Combat boot

Everybody claims to support our troops yet nobody really pays attention to what they have to go through to protect not only our country but foreign ones as well. We are too focused on what the famous Kylie Jenner has done to her face or what surgeries Caitlyn Jenner has done to his/her body, to even think about the everyday soldier being deployed out of the country having to leave his or her family for months at a time. Just earlier this month, over a thousand National Guard members were…

hormones and cancer,” according to World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. The U.S. Department of Defense developed these tactical herbicides specifically to be used in “combat operations.”…

Who would have known that the language of Native Americans, created hundreds of years before the founding of our nation, would prove to be one of America's greatest secret weapons? The Japanese cracked every code that the Army and Navy came up with, but not the Navajo code. Navajo is a spoken language handed down orally from generation to generation. The Code Talkers created a system of native words to represent characters of the English alphabet so that they could spell out English words that…

slave women endured far worse injustices and offenses. Slave women were often sexually abused and raped; the matter was against their will and out of their hands (Document H). They had no source of protection they could rely on, and no stability to combat the repercussions of their defiling and demeaning. Angered by their husband’s infidelity, the wives of the slave owners often released their anger on the violated slave in compensation for the lack of a way to punish their husbands.…

The Spare Hissss-thump! Hissss-thump! Hissss-thump! My arrows go flying out of my hands in the matter of seconds. I smile as each one of them hits their target. I look around the little clearing, glancing back to see if Clark was watching me practice. Sure enough, he’s sitting on the front porch of our two bedroom cabin. He smiles as I look back at him, and he gestures for me to continue. I roll my eyes, smiling, as I go to get the arrows out of the trees.Turned away from the path that leads…

detail the equipment I used, the skills I have learned, and the certifications I have earned. A firefighter’s bunker gear is his first line of defense against the dangers of a burning building; it consists of a helmet, hood, jacket, overalls, and boots. The helmets used by the SVFD are made for structural fires and are built with thermoplastic materials; they have face shields to protect the eyes (though the Shelburne Dept. tends to utilize safety glasses more often) and brims that are wider…

the way people talk about commercial sex creates many untruthful images of those who work in it. Many people view sex workers as helpless and weak. A popular image that comes to mind seems to the miserable girl with a fur coat and knee high, rubber boots waiting on the street corner for her next john to pull up. These stereotypes…

“Luftwaffe” which was a German air force (291). In line 46, Plath is saying that the swastika is God-like which illustrates that the German’s symbol is more important than God. Plath then states, in line 49, “The boot in the face…,” referring to the Nazi soldiers’ black, tall combat boots while marching (291). Plath also states, “I made a model of you/ [a] man in black with a Mein Kampf look,” referring to her father saying that he looks like Adolf Hitler, the author of the book “Mein Kampf”…

to the dancing floor. Then strange faces donning combat attire entered the bar through the back door. They closed on Bongo and pointing a gun at him. “Hands up!” they shouted wildly. Bongo raised his hands and one of them apprehending him before putting handcuffs around his wrist. One officer flushed his ID before informing the patrons that they were police officers. The law enforcers walked Bongo to his car and ordered him to open the boot. They found bundles of Alovera bank notes in…

Have you ever been torn between something you love and something that you are good at? This past week, I have been able to finish reading John L. Parker’s novel Racing the Rain. In this novel, Quenton is a high school age boy that is growing up in Florida. He has a very difficult choice to make between his love for basketball and running track. He also has a friend, Trapper Nelson, that many people do not trust because of an incident that he was not is not his fault. Because of Quenton’s many…