Dave Grossman

Personnel who work in this career field are frequently called upon to take the lives of enemy combatants, more often than not being hundreds of miles away from the battle field. When given this position personnel are able to take the lives of others as if they were playing a video game, potentially never having to deal with the emotional factor of taking another human life. While there are other professions within the military that prevent personnel from physically seeing the target such as personnel on a Navy missile ship, UAV operators watch a video screen the entire time while targeting enemy visually seeing every impact. As described by Grossman, Soldiers who fought during the World War two era were more reluctant to actually engage in the enemy, most did not want to kill another human being. Soldiers not wanting to take another life was likely due to the fact of close quarters or hand to hand combat making the task of killing another person rather uncomfortable Today that level has dramatically increased soldiers one due to training but two due to the fact of not all soldiers having to face the emotional side effects. Today’s soldiers are equipped with highly sophisticated weapons and not all have to see or hear everything that goes on when they hit their target, again completely taking away the emotional…

“The Magicians” is a book on an advanced student, Quentin, going into college. He was on his way to get interviewed for Princeton, but when he got there, the interviewer had died. On his way home, he felt drawn to a narrow orchard, which lead to a school. He went in, took a test, and had past. He got accepted into a school of sorcery, Brakebills. For all of Quentin’s life, he loved the book series, Fillory, about magic, and he always thought it was real. After graduating Brakebills, he found a…

Throughout the story, Kavangah tells multiple stories about parents dropping their troubled teens off at hospitals and leaving. Parents are leaving their children of ages, but no infants which is what the law was created for in the first place. Governor Dave Heineman states, “Safe haven laws were not designed to allow families to having difficulty with older youth and teenagers to abandon their child or responsibilities as a parent” (Heineman 1). Parents need another way to cope with their…

Offspring, Nofx and so many others were influenced by them”. Is what Tony Sly (lead singer) from the No Use For A Name band said. Karan (Rockers reflect on the legacy of Kurt Cobain). Showing that before Kurt Cobain entered the industry the biggest bands today wasn 't relevant at the time. Kurt 's career was a success. He and his band sold over 30 million copies of one of the best work Nirvana ever (Nevermind) released. Kurt and his group released their first single “Love Buzz” which was also…

to come home and feared to find out what your punishment was going to be that day. This autobiography, “A Child Called It”, was written by Dave Pelzer. Surprisingly, Dave Pelzer was the little boy that was abused in this book, and decided to share it with the world to make everyone aware what might happen behind closed doors. In this report I will include many parts of Dave’s life story including: plot, setting, characters, themes, and my response. First, there were many conflicts that Dave…

bands in the land. Megadeth, a band that was the heaviest, loudest, drunkest band in history. Megadeth has released 15 albums and has sold over 50,000,000 records worldwide, Megadeth has had more line-up changes than any other band. Megadeth has had the same vocalist and bassist since the beginning. The lead guitar and drummer spots are constantly changed. In 1983, the band was officially forms. Megadeth has been nominated for 13 Grammy’s and won 1 in February of 2017. Dave Mustaine, a young…

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is about a young girl named Coraline Jones discovering a door to her other life, other parents, and other struggles.I believe this book was excellent because the author Neil Gaiman,really went into detail about Coraline as a character. He wrote about her surroundings and the new things she discovers behind the door often describing every step she takes.Coraline Jones does not narrate the story but oddly enough, her thoughts and feelings are the only one’s shared…

In A child called “it”, Dave Pelzer states “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” (Pelzer, 1995, pg.98) As he reminisces on the traumatic and horrific childhood experiences, he was forced to partake in the hands of his abusive mother. Dave Pelzer is a survivor of one of the worst child maltreatment cases in the history of California. The “Pelzer” family lived in Daly City, California. Dave’s father, Stephen Joseph supported the…

I believe that the book Zeitoun is an accurate story. It is very useful in bringing out what the main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun did in New Orleans to survive the massive storm, Hurricane Katrina. It talked about how he was stranded there and showed us what his daily life was like. He encountered many problems of saving his own life, but also the lives of others stranded in New Orleans. There are a total of five parts in Zeitoun, but each part doesn't really fit with the part before it.…

Imagine a world of transparency. Each human would have full access to every minuscule detail of another person’s life, from looking up their medical issues online, to watching a live stream of every single move they make. It is terrifying to imagine a society in which nothing is kept personal, and as the inherent nature of technology continues to progress, this threat will only become more of a reality. Dave Eggers illustrates this pseudo-utopian world in his novel, The Circle, where his…