in the Punjab, which Parminder, the oldest, had inherited from their father in the absence of sons. The farm occupied a place in the family consciousness that Jaswant and Sukhvinder had sometimes discussed. To their slightly amused astonishment, a few of their older relatives seemed to live in the expectation that the whole family would move back there one day. Parminder's father had sent money back to the farm all his life. It was tenanted and worked by second cousins, who seemed surly and embittered. The farm caused regular arguments among her mother's family. ‘Nani's gone off on one again,' interpreted Jaswant, as Parminder's muffled voice penetrated the door. Parminder had taught her first-born some Punjabi, and Jaz had picked up a lot more from their cousins. Sukhvinder's dyslexia had been too severe to enable her to learn two languages and the attempt had been abandoned. ‘†¦ Harpreet still wants to sell off that bit for the road †¦' Sukhvinder heard Parminder kicking off her shoes. She wished that her mother had not been bothered about the farm tonight of all nights; it never put her into a good mood; and when Parminder pushed open the kitchen door and she saw her mother's tight mask-like face, her courage failed her completely. Parminder acknowledged Jaswant and Rajpal with a slight wave of her hand, but she pointed at Sukhvinder and then towards a kitchen chair, indicating that she was to sit down and wait for the call to end. Jaswant and Rajpal drifted back upstairs. Sukhvinder waited beneath the wall of photographs, in which her relative inadequacy was displayed for the world to see, pinned to her chair by her mother's silent command. On and on went the call, until at long last Parminder said goodbye and cut the connection. When she turned to look at her daughter Sukhvinder knew, instantly, before a word was spoken, that she had been wrong to hope. ‘So,' said Parminder. ‘I had a call from Tessa while I was at work. I expect you know what it was about.' Sukhvinder nodded. Her mouth seemed to be full of cotton wool. Parminder's rage crashed over her like a tidal wave, dragging Sukhvinder with it, so that she was unable to find her feet or right herself. ‘Why? Why? Is this copying the London girl, again – are you trying to impress her? Jaz and Raj never behave like this, never – why do you? What's wrong with you? Are you proud of being lazy and sloppy? Do you think it's cool to act like a delinquent? How do you think I felt when Tessa told me? Called at work – I've never been so ashamed – I'm disgusted by you, do you hear me? Do we not give you enough? Do we not help you enough? What is wrong with you, Sukhvinder?' In desperation, Sukhvinder tried to break through her mother's tirade, and mentioned the name Krystal Weedon – ‘Krystal Weedon!' shouted Parminder. ‘That stupid girl! Why are you paying attention to anything she says? Did you tell her I tried to keep her damn great-grandmother alive? Did you tell her that?' ‘I – no – ‘ ‘If you're going to care about what the likes of Krystal Weedon says, there's no hope for you! Perhaps that's your natural level, is it, Sukhvinder? You want to play truant and work in a cafe and waste all your opportunities for education, because that's easier? Is that what being in a team with Krystal Weedon taught you – to sink to her level?' Sukhvinder thought of Krystal and her gang, raring to go on the opposite kerb, waiting for a break in the cars. What would it take to make her mother understand? An hour ago she had had the tiniest fantasy that she might confide in her mother, at last, about Fats Wall †¦ ‘Get out of my sight! Go! I'll speak to your father when he comes in – go!' Sukhvinder walked upstairs. Jaswant called from her bedroom: ‘What was all that shouting about?' Sukhvinder did not answer. She proceeded to her own room, where she closed the door and sat down on the edge of her bed. What's wrong with you, Sukhvinder? You disgust me. Are you proud of being lazy and sloppy? What had she expected? Warm encircling arms and comfort? When had she ever been hugged and held by Parminder? There was more comfort to be had from the razor blade hidden in her stuffed rabbit; but the desire, mounting to a need, to cut and bleed, could not be satisfied by daylight, with the family awake and her father on his way. The dark lake of desperation and pain that lived in Sukhvinder and yearned for release was in flames, as if it had been fuel all along. Let her see how it feels. She got up, crossed her bedroom in a few strides, and dropping into the chair by her desk, pounded at the keyboard of her computer. Sukhvinder had been just as interested as Andrew Price when that stupid supply teacher had tried to impress them with his cool in computing. Unlike Andrew and a couple of the other boys, Sukhvinder had not plied the teacher with questions about the hacking; she had merely gone home quietly and looked it all up online. Nearly every modern website was proof against a classic SQL injection, but when Sukhvinder had heard her mother discussing the anonymous attack on the Pagford Parish Council website, it had occurred to Sukhvinder that