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A RPK, ou Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova (Russo: Ручной пулемёт Калашникова; Português: metralhadora de mão Kalashnikov) é uma metralhadora leve Soviética/Russa, desenvolvida na década de 50.

## Insurgency

A RPK é uma metralhadora leve disponível as forças Insurgentes. Ela apresenta um cartucho de 75 balas e um bipé em sua forma padrão. Ela é mais pesada do que a AKM, mas, dispara o mesmo tipo de bala com os mesmos padrões de recuo. A RPK é a contrapartida da M249 das forças de Segurança, quando comparadas lado a lado, a RPK apresenta um dano maior por bala, um recarregamento mais rápido tanto carregada quanto descarregada, e ainda, mira original com menos obstrução visual.

### Acessórios

* Kobra Sight
 Lateral
 Abaixo do barril
 Munição
* HP Ammo

* O Bipod é um acessório padrão da parte debaixo do barril e não pode ser removido.
* Existe um erro que ocorre quando é colocado um PO 4x24 como óptica na RPK, onde, a visão óptica ficará preta depois de cada tiro disparado, tornando os tiros consequentes mais difíceis.
* Supressores não são disponibilizados para a RPK em partidas PvP padrões.

## Anotações

* A AKM e a RPK compartilham do mesmo modelo de mira
* Apesar de a AKM e a RPK dispararem os mesmos tipos de balas e possuírem cartuchos que podem ser aplicados tanto em um como no outro na vida real, pegar uma AKM/RPK depois de ter surgido ainda vai garantir ao jogador apenas em torno de um cartucho com munição útil.
Drell

Drell are a reptilian race. They are bipedal, with bodies similar to humans, though on average slightly shorter. Their eyes are black, with a brown or dark green colouring in their scales. Drell are quite rare in the Hordal Collective, which is due to their planet being environmentally destroyed. The survivors initially met with official welcome on Horde, but the public was distrusting, and many Drell left, or were forced out.
Matt's Blog: Boobs Shirts Now Officially Available!

This is the sixth entry of Matt's Blog, written by Elias Rex main character Matt. It was retrieved from Matt's Site here.

## Boobs Shirts Now Officially Available!!!

International Boob Month starts on August 20th and ends on September 30th. During this period of time, I'll show you Bros nothing but pictures of boobs.

Note: International Ass Month starts September 30th, and ends on November 20th.

Boob Shirts, Mugs and More Now Available on my Spreadshirt, eliasrex.spreadshirt.com!
Matt's Blog: A Review on Titts

This is the fourth entry of Matt's Blog, written by Elias Rex main character Matt. It was retrieved from Matt's blog here.

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As to whenever I'm feeling sick or sad, I google boobs. They are totally something that helps couples bond. I started liking boobs to the point where I started loving them. Boobs are great. Boobs are breasts. But women aren't only special by boobs, they also have titties, their chest and their rag.

## **#2: Boobs Rule**

To as whenever I feel lonely, well... I actually watch asses, but the thing is here, that boobs rule. Boobs help me find stuff and help me dream. Boobs, breasts, titties, women's special, chest, rag... soo many name callings!

## **#3: Bros, Boobs Right?**

Personally, to whenever I like boobs, I don't. I'm in love with boobs! I love titties! But, we don't really know why hetero men love boobs. We just do. We do. We love breasts, titties and boobs.

Here, I'd like to take this moment to show of my review on boobs.
Theories & Rumors

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--Maximum characters on rumors and theories are 3000 characters long. If you have a theory with more characters, please submit to TwitLonger, or send a link of the theory/rumor. Sites available in which a longer than 3000 characters theory/rumor can be send are DeviantArt, TwitLonger, Blogger, WattPad and Facebook.

## Rumors

### Why Matt Really Isn't on YouTube

Speculated rumors speak on how Matt is hiding something from his fans, something that can be either a network, or a website. Although Matt is indeed launching a network, he doesn't have an official website, rather a "beta-test" of a Weebly powered site. This rumor states also that Matt is trying to make "something big" for his fans. Matt did indeed reveal a teaser on his other channel.

### Info and Details

#### **EXPLANATION**: Matt Doesn't Use Webcam/Audio Supported Systems Anymore

- Matt appears to not use webcam supported nor audio supported technology programs/system since 2015. So why might that be? A theory suggests that due to his great departure from YouTube, he is trying to stop himself to stop recording videos. This theory however doesn't seem to take any advantage on Matt's current network status. If Matt really is quitting, he should have reported his fans with the news, which he clearly didn't.

