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The thought of a life without freedom is unimaginable to most Americans. Each day, we live our lives, with shallow complaints, taking for granted the simple freedoms that we enjoy. It isn’t often that we reflect on how we came to enjoy our freedom of choice, and it most certainly takes a tragic event to awaken our awareness of those who place their time, efforts, and lives at risk to ensure our existence as we know it to be. Events such as September 11, awaken us long enough to bond and…

No cosmetics, no fingernail filing. She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short and wrapped it in a dark green bandana. Hygiene became a matter of small consequence” (O’Brien, PG 98) She then started going on late night ambushes with the green berets. She is even later discovered in the “greenie hootch” with a necklace made of tongues. After weeks of arguing with her boyfriend, she decides to live her life as one with the land and go out on week long ambushes, sometimes with or without the…

almost always wore gloves. Popular colors for gloves were white and cream. Gloves were commonly made from leather, cotton, and nylon. A popular accessory among men and women alike were hats. Hats were a common accessory and varied in shape and style. Berets with pompoms were a common choice for females. While men tended to stick to more business hats like the fedora. For shoes most women wore kitten heels or stilettos. So much so stillettos were banned in certain buildings because of the damage…

grade for all that is was worth; only to be sent home later for wearing gold eyeshadow and then subsequently getting caught by her mother for wearing her precious clothes. As senior year of high school rolled around, Cheryl and her signature black beret went from smoking the occasional cigarette in the bathroom, to setting her sights on attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Despite the negative remarks from her high school art teacher concerning her doodles, Cheryl set off to…

significance. The details are creatively used throughout the story to manipulate the reader’s mind into feeling a certain way about a person or action. Using an example to illustrate this, the author states, “An Iraqi army general, wearing a black beret and a side arm pistol, stomps onto the playground”. From this sentence, it can be determined that this man is scary as he’s…

house at precisely this time. It is very easy to miss him amidst this bustling company of distinguished men, but in the middle of the painting, behind a man in green and a guard with a metal helm, you can spot a barely-there man. Only his eye and a beret are visible, but this elusive figure is believed to be how Rembrandt wedged himself into his most famous…

The issues in education throughout the 1970s and 1980s revolved around educational opportunities. A renewed focus on inclusion and equality advanced opportunities, while reforms focused on educational achievement. Politics and the Social Pulse of the 1970s and 1980s Americans began to protest the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. The cost of the war was expensive, causing budget deficits resulting in high inflation that spanned Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The 1970s were considered a liberal…

him, Big Boss. He is from the metal gear series of games and is considered an incredibly skilled soldier, he was a child soldier for the US army during the korean war and was shown to be proficient with weapons, this allowed him to join the green berets at the age of 14. At the age of 15 he met The Boss, she decided to take him in as an apprentice, and trained him in combat, demolition and intel gathering techniques. She even made him do survival exercises where he had to eat snakes to survive.…

Who is Stephen Jones? Well if you asked me, I would say he is the go-to man for hats. He’s worked with tons of people in the fashion industry to name a few; John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Glies, and Marc Jacobs. Mr. Jones has also created hats for Boy George, Dianna, Princess of Wales, Take That, Mick Jagger, Kylie Minogue and Dita Von Teese. “Mrs. Jones was born in Cheshire and schooled in Liverpool, he became a part of the London fashion scene during its explosion of street style in the…

for the main character, Alfie, is harshly different from today’s acceptance. Were the community more openly accepting, he doubtless would have had a much easier time coming out to his friends and family, and he would not have been beaten by Brenton Beret and his…