Draft dodger

Introduction Money rules in Major League Baseball. The more money a team has, the more likely they are to do better during their season. That is why teams such as the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants don’t have much difficulty building a strong team. With such a high salary cap, they have the ability to sign the best players. With better players, that leads to better development as well as an easier way to attract better free agents. Due to that, very rarely do teams with low salary caps like the…

Comedic writing in literature is a device used to uplift readers, which applies to satirical writing as well. Both comedy and satire, although very similar in their methods of delivery, have slightly different purposes in literature. Comedic writing is just simple entertainment achieved through laughter, its humor has no higher purpose. Similarly, satirical writing uses humor to entertain its readers, it’s just that satire actually has a purpose. Satire uses comedic devices, like sarcasm and…

A memorable line from If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien is “The war in Vietnam drifted in and out of human lives, taking them or sparing them like a headless, berserk taxi hack, without evident cause, a war fought for uncertain reasons.” (O’Brien, 138) The ending of this quote particularly reflects the views of Vietnam, which is the specific reason I found this quote memorable. I feel this way because people living during the Vietnam era didn’t see this as a crucial war to be apart of.…

Displaying the Confederate flag is bigoted and sour grapes, in my humble opinion. The Confederacy lost the Civil War, yet a few southern states there were part of this failed rebel government hold onto this part of history by displaying the losing flag on their state banners. The first amendment protects individual citizens right to display the flag of the Confederacy on their car, or in their home, but this emblem should not extend to state buildings. Some historical revisionists have tried to…

After world war 1 a Vietnamese patriot named Nguyen or Ho Chi Minh hoped to go to the 1919 Paris peace conference in hopes to free Vietnam from French control but like many other people he is ignored. The start of world war 2 happened with japan entering the war in September 27th, 1940. They managed to take control of parts of the French territory now known as Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. The next year the Viet minh is founded a group that tries to get Vietnam’s independence. In March 9th, 1945…

I was born in Rutland, Vt Dec 9, 1950. Moved back to Maine when I was a couple months old. I basically grew up on two farms during the summers with my grand parents. Life was pretty simple back then, compared to today. Grandfather Tibbetts did not have electricity or phones. He worked his 500 acres with his horses or steers. The family all picthed in and helped hay or work in the woods. We learned math and spelling through Cribbage and Scrabble. We read with kerosene lamps or lanterns. My…

TITLE Baseball, the game that we know as America’s national past time, is a game that started out as a recreational activity between friends and neighbors and grew into the professional sports league we know today as Major League Baseball. It is believed that the game of baseball was created out of two British games that that were played by the early colonists, Cricket and Rounders (Fischer 5). Cricket was a game played with a flat bat, ball and two wickets. The game was played on a…

Within all the short stories compiled to make up Ayelet Tsabari’s collected work, The Best Place on Earth, violence is consistently present. Naturally, the conflict which has, and currently still creates strife in Israel leads to the inclusion of violence in her stories. Whether the characters presently live in Israel, or have moved on from the region, the chaos from the country is incorporated into their lives. Tsabari was born in Israel, and is all too familiar with the horrors the wars have…

Compassion In Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things They Carried”, he introduces his extremely personal story to his readers “On the Rainy River” that he supposedly has never told anyone. With this chapter he is faced with a huge life-changing crisis, he had been drafted to serve in the United States Army to fight in the Vietnam War. O’Brien felt trapped, he was completely opposed to this forced command but there was no way out. He couldn’t even fathom why he would have to risk his life for a war that he…

The Vietnam War’s protests are some of the most well-known in United States history. This is because of the near-omnipresence in public opinion against the war, with support coming from women’s peace groups, clergy, black civil rights groups, youth organizations, and many others. However, the interesting question is why was so much of the public vocally against this war? In other words, what made the war in Vietnam worse than other wars the United States engaged in? This research paper seeks to…