- Some specific details in Matt's video suggest that Matt actually isn't recording on purpose. This appears as some sort trickiness, possibly trying his fans to ask him for more video ideas. This theory however has decent facts. Matt however stated lively on Twitter that he doesn't want fans to watch his videos if they don't want to do so. Matt also stated that he's going through a lot right now, and is coming back from his departure very soon, sometime around September/October 2015.
Matt's Blog: Bro Rankings + Boob T-Shirts Officially Out

This is the seventh entry of Matt's Blog, written by Elias Rex main character Matt. It was retrieved from Matt's Site here.

## Bro Rankings + 2 Boob T-Shirts Officially Out

**I learned how many of you bros out there would like to know the 25 major ranks in the Bro's Guild. There are actually 50+ ranks, but I'll introduce you the the major, 25 ranks. I'll later discuss the other 25+ ranks.**

Also:

If you quickly scroll down, you'll see a little reward I've been printing for you to wear! It's not much, but it really is sexy, like you always wear it.

Please scroll down if you'd like to see it!

## **Bro Rankings (1-25)**

Ranking No.1 - Beginner
Ranking No.2 - Associate

Ranking No.3 - Apprentice

Ranking No.4 - Journeyman

Ranking No.5 - Evoker

Ranking No.6 - Conjurer

Ranking No.7 - Mermaid

Ranking No.8 - Novice

Ranking No.9 - Prowler

Ranking No.10 - Warbrock

Ranking No.11 - Wibrozard

Ranking No.12 - Magbrocian

Ranking No.13 - Brondit

Ranking No.14 - Broopad

Ranking No.15 - Cat Broglar

Ranking No.16 - Shadowbroot

Ranking No.17 - Broliminator

Ranking No.18 - Brossasin

Ranking No.19 - Browsman

Ranking No.20 - Brofender

Ranking No.21 - Browarder

Ranking No.22 - Broardian

Ranking No.23 - Brochampion

Ranking No.24 - Brohero

Ranking No.25 - Master Bro

***2 Boob T-Shirts Now Out!***
Antonia Gorga

**Antonia Gorga**(born August 12, 2005) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga.

## Personal Life

Antonia is the daughter of Melissa and Joe Gorga. She has two younger brothers: Gino and Joey. She is also the niece of Teresa and Joe Giudice.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Gia Giudice

**Gia Giudice**(born January 8, 2001) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice.

## Personal Life

Gia is the daughter of Teresa and Joe Giudice. She has three younger sisters: Gabriella, Milania and Audriana. She is also the niece of Melissa and Joe Gorga.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Mercenários

## mercenários Antes de Team Fortress

   esses mercenários foram antes dos acontecimentos de qualquer team fortress existem pessoas historias como abrahm como o pyro da epoca as armas eram improvisadas na epoca ja que o minerio australiam não havia sido descoberto eram usados dinamites como stickbombs martelo como a mini-gun de heavy um medic com uma serra enginner como se fosse um carteiro as armas do scout e spy da epoca não foram revelados por suas caras os personagens deviriam ser comicos na sua epoca

## mercenários Team Fortress classic

   eles foram os 2 grupo de mercenários agora com o descobrimento de australiuam as coisas mudaram bastante estes personagens foram controlados no 1 jogo team fortress classic os personagens são mais modernos que os atuais os personagens estão com uma aparençia mais mascula sem nemhum personagem comico o unico que da um sorriso entre eles é o demoman não e mostrado a maioria das armas apenas um pé de cabra do scout é o rifle do sniper

## mercenários Team Fortress 2

   esses são os mercenários que conhecemos sem parecerem muitos tecnologicos mais são melhores que os antigos
Matt Universe

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The "Matt Universe" is the universe which consists of all the objects, characters and situations displayed in Matt's videos or other sources of media (photos, documents, networks, video games etc.) Although Matt didn't confirm yet that it's directly called "Matt Universe", it can be thought so.
Tommy Manzo

**Tommy Manzo**is known for being married to The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dina Manzo.

## Career

Tommy Manzo runs the Brownstone banquet facility with his older brother Albert Manzo.

## Personal Life

Tommy was married to Dina Manzo, who is a television personality and philanthropist. He was the step-father to her daughter, Lexi Manzo.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Matt's Blog: Awakening of the Bros

This is the first entry of Matt's Blog, written by Elias Rex main character Matt. It was retrieved from Matt's Blog here.

## Awakening of the Bros

Dearest Bros, it is with a chance of heart to write the very first post of my blog. You will experience awesome, weekly updates and challenges, changes in your life. So, let's start...

None of us is perfect in any way, but we're all the same. But you are wrong with that what I just wrote. Not many are the same like the Bros, the legendary awesome ultimate people who mastered through stones and found modern technology.

