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Yue Ma 112949774 Close Reading 4: A Hero of Our Time In this summer, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation came out, one of the most impressive hero in the movie was Ethan Hunt, portrayed by Tom Cruise. He is a typical hero that audiences are expecting. He was intelligent when he tried to complete the mission. Also, he was brave to accept the task to dive into the whirlpool to change an identification card in a short time in risk of his live. The most important thing was that he was fighting with…

offers a first hand account of the raid, but the book is so much more than that. No Easy Day is both a gripping first hand account of the raid and a somber personal narrative of the life of a Navy SEAL. The author, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen -- his real name is Matt Bissonette -- served as a Navy SEAL for 10 years and participated in the fateful raid that killed Osama Bin Laden (Bissonette). No Easy Day is more than a good read. It is inspiring tale of service and sacrifice that all…

Lone Survivor is a book based on the encounters the Navy SEAL team 10 went through. It explains the difficulties Marcus Luttrell went through alone and with his teammates. The story takes place in the Hindu Kush Mountain in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. Marcus Luttrell, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew “Axe” Axelson are all specially trained Navy SEALs that were on the operation “Redwing”. The operation was where they had to either capture or kill a high ranking Taliban leader that was…

Chris had plenty of fun, hardship, friendship, face offs with death, and memories at Iraq. Chris would have happily continued doing all those things, even looking at death one last time, but it was time for him to retire the old rifle, say his goodbyes, and head back to the state he knows well, Texas. With ten honorable years of service Chris finished his final deployment November 4, 2009. Kyle says “ I got out of the Navy November 4; on November 6, I was kicking Texas dust.” (Kyle 418). When…

A seafood restaurant with five-star rating in Yelp could be meaningless unless you actually go there and try some dishes. Also, even though you heard that lobsters are the best in the restaurant, shrimps could be much better. Three years ago, I went to New Port in California to watch whales in Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, there was no any whale I could find, so all I did for an hour was just waiting and looking for the sea creature to be seen, standing on the boat. I came back to home with a…