the security on that feeble old site was probably minimal. Sukhvinder always found it much easier to type than to write, and computer code easier to read than long strings of words. It did not take very long for her to retrieve a site that gave explicit instructions for the simplest form of SQL injection. Then she brought up the Parish Council website. It took her five minutes to hack the site, and then only because she had transcribed the code wrong the first time. To her astonishment, she discovered that whoever was administering the site had not removed the user details of The_Ghost_of_Barry_Fairbrother from the database, but merely deleted the post. It would be child's play, therefore, to post in the same name. It took Sukhvinder much longer to compose the message than it had to hack into the site. She had carried the secret accusation with her for months, ever since New Year's Eve, when she had noticed with wonder her mother's face, at ten to midnight, from the corner of the party where she was hiding. She typed slowly. Autocorrect helped with her spelling. She was not afraid that Parminder would check her computer history; her mother knew so little about her, and about what went on in this bedroom, that she would never suspect her lazy, stupid, sloppy daughter. Sukhvinder pressed the mouse like a trigger.

Differences Between Quantitative And Qualitative Research

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Malala Yousafzai Transpired As A Fearless Leader Essay

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The Debate Over Stem Cells - 1159 Words

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Post Cold War Security in Japan through ARF Essay Example For Students

Post Cold War Security in Japan through ARF Essay Post-Cold War Security of Japan through ARFThe end of the Cold War brought a dramatic turn in the world history. The collapse of bipolar balance brought the need to normalize poor diplomatic relations and also to reassure and mature pre-existing strong diplomatic ties between states. Japan was certainly not an exception to this need. The importance of playing a lager role in regional and global security as a way of ensuring its security interests grew in Japan as the proceeding balance of power, or pre-existing security, became unreliable to her. Indeed, she initiated the regional security entity called the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to strengthen Asia-Pacific security. But why did Japan take the role to propose such an institution? What is Japans stake in this regional security entity? Why is the entity based on multilateralism? And finally, how much can the ARF achieve to strengthen Asia security?Questions like these are crucial to be answered in examining Japans security relations with her neighbor Asian countries. In this paper, I argue that multilateral regional security entity is crucial and is the only way to secure herself in the post-Cold War era. The ARF, thereby, is a necessary international institution to succeed in guaranteeing profitable diplomatic relations for Japan as well as other countries including Asian and non-Asian states. For Japan, the end of the Cold War meant a shift from reactive state to cautious leader to become a normal country, as a politician Ichiro Ozawa puts, that is acceptable to the world and the ARF is the best possible opportunity for Japan to attain such a goal. During the Cold War, Japan pursued an isolationist and much of a passive strategy in regional security. Much of her effort has been rather put into economic strength based on the Yoshida doctrine found after the defeat of the World War II. To begin with, Japan has been relying heavily on the US in terms of security issues and thus entrusted her stake in regional security in American hands. First of all, despite Japans renunciation of military force, her nuclear deterrence has been guaranteed by the US. Yukio Satoh states in Asian-Pacific Process of Stability and Security American nuclear forces will continue to be the only deterrent Japan can rely on against any nuclear threat, be it from the Soviet Union, China or elsewhere (Satoh, 38). In terms of nuclear deterrence, US-Japan security arrangement has been providing an indispensable amount of security guarantee to Japan. Second, Japans sea-lane has been protected by US military presence in the Pacific. According to Satoh from the Persian Gulf region, Japan imports about seventy percent of her oil (Satoh, 38). Then he continues, given that the scope of defense operations by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces is limited to a distance of 1,000 nautical miles, Japan has to depend upon the American capability to ensure freedom of navigation in order to secure the inflow of oil and other vital commodities (Satoh, 38). Therefore, Japans preservation of her interests has once again assured by her alliance with the US. Third, much of Asian security relations have been relying on the US. The United States bilateral security arrangements with many Asian countries have indirectly linked Japan with other Asia states. Using the hub-and spokes