Through history we found awesome, legendary Bros, who found our massive beginnings. We later traveled through stone and back, finding us being the Associates of the Universe. We then moved on to becoming the Apprentices, and soon enough Novices. But we became later Defenders and Protectors, and our hearts turned into Heroes, Champions, Masters and Kings. We are Emperors, sometimes.

The Bros are answering all questions you ever have. Many of Bros today have disappeared, but I am here, to write you Bros a chance, to become like me, the Professional Bro (that's not the last rank)

This blog will help you with everything, and will change how you look at today's Modern Originality, and it will be all later Alternative. From Ancient to Classic, to Medieval to Enlightenment, to Industry to Modern and now Informational Age. We will become the Best Bros who ever lived...

## Notes and Trivia

* This is the first entry of Matt's blog. It was posted on August 15th, 2015 and approximately has been written in more than 800 characters.
Gino Gorga

**Gino Anthony Gorga**(born September 12, 2007) is known for being the son of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga.

## Personal Life

Gino is the son of Melissa and Joe Gorga. He has an older sister, Antonia and a younger brother, Joey. He is also the nephew of Teresa and Joe Giudice.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Joey Gorga

**Joey Gorga**(born April 27, 2010) is known for being the son of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga.

## Personal Life

Joey is the son of Melissa and Joe Gorga. He has one older sister, Antonia and one older brother, Gino. He is also the nephew of Teresa and Joe Giudice.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Gabriella Giudice

**Gabriella Giudice**(born October 5, 2004) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice.

## Personal Life

Gabriella is the daughter of Teresa and Joe Giudice. She has one older sister, Gia, and two younger sisters: Milania and Audriana. She is also the niece of Melissa and Joe Gorga.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Audriana Giudice

**Audriana Giudice**(born September 14, 2009) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice.

## Personal Life

Audriana is the daughter of Teresa and Joe Giudice. She has three older sisters: Gia, Gabriella and Milania. She is also the niece of Melissa and Joe Gorga.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Master Business Web

Master Business Web is a Yola based website created by Matthew. The website appears to have a form of business based trademark system, because it uses many elements and resources worldwide media companies and businesses use, these includes:

* Having an actual logo.
* Approximately holding 3 active pages.
* Having 1-2 photos or videos on the Media page.
* Having an "installed Tumblr sponsored blog" on the Media page.
* Official information on the Home page.

Master Business Web appears to be an actual trademark/business organization.
Matt's Blog: Classic Age of the Bros

This is the second entry of Matt's Blog, written by Elias Rex main character Matt. It was retrived from Matt's Site here .

## Classic Age of the Bros

   You are as now viewing the ancient cave the Bros used to live in. 20,000,000,000 years ago, the very first Bros of the Bro Species have appeared. The dinosaurs, were angry because of one thing, they couldn't masturbate no I'm just kidding they were too big for big hands. The Bros started back 20,000,000,000 years ago, when they have started building caves, and found fire, food and supplies. Resources granted them awesome things. The word ''awesome'' became an official word, along with ''ultimate'' and ''legendary''.

Then the Bros found a thing called ''classic ages'' in which the very first Bro Species,  Homo erectus (indeed) disappeared. The classical Greek ages led them to a big fight (I don't remember what it was about) with the new empire called Roman empire. They started splitting into kingdoms, with Romans on Europe and Greek on half of Europe. Egyptians then also invaded both of those countries, along with Macedonia, who sided with Greece, and Persia, who was such a puss like always.

The Greek Bros found physics, also they found Greek yogurt, which is really yummy. Around the time Greeks ended the invasion of Egypt and Rome, they started siding with Macedonia and Persia, although Persia was just a puss like always.

Greece later found Zeus, an awesome god. The Romans found Jupiter, the name of the god which Jupiter was named after. Poor people, they didn't have awesome powers like we do, and didn't have awesome people. Greece found it's legendary empire, which became a strong competitor to other countries like Rome and Egypt.
Of course, Germany later was founded and sided with Greece. This broke the Broship between Greece and Macedonia, ending their siding.

The Bros found that the classic age really did suck, too many blood ass spilled corpses, and not so many women around, I'm () kidding. So, let's list our few moments of awesomeness, oh wait everyone died. We all our now happy with the modern, informational age.

We will later move on to the medieval age, and soon enough we will find history like it is. Bros, follow our leaders blog (not active but still accessible) and don't forget to find the rules of becoming a Bro who will master losers.

The Bros don't stop!

## Notes and Trivia

* This is the first fake history lesson Matt wrote. Apparently, he stated that only Greeks and Romans were the ones who first started fight, although many more countries (Macedonia, Persia and Egypt) started war before.
Zanu Coglar

Zanu Coglar is the ambassador from Gyat (Tenzin's home planet) in the Hord star system. He is not particularly strong-willed or well-connected. He assists Tenzin Veljohnson in furthering Gyat's economic activities with other star systems in the Hordal Collective, as well as new initiates to the collective.
Joe Giudice

**Joe Giudice**(born May 22, 1972) is known for being married to The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice. He is also known for his highly publicised financial and legal troubles.

