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The Outcomes of Some Actions or events that occur in a person’s life can dramatically shape their outlook on life, whether positively or negatively. To illustrate, on the television show , Revenge, the plot surrounds a young woman seeking revenge on those who wronged her father; which caused her to have an extremely troubled childhood. This narrative is not only for Hollywood, it can happen with everyday people. In Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things they Carried,” he has two short stories that detail…

Unconventional Warfare (UW) hit the point. Special Forces are in high demand, and there’s an expectation from higher leadership to turn us into universal soldiers. We live in a complex world which requires specialty training to meet mission demand. Green Berets known as “a jack of all trades but masters of none.” Our OPTEMPO has been very intense, 1:1 mission to dwell time. Last several years I deployed six months out of the year. While CONUS, additional training was conducted outside of my…

Everyone knows what war is, but not everyone knows the effects of war on the soldiers who serve. In the fictional novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, the nature of the Vietnam war is described through a series of flashbacks and stories. O’Brien uses storytelling to emphasize how the negative effects of the Vietnam war not only affects soldiers during the war, but afterwards as well. Mary Anne Bell, Norman Bowker and Tim O’Brien are three examples of how the gruesome nature of the war…

Bill Bryson, author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, accounts his arrival in Europe for the first time. Bryson’s accounts explains his enthusiasm at his entry into the continent to his audience, the readers. In order to capture his excitement into his writing, Bryson used some syntax, repetition, and epithet, which in turn deliver his excitement to us through his work. One of the rhetorical devices that Bryson uses to successfully express his experience in Europe is syntax. Syntax…

to the Mickey Mouse Club, they are from another world.” The part of the sentence about Mickey Mouse Club could also be an example of his use of levity. He also uses levity at the beginning of the second paragraph when he refers to people who wear berets. I believe Bryson uses this humorous tone as way to keep the reader engaged in his writing because people respond well to jokes(most of the…

feelings. The war is shaping her to be a bloodthirsty, curious soldier, when in reality, she got there being an innocent girl that was very in love with her boyfriend. Another one of her strengths is courage. Mary Ann learns how to hunt front the Green Berets, and soon enough she moves beyond even them, she becomes an…

His imprisonment led to leading to "Free Huey" rallies. The case against Huey Newton was eventually dismissed after two retrials ended with hung juries.On May 2, 1967, thirty Black Panthers, dressed in black leather jackets, berets, and dark glasses, marched bearing arms, upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill.On February 25, 1968, Berkeley police officers ransacked the home of Bobby Seale. Bobby Seale and Artie Seale were charged with conspiracy to commit murder…

in the motion picture First Blood, John Rambo is the ideal case of a Byronic Saint. In this film John Rambo is defiant, dull natured, easily affected, and energetic. He is willing to do whatever it takes for his reason. John Rambo is an ex-Green Beret, a peacetime misfit frequented by recollections of Vietnam. He has no family and no one assisted of his ranch. He was tormented in Vietnam by foes. He is dim natured through the entire motion picture. He has no companions; the main individual he…

The sentence using this technique is this; “I had never seen a zebra crossing before, never seen a tram, never seen an unsliced loaf of bread (never even considered it an option), never seen anyone wearing a beret who expected to be taken seriously, never seen people go to a different shop for each item of dinner or provide their own shopping bags, never seen feathered pheasants and unskinned rabbits hanging in a butcher's window or a pig's head smiling on a…

Throughout the course of human history, war and conflict have brought about unconventional and often controversial methods and tactics. From the unprecedented uprising that was the American Revolution, to the invasion of Mexico in 1846, to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States has no doubt seen its own fair share of controversy surrounding wartime decisions. The Vietnam conflict was no different. After initially offering France support in Vietnam, the United…