Army Wives

The day began with flowers blooming, water flowing, and birds chirping. A Lot like spring in california, oh wait this is california. Anyways, there was a big fat clumsy bully named Alonzo and he was terrorizing the town Napa changing the beautiful view into a junkyard like he always does. He also was stealing from the kids such as their candy and toys just because he's a jerk. Alonzo is well known as the world's most ugliest bullmastiff that is at least 20 feet tall basically matching all the building, he always has slobber running on the sides of his mouth, teeth sticking up because of his under bite and he was a complete idiot. Getting back to the story this dog was stomping all over the place leaving his nasty muddy footprints all over the place, growling at bystanders and most of all stealing the dog’s pets which were humans. So the two heroes of the town come to the rescue shredding through the town knocking over restaurant patios because of the wind. As they were coming the weather began to change and began getting cloudy like if its about to start raining but all that was happening was the wind began to pick up. The two heroes are Regie and Lily, they call themselves the grapetown milkers. They got the crew name from how much milk they drink. Regie is about as big as a old redwood tree and is as strong as a bodybuilder wait he is a bodybuilder, the girls say he looks better than Wooftin Bieber and they both wear a black and blue tight suits with TGM on top of a red…

land her the boyfriend that eventually becomes her killer. Wendy’s world sees her transformation as a positive and constantly comments on her appearance. There are rarely stories of men with such detail placed on their appearances. The Stepford Wives novel is another excellent demonstration of the value in examining gender in literature. The story of a men’s club swapping out their wives for more domestic and complying bots. Joanna’s husband, Walter, is the one who initially suggested they…

Award-winning author and feminist Ursula K. Le Guin delivered a rhetorically complex speech to the Mills College graduating class of 1983, comprised almost entirely of women. Her speech came at a challenging time for women, as second-wave feminism began to dissolve into a myriad of disagreeing factions. The title of the speech, the “Left-Handed Commencement Address,” is a reference to her book The Left Hand of Darkness, which follows an androgynous race of space aliens. This foreshadows the…

Introduction Arguably the most infamous monarch in British history, Henry VIII impacted the world and changed England through his marriages. However, the six women themselves are far more than just the ill-fated wives of a monarch desperate for a male heir. These six women are from different backgrounds; from a Princess of Spain to a daughter of an English noble. Something all six women have in common is their marriage to Henry VIII. Henry VIII was the second king of the Tudor Dynasty of…

Alysha Clark History 101 Professor Crosby 1 October 2014 The Fates of Henry VIII’s Wives King Henry VIII, son and successor of King Henry VII, was known for his ever-changing marital status. Married six times, the easiest way to remember the order was a little rhyme: divorced, beheaded, and died, divorced, beheaded, and survived. Henry struggled to produce a male heir and maintain a faithful (and beautiful) wife. As Henry’s reasons to marry each woman differed, so did the reason of the…

adjust to normal life, are deleterious to veterans who have difficulty expressing their feelings to a stranger. Also, since many of these programs are full the government should build more institutions that consist of these programs, so the suicide rate of veterans decrease and veterans can enjoy their lives at home. Also, soldiers pose a threat to themselves as well as their wives and adversely influence their wives. Soldier’s wives become depressed because of the frequency of their husband’s…

When the United States takes the place of the French in the Vietnam War, Hal Moore is chosen to train lead a battalion of soldiers using helicopters for the first time in combat. He is told to take 400 men into a landing zone in La Drang Valley even though no one has any clue as to how many soldiers the North Vietnamese have around that area. When they arrive Moore captures a Vietnamese scout who tells them they have landed right next to a base camp located in a mountain near the landing zone…

In the movie “We Were Solders” directed by Randall Wallace is a must watch film. The film is about the Vietnam War, mainly the first battle against the Americans and the Vietnam army. The majority of the movie took place in a football sized battle field that is where the American army was fighting against the Vietnam army. The Americans were outnumbered greatly it was about 400 Americans against 2000 Vietnamese soldiers. Then again the whole movie is not just about war it shows how it affects…

the war and would be prominent issues as the country progresses. The first example of a social change was the role of women in the colonies. When first arriving in America, women were expected to stick to the common roles of being wives and mothers. But as the war progressed and men joined the battle, women began to take on more responsibility within the households and family businesses. An example of this progression would be Mary Silliman in the role she played both in her husband’s…

Generally, this fervent hope for their loved ones often brought the military wives, mothers and daughters together since they all knew the same fear of their soldier’s death. As Moore-Lanning describes, she and the other military wives saw their husbands, newly ordered to serve in Vietnam, as “lambs- cute, adorable, lovable, and, in unguarded moments, as innocents being prepared for slaughter”. Considering such a viewpoint, Moore-Lanning explains that she and the others feel such a way since…