Enemy at the Gates

The Epic of Gilgamesh, in regard to the rendition by Danny P. Jackson, is an elaborate tale that uses various forms of metaphorical language, paradoxes, imagery, foreshadowing and comparisons, to relay the story of an ancient hero. This tale revolves around the god-like character, Gilgamesh, and the endeavors he goes through while dealing with self-discovery, friendship, danger, and real-world situations. Not only does the author’s use of these literary devices contribute to the amount of depth…

Ethical Dilemma in the Book of Esther This paper will summarize the book of Esther, chapters 1-10, from the Life Application Study Bible. Additionally, this paper will discuss the ethical issues within the book of Esther and the outcomes of the ethical decisions made by Esther, King Xerxes I, Haman, and Mordecai. I will apply the appropriate ethical theories to catalog values displayed in the passage. Further, an explanation as to how the passage relates to nursing practice, the American…

United States entered them for different reasons and our enemies in these wars were completely different. Yet underlying this there are numerous similarities in these wars. These similarities can analyzed through events and documents from both wars. One of these examples is the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, which happened on March 16, 1968. Soldiers entered this area believing it housed scores of Vietcong fighters. In reality, there were not any enemy fighter at My Lai and the soldiers ended up…

these together to create an absolute masterpiece. However historians can only guess the original function. The most notable opinions, that challenge the idea that the function was to omit a fear factor, are the defence of a frontier from a dangerous enemy in the North, and the taxation and the monitoring of movement of people. Throughout Roman history there is no greater symbol of Rome and the untold nature of the power possessed by the Empire, as a great bastion of invincibility, quite like…

storage of all the weapons needed. It is especially useful to bow down enemies from there and use the place as a defense. The word Tower defense is very common and has been used to describe these scenarios. Since there is a progression from these outside sections until you reach to the big castles and reinforcements will be flooding in to try and win the battle in a territorial level Once there are Gates to withhold enemies from entering the path towards the heart of the city and usually…

Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz is an impressionable book with a story so immersed with suspense and action it rivals any Michael Bay film. Written by the same author of the Alex Rider series, Oblivion is the final book of The Gatekeepers series. The gatekeepers are five teenagers, Matt, Pedro, Jamie, Scott, and Scarlett, who learn that they have powers that they must use to defeat the Old Ones, beings that want to destroy the world. Every installment of the series tells the individual…

Israel interpreted this as God’s wrath being poured out on their enemies. They assumed that they would receive blessings from God instead of His rage because they believed they were doing what was righteous in the eyes of the Lord (Amos 5:21-22). Another reason Israel could have believed they were receiving blessing from God was because during the time of Amos, 760-750AD, the Israelites were not being threatened by their enemies. In fact, the nations surrounding Israel were going to be facing…

During the fall of Poland as well as France, the use of combined arms between artillery, air power, infantry, and armor led to an overwhelming success. The main ideals behind the use of the blitz was to soften enemy fortifications or targets of interest by applying air raids mainly composed of HE-111’s medium bombers or Ju-88/87’s for precision dive-bombing or tank hunting in order to make way for the ground units for the initial seizer (Wray3). And for the final…

Day one of my captivity I have been captured by the enemy. They came in the evening with their large trucks and their strange, thin radios, which they kept tapping with their fingertips. I wondered at first if they were typing in Morse Code, but it wasn’t. It wasn’t any code I recognized. They asked me if I knew what was going on. Of course I knew. The enemy had come for me and was taking me to a POW camp. It was only a matter of time before they discovered the work I had been doing in my…

Canto XXVI begins with Dante sarcastically praising his native city Florence for having so many of its citizens populating Hell: with so many thieves, Florence has earned such a widespread fame not only on Earth but also in Hell! The poet Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, now leads him along the ridges to the Eighth Pouch, where they see thousands of little flames flickering in a deep, dark valley, and reminding Dante of fireflies on a hillside. Virgil informs Dante that each…