## Personal Life

Joe is married to Teresa Giudice, who is a television personality and author. They have four daughters together: Gia, Gabriella, Milania and Audriana.

## Legal Problems

In October 2009, the Giudices filed for bankruptcy. An auction of furniture from their Towaco, NJ home was initially scheduled for August 22, 2010 but was postponed and then cancelled as the couple withdrew their petition for bankruptcy.

On July 29, 2013, Teresa and Joe Giudice were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud, making false statements on load applications, and bankruptcy fraud in a 39-count indictment. The indictment also charged Joe Giudice with failure to file tax returns for tax years 2004 through 2008, during which time he allegedly earned nearly $1 million. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan W. Romankow and Rachael Honig represented the US Government. Miles Feinstein of Paterson, New Jersey represented Joe Giudice. Henry E. Klingeman of Newark, New Jersey represented Teresa Giudice. On August 14, 2013, the two pleaded not guilty in federal court to financial fraud charges.

Joe Giudice stood trial on November 19, 2013, on individual charges that he allegedly used marriage and birth certificates belonging to her brother to fraudulently obtain a driver's license in 2010. Giudice's own driver's license had been suspended followed a DUI arrest January 13, 2010. After he was convicted, Joe's license was suspended for 12 months, and he was sentenced to 20 days of community service. Because he had the same defense attorney in both trials, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas moved the date of the tax case, involving both Teresa and Joe, from October 8, 2013 to February 24, 2014.

On March 4, 2014, Teresa and Joe entered a guilty plea to 41 counts of fraud, following a deal struck with federal prosecutors. The couple was accused of engaging in bank, mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud, which allegedly saw them net over $5 million over a 10-year period. On October 2, 2014, Teresa was sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison; Joe was sentenced to 41 months, followed by potential deportation to Italy. Together, the couple must also pay $414,000 in restitution. Teresa and Joe are allowed to serve their sentences separately, so one parent may stay with their children. Teresa began her sentence first, on January 5, 2015 and is scheduled for a two months' early release, on February 16, 2016.

As of July 2015, Giudice's primary residence in Towaco is in the primary stages of foreclosure, while the couple's summer home in Beach Haven West, New Jersey was foreclosed; the latter will be auctioned in a Sheriff's sale on August 18, 2015.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Tobias Eckart (deceased)

Tobias was born on the planet Terra in the Hadrin System. From a young age he knew he was different; he has abilities that most people do not. He is a Telepath, and quite powerful at that. Most of his talent fell into the category of control, people often did as he asked and told him what he wanted to know.

His most recent adventure brought him to the Manta System which was being attacked by The Vash, an alien parasitic species that the group had encountered once before. Being the heroes that they are, and, more importantly, never missing an opportunity to earn some cash, they dove in and joined the fight (after a price was negotiated of course).

On the first in a series of missions that they had been assigned, a new sub-species of The Vash was encountered. This was The Queen. Tobias discovered it feasting on a corpse and that's when things went terribly wrong. SantaK arrived out of nowhere crashing into the wall and alerting The Queen to their presence. It promptly dropped the corpse it was snacking on and dashed up to SantaK, lightning quick and crushed the cyborgs head before booking it down the hallway. Tobias, seeing the human elements of The Queen, decided to try and stop it with his telepathic abilities. While his intent was to try to gain more information and insight into this strange species, his curiosity proved to be his downfall. Immediately after making contact with The Queen, he was overwhelmed and outmatched telepathically and succumbed to its will. Now fully under its influence Tobias, took off running after his new master. While being pursued by Tenzin Veljohnson who was attempting to save him, Tobias turned around and by the command of The Queen, telepathically forced Tenzin to his knees saying "Bow before your Queen!". Tobias was then forced to remove his helmet and The Queen came up behind him and with one hand crushed his skull. Thus Tobias' adventuring career came to a swift end.

**Tobias's Contacts**

Dai

Stygren

Robert Rupert Dodd
Milania Giudice

**Milania Giudice**(born February 2, 2006) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice.

## Personal Life

Milania is the daughter of Teresa and Joe Giudice. She has two older sisters: Gia and Gabriella, and one younger sister, Audriana. She is also the niece of Melissa and Joe Gorga.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Dina Manzo

**Claudine "Dina" J. Manzo**(nee Laurita; born March 7, 1971) is an American reality television cast-member, known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Besides appearing on the show, Manzo has appeared on the television shows Mad Fashion in 2011 and Dina's Party on HGTV.