model, the US overall became a go-between for Asian nations including Japan. The model was based on US security treaties with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand. Gary Smith in Mulitlateralism and Regional Security in Asia: The ARF and APEC7s Geopolitical Value notes, the US is the largest partner in each of these security arrangements and everything flows back and forth to Washington (Smith). In another words, Japans diplomatic relations with her neighbor countries has been severely relying on the US and at the same time, she passively has been serving as a platform for American security arrangements in Asia. Furthermore, there has been the problem of mistrust between Japan and other Asian countries since WWII, which inevitably brought Japan to be passive and indirect in involvement of her regional security matters. Japans past record of brutal aggression for her grand plan of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity during the war has harbored deep suspicions about Japan among Asian countries. The bitter memories of the Japanese annexation of Korea and its military invasion of China and other countries still affect her diplomatic relations with these countries. Any form of rebuilding military presence in Japan will still be threat to many of her neighbors and thus, Japan can easily provoke a tense arms race in the region. For example, during the 1970s, Japan saw an opportunity playing a larger role in regional politics after the American withdrawal from Indo-China. However, this soon caused anti-Japanese riots during then-Prime Minister Tanakas visit to Southeast Asia in 1974. The growing economic strength and US withdrawal from the region reminded the vivid memories of Japans aggression during WWII and became threatening to Asian countries. Japan thus announced the Fukuda doctrine, once again renouncing any intention to become a military power. In order to reassure this doctrine, it became important for Japan to maintain alliance with the US and play a passive role behind the US. China sees merit in the US-Japan alliance in terms of preventing Japan from becoming a big military power, claims Satoh (Satoh, 36). Japans formation of alliance with the US gives credibility that she will not become a big military power to her neighbors. Japan during the Cold War did not need to and also could not afford to take a serious role in Asian security. However, Japans passive regional security involvement came under question with the end of the Cold War. The collapse of Soviet Union noted the withdrawal of the US presence in Asia. As the Cold War faded, US troop declined from 141,000 in 1988 to 98,000 in 1992 (Johnstone). This was accompanied with her withdrawal from Philippines in 1991. At the same time, the US was facing severe economic recession. She faced a budgetary problem to maintain military presence in Asia as well as domestic argument that Washington should concentrate on domestic problems before international security arrangements. Thus, Japans security guarantee by the US started to become unreliable. At the same time, Chine emerged as a major power in Asia. Chinas economic and military power hinted a threat to Japan after the war. Without guaranteed US protection, Japan became exposed to too much danger from her neighbor power. Thus, at the same time Japan needed to secure good relationship with China, she also thought China as a possible alternative to the United States. This idea was well accompanied with her increasingly successful economic cooperation with other Asian countries. By 1991, Japan exported more to Asia than to the United States, notes Chris Johnstone in Japan and Asia: What Happened? (Johnstone). Particularly with China, Japan imports a large volume of raw materials. Johnstone claims that approximately 50 percent of Japanese trade is now with Asia (Johnstone). Thus, potential US withdrawal from protecting Japan coinciding with Japans increasing economic transaction with Asia shifted Japans focus to partnerships in security. The Red Scare EssayFor other Asian countries, they gained voice in the regional security affairs, preventing US-Japan alliance to take a strong leadership role in their security. New relations became possible for many nations without antagonizing either Japan or China. There seemed to be fair amount of reasons for every country to engage in the security entity for everyone. Finally, through the confidence building measure of a multilateral system, Japan as well as other members would gain military information of others. Japans security relations with her neighbors have been antagonized and instable due to her aggression in the 1930s and 40s. Distrust from her neighbors has put Japan under a constant retaliation threat. Thus, military capability transparency was crucial for Japan to gain security in the region. Even in General context, realistically speaking, military transparency is what every country can benefit for her security. Therefore, through multilateral security entity, every member, including Japan, mutually gains a piece of military information of others without hostile mood. An Asian