The book “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” is an autobiography about a boy named Ishmael who went through so much at a young age. This book should be read because it’s a story you could relate to and give you a perspective of how society is today than it was before and how it has affected people across the world. On the (front cover of the book) Carolyn See from the Washington Post says “Everyone in the world should read this book…We should read It to learn about the world and about what it means to be human.” She’s right, reading this book will provide you with facts you never known and could change the way you see things today.
Ulysses S. Grant was a man of true courage although he faced alcohol addiction and business failure, he skillfully led the North to victory and helped give African Americans several rights and freedoms. Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio to Jesse Grant, a tanner, and Hannah Grant, a homemaker (Broadwater 4). At seventeen, Grant was accepted into West Point, the college of choice of his father. Grant went to West Point, New York and soon began his residency. He graduated in four years, in the bottom half of his class (Worldbook Online).
An inventor who saved millions of lives, on streets and even in World War 1. Garrett Augustus Morgan, “The son of former slaves,” John and Elizabeth Morgan. The inventor of the gas mask and traffic signal and even the sewing needle. I choose Garrett. Augustus. Morgan because I have always wondered who invented the traffic signal and the gas mask. If he wasn’t alive millions and billions of lives would be dead.
Anthem is writing as a journey of Equality 7-2521, a young man living in the future in which people have lost all knowledge of individualism, for not even knowing the word "I" and can only speak of himself as "We." Everyone lives and work in collective groups and he is assigned to a Street Sweeper of the city by the Council of Vocations. However, Equality 7-2521 try to lead himself to recreate electric light and how it can be harnessed to human benefit. He has been taught that it is a sin to harbor secret ambitions, and so he believes he is guilty.Equality 's struggle to be free and to reach an individual life/ When he presents his discovery to the Council of Scholars, they punish him for daring to act as an individual and threaten to destroy his creation. He went into the Uncharted Forest and he is joined there by his love, a girl called Liberty 5-3000. They rediscover the lost language of itself and use his new knowledge to build a society.
‘’The Monsters Due On Maple Street’’:This is the dimension of imagination.It is an area which we all call the a Twilight Zone. Fade in on a shot of the night sky.The various nebulae and plant bodies stand out and sharp,sparkling relief. And the camera begins a slow pan across the Heavens.”Boom”, the power goes out on the whole Maple Street. Everybody is calm until the night time came.They all started to get angry on everyone and start fighting.
Then mary found out that John passed away .when Mary found out that John passed away she was devastated.When Mary heard what happened to John she was crying.When Mary was crying Anna came out.Anna was curious because her mother was crying”Mommy are you okay” said Anna.Mary did
Who are you today? How did you get to where you are? Was it a terrible experience affected you to become the person you are now? Maybe it was your family or friends. Or how about your environment? Shoot, it could be all of the above! I believe that the death of Gary’s father, the influence of his friends, the rough situations he had to go through, like being a run away, and the actions of those around him all effected the person who he was in the book “Living Up the Street.”
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is an astonishing story that starts off with Louie Zamperini, an Olympian who bravely fights in World War II, when his plane crashes into the ocean and miraculously survives with 2 other people. When all hope was lost, they spotted land and paddled towards it. As they went closer, it turned out to be a Japanese ship. They were taken to a POW (Prisoners of War) camp and suffered tremendously by the hand of a man nicknamed “The Bird” and only survived by the grace of God. When the war was over and Louie went home, he suffered Post Traumatic Stress and flashbacks. He “resolved” it with drinking but sobered up when he found God. After that, he dedicated the rest of his life to God and helping others. Louie, the one who fought in the war, was starved, and beaten, was the one who outlived everyone, dieing in 2014 at the age of 97. His life was truly a miracle.
In this article, Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Faris and his wife Lisa Faris talk to an audience about the struggles they endured during their 22 year marriage. During, "The Chris and Lisa Show," they wanted the service members, and their spouses, to know that they are not alone with their marital problems and challenges. The show touched specifically on the issues that may come from not being at home and working long deployments. It is great to see that Command Sergeant Major Chris and his wife Lisa Faris are helping others through their tours, but also through radio as discussed in the podcast.
Malcolm X was an influential African-American civil rights leader who sacrificed his life to change the conception of segregation based on race, and influenced people that race and skin colour doesn’t change someone’s abilities and characteristics. He was born on May 19th, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, given his original name,
Tim O’Brien discusses the characteristics of a true war story and how to distinguish a true story from the fake or made-up one in his essay, “How to Tell a True War Story.” He criticizes many aspects of storytelling and mentions the behavior of a true story. In addition to O’Brien’s theory on how to distinguish true vs false, Malcolm Gladwell also helps in differentiating the two by discussing the story about Bernie Goetz in his essay “The Power of Context.” Both the authors point out the main characteristics that needs to be noted in order to understand the difference between fact/ truth and belief/ cooked up story. Though O’Brien is very open about his arguments, Gladwell’s arguments are invisible to audience because he does not openly state
You can hear the fire sizzling and the screams of people burning in their village the rebels just set on fire. In the text “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael had to experience these dilemmas as a young boy. He was compelled to watch villages burn and he eventually had to be a part of it. He became a young child soldier and he became one of the monsters that did this to other villages. He eventually learns his wrongdoing and he rehabilitates. Ishmael’s novel gives the notion that “humans are capable of true evil and equally capable of regaining humanity and triumph over whatever life brings”.
It all started back when Timmy Turner made the biggest mistake ever. Timmy had just woke up and he was heading to the kitchen. With his two fairys Wonda and Cosmo. Timmy’s mom made breakfast for them and the fairy’s when to fairyland to get power and came back to eat with them.
One of the reasons I would like to be a wreath layer is because my grandpa was in the Korean War. When he was 21, he went to military training in Blackstone, Virginia. He then left from Seattle on a boat on a two week journey to Japan. All of the guys on the boat would be sick by the time they got to Japan. He then had more training in Japan for about four more weeks. He was then stationed in the 25th Infantry in South Korea from August, 1951 and arrived home in October, 1953. He was the only medic that was assigned for duties and drove a "litter jeep" all day long. There were two stretchers in the "litter jeep". When he drove around to assist the wounded, one of his commands was to pick up the injured first to take to the aid station, and
Change, hope, and justice, are all things North Korean defectors, including Human Rights activist Hyeonseo Lee, wish for in the harshly governed country of North Korea. Many people know about the story of Hyeonseo’s escape from the unethical dictatorship of the Kims. But she was so much more. As a Human Rights activist fighting for a change of the corrupt and cruel system of government in North Korea, she is trying her best to inform people of how terrible and a dire situation it is in North Korea. Through this, she is showing her defiance publicly towards North Korea, when just a little over a decade before, she was expressing absolute loyalty and respect towards the Kims.