Sergeant

Leverage is having something that another person wants. Often times it is money. Throughout the book Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain, the main protagonist struggles with leverage, partially because he usually does not have it. Billy Lynn is a soldier in the army. He and his Bravo squad are being paraded around the country before they have to go back to war. Fiona Allon takes uses those ideas in her essay Everyday Leverage, or Leveraging the Everyday and connects them to finances…

Like many movies I have seen before “The Hurt Locker” begins with a quote. The quote states simply “War is a Drug.” Although not true for everyone, some find it almost impossible to return home and begin their normal lives once again. For Staff Sergeant William James played by Jeremy Renner, war was a drug, and it was as if he found pleasure while under enemy fire and defusing bombs. There are two main reasons why “The Hurt Locker” is such a standout film. One reason being that James was…

peril”) so that his son loses to him in the game. These chances that he takes, show that the father is prepared to take any kind of risk, such as the mysterious monkey’s paw to grant three wishes. The descriptions of the paw that are given by the Sergeant-Major provided more examples of foreshadowing in the story, such as when he tells the family that the monkey’s paw (“has caused him enough mischief”). Another example that he uses is when the first owner of the paw had used his last wish for…

training. One person comes to mind when I think of someone that has the most power and influence in my unit where I work. Master Sergeant Alves is one of the full time military members in my unit. In most military units the commander is looked at as the most powerful influential person in the unit. The commander leads the unit and delegates his authority to the sergeants. Our commander does have a lot of influence over the unit, but Alves is the person every member seems…

The Monkey’s Paw begins with the white family waiting for Sergeant major Morris to arrive from his “adventurous” trips. As Sergeant Morris and the whites were talking Mr. White started talking about the monkey 's paw and Sergeant Morris explained that it was a “bit of might be called magic”. But it wasn 't good magic perhaps. Sergeant Morris warned Mr. White about the dangerous magic it had and threw it on the fire, but Mr. White took it out and kept it. Morris told him if he ever wished, he…

pound pack back to the barracks and up the 3 flights of stairs. Then I could lock my pack away and finally get a shower because after hiking 6 miles from 0430 to 1030 in 70-80 degree weather wasn’t fun. After I got to my room and out of the shower Sergeant Brown and Lance Corporal Barbie came knocking at my door. They barked get dressed “Boot” we are having a case race. I knew then that tonight was going to get crazy and out of hand fast. After all case races are always a good time the rules are…

previous company commanders abused his power that lead to a life of the soldier. While we are conducting driver training on a sergeant time, all 12B MOS (Combat Engineer) will train and drive the M113 vehicles. After getting all the combat engineer trained, He decided to get everybody drive the M113 too with all the support MOS in the Headquarters. But the Motor Pool Sergeant told him to get a familiarization class first before driving. The Company Commander told him that everybody needs to get…

It has been nearly 100 years since our robotic engineering took a substantial step into mankind. We now have no man to render appreciation or any man to recognize anymore, our world isn’t human anymore. Life is not ruled by us anymore, not since the placement of robotic engineering. The inventor, Simon E. Tomson and our ruler, in my eye’s did not lift our societies issues and problems with life. He did not fix or employ any sort of “better life”, he replicated life as something we don’t need to…

the parents and getting contact information from the families. The parents that didn’t get their kids were transported to the Newton police department. I couldn’t handle it anymore. I located sergeant Kathy, I asked if I could start to head out because I need to clear my mind before my shift later. Sergeant replied “don’t forget that the detectives will need to interview later” I said “yes, I know they will be working all day so I’ll get it done when I start my shift tonight”. When walking back…

dancers dressed in a similar fashion of the Black Panther Party and showed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. A Detroit police sergeant took issue with that and made a post comparing Beyoncé and her dancers to the Ku Klux Klan. The sergeant went on to suggest that the KKK should perform at the half time show next year; his coworkers reported the sergeant to his superiors. After being reported the post was removed and replaced with an apology. It is in the responses to this story…