security entity originally suggested under ASEAN, Japan thus pushed for a multilateral security system under ASEAN. The result is the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1993. The forum aims to develop a more predictable constructive pattern of relations for the Asia-Pacific through political and security cooperation (Ortuoste). In another words, it is not a collective defense organization, nor is it a collective security entity against a specific enemy. Also, the system is mostly based on talks and consensus, rather than constructive voting. In terms of military capability transparency, defense policy document of each member is on voluntary basis. Quality and quantity may vary depending on how much a member wants to be open. While some may see this casual character of ARF as a weakness, such non-supranational entity is necessary and inevitable for Asian security once again for the on-going distrust problem among countries. Indeed, there are cases of Asian security progress made under the ARF. By the joining of North Korea in the ARF, Japan and South Korea, the two prominent Asian countries concerned of North Korea, are able to build diplomatic relation with the state. Though not quite solved, the issue over South China Seas has been brought on the table numerous times where countries are able to voice with frankness. Despite its consensus and volunteer based dialogues, countries are gradually progressing towards trust and confidence. Yet, the ARF still faces limitations. For example the Forum still finds difficulty in conflict management. In the case of North Korean missile crisis, in which North Korea launched missiles and in which one of them flew over Japan, Japan did not consult the Forum but rather sought help from the US. Hardly anything was mentioned in the Forum. Moreover, North Korea claims that it was a satellite experiment and its actuality is yet to be found. Perhaps the most prominent crit icism may come in the case of East Timor crisis. Contribution to resolve the problem did not arise in the dialogues. Wade Huntley and Peter Hayes, authors of East Timor and Asian Security, notes, the ARFs capacity to function as the fulcrum for regional security coordination and dialogue has been crippled, and it is unlikely that the ARF or nascent regional institutions will regain any major role in security deliberations or outcomes in the near future. With no other meaningful autonomous security institutions on the horizon, the path is again clear for big powers to contend for hegemony in the region (Huntley and Hayes). Perhaps, the current mechanism of the ARF is too loose and casual to actually solve conflicts. Yet, in spite these criticisms, I argue that the ARF should be seen as a long-term investment for Asian security. The Forum has so far made a minimum contribution. It has created a place for countries to come together and discuss their problems, which has not been done be fore in the region. Members are launching new diplomatic relations with each other as mentioned above. It has made the ground base for a stable regional environment. The organization is still eight years old. It is too cruel to determine its success now. Now that it has achieved the minimal trust level among states to form a collective identity as Asians, the institution shall gradually revise its mechanism for much efficiency. The mission for the ARF to become a prominent security entity is yet to be accomplished. Specific target of the institution needs to be identified at the same time managing the pace of the ARF so that no member would feel pressured or would feel that it is waste of time. It may also need a defined structure for much efficient dialogues. The ARF has much to progress and its success is certainly in the hands of member states. Especially for Japan, how she is going to play the role of leader, as a current economic superpower in the region, without intimidating t he rest of the members will be one of the keys to her success in the regional security. Japan has made much of a course change in Asian security in the post-Cold War era. Her continuous commitment to the multilateral institution is crucial for her to gain trust from her neighbors and to become a normal country. Bibliography:1.Dosch, Jrsh. PMC, ARF, and CSCAP: Foundations for security architecture in the Asia-Pacific? Canberra: Strategic and Defense Studies Center and The Australian National University, 1997. 2.Huntley, Wade, and Peter Hayes. East Timor and Asian Security. Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Special Report 23 Feb. 2000. 24 Mar. 2001 3.Johnstone, Chris. Japan and Asia: What Happened? Global Reporting Network Publications. No.49 8 Feb. 1999. 24 Mar. 2001 http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/pubs/ib49.html4.Midford, Paul. Japans leadership role in East Asian security multilateralism: the Nakayama proposal and the logic of reassurance. The Pacific Review 13.3 (2000): 367-397. 5.Ortuoste, C, Maria. Reviewing the ASEAN Regional Forum and its Role in Southeast Asian Security. Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. 27 Sept. 2000. 24 Mar. 2001. http://www.apcss.org/Paper_Reviewing_ASEAN_Forum.htm6.Satoh, Yukio. Asian-Pacific Process for Stability and Security. Japans Post Gulf International Initiatives. Japan: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aug. 1991: 34-45. 7.Smith, J. Gary. Multilateralism and Regional Security in Asia: The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and APECs Geopolitical Value. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs No.97-2 Feb. 1997. 24 Mar. 2001. http://data.fas.harvard.edu/cfia/cfiapubs/pdfs/97-02.pdf

