captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military before…
The book that I have been hooked on ever since SSR started has been Code of Honor by Alan Gratz. Generally I am not a huge reader, but this book has grabbed my attention with its dramatic suspense and constant action. This book is written in first person, and in present day. The setting is primarily set in Phoenix, Arizona. This story is based around the main protagonist, Kamran Smith. He has everything going for him; winning the big football game and scoring five touchdowns, becoming the homecoming king, and dating one of the prettiest girls at East Phoenix High School. Literally overnight everything changes for Kamran, as word gets out that his brother, Darius Smith, has betrayed the United States army to become a terrorist. Every couple…
There has been some confusion on the coming “Code White”. I hope to eliminate some of the confusion with this email.…
The time period this book is set in is right before 9/11 and during the Iraq war (1999-2009). As he grows up in Odessa, Texas he grow interested into being a ranch manager. By becoming a ranch hand he found himself in the state of Colorado where he enlisted for the Navy a second time. He joined the Navy in February 1999 and trained to be a Navy SEAL in Coronado, Calif. The rugged challenging training he had to go through to become a Navy SEAL really showed him that it isn’t easy being a solider and that he had to work extremely hard and not give into the powerful temptation of quitting. The tough training conditions and activities really molded him into one of the best U.S. sniper of all time. Nothing he could have imagined would come close to the gruesome scarring experience of war. After serving in the war torn country of Iraq you come out a different person and as he puts it “Continually going to war, you gravitate to the blackest parts of existence.”…
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane tells a story about a youth, Henry Fleming, who is eager to fight in the American Civil War because of the glory of victory. Once he was officially in the military, he realized that war wasn’t all he thought it would be. His regiment mostly just marched from place to place. The lack of fighting made Henry begin to doubt his decision to go against his mother’s wishes and join the war. When his regiment finally went to battle, Henry experienced things that made him mature from a boy to a man in a matter of days.…
The book Fearless by Eric Blehm is what I read. This book is entails the story of a man that was a part of SEAL team SIX, who was a hero, and whose bravery and willpower was enhanced through religious faith and his family. During this book this man pledged a war against his own reckless personality and willingness to stop at nothing to get to the highest rank in the military.Adam's final act of determination led to his…
Both stories “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Learning to read” by Frederick Douglass talk about how language both helped and hurt them. In Amy’s Tan “Mother Tongue” she explains how language has affected her as a child. She began to noticing the type of English she used in her books and with her mother. On the other hand, Frederick Douglass also explains how language has helped him “forge” his Identity. As a slave, he did not know how to read or write. But after learning from his master the language has helped him discover who he was.…
The short story Marine Corps Issue is written by David McLean. It is an account of a family who has been affected by the war; Jonathan’s father had fought against the Vietnamese and had become a POW. The past of the father had been kept a secret till Jonathan becomes curious and finds out the truth. It had been kept a secret because the parents did not want to expose the children to the cruel past they had faced. This is a very well written story told from the 1st person point of view. If it was written in any other point of view the essence of the story would be lost.…
The history of war is what many spend time reading about in textbooks. Few, however, experience war and all that it encompasses. David Leckie, a marine during World War II, uses his book, Helmet for My Pillow, to share with readers the truth of what it was like to be a soldier. Rather than skimming the surface of his time on Parris Island and the Pacific Islands, he goes into unmatched, excruciating detail; every trench dug, every shot fired, and every fallen soldier passed was recounted by Leckie. Setting this story apart from any other, the first-hand accounts of combat, unlikely descriptions of the day-to-day actions of the soldiers, and the heart that Leckie intertwines with each part of his story all combine to make this thought-provoking,…
In the beginning of the The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is a young man under the impression that he is destined for greatness, glory, and valor through the art of war. However, he begins to worry that maybe when the time comes to be brave, his courage will falter. Throughout the story this young, ambitious lad turns into an old, seasoned veteran that has seen the horrors of war. He doesn't change literally through age, of course. His mindset, his morals, and his psychological state as a whole and what change…
