We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a remarkable book written over the account of the battle of the La Drang Valley‚ the United States’ first major war battle of Vietnam. Written by retired Lt. Gen Harold Moore and war journalist Joseph L Galloway‚ the book recounts the ups and downs of the battle‚ as well as the heroic actions made by United States soldiers that led us to victory. I believe the author’s intentions were to redefine the hero narrative and to give readers an emotional understanding
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The excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead
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When a person tells a lie‚ they steal someone else’s right to the truth. Stephanie Ericsson in “The Ways We Lie” explains ten specific lies that she believes are prevalent in today’s society. The reading begins by the “The White Lie” being the most harmless lie. Then she describes “Out-and-Out Lies” being the worst lie because it ignores the truth to escape responsibility. Ericsson attempted to go an entire week without telling a lie to analyze how conversation would be if it were all honest
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Where Do We Belong as Citizens? In 2012 at the age of nineteen I migrated to the United States from the Caribbean. I have witnessed cultural citizenship through my personal experience. When I first moved to the United States I have seen a lot of different cultures‚ not just American culture but cultures from all over the world. I still eat the same food‚ listen to the same music‚ and speak the same language as if I was still living back home in Jamaica. Cultural citizenship is to be a citizen of
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The first story in Chapter 2 was We Didn’t‚ written by Stuart Dybek. This story is about a young couple‚ the narrator and his girlfriend‚ Gin‚ who are both virgins. They have both been dating a while and they are ready to finally have sex. They go to a beach for their first time. They have been together for a while. While at the beach the narrator and Gin get ready to have sex. The narrator gets his condom out‚ but drops it‚ he tries dusting the sand off. He is close to getting inside her when the
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“The Men We Carry in Our Minds” In the passage of “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders‚ the author discusses about his view on men and women. “When the women I met at college thought about the joys and privileges of men‚ they did not carry in their minds the sort of men I had known in my childhood” (172)‚ the meaning is the way one believes women and men are about‚ along with their experiences with women and men throughout their lives. The author’s perception on men is the
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We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: I read the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’‚ it was about the war in Vietnam. Lt. General Harold G. Moore led the 7th cavalry into a battle against the North Vietnamese army. Joseph L. Galloway‚ was the first American journalist to arrive in Vietnam. Moore and Galloway are the authors of this book and they both experienced Vietnam in person. The book started out with a lot of action‚ right off it talks about how a man is lying dead in the dirt. It then went
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common theme is to address how African-Americans respond to the painful parts in life. Rather‚ Dunbar is not telling the readers to continue with this methodology‚ but rather how these same tactics are a plea for freedom. The repetition of the phrases “We wear the mask” and “I know why the caged bird sings” is to manifest his cry for freedom‚ an opportunity never presented upon him. African- Americans were never given
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The United Nations & United States’ Mishandling of the Rwandan Genocide Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families is an account of the Rwandan genocide and his observation of its aftermath. One of the major problems that occurred which allowed this genocide to happen was the failure of the United Nations and United States to take action. The U.N. came into existence immediately following the end of the Second World War. The creation of this organization
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In the article “Youth Violence: What We Know and What We Need to Know”‚ The American Psychologist; we are shown the truth and severity of the society crippling issue of violence amongst youth. Sandra Calvert’s take on violence in adolescences illustrates for us how family can affect our violent tendencies‚ for better and worse. Aggressive raising‚ violence in the home‚ rejection or disapproval‚ neglect‚ and chaotic family life are all gateways to growing up hostile or violent. While on the other
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