Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption follows the story of Louie Zamperini, a rebellious child who grew up to become one of the fastest runners of the 1930s. He competed as an Olympic track runner in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The future was looking bright for Zamperini before World War II began, which resulted in the Olympics being cancelled and Louie being drafted into the Army Air Forces as a bombardier. Midway through 1943, his B-24 crash landed in the Pacific Ocean. For weeks, Louie and two other men drifted westward across a seemingly endless ocean, accompanied by a pack of sharks and surviving on scraps of bird and fish meat and the occasional rainfall. Eventually, he arrived in Japanese…
My book report is about the very well written novel, ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK by Leslie Conner.…
Graci Kaiser Leadership (NR 4600.01) Professor Fagan April 7, 2024 In Five Days at Memorial, Chapter Six and Chapter Seven explained the evacuation from the hospital and the euthanasia of both animals and humans, and Chapter Eight described the legal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There were many decisions that had to be made by the healthcare management team, doctors, and nurses regarding patients and transportation out of the hospital. These staff members were faced with distressing circumstances which led to agonizing decisions that were made.…
In the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, she writes an excerpt, Shitty First Drafts, which is about the impact and importance of the first drafts of writing. Anne explains in the beginning of this excerpt that all writers write shitty first drafts and the drafts get better as you write more and work on the writing more. Lamott claims that “writing is not rapturous,” she explains that the only way that she can write anything well is to write a very bad first draft and just work on fixing that. She explains that sometimes you just have to type and get your ideas written out to be able to write a good piece of work. Once someone has been writing for so long, they have to have the ability to be able to just trust their writing process and understand that the first draft isn’t going to be perfect. Nothing is perfect on the first try, you have to keep working at it. Sometimes the first draft will be the worst thing someone thinks they have ever written, but they just have to go back to it and try to make it better and revise what is wrong. A writer has to start somewhere and they work from there. Just because the first draft is a bad draft doesn’t mean that the final work will be terrible. The first draft is the terrible draft, the second draft is the slightly better draft that has been picked through lightly to better, and the final draft is the “dental draft.” The dental draft is the draft that you really pick through and make sure that everything is perfect. In other words, the final product is checked “dentally” to make sure that it is “healthy” so that the final product is perfect. Lamott’s entire excerpt is just explaining that whether or not your first draft is perfect or not, the final product will definitely be better and more acceptable.…
This paper will examine the writings and opinion of James William Gibson in his publication of “Warrior Dreams”. I strongly support Gibson’s suggestions about how the world today is negatively affected by the political and popular culture. By supporting his idea I strongly agree that warrior fantasies can easily be obtained from the worlds events. He argues that the shame of defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War by such a skillfully inferior enemy. For most men, their definition of masculinity includes strength, adventure and the will to compete in violent struggles. This theory is reinforced in popular movies, television shows, music, and books that glorify this behavior and have dangerous consequences for our country and even around the world.…
James M. Cox was an English professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover for 27 years and a visiting professor at Kenyon College, Texas A&M, Princeton University, Emory University, and the University of Virginia. He was also awarded the Jay B. Hubbell medal for his accomplishments in American literature. Based on this information, this source is reliable. This article,” The Red Badge of Courage: The Purity of War” by James Cox, highlighted the key elements of realism portrayed in The Red Badge of Courage. In the article Cox also talks about Cranes other pieces such as Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, The Scarlet Letter, Black Riders, and many more. In this article Cox says, “Crane extends realism down into the society of soldiers. They are invariably…
Red Badge of Courage is about a young soldier named Henry Fleming,who is drafted during the war. The book traces the thread of emotions and reactions to events that he goes through, in the civil war. Being an an average farmer from New York, Henry wanted to go to war and become a hero like the ones he has read about in his school. The book starts off with a bunch of boys sitting at camp by the river, and while everyone is thinking about what they will do in war and how heroic they would be, Henry was thinking of how he would react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was severely injured or even died? Though he said that, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight or a battle, he did, during the second war, when he was scared and he saw a few other soldiers scamper due to the smoke. Henry kept telling himself through and through that he was protecting himself, even when the…
