Claymore

In the 1999 film, Girl, Interrupted directed by James Mangold, the main character, Susanna Kaysen deals with the atrocities and horrors that come with being institutionalized in a mental hospital. Set in the 1960’s, many of the methods used by the hospital were backwards and outdated, even for the sixties. While many of the characters have interesting illnesses, Susanna’s borderline personality disorder is particularly interesting. Borderline personality disorder, or BPD for short, is often…

“Fine, but I think you’re just being paranoid.” Claude got to his feet and followed his sister. Nearing the village, the twins became more sneaky as they hid behind buildings. Their father Tiberius stood face to face with a burly, hairy man with claymore. The group of rogues behind him hungrily eyed the villagers who watched from the sidelines, like a pack of wolves. “Lord Kragen’s ordered us to detain the children know as Claude and Lunabelle Stober.” The stranger said. “And why would I hand…

third theme, innocence, shows up a few time in the novel. In the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, it states “During her first days in-country she liked to roam around the compound asking questions: What exactly was a trip flare? How did a Claymore work? What was behind those scary green mountains to the west?” (Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong/pg 91). This was Mary Anne when she first arrived to war. In the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, it states, “At the end of the second…

The wrongs he committed just outway any good he did. He failed to follow the Rules of Engagement, as well as frequently killing Viet Cong mercilessly. So in the end of the day Perry killed his own men, almost killed his own guys with a misplaced claymore. As well as the obliteration of many Viet Cong but the worst being his first up close…

When reading a book such as ”The Things They Carried” by author Tim O'Brien, it would be difficult for the reader not feel many different emotions throughout the reading. When O'Brien brings out emotions in his reader, he is making his writing more personally relatable for his audience. A few emotions he brings out of his reader in “The Things They Carried” are sympathy, anger, and realization. O'Briens entire book is full of stories that show the hardships of war and its effects on veterans…

Throughout the story they need to carry along various objects that weigh either light or heavy. A light object they bring is a Claymore antipersonnel mine that weighs 3.5 pounds and a heavy object that they bring is one pound blocks of penrite high explosives that weighs 68 pounds. They also bring a few of their personal possessions that help describe what kind of person they might…

Scottish claymores were greatswords. These swords appeared in the Renaissance and were used by German Landsknechte and Swiss mercenaries. Greatswords had a long hilt—up to 10 inches long—suitable for a two-handed grip. The sword was long, from 4 feet, 7 inches to 6…

It Takes a NCO to Lead a Officer in Battle The Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) has four to twenty years experience being a leader and is the backbone of the U.S. Army; meanwhile, the Second Lieutenant is fresh out of college with no experience being a leader. The Lieutenant will hold higher rank, have generally higher pay grade, as well as be put in charge of protecting the lives of the NCO’s plus the junior enlisted. A 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army is known as a "Butter Bar", a reference to…

Explosion The explosion was a nice thing to learn if you want to be a bomb maker, I’m going to research the history about the bomb and explosion and then I’m going to research the step and the material about the bomb and how to make a bomb easy to carry and make the bomb not easy to be founded. If you want it to explosion, you have to have to material of that, so the material of that have a lot of kind such as: Octanitrocubane HMX Tetry Trinitrotoluene and the most famous one and the most…

personal injury when using the plastic explosive. Amongst field troops in Vietnam it became common knowledge that ingestion of a small amount of C-4 would produce a "high" similar to that of ethanol. Others would ingest C-4, commonly obtained from a Claymore mine, to induce temporary illness in hopes of being sent on sick leave. That was, all I know about c4. Finally, let’s talk about the pollution about c4 if c4 touch the water, the water will be changed to red and it’s a big problem about it,…