Bombardier

At first glance, sexism, racism, and homophobia do not seem to be prevalent issues in the Canadian Armed Forces. However, upon delving deeper into the organization’s past and current testimonies, it is clearly the opposite. Anybody that doesn’t fit the ideal image of a military hero: white, male, straight and preferably Christian can expect harassment. For instance, members of the LGBTQ were discharged from the military because of non-accurate beliefs regarding their sexual orientation or gender…

Catch-22 is told from the perspective of Yossarian, a bombardier in the American air force in WW2 who believes everyone is trying to kill him. Yossarian takes the entire war very personally- he doesn’t care about being patriotic or having a sense of duty, and the fact that people are trying to kill lots of other people only serves to fuel his paranoia. Although the air force only requires soldiers to fly a certain number of missions, the colonel in charge raises the number they are required to…

An Interpersonal Relationship between my Grandma Scott and me This essay will demonstrate what I have learned about interpersonal communication and how I can apply it in my everyday life after reading the book, Inter-Act: Interpersonal Communication: Concepts, Skills, and Contexts, Fourteenth Edition written by Kathleen S. Verderber; Erina L. MacGeorge. I am writing this relationship analysis reflecting on three separate occasions of meeting face-to-face and talking with my grandma. The first…

The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand starts off with a twelve year old boy who’s name is Louise Zamperini who lives in Torrance, California. It is 1929 and he is awoken in the night by a loud sound. He rushes to his back yard and sees a Graf Zeppelin a German dirigible plane. Louie as any child would was amazed by the Graf Zeppelin astounded Louie was not the best child, he was known as a thief. If anything went missing in anyone’s house in Torrance they knew whose door to knock on. “He…

2) The narrator's point of view is in the third person. Catch-22 is centered on the main character, Yossarian; the reader is aware of his thoughts and Yossarian is informed of other characters thoughts. 3) The tone portrayed in Catch-22 is satirical. The attitude is demonstrated by the author exaggerating characters ludicrous qualities and using self-contradictory statements. 4) Rome, Italy, and the island off the coast, Pianosa is where Catch-22 takes place. Catch-22 is during World War II…

however, there was a problem with their bombing accuracy. Because the B-29 was flying at such a high altitude, and being in the jet stream, operators faced increased difficulties in navigating and hitting their targets; it was not uncommon for the bombardiers to not know exactly where their bombs hit. When General Curtis E. LeMay took command, he decided to switch from daytime bombing to night bombing raids, which went against all previous thought processes. General LeMay knew the Japanese…

When Catch-22 was written in 1961 the book was an immediate success, selling 12,000 copies from the middle of October to Thanksgiving. (Wiki Catch-22) Catch-22 never made the New York Times Best Sellers List but it did keep selling. By 1963 the book had sold over a million copies and was a huge success in the United States along with Great Britain. (Wiki Catch-22) So why would schools across the United States want to take this great American Novel away from their children? This book is a very…

I am applying to York’s Education: Language, Culture and Teaching program to further investigate the role of social pathologies, structural-pedagogical policy frameworks, and the consequential affective and behavioural developments in reaction to (cyber)bullying. Potential supervisors whose current research areas of interest coincide with my intentions are: Professor Sue Winton and Professor Lisa Farley. Professor Sue Winton’s incentive towards policy-making expounds my interests in the…

My Dad’s Grandfather served in World War I, fighting overseas in Europe. His Uncle who served in the Navy in World War II had a very risky job as a rear gunner on a bombardier aircraft. My grandfather claimed, “It was the most dangerous job in the war with a life expectancy of two-weeks.” His other uncle would speak of the horrors in which he served in the infantry over in Europe. My Grandfather served in the Army and…

Although Yossarian was the protagonist in Catch-22, he did not represent the archetypes of a typical hero. Yossarian’s primary goal throughout the novel was to avoid risking his own life. The author writes, “Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive” (Heller 29). Throughout the text, Yossarian’s character…