Hand grenade

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a hero is defined as “a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”. However, this definition is only a general statement of what qualifies someone to be a hero. The meaning of words can change over time which means that what defines a “hero” today may be different than what a “hero” was defined as in ancient times. This means that although it is the same word, it has the possibility of holding different…

the news this year? Most people will agree that his actions as a youngster have created tons of debate, sadness and grief for his family and others. When Omar was fifteen years old he murdered Christopher Speer, an American soldier, by throwing a grenade. Despite being a minor, the United States military captured Omar and sent him to prison in Guantanamo Bay for ten years.This created a lot of controversy over the years with people debating and protesting whether he was a terrorist or simply a…

During the Holocaust about 18 million people were killed. The majority of this number consisted of the Jewish community. The Holocaust took place during World War II and lasted about four years. Throughout this time period millions of Jews and "undesirables" were murdered. The Germans forced them to move into ghettos and some were sent to death camps. Most did not last days in the ghettos. At the time of the Holocaust, Jews and other "undesirables" used armed and unarmed resistance in order to…

Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, occurred on July 28, 1914. Ferdinand was next in line for the Austria-Hungary throne when the two were shot by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was part of a Serbian Nationalist-terrorist group called the Black Hand. The Black Hand had close ties to the Serbian Army and protested the Austria-Hungarian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group’s first attempt to kill…

Betrayal, something that is seen as bad but when executed properly, it can change the rest of someone's life forever. Betrayal has happened since the beginning of time and it continues to present itself in this day and age. Betrayal is a hard thing to do but it can change the world if you do execute it properly. Brutus was a noble Roman man who betrayed Caesar out of love, he was not interested in any personal gain; this is similar to how Edward Snowden revealed one of the NSA’S biggest…

The mud splatters as the boots stomps through the trench. The deafening cracks and explosions flood the trenches. Blood flows through the trenches like a river. The young soldier, terrified, clenches the rifle in his hands. As the young soldier is running, a mortar round goes off behind him, and he falls and lands on his chest. The young soldier falls into a deep slumber. He awakes suddenly, the light blinds the eyes of the young man. He finds himself in the park asleep under a tree. He gets…

quote looks at sport being compared to that of war. "As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach." This is a very expressive excerpt focusing at some specific points that you could compare to sport. Robert Cormier has used verbs and metaphors suitably that carry a great deal of suspense. Grenades and dams being compared to other players just demonstrate how effective techniques are when used correctly. Jerry carries so many…

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The Great War was one the first modern wars, as well as one of the deadliest at a world scale. Seventeen million people, civilian and soldier, died as a result of the outbreak of World War I. The war also wounded twenty million people with flying lead, poisonous gases, and roaring explosives. The border of Belgium and France became a series of trenches and a desolate field known as no-man 's land. Soldiers peering over trenches were shot by snipers on the opposite side of no-man’s land. Millions…

them to switch their landing zone to the peak of the Takur Ghar itself instead of the offset LZ initially briefed. With a lack of surveillance on this new LZ, the current enemy presence was unknown. While on approach to land, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck the right side of Razor 03 while machine gun fire was ripping through the airframe. As the 160th pilots struggled to regain control of the helicopter, Petty Officer Neil Roberts who was a member of the elite SEAL team, was…