## Early Life

Dina Manzo, the youngest of 11 children, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in New Jersey from the age of six. While raised Catholic, the journey of adulthood inspired her to dive deeper into spirituality, exploring many traditions and paths to peace.

## Career

Motherhood and her passion for philanthropy inspired her to proudly found Project Ladybug, a 501c3 non-profit organisation. To date, Project Ladybug has raised over one million dollars to help children with cancer. Dina also has great love for the care and protection of animals.

After appearing on Season 1 and part of Season 2 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Dina took a break from Bravo. She took advantage of this quality time to focus on her daughter Lexi, to grow Project Ladybug, and to enjoy two seasons of her own show on HGTV called Dina's Party. She returned to Bravo with renewed enthusiasm, a desire to share her personal growth and a hope that others will be inspired to start, or continue, their own journey.

Dina has also worked as an event planner at the Brownstone banquet facilities in Paterson, New Jersey.

## Personal Life

Dina has been married twice. Her first husband was George Hadjiapostoli, with whom she has a daughter, Alexia Hadjiapostoli (Manzo). Her second husband, Tommy Manzo, runs and manages the Brownstone with his older brother, Albert Manzo. Dina is now separated from her second husband.

## Photo Gallery

This cast member has a Photo Gallery, just Click Here!

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
The Doom of Behemoth

* Range: 8
* Volley Count: 3
* Damage: 167-203
* Accuracy: +32%
* Crit: +10%
* Crit Damage: 300%
* AP Cost: 2
* This Wargear can only be equipped by an Ultramarine.
* A secondary fire mode that uses all remaining AP to fire a huge plasma charge. The damage caused is higher for each AP spent.
* This weapon never overheats.
Lexi Manzo

**Alexia "Lexi" Manzo/ Hadjiapostoli**(January 25, 1996) is known for being the daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dina Manzo.

## Personal Life

Lexi is the daughter of Dina Manzo and George Hadjiapostoli. She was also the step-daughter of Tommy Manzo before her mother's separation. She is also the niece of Caroline and Albert Manzo, and Jacqueline and Chris Laurita.

## Navigational

**Former Main Houses:** Jacqueline Laurita | Caroline Manzo | Danielle Staub | Kathy Wakile
Frostskull's Strength

* Rank: IV
* Range: 1
* Damage: 360-440
* Accuracy: +65%
* Crit: +10%
* Crit Damage: 200%
* AP Cost: 2
* Special: This Wargear may only be equipped by a Space Wolf.
* Special: When attacked with a melee weapon, there's a 50% chance your Space Marine will get a free retaliation attack.
* Special: 20% Chance to return an AP for every tile moved.
Exotic Quest: A Light in the Dark (Thorn)

Follow these step-by-step to complete this quest:

1. Complete the Summoning Pits strike on the Moon
2. Earn 500 points by killing Hive on the Moon
3. Earn 500 points in the Crucible
4. Use one mote of light to buy an Infusion of Light from the Speaker
5. Kill Xyor the Unwed on a special level 26 version of the Summoning Pits
6. Return to the Speaker to claim your reward
Tyrell, Ian. Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

## Summary

This
book broadens the context of the drive toward American imperialism – placing it
in the wider patterns of **informal American expansion and transnational networks**
and focuses on American voluntary reform abroad from the 1880s to the 1920s. These **moral reformers** who exported their ideas and responded to situations that
reshaped their programs. Americans exported a wide variety of organizations
with the sole purpose of moral uplift: Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
YM(W)CA, and World’s Good Habits Society as well as a range of missionary
organizations and denominational churches. These groups saw their work as a kind
of **Christian moral empire** that rose above “nation” and formed a loose coalition
that lobbied for changes in the United Sates’ relationship with its colonies
and the wider world.  Tyrell argues that
the boundaries between Christian networks and formal empire were blurred, “with
the latter phenomenon essentially embedded within the former.” (5) The moral
movement of the 1880s to the 1920s was **intrinsic to the process**, not just a
rhetorical justification. The transnational organizing and networks forged by
these moral reformers became part of the foundation of American global power in
the 20th century. The 1920s onward saw the ebbing of Evangelical
Missionary work and the growth of more secular/less spiritual certain
aid/volunteer work, at home and abroad.

