Desertion

opportunity to go to America for a safer shelter. It is significant to acknowledge that the sacrifice was not only made by Aya but also by her father. Although Aya and the general public were not informed the reason for Aya’s father to disappear, his desertion implied that he sacrificed himself for the safety of his other family members who would have a higher chance of getting into America if he was not…

marriage as a sin. They believed that if the initially agreements made at the beginning of the marriage were broken; there was cause for the marriage to end. They allowed for a divorce in instances that included “adultery, fraudulent contract, willful desertion and total…

A soldier who goes into war will never come out being the same man. The psychological stress of war makes every soldier lose their mind, in both clinical and/or abstract terms. The clinical definition of insanity is “a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder” (Merriam-Webster). The abstract definition is “to deal with heightened stress in un-methodistic ways”. In The Things They Carried, by writer and Vietnam war veteran, Tim O’Brien, every character deals…

Despite solitary confinement being widely accepted and practiced among most of the prisons in the United States, there are several Supreme Court case precedents that help prove the use of this punishment is unconstitutional. In the Supreme Court case Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958), U.S. Army private Albert Trop escaped from his punishment in a military stockade for a disciplinary violation. Even though he decided to go back he was still court martialed for his actions, and as a result he had…

The Blues have been around for a long time. In fact, “the blues flourished from African American folk music, such as work songs, spirituals, and the field hollers of slaves” (Music Pg. 357). The exact time frame in which blues music originated is unknown. However, during the 1980s blues music was gaining popularity in rural areas of the south. Blues music speaks to the soul and heart. During a period in time where African Americans were physically and systematically oppressed, the Blues gave…

caught malaria and left the army to keep doctors from finding out she was a woman. When she got out they charged her as a deserter. She revealed herself to a few soldiers and so they helped her convince the government to throw out the charge of desertion. Even though it took eight years but she…

occur here. Rome is where Yossarian takes his vacations, where Nately falls in love with his whore, where Yossarian searches for Nately's whore's kid sister, where Yossarian is arrested, and the list goes on. “‘But we can court-martial you now for desertion from duty, since you went to Rome without a pass. And we could make it stick. If you think about it a minute, you'll see that you'd leave us no alternative.”’ (Heller 438). This quote shows when Yossarian is given the deal from Colonel…

Afghanistan is a country with a deep history. Many famous people have encountered the country including Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with little to offer agriculturally. This paper describes Afghanistan’s population in spite of the country’s instability due to their physical environment, dysfunctional military, and lack of money. Afghanistan is a country surrounded by land. Its nearest coast line it the Arabian…

to boarding schools during the 1900 to 1940 time period, the experiences in these schools served to clarify the fact that Native Americans are not just intended for domestic, low paying, heavy labor work experiences. The rebellion and consistent desertion of these schools by students en masse is a clear indication that the pigeon holed perspective toward those who attended these schools was a narrow one indeed. Brenda J. Child’s preferred source for the writing of “Boarding School Seasons” are…

The presence of women in society is no new phenomenon. The genetic findings of the first ‘Eve’ places one of the first theorized woman lives around 143,000 years ago (Fox). Moreover, the coexistence of men and women for these hundreds of thousands of years has led to specific sets of expectations for both genders to fulfill. Throughout several past centuries, there has generally been a trend regarding the dominance of men's actions over those of women’s. However, as technology and society have…