Booby trap

Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular group of people. The United States is what most people would consider a very privileged people. However, most of us do not think that is so. That is because we do not get what we want the moment we ask it. If only we could really see how privileged we are because other people in this world suffer so much. Like the quote that says if the whole world will throw away all their problems into one pile…

thousand Japanese dug themselves into trenches vowing to fight to the death. The Japanese had carved eleven miles of tunnels and caves in the island’s rocky and volcanic surface. The tunnels and caves were covered with thousands of destructive booby traps. A 550 foot mountain, Mount Suribachi, was honeycombed with caves and holes which were perfect for deadly snipers. American planes pounded Iwo Jima with deadly explosives for 75 days. They dropped 40,000 bombs in just three days. On February 19…

“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o 'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits,” said Johnny Depp about the Vietnam War. History has a funny way of repeating itself, and people have the funny habit of staying stuck in the past. Many people believe the Vietnam War and the current War on Terrorism is a reflection of this. Some people believe that both of the wars are…

mechanically” which is written about the First emperor’s tomb • Sima Qian also said the ceiling was decorated with heavenly bodies and the ground modelled after the regional geography • the Chinese had hesitated to open the tomb knowing that it had been booby trapped • probes were sent into the tomb that determined that Siam Qian’s writing could be true as the mercury levels 100 times the normal level • the tomb is thought to be a soccer field in size • pyramid shaped mountain at the foot at…

In the world, people have always been engaged in the conflict of war and the struggles of the loss of someone special to them. With the Vietnam conflict dragging on and soldiers wanting to go back home, Americans only wanted two things; for the war to end and also to have their family members safely return back to the states. Myers, along with many other authors of his time, includes in his novel the struggles and thoughts of these soldiers having once experienced war himself. His novel Fallen…

Literary Analysis: The Third Policeman When people meet for the first time, the first thing they do is exchange names. This type of conversation starter is a great way to get to know someone. Name sharing is an occurrence that happens on a daily basis. Names are a form of identity; it tells the other person how they should address their new acquaintance or someone they’ve known for a long time. Having a protagonist with no name was a strange, yet interesting twist that I experienced while…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien explores the experiences of a platoon from the Vietnam war in a series of short stories. The stories go deeper than the events of the war, they show the moral dilemmas soldiers face everyday in the battlefield. Tim O’Brien served in the Vietnam war, but these stories are not based off of his experience, although it plays a role in his storytelling. Most of the short stories are written in first person from the perspective of Tim O’Brien, a fictional…

Colonel Magnus was furious over the loss of the team at the airport. He ordered the culprits that were responsible hunted down and executed. He became even angrier when the reports came in that they couldn’t find those responsible for the attack. Not only were his men killed, but all of the aircraft that they could have potentially used were destroyed. However, the Colonel recognized there would be other opportunities to gather aircraft, since they were now headed to Harrisburg, which was the…

Depression among adolescents has slowly started to become an epidemic in the United States. Studies show that one in eight American teenagers will experience any form of depression. That 's estimated at about 15-20% of the teen population. Looking at adults, only 5-10% experience any form of depression in their adult lives (¨Depression and Mood¨). Depression comes in an abundance of shapes and forms. There’s about seven different variations of depression people can suffer from, each varying in…

Finally, Platoon serves as a nightmarish vehicle into the brutal experience of the Vietnam Hell. Historical Context and Platoon As American involvement in Vietnam dragged on through the late 1960’s and the body count spiraled upward, morale sagged in many sectors of the U.S. military. Many units suffered from internal tensions, the crippling and terrifying environment, drug use, unwillingness to fight, and the sense that the war was for nothing. Also, there was no doubt that battlefield…