Example: Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions

See also:  Paul Kramer, Andrew Zimmerman
Jewett, Andrew. Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

## Summary

Jewett’s
book explores the cultural and political hopes that many American scholars
invested in science from the 1860s to the 1950s. It reinterprets the rise of
the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern
America and looks at the persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise
carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic
culture – a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the
creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold
War years. It examines hundreds of leading scholars (what he calls “scientific
democrats”) who viewed science not merely as a source of technical knowledge,
but also as a resource for fostering cultural change. After the civil war,
“many advocates of science began to claim that it offered not only practical
techniques, and thus material plenty, but also the cultural and political
benefits that flowed from mainline Protestantism.”(3) These advocates believed
that being scientific “meant much more than simply using empirical methods; it
meant behaving in accordance with specific ethical tenets or exhibiting
particular ethical virtues.” (10) From the Civil War to the Cold War, a diverse
group of scientific democrats emerged: those who thought science provided the
cultural resources needed to restore democracy in the wake of industrialization;
those who toiled in the universities and thought about engaging and remaking
the public through American higher education; those who saw the development and
popularization of human sciences as a means to turn Americans away from
competitive capitalism (“progressive theorists” – Youmans, Dewey, James, etc.);
and those who sought to drive cultural change by developing the human or
cultural sciences.
Boren, Mark Edelman. Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject. Routledge, 2001.

## Summary

This
book is an international history of student activism on college campuses over
the past 500 years. He argues that ***student resistance is a continually***
occurring global social phenomenon***, in which the student activism of the 1960s***
is placed alongside other acts such as the medieval student riots, student
participation in the 1848 German revolutions, and the early 20th
century student uprisings that reformed education in many Latin American
nations.

Examples: Oxford's St. Scholastica Day Riot in 1354, led to great autonomy and protection of the university by the King; 1848 Revolutions and the Burschenschafen student organization (1,000 student representatives)

See also: Helen Horowitz, Martha Biondi, Kenneth Heineman
Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760 – 1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

## Summary

This
book examines the **making and meaning of “middle class”** as a special aspect of
American social development as part of city life, urbanization, and American
**industrial-capitalist development in the 19th century.** Americans of
middling economic and social position “were formed and formed themselves into a
relatively coherent and ascending middle class during the middle decades of the
nineteenth century.” Blumin reformulates middle
class formation in terms of the **types of social and cultural experience** – work,
consumption, residential location, formal and informal voluntary association,
and family organization and strategy. He contends that particular developments
in the 19th century and particularly after the Civil War – widening
differences between non-manual and manual work, the expansion of middle class
suburbanization, and the resumption and expansion of social and economic
conflict phrased in class terms – contributed to the articulation of the
American middle class. During the Jacksonian era and in urban centers,
**non-manual and manual functions were separated** in artisan shops, white collar
neighborhoods formed, a distinct middle-class home became recognizable by
particular artifacts, and new patterns of associations emerged among white
collar individuals.

Example: The
changing nature of artisan shops, factories, and retails showrooms and the
development of a middle class took shape in architecture and spatial
arrangements, the incomes, wealth, and mobility patterns of workers and
proprietors. For example, non-manual businessmen and clerks made more money
than skilled workers and accumulated more property. As a result, non-manual and
manual sectors of antebellum cities diverged economically between men who worked
with their heads and mean who worked with their hands (*Republican prejudice*).

See also: Jeanne Boydston, Charles Sellers, Christopher Clark
The Transnational Turn: Re-Interpreting Twentieth-Century U.S. History

The
transnational turned in the early 2000s has opened up new ways of understanding
the United States, its conflicts, and … in the 20th century.

Kelley's 1999 article, however, shows how scholarship from black scholars in the first part of the twentieth century precipated much of the transnational turn since the 1990s. He highlights such works by George Washington Williams and W.E.B. Dubois, which empahsized the the international context of the black experience. Black historical scholarship was not confined to national borders; their goal was to write a history of the race, which often took them acroos and beyond national borders. Kelley's work thus provides important historical context to recent trends in scholarship. He ultimately argues, based on his overview of black historical scholarship, that internationalizing United States history does not mean a great emphasis on foreign policy and foreign relations, but an examination of how tenuous national borders and identities are.
Sellers, Christopher. Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