After the appeal was granted, chaos stroke throughout the city of Little Rock; the black community would endure many different types of abuse from the white citizens. The reason for it was that they were enraged of all the schooling their children had missed. The white population needed something to blame and the black people were the target for just about everything. A substantial amount of hate crimes rose as soon as the bill passed; Daisy Bates, the head chairman of the NAACP in Little Rock took lots of scrutiny for it. The main target for these hate crimes were the nine black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. Their families were suffering much a bundle of pain, and it was a frightening time to be living there.…
The origin of a story may come from a plethora of triggers in life such as a notebook, memory, or even pure intuition. In Kingston’s novel, The Woman Warrior, she primarily uses her memory to recall the legend of Fa Mu Lan, a Chinese girl who took her father’s place in battle illegally (21). Kingston uses this familiar Chinese story that leaves a “direct personal impression” on her and links it to her own imagination (Lanning and Macauley 3). This fabricates the origin of a story that gives the reader insight on how Kingston feels about Chinese society.…
In this seminal work on the Pacific war John Dower, Professor of History at the Michigan Institute of Technology and Pulitzer Prize winning author, discusses the effect had in the Allied war with Japan. It is the author's opinion that racism and prejudiced attitudes played a role in the development of atrocious behaviors seen in the Pacific Theater. Dower supports his thesis by effectively and exhaustively researching his topic. Dower creatively integrates and combines sources from almost every are of period life. In his studies he includes war diaries, political speeches, journal articles from both sides, and perhaps most effectively, sources from popular culture including songs, movies and cartoons.…
James Downing was part of the navy unit on pearl harbor. He was only 28 at the time and it was his 9th year in the navy. James remarked “I was doing my daily job, to find out that we were under attack.” James Downing was a gunner's 1st mate and postmaster. He was eating breakfast with a couple other service men. His wife, Morena, was cooking the breakfast. They were fine until they heard a few explosions go off. “Then an anti-aircraft shell landed right outside and blew a crater about 25 feet across,” Downing said, illustrating with outstretched arms. He did his duty and jumped into a truck with the other service men, but before they left his wife gave him a piece of paper with a verse of Scripture from Deuteronomy 33:27: “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Downing was going to rely on his training to stay alive and win this battle. It took them 20 minutes to get to the war zone, to see a devastating scene of ships sinking. “My first emotion was surprise, and the next thing was fear,” he said. “When I saw our ships, almost all of them, sunk there, I wondered, ‘What else are they going to do to us here?” James Downing was doing all he can to get the injured soldiers off the ships and fight the fires from the bombs. He was “The first Japanese I encountered was flying low and slow, so low you could almost see his eyes,” Downing said. Bullets from the plane whizzed near the top of his head, but Downing was not hit by the bullet. He was covered in oil and running from one chip to the next, Downing said he was overcome by a new emotion every time. Lt James Downing said” There were lots of heroic risk taken by many soldiers to save others lives. They were many heroes that day, that died trying to save…
Sometime in our future, when people from this generation are at their 60s', people will wonder if they had made a change in the world to be better. Some will ask what could've they done to make a mark in history. While others could only wish to be someone they are not. And only a few will not have that question of emptiness. People make their own contributions in their own ways. Two characters that demonstrate these are Jason M. Clark of Illinois and Amy G. Santiago of California. Both have different professions but share the same purpose.…
Robin Jenkins effectively conveys loss of innocence and ant war through sophisticated symbolism in the short story “Flowers”. It tells the story of a young girl, Margaret, who was evacuated from the city of Glasgow to the highlands of Scotland in an attempt to avoid the inhumanity of war, but it is in the highlands where she truly witnessed the brutality of war.…
Mullaney learned from West Point not only strategies for battle, but also the reasons for someone to go into battle in the first place. Craig came from a strong Catholic upbringing being in a catholic school system where he went to confession routinely, “confessing all of the shortcomings that he faced during the week whatever it was, from losing a wrestling match to missing homework”, that had been taunting his conscience and where he was taught to “sanctify others, seeing even our enemies in the image of god” Now he is being asked to do things that conflict those beliefs immensely, such as running a dummy attacker through with a bayonet, and he starts to question his situation, “ I wasn’t sure that I wanted to be a warrior, a professional trained to kill”. So in search of an answer to his question he goes to the Catholic chaplain for better insight. The priest talked to him about believing in a just war, and that “war, although always horrible, is sometimes necessary to stop a greater evil”.…
The story “Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro is a coming of age story between two girls. In the story the focus is on acceptance and rejection of our peers. Myra and her little brother Jimmy are the rejects of a small town in Ontario, Canada and are judged based on their looks and actions by the other kids. One of the kids is Helen but she decides to be nice to Myra and share her Cracker Jack with her one morning on the way to school. Suddenly Myra quit going to school, Gladys Healey claims she’s sick with Leukemia. Now during the story Helen shows acceptance towards Myra when they begin to walk to school together and talk more. Helen begins to understand the life that Myra lives everyday she begins to care. I have been in Helen shoes where I…