POW! My head jerked forward as a jolt of pain shot down my back! It was the summer of 2013‚ I was really tired having to wake up early for dance class‚ but I knew as soon as I got into the studio I would have a lot of energy‚ seeing my friends. I had hip-hop first‚ then I had a short break and I had convinced my mom that we should run through McDonalds in that break time. After hip-hop class was over I went to the parking lot and found my mom’s car. I hopped in and she drove me to a McDonalds
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SSG McBride served with distinction and professionalism as a Drill Sergeant in Company A‚ 1-48th Infantry Regiment‚ Company B‚ 2-10th Infantry Regiment and Company A‚ 43d AG Battalion. He consistently exceeded standards while transforming the nation’s young men and women into well disciplined and motivated Soldiers. SSG McBride regularly set high standards within his unit‚ providing sound leadership and guidance to not only the Soldiers but his peers as well. He clearly proved himself to be a dedicated
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Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life. John McCain Why Does McCain mean by saying that “without courage all virtue is fragile”? It means that if we lack courage to hold on to our beliefs in the moment of testing‚ no just when everybody agrees with our opinion but also when they go against opposition‚ then our beliefs are superficial and weak and add nothing to our self respect for our virtues. Explain the concept of moral courage using an example. Is it different from physical
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The Battle of Stalingrad is undoubtedly a huge event and turning point of the war and is incredibly significant‚ arguably more than D-Day. Stalingrad is the bloodiest battle in the entirety of WW2 with 841‚000 axis casualties and 1‚971‚000 Soviet casualties with the sheer numbers alone Stalingrad has three Rs of significance‚ (Remembered‚ Results and Remarkable). Stalingrad was the first major loss of the Wehrmacht and a massive turning point of the war. Stalingrad was the furthest east the Germans
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"To what extent can the Korean War be regarded as a Cold War proxy war?" The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict‚ military tension‚ proxy wars‚ and economic competition existing after World War II between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world‚ primarily the United States and its allies. The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea‚ supported by the United Nations‚ and
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story about an American soldier‚ Sgt. Raymond Shaw‚ fighting in the Korean War when his troop is ambushed by the Chinese as a result of an oriental translator convincing them to cross in a single line. Raymond Shaw and his troop are air lifted to a POW camp where they are the centre of a brainwashing program funded by Soviet and Chinese brass. Sgt. Shaw receives hypnotic suggestions to murder two of his troop members‚ the other men are not able to react as they are in a similar trance. They are all
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Visual Techniques in The Shoe-Horn Sonata • On Air Sign: Bridie and Sheila sharing their experiences as POWs with Australia = A visual reminder of the intrusion into their privacy. • Evacuation of Singapore on 13 Feb‚ 1942 alongside the Women and children boarding ships‚ clutching toys‚ waving goodbye. Women and children fleeing from the city that was about to be invaded by a conquering army. “It is hard to believe from their happy smiles that they are soon to be the victims of history’s worst
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The distinctly visual leads us to think about significant issues in our world. Do you agree? In your response make detailed reference to distinctly visual qualities of The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other text of your choosing. Many composers use various techniques in which they communicate the distinctly visual. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ and Alexander Kimel’s ‘The Action in the Ghetto of Rohatyn‚ March 1942’ represent significant issues in our world by using various literary and dramatic
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Is it more important to focus on the bigger picture in War? Doing so would be to neglect the 58‚000 soldiers who gave their lives in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is often seen as an unclear part of our history in the United States. This conflict in some Americans minds was a war of ethics‚ a war of right and wrong. The United States entered the war in order to try to prevent the continuous slaughter of Southern Vietnamese people. What we can learn is what lies in the stories of the different
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Though he was able to escape war unharmed‚ Billy seems to be mentally unstable. In fact‚ his nightmares in the German boxcar at the prisoners of war (POW) camp indicate that he is experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): “And now there was an acrimonious madrigal‚ with parts sung in all quarters of the car. Nearly everybody‚ seemingly‚ had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done
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