Combat boot

Since the beginning of an organization ISIS have 143 attacks in 29 countries and have killed nearly 2,043 people (Lister). The enormous amount of terrorist attacks in the Middle East and all around the globe have been caused by this extremist group named ISIS. Some of these regions include Australia, North America, Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. Since the creation of this extremist group in 1999 in Iraq the numbers of attacks have been climbing, but especially in these past few…

returned home. He wrote, “they are cowards. I won’t disgrace my parents by deserting or turning back. A soldier’s life is hard but I should be able to take care of myself.” (qtd. in Wartorn) However, that method of thinking starts to change upon entering boot camp and being brainwashed into an aggressive killer used to wage…

Dealing with the Kremlin 1. Importance The Russian Federation is playing a game of risk, showing an aggressive hand just enough to provoke condemnation, but slight enough to avoid another international arms race- as of yet. Succeeding the Soviet Union as a permanent member of the U.N Security Council, the latter half of our 21st century has seen the Kremlin all but reject the principles of allegiance and armistice the United Nations was fashioned to uphold. Deep-seated into the fifteenth year…

What makes something good? Can any event that involves the mass death of millions of people be considered good? World War II saw the annihilation of millions of Jews, Soviets, and Western Europeans. Numerous countries crumbled under the boots and tank tracks of invading armies as the war touched every inhabited continent and nearly every country on earth. The United States, along with the Soviet Union and Great Britain, defeated a tyrannical dictator and a destructive emperor bent on taking over…

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Mallie Robinson and Jerry Robinson were his parents. Jackie’s parents worked together as tenant workers on a plantation owned by James Madison Sasser in Grady County. Robinson's parents had a troubled marriage, and when Jerry left his wife and children for another woman, Mallie's relationship with Sasser deteriorated until they were evicted from their cabin and forced to seek work elsewhere. Soon after his dad left, they…

Over 30 organizations have joined together for one exercise at the Combat Readiness Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, from April 3-6, 2017. Exercise Marlinspike II is an interagency training designed for a unified response to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats. The exercise was hosted by Mississippi Army National Guard’s 47th Civil Support Team (CST) based in Flowood, Mississippi. Exercise Marlinspike was done in April of 2015 with numerous organizations participating. Exercise Marlinspike…

Riley perched herself on the edge of the cabin bed, absentmindedly following routine and pulling on her combat boots, thick and heavy, ready for fighting. Moonlight was seeping through the gaps in the blacked out windows; there was a gentle spring breeze making its way through the log cabin walls. She was small for her age of 14 but she had strength and speed on her side. Riley could hear the other campers singing around the campfire and the subtle smells of burnt sugar from the marshmallows…

the Ferguson protest was heavily armed. On August 11, 2014 during a protest the SWAT team occupied the streets wearing military camouflage trousers, combat boots, helmets, gas mask, body armor which all were identical to those worn by the United States marines. Also they carried the m4 carbines which are normally used by the military with advanced combat optical gunsights. Furthermore, they had up to 6 magazines on their vests. Many veterans noted and stated that those cops appeared better armed…

The way I see it everyone has a 'who am I' or a 'who do I want to be' phase. For some people this phase can happen in grade school, for others it could happen after something tragic ,and for some it just never happens. No one wants to regret their choices in life. They want to cherish every single moment. Yet, some people think rushing through life, will solve everything. They rush to get into college, to get a job, to find a person to start a family with, and to please everyone. This not the…

In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the female protagonist, Offred, is shaped by her society into a tool used solely for reproduction in order to serve the patriarchy. Comparably, the female protagonist, Furiosa, from the film Mad Max: Fury Road is shaped by her society into a tool used by the patriarchy to keep inhumane control over the people. Even so, both protagonists react to their objectification in contrasting ways. In the Gilead Age, women do not have as much…