## Summary

*Crabgrass Crucible* is about how the small moments of
experiencing nature in the Suburbs led to the first “stirrings” of
environmentalism. The environmental movement was not born out of the Sierra
Club or urban progressive reform, “but through the searches for nature along cities’
“elusive edges,” the suburbs of post-WWII society. Just as New York and Los
Angeles (case studies) and their growing suburbs were the first to acquire a
freeway, it also “played host to forerunning environmental mobilizations,
significantly prior to the first Earth Day in 1970.” (3) The outward expansion
of cities (suburbanization) was spearheaded “by quests for more natural
surroundings, whether from greenery or privacy or small-town comfort or
countryside,” and as a result, led post-war suburbanites to gravitate to new
ecological ways of thinking. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, *Silent Spring,* became the movement’s chief manifesto. By the time
of this book’s publication, suburban residents of New York and Los Angeles had
already began to conceive of a new form of naturalism, free of chemicals.
Sellers thus writes: “The contribution of *Silent*
Spring, *along with a slew of other popular volumes that are less*
remembered, was to render this message more sweeping and portable.” (9) What
made smog or open space or pesticides so galvanizing in the suburbs was not
scientific study or policy, but “by reaching into lay experiences, by striking
nerves across neighborhoods.” (9) Along the rapidly growing suburbs of the
postwar period, a concern for air and water pollution also grew alongside (and
logically linked to) the afflictions of wildlife and the needs for park making
and better rules for land use. Concerns for public health and wildlife
officials (often treated separately) overlapped in the backyards and bodies of
suburbanites (shared personal experiences/local knowledge). By the 1990s and
early 2000s, however, the suburban roots of environmentalism were forgotten,
partly due to the excesses that came to define the suburb (big cars, excessive
use of electricity, etc.), but also the result of its successes – the rise of a
professional environmental activist who have become more considered with the
larger, more symbolic images of environmental decay (nuclear plans, WTO, etc.).
Yet, what made the environmental movement successful in its early years,
Sellers argues, was its ability to take seriously the nature where most people
lived (the suburbs).
The Vash

This page will be compiled of the information known to the group about the Aliens known as the Vash. Though the group still technically doesn't know the name of said alien group...

## Vash - Shielding

The Vash are capable of generating a field that surrounds their bodies. It allows them to travel in the vaccuum of space and penetrate standard spacecraft shielding.

Our heroes discovered that by randomizing their shields' resonant frequency, they can disrupt the Vash's shielding, making them susceptible to attacks and allowing them to be damaged by high-speed impact with spacecraft shielding while in motion.

## Transportation

So far the group has detected a number of heat signatures clinging to asteroids which seem to be bombarding the Manta System. Upon inspection the group has encountered a race of the species which seems to act as some kind of heat shield when entering the atmosphere. Though these claims are only speculation as the group has had little chance to do any studies on any such creatures.

The group was able to determine that the asteroids could be steered somehow, the group has still yet to determine how this takes place.

## The Vash - Species

### Onyx Vash

This is probably the race of the Vash the group has encountered the most. It seems to feed on power sources of any kind. The being has a gaping maw that seems to have someway of getting parasites inside battle suits in order to infect targets.

### Crimson Vash

The group has only encountered this species from a-far. This perticular species seems to run hotter than the Onyx Vash.

### Grey Vash

This species was found dead at most asteroid crash sites. They are small 3-4ft in length with many legs, some of which could be seen embedded within the asteroids. The mouth of this species seemed to be located on the underbelly.

### Electric Blue Vash

The group has encountered two electric blue Vash so far - one outside the geddrite refinery, and one on a listing warship near the Manta System's space station. The electric blue Vash is humanoid in appearence and is slightly larger and hotter than the onyx Vash. At the end of each of its two arms, the electric blue Vash has a projectile that can be launched over a distance. Upon landing, the projectile emits a powerful EMP shockwave that interferes with all electronics in the immediate area. The projectile is presumed to be active as long as it is blue in colour, and it shifts to black when the organism has completely died.
Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

## Summary

This
book charts mainly white businessmen and sometimes their wives, who, from the
panics of 1819 to 1893, fell into monetary trouble and thus “tells the story of
America’s unsung losers: **men who failed in a nation that worships success**.” He
tells the other side of the market revolution story. The “go-ahead” notion of
success that emerged during the 1830s and 1860s was **shared by a culture of**
losing' ***that likewise** '***redefined American notions of selfhood.** In the 19th
century, when capitalism came of age and entrepreneurship became the primary
model of American identity, the language of business was applied to the soul.
An emerging capitalist economy came to dominate nearly every aspect of daily
life, thereby **transforming cultural values**. Over the century the meaning of the
word "failure" broadened significantly, from an incident in
**commercial life** (a "breaking in business," as an early-nineteenth-century
dictionary defined the word) **to an identity** (a wasted or ruined existence).
This change shows the extent to which capitalism influenced and changed
people’s behaviors. People came to be defined in terms of their market function:
**Human worth in the 19th century came to be measured by market worth**.

Example: Mercantile Agencies and the Big Red Book changed
the language of failure, directed it toward the character of the individual. Credit
ledgers “reflected new vocabularies of success and failure. Loser was once a
neutral word for anybody who lost property, often by theft or natural disaster…
In credit reports, losers were men who had taken the brunt (and often the
blame) in a deal gone bad.” (p. 130-1)Each report rated the man along one
question: “What is this man good for? Ratings such as A1 were used to classify
superior ability.

