...It was it hot humid afternoon at the countryside of Vietnam where there were bomb craters The size of a house, and burning trees from the furious napalm strikes against the Vietcong the Roars of the Helicopter traveling the air ,and the agonizing screams of those men who have been injured.private Dempsey Suarez also know as el pistolero and his unit of like 20-30 men led by general Donovan Depay were sent on a mission to secure a river bank which was used by the vietcong for transportation of guns and ammunition inside a highly dense thorny jungle. These jungles we're extremely booby trapped by the Vietcong so the soldiers had to keep watch out were they steeped.This river bank was a major checkpoint and if the U.S Army got hold of this point it would be very useful of them as they would cut down the transport of the vietcong....
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... it’s typically a chaotic mess. Foreign residents and non-residents swarm the terrain extending their goodbyes to family and friends as the rest of us attempt to unify our traveling group to successfully reach the gate in time without issues. Unless, of course, you’re a lucky lone star rider, in which case you’ll probably have a much easier time. Fortunately, my group and I are not strangers to this environment. We know to limit the amount of checked bags and the exact weight constraints on all carry-on luggage. Passports and tickets should be hidden-yet easily accessible—in our traveling satchels. Although I am pretty familiar with my departure grounds, my destination is new territory that I will be calling my home for the better half of two years. I have been to the Middle East to visit my working expat father before, but never to attempt to establish a life for myself there. The destination I am referring to is Qatar, a small peninsula creeping out of the Persian Gulf bordering Saudi Arabia to the south. My father is a construction engineer and had been working on a project building a large commercial mall in Saudi’s capital, Riyadh for the past three years. I visited him there at the beginning of the 2010 summer for about a week. I wouldn’t have wanted to stay an hour longer as I might have been a victim of heatstroke or third-degree sunburns! He would try to dilute the conditions with optimism such as claiming the climate is tolerable because it is a dry heat;...
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...Everyday Americans take advantage of the wonderful oppurtunities we have in out country. We're one of the few countries in the world that has them and most of us don't realize how lucky we really are. In "In Our Defense" by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, they share the stories behind each that we don't take into consideration for creating such a ______ country. Each case shows the good, the bad, and the rough patches in the history of the United States and The Bill of Rights. The first case of the book, "Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan vs. Kansas City", deals with Freedon of Speech. Dennis Mahon ans J. Allan Moran, Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, asked to be able to air their planned episodes of "Race and Reason" on the radio. The episode already could be watched on T.V for the previous five years. But in Kasas City, there were many people of the town who didn't agree with the situation. Kansas City's community felt that people shouldn't have to deal with the racial comment in their own home, community, etc. The Knights then changed their title to "Klansas City Kable" but the Reverend Cleaver still didn't think it was an example of free speech. He felt it was the beginning of a terrorist organization. But under the First Amendment, they couldn't do anything about it until it showed clear and obvious hints of danger. Reverend Cleaver knew it would be hard to cancel the show since Freedom of Speech is so protected so they decided to cancel the channel altogether...
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...Communication and Recession Air Guangzhou is a nationwide well-known airline in China. A multi-level management structure is being implemented within the large-scale business organization. The board of directors is the top management, under which are the middle-level and front-line managerial teams. Its middle management is departmentalized, which consists of marketing, accounting, human resource departments and so on. Formal and informal communications are both used depending on the actual situation. The business’ current profit is much lower than before, even made an economic loss several months ago. In today’s globally economic recession, many fresh graduates have not undertaken an employment for a long time since they leave school, and some persons who used to have a job are also suffering from unemployment at the moment. There is a largest population in China, besides. Due to the extremely competitive employment circumstance existing in the country, the staffs at AG (Air Guangzhou) cannot but be aware of the possible recession, they often talk about it in the spare time. It is easy to find out the reduced purchasing power according to the fallen sales reported monthly by the marketing department. As a respond to the customers’ smaller buying power, the board of directors of AG holds a formal meeting to develop SMART goals to attract more travelers, and then action plans like promotions will be created. However, accounting department’s reports predict that it is still...
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...One Percent One percent of America’s population consists of people with an autoimmune disease that eats away their stomach. That one percent is just so darn lucky that they were chosen, somehow and someway, to be a director of their everyday symptoms. Not. No one wants to be unhealthy, though many never had a choice before they were slammed with the brutal reality of imperfection and disappointment. We may never know who picked and choosed the one percent of people who are in terrible pain every day, though I do know one thing for sure. I am part of that one percent. The sun shone through my bedroom curtains, illuminating the darkness of my bedspread. I sighed, knowing that today was going to be grueling. I had recently been instructed...
