Leopard Seal

Everyone in our modern society doesn’t realize that Stone’s definition of a hero is 100 percent, without a doubt correct because you have impacted my life more than Michael Bublé, more than Ray Lewis, more than the whole entire elite squad of Navy SEALs, by caring and looking after me when I was a little toddler. When I was a kid, my parents would be at work, busy providing for my sister and me by putting food on the table, water to drink, a roof over our heads, and a good Catholic education.…

Chris Kyle once said “Despite what your momma told you, violence does solve problems” (Aldrich)This is true if you are talking about his life. Kyle started life as a little cowboy growing up in Texas. Then riding bulls and being a Navy SEAL in his middle life. To live in Heaven with God in his late life. To truly understand Chris Kyle, one must understand his early, middle, and late life. Chris Kyle was born on April, 1974 in Odessa, Texas along with his younger brother Jeff (Burling 15). When…

TSGT Chapman, who was an Airforce combat controller embedded with the SEALs, immediately got on his radio, and contacted a nearby AC-130 gunship to aid in securing Razor 03’s crash site. Razor 03’s sister ship Razor 04 landed nearby the crash site to exfil all the passengers, crew of Razor 03, and flew them directly to Gardez…

Yue Ma 112949774 Close Reading 4: A Hero of Our Time In this summer, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation came out, one of the most impressive hero in the movie was Ethan Hunt, portrayed by Tom Cruise. He is a typical hero that audiences are expecting. He was intelligent when he tried to complete the mission. Also, he was brave to accept the task to dive into the whirlpool to change an identification card in a short time in risk of his live. The most important thing was that he was fighting with…

offers a first hand account of the raid, but the book is so much more than that. No Easy Day is both a gripping first hand account of the raid and a somber personal narrative of the life of a Navy SEAL. The author, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen -- his real name is Matt Bissonette -- served as a Navy SEAL for 10 years and participated in the fateful raid that killed Osama Bin Laden (Bissonette). No Easy Day is more than a good read. It is inspiring tale of service and sacrifice that all…

Lone Survivor is a book based on the encounters the Navy SEAL team 10 went through. It explains the difficulties Marcus Luttrell went through alone and with his teammates. The story takes place in the Hindu Kush Mountain in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. Marcus Luttrell, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew “Axe” Axelson are all specially trained Navy SEALs that were on the operation “Redwing”. The operation was where they had to either capture or kill a high ranking Taliban leader that was…

Chris had plenty of fun, hardship, friendship, face offs with death, and memories at Iraq. Chris would have happily continued doing all those things, even looking at death one last time, but it was time for him to retire the old rifle, say his goodbyes, and head back to the state he knows well, Texas. With ten honorable years of service Chris finished his final deployment November 4, 2009. Kyle says “ I got out of the Navy November 4; on November 6, I was kicking Texas dust.” (Kyle 418). When…

known as leopard seals, are incredible creatures that possess traits of survival and adaptability. Their widespread residency throughout the Antarctic and some parts north of that combined with their diversified eating habits places them highly in marine mammals as a potential species to survive environmental changes. This essay connects an understanding of the population and foraging ecology of Hydrurga leptonyx with their future existence in relation to climate change. Currently, leopard seals…

people who have never been there before, It’s like going to space or the moon. Antarctica is like a desert, except It’s not hot and it's very cold It’s the coldest continent in the entire Earth and all you see is the snow, sky, water and penguins, seals, birds. it does not rain or snow a lot there, but when it does snow instead of melting they remain there and builds up for many years and make a large thick sheets of ice and they are called ice sheets. There is also glaciers, ice-shelves, and…

currents supply an abundant amount of food. The Emperor Penguin plays an important role in the ecosystem of Antarctica. They are predators to small fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans. Emperor Penguins are important prey to Larger animals like leopard seals and large sharks. There are no cynical influences of Emperor Penguins on humans. Emperor Penguins are carnivores and mostly eat crustaceans, fish, and cephalopods. Proportions of their prey vary seasonally, depending on the amount of prey in…