Flags of Our Fathers

He dreamt of his lord father, and his sickly mother. He dreamt of a time long since passed, a fleeting memory of a forgotten time. A time during his childhood when his father wrapped him in wool blankets. Shielding him from the winter cold. Taking Rainen into his arms he bent down giving the sleepy Rainen a kiss on the forehead. Suddenly he awakens, his mouth dry and rusty with the taste of blood and his heart hammering in his chest. “Young man you have returned to us.” Harold said. Rainen…

millionaires and billionaires if they put their mind to it no. achieving that involves either a great amount of luck through the lottery or , great financial knowledge, or you could be lucky enough to receive a “small” loan of one million dollars from your father like Trump. All this to say, Obama is a symbol that black people despite the odds can achieve anything really. The odds may be stacked but personally I look to change trends and carve my own path to success. We discussed in class that…

Forty million dead, all caused by one man. Through his deceiving ways, brilliant propaganda, and captivating speeches Hitler was able to gain major political support. He became the leader of post-World War I Germany. Hitler’s mental abnormalities started at a young age. His family life left much to be desired. He remained poor and unstable for much of his adult life. After fighting in World I Hitler’s mental illnesses became more evident and he joined a new political movement. In the next few…

family’s beliefs and joins the Union Army. Throughout the story, feelings of insanity about patriotic duty and family obedience overflow his mind. Holding nothing back in battle, Druse has no choice but to fire towards the enemy, tragically striking his father, who is a Confederate spy. In this example, Bierce highlights the destructive impact war has on families no matter where they fight or who they fight for. He suggests that no single nation is so corrupt on its own, but it is the country’s…

text, “the nurse fed us and bandaged our feet, and said she would put us on a bus to Seoul when we were ready.” (166). After crossing the border and making it to South Korea, Sookan and Inchun find themselves in care of the red cross who are waiting to take them to their father in Seoul. Sookan has found freedom finally after a whole life of oppression and can live like a normal girl, something her mother had always wished for. She now has a nice house, her father, and her brothers in a place…

institutionalized racism in the 19th century, who transforms from a well spoken, educated, passionate musician to a violent rebel who loses the racial battle to social injustice. Coalhouse Walker often comes off to others as the atypical African American. The Father, who represents the majority white men in twentieth century, thinks, “Walker Jr. didn't know he was a Negro” when he comes to visit Sarah to win her affections. Although disapproved by the family at first, Coalhouse Walker…

(Berenbaum, “Holocaust”). In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Shmuel explained that in the ghetto, he and his family had to live in a room with 11 people. “No, but when we were told we couldn’t live in our house, we had to move to a different part of Cracow, where the soldiers build a big wall and my mother and father and my brother and I all had to live in one room,” (126). Another way the Nazis dehumanized the Jews were by performing medical experiments on them without their…

Maycomb, a town that prides itself on white supremacy, prejudice and showing no remorse for its behaviour. Whilst Sam considered himself to be quite a forgiving person, he couldn’t, for the life of him, forgive his hometown for what they did to his father. He had to leave this god-forsaken town. To leave behind all the memories, his heartbroken mother, but most importantly, all the pain that he associated with Maycomb. The day Sam took his final look at the last sign of Maycomb that had the…

Interesting enough, curiosity left me wondering about people who attends school with a disability: therefore, I thought Jackson State University of Disability Services would expand knowledge of those suffering with a disability. The Department of Disability Services assist those who have a disability. According to, American Disability Act (ADA), benefit students with physical, psychological, intellectual, attention deficit disorder, visual impairments, traumatic, hearing impairments, learning…

Virginia Convention held at Richmond, has rung through the ears of the American people for centuries. As a strong supporter of the freedom attained by the colonial people of the Revolutionary City of Williamsburg, Virginia, Henry was one amongst many our nation 's forefathers to spark the efforts to commence a new nation based on the principles that, all men are created equal. Between the years of 1775 and 1781, a Revolutionary City was born. Williamsburg 's inhabitants-black and white, men and…