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...smoking and wanted to try it himself, so he brought the cigars to Europe. First when he arrived in Spain everyone thought that they returned from hell, because they were all smoking. Later they discovered that Columbus had discovered a new continent with new plants and people. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century People thought that smoking was very healthy for you. They thought it opened the airways to let more air in for quicker recover. Of course nowadays we know that it isn’t it puts tar into your lungs, making it easier for disease to settle, giving you a higher chance for lung diseases and granting you a shorter life. Asthma Asthma is one of the best known lung diseases out there. It’s one of those diseases that will always leave a trace. You can’t get asthma any other way then to be born with it. It’s thought that the level of asthma you have depends on the environment you live in. It’s based on patterns. E.g. ones in 2 months you really feel a lot of it. Asthma makes it hard for you to breath and sometimes you can’t get any air so you have to go the hospital. It may cause chest thickness and causes you to couch every now and then. Asthma makes your air pipes extremely thick...
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...The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was seen as the storm that almost got rid of the Midwest. In the documentary people had felt that the Dust Bowl should be belonging on the list of the top ten environmental disasters. This storm torn thousands of Americans from their home and put on to the roads. The air itself could kill you, the dust storms made it hard for people to survive with the storm destroying everything in its path. As the Dust Bowl progressed it continue to destroy thousands of fields, animals as well taking a fair share toll out on the citizens. But before the Dust Bowl had even hit if you had asked them what they thought was going to be happening in the next year they would have never guessed the disastrous event that was ended up...
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...table just as the old grandfather clock in the hall chimed out the hour. The low morning sun rose steady into a clear blue sky, with the smooth horizon broken occasionally by narrow seams of white thorn hedgerows that stitched together a patchwork of irregular green fields quilting the countryside. It was always brighter at this time of year, the frost in the cool autumn air amplifying the light that flooded through the kitchen window. The fresh linen table cloth reflected against the chalk white ceiling and walls, illuminating the room further, caused Justin to squint slightly as he leaned across the table to pour another cup of hot tea. He still felt tired from the flight the night before, but the brightness of the room and fresh country air was revitalising and had a way of waking you up and giving you new life. A smile of discernment adorned his face as he stirred the cup with a silver spoon. He couldn’t believe he had fallen into her trap again. He had actually asked to stay here with the one that had once totally screwed up his mind, and for that matter his life, some others weren’t just so lucky. Even he wondered why he had put himself in such a position, but for the moment his options were few. She stood there, looking so breakable and fragile, or so it seemed, yet he wondered was she planning something for him, a game maybe? She was like a cat that plays with the mouse before making the kill. Was he her prey? The presents of her eyes would captivate any man, they...
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...Over the year, my family has always put an emphasis on working hard no matter the obstacles you face. After interviewing my family members, I discovered that the majority of them are unskilled, manual labors. This paper has given me the opportunity to look deeper into my families’ career and educational goals. According to my great-grandma Ruby, my ancestors left Ghana in 1876 and to work on plantations in Mississippi. After moving from Crystal Springs, Mississippi my grandparents moved to Chicago, Illinois to find better job opportunities. My grandpa ended up securing a career as a machine mechanic at Oscar Meyer. While my grandma attending night school to be a nurse, she worked as a dental technician. After completing school, she worked as a nurse at several hospital and doctor offices. Based on her caring personality and great work ethic, she never had any problems during her 26 years as a nurse. After 22 years of service, my grandpa was laid off because they decided to move the facility to California due to cheaper facility costs and labor. The south side location was closed down since it was right in downtown Chicago. As a child, my dad and his six siblings lived a comfortable lifestyle that would be considered middle class. They survived by staying within their means and were able to afford a home and two cars. They were not able to afford luxuries such as traveling the country and paying for their children’s college. Traveling always consisted of visiting a family member...
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...The adults had always forbidden us from entering the woods by the old part of town. Some old legend about a wolf or something. Even the mention of it sent them into a frenzy. Peter from across the road went in for a dare once. His whole family moved down South soon afterwards. Rumors say he went mad and got sent to an institute because he kept screaming things about ‘elongated limbs’, ‘deep red eyes’ and ‘sharp, knife-like fangs’. This should have convinced me to stay away from the woods, yet I still found myself already about two miles past the splintered fence that separates the old town from the looming darkness of the trees. My watch read 7:30 PM and I knew I should head back. The sun was beginning its descent for the day and it would soon be pitch black. As I turned to leave a ferocious wind took my hat. I ran after it. When i was finally able to dive onto my hat I realised I didn’t know where I was. There was no longer a path-like opening in the trees. I was in the middle of a circle of trees so tall that not a single ray of sunlight reached the mossy ground where I stood. I was engulfed in darkness. The stillness of the woods that at first mesmerized me, now sent an eerie chill down my spine. But the bone-rattling silence was soon replaced by the moaning of the wind as it hit my frozen cheeks. I saw movement behind me and all my instincts told me not to look, to just accept my fate and close my eyes but I couldn’t. I reluctantly turned my head to stare into the dark, crimson...
