12th July 1588 We set sail: Today the Spanish armada set sail from Corunna with 130 ships with 7000 sailors and 21000 soldiers most of whom are priests‚ its purpose: to conquer England. Philip II king of Spain assembled the armada because Spain is the greatest power on earth but England also has a lot of power so Philip wants to take over England to gain more power. Also its a religious crusade‚ Philip wants‚ to kill Elizabeth so he can turn England into a catholic country as well as the fact
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An Israeli female soldier fell apart to her traumatic death incident of her comrade on Monday‚ November 23‚ 2015. In the West bank in Nabulus city at a petrol station‚ a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the stomach. To her‚ it seemed as if her whole world was deteriorating. However‚ to another soldier reporting that it was a horrible misfortune‚ but it was common that many Israelis had been getting killed recently‚ showed that it was easier for him to deal with this heartbreak unlike the
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Human Rights Violation (Child Soldier) What do you think of when you hear the term “Child Soldier”? You probably think of a normal child who has been trained to become an armed soldier from his early childhood. No‚ the reality is that child soldiers still do exist in many parts of the world. First of all‚ what do you mean by child soldiers? Child soldiers are any children under 18 years of age who is a member of the armed forces or an armed group. Today‚ child soldier has been one of the major issues
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service to others through the utilization of the the training‚ talents‚ and abilities that I possess or will possess. Ever since I was little‚ I’ve always had a fascination with being a soldier. The idea of a soldier‚ tall‚ strong‚ and proud‚ was the example I always compared myself to in my mind’s eye. Whatever I did‚ I asked myself the question‚ “is this how a soldier would act?” Once I learned more about the military‚ and the Service Academies‚ I realized that this may be the right path for me.
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Athena would make a good soldier because she is strong‚ brave and intelligent. One important reason that Athena would make a good soldier is that she is full of energy. “She helped Perseus defeat Medusa by giving him a shield to see the reflection of Medusa.”(bullet 18‚ greek gods and goddess) The thing about Athena is that she is‚ she never gives up on herself or others. Athena is strong and stands up for others. Athena would make a good soldier because she is strong‚ brave‚ and intelligent
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Welcome Home‚ Soldier by PaulieG© I was finally going home. After a year in Iraq‚ I was going home to my beautiful wife. Little did I know that not only had the war changed me‚ but my home life would change too. Genneveve‚ or Gennie as everyone called her is 11 years younger than me. At 38‚ I marveled at the fact that she still didn’t look a day over 25. Standing 5-7 with coal black hair contrasting with her nearly translucent smooth white skin‚ the contrasts didn’t stop there. Every bit
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The Child Soldier Reflection By : Gabriel Garlycia Ishmael Beah was a child soldier who got out of the military base with the help on unicef. Afterwards he stayed in America and wrote a book about his life as a child soldier when he was younger. He tells about how the child soldiers were treated and how he became a child soldier in the first place. Ishmael Beah grew up in a remarkable childhood until a war came to his part of his country and because of war the landscape he grew up in became
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and foremost‚ most child soldiers are taken against their will to fight in a conflict. In his BBC article‚ Child Soldiers Still Being Recruited in South Sudan‚ Tom Burridge (A BBC correspondent) wrote about the recruitment process for child soldiers in South Sudan’s ongoing civil war. During his visit to South Sudan‚ Tom met with a few boys who have been child soldiers‚ and one of them was a boy named Stephen. Rebels closed in on Stephen’s unsuspecting school while class was in session. “Stephen describes
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Molly Pitcher was only doing what she thought was right by following her husband to war. She tended to the men at camp but once fighting broke out she put herself in the middle of a war. Molly Pitcher was on the front line of the war. She risked her life in order to take care of the soldiers fighting. She got her name from carrying a pitcher of water to the soldiers. That to me is a selfless act; she was there with her husband but she won’t above and beyond to take care of all the soldiers. While doing
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Are Soldiers Paid Enough For the Sacrifices They Make? Bernard A. Downing Mr. Horne The discussion surrounding the debate as to rather or not soldiers are under paid for their sacrifices and services has been a debate that has seemed to linger for some time now. The everyday sacrifice that a soldier has to make seems to go unnoticed when compared to the compensation received by professional athletes for their time away. We live in a country whereas the same people who fight for your everyday
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