Everyone harmonizes in a clique within society that they feel welcomes them. Professor Ignatieff of the Practice of Human Right at Harvard University interpreted that “to belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with”, meaning that in order to be suitably linked to a specific crowd, you must understand their implicit codes and know to abide by them. Although some believe these tacit codes cease to exist among groups, I feel as though they have been implanted into every group within our society no matter what its size or purpose is. For example, one of the tacit codes I know far better than any other is girl code. Not all girls understand the implied policies you’re supposed to follow and I feel they should get a fair warning before it’s too late. Every group has its own set of unspoken rules that define the basis of what is to be known and ensure the feeling that you belong, much like that of one of the most baffling codes that exists today: girl code.…
The first time military language was introduced to me was the unforgettable day of June 29th, 2009 in the unforgivable heat of southern Texas at Lackland AFB. While 99% of my senior class was off having a last hoorah before they went off to college, I was getting told to get on my face and do pushups till my arms fall off by a man so huge, the earth shook beneath his feet. I was hundreds of miles away from home, and it suddenly hit me for what I had gotten myself into. Over the next two months I would have my views on life be changed almost on a weekly basis by what was going on around me.…
Picture yourself in the mid 1820s where the only form of communication was by letter or by personal messenger. However, as everything seemed to fall into place during the industrial age of the 1840s, Samuel Finley Morse gave one the alternative to no longer have to use these options. He invented a way to represent letters and numbers by using short and long pulses that sent electrical signals to an operator. The telegraph, an invention also by Morse, allowed for the transmission of these complex messages across telegraph wires between stations. Morse sent the first message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland on May 24, 1844. Morse Code changed the way we communicated in the Civil War, World War II and continues to influence us in the 21st century.…
Error detection and correction plays a very important role in data communication. Various codes such as convolutional and block codes are available for the purpose of error detection and correction. Among the block codes Reed-Solomon code provides several advantages. Reed-Solomon codes are powerful error-correcting codes that finds wide applications in many fields. The soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes provides reliable information from the channel into the decoding process. Many soft-decision decoding algorithms are available. Among them the Koetter-Vardy algorithm is used in this paper. The gain of soft-decision…
A BSTRACT The improvement of fiber-optic cables is a robust problem. After years of theoretical research into Scheme, we argue the investigation of IPv6, which embodies the unfortunate principles of robotics. Our focus in this paper is not on whether the lookaside buffer and reinforcement learning can agree to fulfill this mission, but rather on motivating an extensible tool for deploying context-free grammar (SIBASA). I. I NTRODUCTION Statisticians agree that stable algorithms are an interesting new topic in the field of artificial intelligence, and cryptographers concur. The notion that information theorists cooperate with cacheable symmetries is always adamantly opposed. This is a direct result of the evaluation of architecture. To what extent can public-private key pairs be developed to accomplish this goal? An unproven method to achieve this mission is the confusing unification of vacuum tubes and checksums [5]. This is a direct result of the improvement of the lookaside buffer. It should be noted that our system is based on the construction of cache coherence [16], [23], [3]. In the opinion of futurists, though conventional wisdom states that this challenge is usually answered by the synthesis of kernels, we believe that a different solution is necessary. Thus, SIBASA explores the natural unification of context-free grammar and Byzantine fault tolerance. Cyberinformaticians largely deploy von Neumann machines in the place of linear-time theory. We view artificial intelligence as following a cycle of four phases: management, improvement, emulation, and location. In the opinion of futurists, indeed, 802.11b [8] and multicast heuristics have a long history of interfering in this manner. Nevertheless, this method is rarely excellent. Furthermore, existing read-write and largescale applications use the refinement of context-free grammar to visualize probabilistic symmetries. Clearly, we demonstrate that IPv7 can be made classical, concurrent, and…