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UFOs and effect on people Essay The Effects of UFOs on PeopleBy Steve EdwardsAlmost every civilization in history that has kept a written history has recorded the sightings of strange objects and lights in the skies. These objects have been described as glowing wheels, colored balls of light, and disk shaped objects. Today unexplained aerial phenomena are generally referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or flying saucers. The effects of extra terrestrial sightings can have an adverse effect on people if influenced the wrong way. No solid proof has shown that UFOs are real, but many sightings cannot be proven otherwise. The media, stories, or ones own experience may often influence what one believes. The government once stated that they had captured extra terrestrials. (60 minutes, CBS) On the contrary, most scientists now agree that almost all sightings and stories of extra terrestrials are not authentic. We will write a custom essay on UFOs and effect on people specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now The United States government has records of thousands of UFO sightings since 1948, including photos of alleged UFOs and interviews with people who claim to have seen them. Since UFOs were considered a potential security risk, the report on these sightings was originally classified as secret. (Craig, 917) When the report was later declassified it showed that 90 percent of all UFO sightings could be easily explained. Most of the sightings turned out to be celestial objects, such as stars or bright planets like Venus, or atmospheric events such as auroras or meteors falling through the atmosphere. Many other sightings turned out to be objects such as weather balloons, satellites, aircraft lights, or formations of birds. Often these sightings were accompanied by unusual weather conditions. Only 5.6 percent of these cases were not explained. Testimonies by people are often very inaccurate and dramatized. People have the tendency to explain everything they see, which is not usually completely accurate. The unaided human eye can be tricked into hallucination and has an inaccurate depth perception. Reflections from windows and eyeglasses can provide an optical illusion of a UFO. Radar is much more reliable to identify objects, but it cannot detect many characteristics that separate natural phenomena and physical objects. Radar often picks up ionized gas, rain, or thermal discontinuities. Electronic interference is also a frequent problem. Either way, scientists are left with many unanswered questions. There are many mysteries about UFOs with many indefinite answers.Many investigators have tried to solve some peculiar questions about UFOs, but many of their conclusions cannot be proven. In 1968 the United States Air Force asked Edward U. Condon, a physicist at the University of Colorado, to head a panel studying the claims of extraterrestrial crafts. (Unidentified Flying Objects, Encarta encyclopedia) The committees final report was reviewed by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences and released in early 1969. The 37 scientists who contributed to the report interviewed UFO witnesses and studied physical and photographic evidence. The report, also known as the Condon Report, concluded that not only was there no evidence of extraterrestrial control of UFOs but also that no further UFO studies were needed. Their advice was accepted by the United States, but for other independent laboratories it was not enough. Whether or not a person believes UFOs are, in fact, real or not is probably because of influence from the media. For instance, the smash hit movie Independence Day was a movie about aliens attacking Earth so they can keep it for themselves. The company that made the movie, FOX, has been promoting extra terrestrial ideas to bring media attention to UFOs. The company bought the stretch of highway 375 outside the mysterious secret military base named Area 51, which plays an important part in the movie. In it, several aliens were captured and stored along with their aircraft. In fact, the government has announced that it has captured aliens and their aircraft, but that was later denied. (Woolward, 912) This has been said to be the cause of the vast amount of UFO reports since 1948. The government also denied that Area 51 even existed for several years, even though it had been photographed many times. Today, the military base is thought to be a very heavily guarded test sight for many ste alth planes in development for the military,