Mercenary

Movie Essay The movie Deadpool is based on one of marvel’s most unconventional anti-heros. Deadpool tells the story of a former special forces operative, Wade Wilson, who becomes a mercenary. After discovering that he is ill with cancer, Wade decides to take part in a rogue experiment hoping that he will be cured from his cancer. Unfortunately, the experiment had gone wrong, leaving Wade with accelerating healing powers. However his face was severely damaged in the process. In addition to his…

What is commonly referred to as the “fall of Rome” wasn’t at its essence a fall at all. It was a gradual decline, following years, decades, even centuries of conquering peoples and acquirement of riches. Throughout the centuries, the Roman Empire had many RISES and declines as does any world power that survives for as long as the Roman Empire did. The question is why this decline was the last decline, what led Rome to a point that the Empire failed to recover as it had in the past. Roman armies…

The Empire of Rome was certainly one of the greatest in the history of mankind, but it fell. Why did it so? Given the complexity of the Empire’s organization and its long-lasting life, it is hard to assign one or two exact reasons which may exclusively be accountable for its fall. The point is that there were many reasons generated by many different triggers that have contributed to the fall of Empire. One can point simultaneously to internal and external factors which played a role in the…

Rodrigo Mendoza, one of the main characters in the film, The Mission, was at first, a mercenary and slave trader. After finding his significant other in bed with his own brother, Rodrigo is challenged to a duel by his brother. The tragic outcome of this duel sends Rodrigo down a challenging path of despair, depression, and ultimately redemption. Father Gabriel, a Jesuit priest, is the other main character. Unlike Rodrigo, Father Gabriel is a "Christ-like," peaceful, loving and compassionate…

Honesty is an important aspect of many agreements in everyday life. It is important in school, work and other aspects, like marriage. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the satire of an upper-class Victorian marriage can also be seen as a parody of the noble Victorian society as a whole. Wilde uses short dialogue to mock upper-class marriage in order to highlight and ridicule the flashbacks of society as a whole during this Victorian era. Wilde’s clever mind comes up with the…

unlawful justice to Star City. The suit is green with a large hood on top that masks his face when he is out in the public fighting crime. The design of the suit is based off of what he wore when he was stranded on the island and was fighting the mercenary army with Slade Wilson. It is the color green because when he was on the island he used that color to help blend in with the forest surroundings when he was either hunting or fighting. It is a great symbol within this show because the show…

In this age, historical friction between each shoen were rare. In those days, great battles among the big groups of Samurais often took place. At that time, it is said that ninjas went to war as secret agents. Ninjas were hired by samurais as mercenaries. At last, when the age came when each of the lands in Japan were discovered by "Daimyo " who were the lords of "Samurai"s, then many of the fierce wars came about over…

In a modern society where all forms of media are inundated by violence, one becomes relatively hardened to violence in mass media. However, “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy will still jolt the modern reader out of complacency. Written as a sort of anti-Western epic, “Blood Meridian” follows its protagonist, “the kid” as he drifts through the southwest in the 1800s. The kid eventually joins an outlaw band of Indian hunters who have a taste for blood and violence like no other. As the story…

A hybrid threat is a combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and criminal elements. Hybrid threats may be nation-state actors such as conventional core state armies or non-state actors such as terrorist organizations. These forces and organizations may work together, either purposefully or not, to achieve mutually beneficial effects on the battlefield. Defeating a hybrid threat requires adaptiveness, and the ability to react quickly. Hybrid threats are highly adaptive adversaries…

In the year 822SX, Felt was born in a hidden room in the top of Tower of Felt, a tower that the king of the High-elves had ordered to be made as a gift to a noble that fought for him and brought him widespread victory in the last great war. Felt's father, the previous general of the west, was soon to be the next king of the High-elves and had given life to her out of wedlock. To protect his position and reputation he had Felt birthed far away in a secret location, in the Tower of Felt. As she…