detail‚ you will see how on August 4‚ 2012 my life changed. The day started off perfect because flight operations ended earlier the night before and the on deck time for my crew and I was later than normal. The day was special because one of my sailors‚ my adoptive brother‚ decided that he would give the Navy another three years. We mustered at 0900 on the flight deck and prepared for the reenlistment ceremony. As Airman took his oath for reenlistment I felt as that of a proud mentor. In his
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Tattooing is one of many art forms that has been practiced from thousands of years. It has evolved from its start‚ from crude methods to more advanced ones. Tattooing has become more symbolic and meaningful‚ and more common. Many people around the world have at least once tattoo but‚ it was not always this way‚ tattoos used to be only for kings and queens or those of importance. The earliest known examples of tattoos date back to ancient Egypt. The first tattoo found was from the famous frozen
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Commanding Officer must face the decision of whether or not he should send a deployed sailor back to the states under “emergency leave” status in order to have an abortion. The Commanding Officer has several things to consider when making this decision that will affect a person’s life forever. I feel that after I went through the constitutional paradigm’s hierarchy of loyalties that my decision would be to deny the sailors “emergency leave”. The Constitutional Paradigm contains the hierarchy of loyalties
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The Odyssey Essay Even now‚ centuries after it was written‚ Homer’s The Odyssey still seems to astonish readers of all ages. In this epic poem is a story of a man being ripped from his kingdom of Ithaca‚ to fight in the battle of Troy. Early in the story before he is taken away‚ Odysseus tells his wife that if he isn’t back by the time Telemachus is a man‚ beard on
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poem starts with the sailor getting to know that he is going to die very soon by hearing a call from the symbols "sunset and evening star" and "twilight and evening bell" both which represent the onset of the night. The sailor‚ in the entire poem is actually asking his family and friends not to be heartbroken or to cry when he dies. The phrase "moaning of the bar" refers to the sad sound made by the wind and waves when passing over a sandbar during a stormy weather. The sailor does not want any sadness
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Before the Mast Richard Henry Richard‚ Jr. narrated an episode in his life in his book‚ ‘Two Years Before the Mask’‚ which depicted the reality of the life of a common sea man. The book showed realistic descriptions of abuses undergone by his fellow sailors which made it an American Classic. The book is a nonfiction narrative that gives readers adventurers journey at sea with clear descriptions of the landscape and strong desires by the author to heal himself by spending his time with nature. As a successful
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goals?” (UOP PSY400‚ 2015) The purpose of the Family Readiness Group is to help build morale of sailors and their family; volunteer board members help plan and coordinate informative meeting for the families of the sailors‚ care taking‚ social activities‚ and activities to enhance preparedness. The Family Readiness Group is also known as the FRG. The FRG mission is to prepare family members for their sailor deployment and homecoming‚ provide support to family members during deployment‚ and “help families
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our specialized departments. My department was the Weapon Systems Department‚ a collaborative team comprised of 100 hardworking sailors. Amongst those sailors‚ I was the team lead. One of the hardest deployments I remember and the one I faced the most difficulty with followed the transfer off-ship of two senior enlisted personnel . I was still considered a junior sailor with no previous experience leading a crew. Furthermore‚ I oversaw three newly upgraded integrated weapon systems and its maintenance
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Homer and Atwood both have a way of portraying the Sirens. Although their explanations may be quite different‚ the way of revealing the Sirens is the same. They demonstrates that the Sirens are evil creatures that with their lovely voice make the sailers listen and then they end up dying. The authors convey this image of the Sirens through use of imagery‚ tone and their point of view. Homer alike Atwood use imagery‚ so that as readers we get a visual of what the Sirens portray in their perspectives
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the British continue to disregard our so called independence by colluding with Tecumseh and his tribes‚ making it impossible for American merchants to trade goods with either France or Britain‚ as well as seizing American ships and capturing our sailors. The time for independence is now. Folks we have been weighed down because of the British for far too long now‚ and have not been respected at all by those savages across the ocean. As a result‚ we have been left no choice. It is time for war! Why
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