See also: Charles Sellers, Harry Watson, Stuart Blumin
Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

## Summary

This book is a transnational history of
race and empire in the Philippines. Kramer examines the **racial politics of**
empire **and how** hierarchies of difference were “generated and mobilized” **in**
order to legitimize invasion, conquest, and colonial administration. Race,
however, is also a **contested site of power** and looks at how empire-making
interacted with, and transformed, the process of racial formation (contested,
contingent, practice). This work examines the **metropole and the colony in a**
“single, densely interactive field,**” in which colonial dynamics are not defined**
simply by metropolitan forces. The remaking of empire and imperials remaking of
race are not inseparable; “It was not simply that difference made empire
possible: empire remade difference in the process.” (3) Rather than the idea
that the U.S. “exported” race relations, specific race relations emerged from
the local convergence of transnational forces. Kramer argues, the “racial
remaking of empire” and the “imperial remaking of race” are not separable (3). Race
acted as the legitimizing force of America colonial interests, as it helped
give shape to the “modern bourgeois family upon which imperial self-definitions
were commonly constructed, anchoring the differential powers for women and men
in moral, biological, and world-historical frameworks.” (4) Race, Kramer
argues, as a **mode of knowledge and power** was at the core of the making formal
colonialism in the Philippines.

Example: 1903 Columbia Exposition in St. Louis

See also: Ian Tyrell, Andrew Zimmerman
Miller, James A. Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

## Summary

James
Miller’s book brings to light the intellectual origins of the New Left, via the
SDS, that was lost by tear gas, drugs, and pseudo-Marxism by the end of the
decade (1968). In particular he is responding to scholarship by Allen Matusow
and Irwin Unger who both largely treated the SDS as devoid of ideology (also
think about this in relation to Anderson’s later book, which also largely
ignores ideology). Miller argues that SDS took “their central political ideas
not from the civil rights movement, but rather from the tradition of civic
republicanism that links Aristotle to John Dewey.” (16) Miller takes a
biographical approach to his study of the New Left, highlighting the handful of
leaders that took SDS’ political vision to heart (Tom Hayden, Robert Alan
Haber, Sharon Jeffrey, Bob Ross, Paul Booth). Tom Hayden and Al Haber connected
issues of the Cold War and the arms race to poverty, education, and racism. SDS
was envisioned as an organization to mobilize students around these issues,
especially the domestic concerns that were marginalized by the Cold War. The goal
of SDS was Participatory Democracy -  an
open invitation; however, Miller contends, Participatory Democracy was never
fully explained or defined. Miller argues: “The broader political vision of
participatory democracy went largely unexamined. Because the vision was never
codified and clarified and pass on as a formal doctrine of democracy, no shared
approach to grappling with objections and difficulties was handed down.”  (152) The result was a continuing series of
crises on questions of leadership, organization, and decision-making. By the
mid-1960s, concerns over gender inequality with the organization also affected
SDS. It thus left SDS open to irrational and shortsighted tactics and
strategies that kept if from realizing its objectives.
Murch, Donna. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

## Summary

Donna
Jean Much’s book looks at how “southern migration, black pride, the promise and
peril of increased educational access, and the destructive effects of the
carceral state all contributed to [black] radicalization” and the rise of the
Black Panther Party (3-4). It’s about the city of Oakland and how it both
changed the African American community and, concomitantly, the community
changed the city, or how Murch puts it, “the historical interplay between
southern migration and Black radicalism.” Oakland, California is a micro study
of this phenomenon. The political consciousness and radicalism of the Black
Panther Party reflected African Americans’ “collective experience as migrants
and their age” between the lynching of Emmett Till and the assassination of
Malcolm X.” The emergence of the Black Panther Party cannot been understand
without understanding “the rich culture, historical memory, and expectations
that Bay Area newcomers carried with them and the heartfelt disappointment they
suffered in Oakland and other West Coast cities.” (6) The Panthers core
leadership and rank and file consisted of recent migrants who wanted to escape
Southern racism only to be confronted by a different form in the Bay Area. Along
with building off of their migrant experience, the Black Panther Party was also
alienated and thus radicalized by institutions in the Bay Area, public schools,
police and universities and colleges. The increased access to college
education, via California’s Master Plan and Community College expansion
nurtured a new generation of black activists and politicians. Thus, the BPP did
not emerge in a vacuum; it drew on southern migrants’ experience, the black
church, educational access, and a tradition of creating parallel institutions. Murch
writes: “What emerged was a complex blending of two seemingly irreconcilable
worlds – the heavily rural, deeply religious, and tight-knit fabric of southern
black communities transplanted to the Cold War expanse of defense industries
and ‘multiversites,’ urban deindustrialization, and an increasingly punitive
carceral state.” (229)