chance of failure.” After seeing my low score of 6.4 on 28 I realized that maybe I don’t take many risks and actually I don’t have an issue with that. Taking risks in the Coast Guard today is something that could end your career if the risk taking goes wrong. If I can accomplish a given task or mission, per Coast Guard policy and procedures, why should I take a risk. In addition, I am not sure what type of risk they mean. To me risk could mean, walking against the light at an intersection or…
The NBA season is well underway, and teams are gaining a clearer picture of their rotations and paths towards success. An infusion of youth has made the NBA exciting this season, but who are the most impactful/most disappointing rookies from this year's class? Let's take a look, shall we. Best: Pascal Siakam: The young power forward wasn't projected by many to go in the first round, but went 27th overall to the Toronto Raptors. He's responded by becoming an analytical darling, recording 1.1…
7, 1965 to protest local resistance to black voter registration. In the early hours of July 23, 1967 one of the worst riots occurred on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. By the time the riot stopped , four days later by 7,000 National Guard and US Army troops, 43 people were killed, 342 people were injured, and nearly 1,400 buildings were burned. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while he was standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine…
thing one the way back but not on the way there.I went to go see my brother he graduated the air force. I went with my whole family there was six plus my brother girl friend. We went on this 750 tower called Tower of Americas. He is going in to the honor guards We walked the river it was long. The whole trip we walked 27 miles it felt horrible. The hottest it was was 107…
United States. The interior was a better place because it was feared that they might try to contact the Japanese submarines if they were on the coast. They were forced to leave their homes and farms and relocate to camps surrounded by barbed wire and guards. Almost two-thirds of the interns were Nisei, or Japanese Americans born in the United States. It made no difference that many had never even been to Japan. Because the camps were not yet completed when Roosevelt signed the executive order,…
her actions which she believed to be fair. So that brings up another topic, what people think is right. In the play both Creon and Antigone do what they feel and believe is right, at the end of the day Antigone buries her brother because she thinks honor and following her heart is more mighty than what Creon has decreed. In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, the mighty king Creon makes a rule that no one can bury Polyneices because he had betrayed the city and doesn’t think he deserves a…
baby Jesus. When Benoîte saw Mary, she has was told to build a grand chapel, "in honor of my son." Benoîte was also told to build a house next to the chapel for the priest to live The story of how Benoîte saw Mary dates back to the year 1664 in the town of St. Etienne d'Avancon. Benoîte saw apparition of the Saint Maurice, a Third Century martyr who was greatly honoured in Laus. He told her that the local guards were take her flock if she stayed in the area. St. Maurice told Benoîte to go…
friend to my brothers,but such as each of them shall deserve of me,and to earn my love,my brothers must do more than to have been born.I do not grant my love without reason,nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it.I honor men with my love,but honor is a thing to be…
envy “jealousy of the honor given to others.”(Rhetoric pg 1387). In secular Greek φθόνον can mean to “bear ill will of a general kind but more often it is used specifically to express the envy which makes one man begrudge another something which he…
warrior, iron went to the natural farmers, and bronze was placed in the natural craftsmen. Plato emphasizes the importance of keeping the metals pure: “So the first and most important command from the god to the rulers is that there is nothing they must guard better or watch more carefully than the mixture of metals in the souls of the next generation.” (B3. 415b). It is highly important that the metals don’t mix because: “The intermixing of iron with silver and bronze with gold that results…