All your base are belong to us

Imagine your normal everyday life, with your family and friends in a quite suburban town in the U.S. You go around your day-to-day mundane tasks with familiarity that feels safe and prosperous. You have the feeling of achievement as you look around your well house, which is well furnished and in a good neighborhood. Your wife and children are sitting on the porch, and you feel satisfied thinking your children will be able to go to college and you and your wife will be able to retire comfortably…

“Look, the people are waving at us,” Charles said to the pilot. Almost unconsciously, the pilot rocked the wings back and forth in a wave. Nneeeaaaoo. As the F-15E STRIKE EAGLE dipped lower over the Kurdish Villages in Northern Iraq, smiling faces and waving people stared back up at Charles through the viewfinder. Nneeeaaaoo. He thought, These are real people that could actually be killed. The thought made him even more determined to protect them. Nneeeaaaoo. He remembered a time when a…

dying was thought of as a dirty job. Until Florence Nightingale came along and started the modern nursing program. Historically, nursing has had many changes, from the role nurses played. One change is the gradual increase in the required knowledge base and the licensing to practice nursing. Unlike the past where there was little to no training and no supervision, today nursing has changed to be required to learn valuable skills as a student and train in school before taking state boards and…

Help to Seek Justice for Animals Introduction Almost all of us grew up by eating meat and going to zoos and some of us even had our beloved “pets” or beautiful birds that we bought from pet shops. We wore leather and silk, ate patties and fished. Have we never considered the impact of these actions on the animals? For whatever reason, we should now be asking ourselves a question: do animals have rights to live free? People have been arguing this for years. In my opinion, animals should deserve…

There are many people that believe that the third party doesn’t have a chance only because they had someone tell them that. When both of Republicans and Democrats tell us not to vote for third party we should ask ourselves why. Could it be that the Libertarian party is a threat to both Republicans and Democrats? It is, if Republicans and Democrats were not threatened by the third party they would not agree on opposing…

Planning a Career in the United States Armed Forces Are you very patriotic, like to travel, want job security and believe in the Constitution of our nation? Walter Reuther is quoted “There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.” If you said yes to the above question or the quote sounds like you, consider a career in the United States Armed Forces. In my essay I will…

everyone! From a high rank CEO to a middle schooled child. Love doesn’t have to be involved to have sex. It is just sex! That why we have strip clubs, and prostitution, because it is normal. We are in a way being conditioned as a society to accept that all of this is normal. That there is a thin white line between right and wrong. We are told we don’t have consequences as long as we use protection, and if that fails then we have PLAN-B or Planned Parenthood. Our…

When you’re flying with 11 of your brother’s life is great, it’s a lot of fun for the most part but when high octane fun, sky-rocketed adrenaline levels, competition, and the call to duty collide life can end very quickly, maybe at Mach 2. October 3, 2012, Middle of nowhere, Pakistan a brave group of fighter pilots were on a routine patrol of the area surrounding a Pakistani Resistance base and a U.S Embassy when they are showered in fireworks. These “fireworks” are actually surface to air…

where you keep your valuables, where you keep things that belong to you, and a place that you can call your own. She believes that the home is based on tangible items (Quindlen). So, in her essay when she states that a person is homeless, she basically means they don't have any materialistic value (Quindlen). “Why I want a wife” uses humor and believe the home is based on activity and the traditional household, while the imagery used in “Homeless” evokes more powerful feelings and bases the…

Social classes are a group of individuals who belong in a similar economic system. It is said to be different with status because this is a form on inequality and its basis is occupation, physical or intellectual ability, or social class (Kerbo, 2009). This term is also interchangeable with the words social stratification which is commonly used in the world of academe. It is defined as the socially patterned differences of access to certain concepts that a culture defines as desirable (Kerbo,…