1. TITLE: FIRST TO FIGHT 2. ADVANCE COURSE‚ SNCOA 3. AUTHOR: Victor H. Krulak Lieutenant General‚ USMC (Ret.) 4. PUBLISHER: U.S. Naval Institute 5. PUBLISHED: 1984 6. PAGES: 227 7. COST: Base Library 8. SUBJECT: This book is a combination of Krulak’s personal experience and opinion about the Marine Corps existence‚ mission‚ and history. 9. OPINION: I believe this book was written with compassion and commitment. It gives you a full ride about the history of our Corps as well as why we
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The school fight During one normal school day at lunch time the weather was hot and no clouds in the sky. I was walking along to help Mr Petersen get equipment for athletics training. While I was walking through the year 9 area some year 9”s were huddling around with one tall skinny guy and one short average weight. To me I was wondering her we go a fight is going to happen and like the people that were around them didn’t care besides wanting to see action. The two guys that were in the circle had
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The film The Matrix presents and deals with many interesting philosophical issues. Here I will discuss a particular scene from the film‚ namely‚ the ’red/blue pill’ dialogue between Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Neo (Keanu Reaves). This dialogue can be considered as dealing with a philosophical thought experiment: Nozick’s (1974) experience machine‚ and questions that arise from it. Namely‚ would an individual‚ after coming to know that they are not actually directing their own life‚ but are
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Fighting can be for a reason or it can be just because someone is so stupid they would rather fight than resolve the problem. I remember my first fight like it was just yesterday. I was in grade school‚ 5th grade to be exact. I was walking to the gym. It was a very hot timid day. The sun was beaming down real heavy. You could possibly have had a heat stroke. As I was walking down the sidewalk reading my library book‚ I accidentally bumped into this girl. I apologized but I guess that wasn’t good
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was a witness to the violence. "Tybalt just wanted to fight‚ and Mercutio wasn’t going to back down. It was so unnecessary. Mercutio had so much to live for and so much left to do. I hope that the Montagues and the Capulets can learn from this tragedy and put their petty feud behind them. If they do not‚ then Mercutio will have died in vain. "
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Mockingbird Literary Techniques Text Analysis - Novel: TASK: In an essay‚ with close reference to your novel‚ explain how the author uses specific writing techniques to influence the opinions of the reader. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel published by Harper lee in 1960. This book takes the reader back to the 1930’s. She illustrates the theme of Prejudice in the 1930’s all through the eyes of a young girl called Jean Louise Finch. This essay was intended to highlight 3 literary techniques that Harper Lee
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In the movie The Breakfast Club‚ five students are to spend the entire day together in detention. These five teenagers all come from extremely different backgrounds and social groups within their school. As the movie progresses they learn more about one another. This bond comes about due to the students trying to have fun while in detention. In the beginning ten minutes of the movie one can see the setting of a team form. This means that it was clear that there would be a plan of action made by
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American Films Chinatown In this essay I will discuss technical‚ stylistic‚ and storytelling from one of the great American noir films of all time‚ Chinatown. The storyline is unparalleled and the portrayal of the characters by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are brilliant. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne created a masterpiece‚ and it doesn’t go unnoticed. The duo captures everything that is film noir from the World War II times while tweaking the rules along the way. Chinatown
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The movie “Radio” is definitely a re-telling of the parable of the Good Samaritan because in the main story line‚ Radio is found‚ on the streets with only his mum left but Coach Jones took Radio in‚ knowing that he was disabled and cared for him‚ gave him a social life and friends. The main story point with the Good Samaritan story is that a man was brutally bashed and left to die on the streets but a Samaritan‚ of a completely different religion helps this man and brings him to an inn where he is
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students. After parents it is they who teach the most valuable lessons of life to a kid. They act as representatives of diligence‚ honesty and loyalty‚ dignity and respect for family values and traditions. As rightly said by one of the character from the movie Mr. Deepak Mehta‚ “A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams‚ and they will continue
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