Beret

Between a pair of aviators, a beret and tied hair, I tried to keep my appearance nondescript, as I arrived early at the Barnes and Nobles, seated at the Starbucks cafe with a warm cup of coffee with one of my favorite mythology books reading. Just as I had lost myself in the story of…

I hope that throughout the course of reading this paper, you will understand not only more about me, but also why I am this way. I was named after the leader, Joshua, who led the Israelites after Moses. My parents always thought that I would grow into a strong person, and a leader. From my father, Ismael Pereira DaSilva, I received my surname: DaSilva. As my middle and last name would suggest, my family originates overseas, specifically in Brazil. My middle name Endo, is what I consider most…

Flames rushed skyward from a structure less than a mile away across the sagebrush. At the height of another dry desert summer in July 2013, Chris Tucs, a novice member of Carson, New Mexico’s volunteer fire department, was working in the yard of his off-grid home when he saw the blaze. He threw a few shovels into the back of his truck, hitched up a trailer loaded with 300 gallons of water, and sped to the scene, looking up from navigating the ruts in the road to see flames shooting through the…

But what are you going to do when you catch me? Silence above the sandstone. He sounded silly to himself. He lowered himself down the rock. What are you going to do?" Ralph paused to look at me. “All I wanted. was to just go home!” The twins looked at each other, then at a panicked Ralph, and they were robbed of any knowledge of what to do, say, or even think. “That’s all I wanted, that’s all I fought for, was for all of us to be okay, for all of us to be rescued, and all of us to be back…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…