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The British military has had many allies throughout history. France and England have always been allies. There has only been two wars where Great Britain and France fought against each other. Britain and France fought on opposite sides during the Anglo-French War (1202-1214) and the Saintonge War (1242). Besides these two wars, the two countries have been allies. France and the United Kingdom fought together in World War I and World War II on the side of the Allies. However, during the German…

As a Female… When does one come to the realization that the person everyone else sees is not the way you see yourself? When does one come to the realization that the person everyone else sees IS the way you see yourself? As a Child… Growing up, I never really thought about being female or acting female. I just was, and I was okay with that. I liked to shop in the girl section at Target because everything was Pink and Sparkly, because the world around me taught me that pink was a “girl” color,…

Agaha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office stems from the 1990s Kashmir uprising against India, which led to violence and political turmoil in the region for a long time, and closed its post offices for seven months. Ali creates a loose narrative harmonizing with the central themes through repeating images and phrases, and constantly revisiting the flora and fauna of Kashmir. Divided into five sections, each with a small number of poems followed by a few notes, the poems present a…

longer a priest, but he says he may return to Algeria. Man Rapadou tells Amabelle that she poisoned her husband because he was going to kill innocent Dominicans. She dreams that Sebastien will meet her at the waterfall. She meets a man in a black jeep who takes her back across the border into the Dominican Republic. He stops at a square and after searching Amabelle finally finds Valencia’s house. It is a new home and a young girl lets her in while a handmaid questions her. When she takes…

I was sitting at my little table staring at it. The sound, made it more compelling to eat every second I was force to sit in the kitchen. My parents greeted me, “Good Morning!” Their fakes smile fooled me. I pushed passed them. I saw Corn Pops and milk sitting in front of my favorite orange bowl since I was a baby. My eight-year-old self probably thought, “Of course, they would try to get me by putting something sentimental into it!” Watching my daddy pour the milk on my FAVORITE cereal in my…

Broken arm: The basketball thuds against the pavement. Clank, swoosh thunk, the basketball hits the backboard, then through the hoop then the ground. I was by no means an all star basketball player. Soccer and volleyball have always been more of my thing. Even though I wasn’t any good, Dad was, and man oh man was he hard to beat. Whether it was one on one, two on one or just plain old horse Dad sure beat us all. But that was all part of the fun, trying to beat Dad. And trying to beat Dad I ended…

The Autonomous Connected Car: Feasibility, Probability, and Onboard Features A man falls asleep while driving his car. His car automatically takes control and he is safe from any accident and, he is still headed towards his destination. His kids in backseat play online games using the car’s Wi-Fi capability. The car arrives at the man’s place of work and the car automatically uses its playlist of destinations to take the kids to school and proceed to drive back home and await its next command…

How World War Two Affected America. Millions of Americans came together during a time of crisis to rid the earth of tyranny in a time of need. America joined the allied forces to oppose the axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) during world war two. The United States came into the war right after the Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor, killing nearly 2,400 people and wounding a thousand more. The men were out at war but we still needed factories running to supply weapons and ammunition so the…

they land their plane and look out at the silence of the squadron. “Back at field, the party fizzled out abruptly. An uneasy silence replaced it, and Yossarian was sober and self-conscious as he climbed down from the plane and took his place in the Jeep that was already waiting for them” (Heller 141). The men feel guilt for how they have abandoned their comrades and made their lives more dangerous. At the same time they worry for all of the others on their dangerous missions. While these…

mouth and talks about his bravery. The next hunting trip is very different. The men are hunting buffalo and when they shoot the animal something changes inside Francis. He decides that he now has no fear of anything. His wife had been waiting by the jeep for the two men. When a gunshot rings out and then Francis lies dead in Africa; killed by his wife. She realized that once he became brave and could make it on his own that he would leave her, so she killed him. The only sad thing in the story…