Angels Essay

Based on author, Michael Shaara’s award winning novel, The Killer Angels, the film The Battle of Gettysburg made its debut on screen in the United States, on October 8, 1993. The film vividly depicts the epic three day battle of Gettysburg. Nearly identical to the novel, the film’s main focus is on the experiences of General Robert E. Lee, Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and Brig. When it comes to history, nothing can be one-hundred percent accurate, and this was…

Whispers of Angels, A Story of the Underground Railroad, is an extremely interesting film, which contains illustrations of some of history’s primary materials and also interviews with scholars who assist in providing the images and the context of this story about the Underground Railroad, the stretched from Maryland, to Delaware, to Philadelphia, making a route to freedom for slaves in America before the Civil War. In this film scholars such as James Oliver Horton, who is the Benjamin Banneker…

Angel Of The Battlefield There was so little time, she had to hurry to the battlefield before it was too late. Clara spent her life saving lives and putting others before her. She was selfless and an amazing woman overall. Not only did she save lives she started a revolution in the medical field that would wage on for a very long time. Clara Barton was a hero because of her ethics to serve this country, as well as her work on the battlefield helping by finding wounded soldiers and establishing…

In the book Fallen Angels, Perry is often found in the grey lining of right and wrong. What makes you a good guy or a bad guy in war? This is a question often asked during the course of the Vietnam War, but was Perry a good guy or a bad guy? First what makes Perry good? Perry is described in text as a young teenager fighting, not a man. He’s not fighting for the cause of the war, but more for the cause of his family which is to help his mother, and his brother. This is not straightforward but…

A Pico Rivera man who was last seen in Victorville is missing and his family is seeking assistance to help locate him. Ronald “Ronnie” Angel Chavez’ last known whereabouts was at the Arco AMPM on Mariposa and Bear Valley Road. Ronald was diagnosed with Major Depression with psychotic features in early April. “My main concern is his state of mind, he can be fine sometimes and other times he is not,” said Rosa Chavez, Ronald’s mother. Rosa said that she believes that Ronald was heading back to…

No Angel – Bernie McGill The loss of a close relative is something one will never be prepared of. It is different from individual to individual how they handle the loss of a dear one. Some wants to keep the memories of their loss others want to forget. This is a painful time to go through alone, it is therefore very important to have some family and friends around you when these kinds of tragedies take place. The loss of beloved ones can be so tremendously painful that you might still see them…

As the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele performed many experiments on the victims that were passing through Auschwitz. He would do “experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one twin to the other, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. He made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, incestuous impregnations” (Megele, para 18). He was so well known and infamous due to the fact that he was able to convince…

Demon to Angel, or at Least Trying to Be Dimas Salaberrios was not always a man of God, in fact, he was quite the opposite. His is a terrifying story about the evil that truly exists in and beyond our world. The co-pastor of Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx is also the president of Concert of Prayer Greater New York, but not long ago he was preying on the people of New York not praying for them. Like Nicky Cruz in the 1970s, Salaberrios found himself in the streets of New York fighting to…

Stolen Angel CODE BLUE, CODE BLUE in room 6710! All doctors report to room 6710. Watching my mother go into cardiac arrest while my family and I were told to wait outside. Walking backwards so I could see everything that was going on the hospital curtain was being pulled closed blocking my view. Waiting nervously, I remember hearing the doctors speaking in a high pitched panicked voice ordering the nurse to get the defibrillator ready. Next came the sounds of beeping, over and over the doctor…

The movie Iron Jawed Angels was a very intriguing movie. It taught a lot about women's suffrage and times in the early 20th century. I did not know much on this topic before. In the movie, as the characters fought for the right for women to vote, we saw the slow process they took to eventually reach their goal. After 64 years of fighting they had only gotten 9 states to allow women votes, but at the end of the movie we see the harsh and diligent steps the members of the National Women’s party…