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...New Year’s Eve brings hope for new beginnings and promises for a better year. Unfortunately, for the characters in Todd Strasser’s Can’t Get There from Here, all it means is another hard year on the dangerous streets of New York City. This young adult realistic fiction novel portrays the life of eight teenagers fighting for survival in the big city. This “asphalt tribe” learns that one doesn’t need to be related in order to be a family. The story is told through the main character Maybe, a 15 year old homeless girl. Maybe comes from a home with an alcoholic and abusive mother with four other children. She was the oldest child, and because her mother drank up their food money, she kicked her out. Maybe had a skin condition that she described...
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...extraterrestrial beings rather than the nonexistence of them. Greek philosophers believed that there were vast amounts of different worlds, all with inhabitants and societies. Later, the view that the Earth is unique, and is the only planet able to sustain life, became supported. However, Copernican ideas in the 1600’s suggested there may be life on other planets or even the moon. But when it was discovered that the moon has no atmosphere, the idea of life diminished. When atmospheric carbon dioxide was discovered on mars in 1947, hopes began to rise again. Specifically in the 1920’s there were claims of alien radio signals, but interest seemed to decrease again by the 1950’s. Many unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported beginning in the 1940’s, but by the 1960’s most of these...
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...guests, screaming, running and eager for the fresh breeze the roller coasters created to relieve the them of their sunburn agony. After which, the guest would address their immediate dilemma, deciding where to relinquish the rest of their funds. Food or Paraphernalia? Opening an opportunity for me to enter the picture. At the age of 15, I worked as a “food connoisseur” for Kings Island, well, I thought I was, considering the exaggerated prices at the amusement park. In actuality, my job title was a Food/Beverage worker. Sometimes, if I was lucky, I was a cashier. That day, I was “lucky”. My team leader, Bob, assigned me to a Coca-Cola cart by the new park attraction, “The Diamondback”. “The Diamondback” was a glossy, sleek, red, yellow and orange roller coaster, giving it the illusion of a large python while soared over all of its kind. Additionally, the ride road over a small pool of water. As a result, thrilled guests would catch a cool breeze of air mixed with water particles. It was glorious event and for neophytes, the event was like standing near a waterfall. For these reasons, having a cart in this vicinity was ideal, therefore I was positioned here. Ignoring the fact that there was an innumerable amount of Yellowjacket bees flying around, my melissophobia and the fact that I was dramatically allergic to pollen, my temporary locus was adequate. A few hours had pasted and the amusement park began to decline in population; people stopped arriving at my cart and I had nothing to...
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...foot condition which was treatable only by amputation; the film truthfully portrays this issue as the duckboards which were used in an attempt to avoid this are shown on the trenches’ muddy and puddled ground. “No Man’s Land”, the term referring to the gap of land between the trenches of the opposing armies, is distinctly portrayed as lifeless, with smoking artillery induced craters, and the bodies of fallen soldiers left strewn across it. As the war progressed, bodies had to be left as it became too dangerous to collect them. Precisely as it was during the war, the film shows soldiers going “over the top”, as they attempted to climb out of the trenches to attack many are gunned down even before clearing their own bunker and if they were lucky enough to make it out they were likely killed shortly after. These futile tactics are both historically documented and displayed in this film as being used throughout...
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...English 101 student Michael Mitchell English 101 27 March 2013 A Blessing in Disguise My family had planned a trip to telluride, Colorado, for spring break. I had been anticipating it for months and it finally came. We packed the car with all of our suitcases and strapped our skis and snowboards to the top of the car. I hopped in the car, put on my headphones, and got prepared for the long journey that awaited. We drove a total of seven hours on roads that snaked through mountains and roads that were long, flat, and looked as if they had no end. As we started getting closer to Colorado I started seeing snow on the side of the road and began fantasizing about shredding down the mountain on my board. I couldn’t wait to launch off the huge jumps I had heard about and try new tricks. I day dreamed for the rest of the car ride, not responding to anyone or anything. The car stopped, but I was still day dreaming and didn’t notice until my sister slammed the car door. When I got out of the car I was immediately in awe of how nice the cabin was that we were staying at. I pushed my sister out of the way and quickly ran to go find the best room in the house. After I got all of my luggage in the room, I looked out the window and saw that the cabin was directly on one of the ski runs. This meant that I could go out the back door and be on the slopes. No walking, no lines, and no carrying my gear from the parking lot to the mountain. Once everyone got situated we put on our snow jackets...
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