Front-end and back-end

I tapped my pencil against the wooden desk, anxiously staring down the clock. The end of the day could not come quick enough. All I wanted was for it to be 8:00 PM. Fast forward to around six hours later, I was in a large crowd of people, all of whom were way too close for comfort, and my neck was dotted with sweat. There were at least 200 people in the small area that is referred to as the ‘pit’. The pit was congested and it was impossible to stand in there without being touched by someone else…

should be a duty and a need for a global response. The Rwandan genocide began after a plane carrying then President Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, who were both Hutus, was shot down. The Rwandan Patriotic Front also known as RPF said, “the plane had been shot down by Hutus to provide an excuse for the genocide,” (Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter). Carried…

arm got very sticky from some substance on the table. I opened my menu with the inside inserted upside down from it not being stapled together and see dried BBQ sauce that is an inch thick from top to bottom right down the center, I walked to the front to exchange it and I politely hand the hostess the filthy menu and…

leaders were desperate to end the war as quickly as possible. American leaders wanted to launch a massive all-out assault, but European leaders wanted to establish a foothold in North Africa. The Allies promised Russian leaders they would attack the Axis powers consisting of Germany, Italy, and Japan and provide relief to the Russians. This led to Operation Torch. Operation Torch was a plan designed to open up another side of Europe and force the Axis to fight on multiple front (“Remembering…

second he was there, the next second he wasn’t. The war is not what they make it out to be back in Australia. There is no glory in killing other men, in a place you don’t need to be, in a battle you don’t understand, in a country that means nothing to you. We are supposed to have a memorial service tomorrow to commemorate. Being out here in the trenches has really put into perspective how lucky I am back home in Australia. When we are in the trenches, the mud and water is up to our knees most…

The setting of the scene also involves a rainy scene with a dark overcast. This gives the viewer an ominous feeling and foreshadows that something bad is going to happen which happens the moment the landing craft door opens and the soldiers in the front are immediately shot and killed. The director also utilizes low-key lighting in the scene to create shadows and foreshadow the evil that is about to take place, which is the slaughtering of the American soldiers by the…

morphing together with the trees and bushes that stretch far beyond the side of the road. When I turn my head to look back inside of the car, I first see my mom and dad. They are holding hands and smiling as my dad is driving and my mom is sitting beside him in the passenger seat. My brother and sister occupy the two seats directly behind them,and that leaves me,the youngest, in the back seat of our pearl white suburban that has years of filth spread all over it. I didn’t have a single clue…

or if he would end up doing what I thought he was going to do. As soon as Strout was walking in front of them, still at gunpoint, down the dusty road. I knew something was about to happen. Once Strout passed the front of his car, dropped his suitcase, ducked, and tried to get away in a sprint, Matt shot him. Even after Matt shot him, I thought Matt was going to have good in his heart and let him live with that as his pain, I was wrong, soon after he walked up and shot him in the back of the…

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque is set in World War I in Germany, where Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old soldier, is assigned to the frontlines. The book tells the story of Paul on the battlefield, his time in the camp where he stays with some of his old classmates, when he is on leave, and in the hospital. Paul tells stories of the horror of the war and how it changed him forever. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, who’s real name was born on July 22, 1898 in Osnabruck,…

early in the novel is obsessed with becoming a hero, but he concerned with how he will act in the face of a battle. When he leaves his home he goes as far to say that he was is disappointed when his mother like in the Spartan saying did not say come back with your shield or on it. He feels an emotional struggle of what…