Private First Class

In the movie A Few Good Men, director Rob Reiner displays a conflict between the authority of Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Jessep and his subordinates, Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private Louden Downey, who unintentionally kill a fellow soldier. In an attempt to teach Private Santiago a lesson, Jessep manipulates Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick into ordering Dawson and Downey to commit a Code Red on Santiago. Codes, manipulation, superiority, and morality all factor into their decision to carry out that fatal order. A similar scenario develops in the article, “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience,” where authors Herbert C Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton investigate whether or not Lieutenant William Calley was justified in organizing…

In the short story Where Have You Gone, Charming Bill? , by Tim O’Brien, Private First Class Paul Berlin, the main character, is constantly consumed by his fear. He is fighting in the Vietnam War and the one thing that seems to always be on his mind is his fear. He tries to be brave, for his father, but his attempts fail due to his overpowering fear that controls him. Private First Class Paul Berlin fails in trying to achieve his goal of not being afraid because of his misunderstanding of what…

Disobedience to Authority “A Few Good Men”, directed by Rob Reiner, is about Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a navy lawyer, who is placed as the head council for P.F.C Downey and Lance Cpl Harold Dawson. Downey and Dawson are on trial for the murder of P.F.C William Santiago. Kaffee, a known plea bargainer, was forced to defend the marines in court after they refused a plea deal. Kaffee realized that he needed to try to win the case after they refused his deal. Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross write about how…

Private First Class Daniel Wright has been placed in strange dilemma, in Trent Reedy’s novel, Divided We Fall. He has sworn loyalty to two different people, both of which want him to battle the other. PFC Wright is an Idaho National Guardsman. The President passed a law that the Idaho legislature disagreed with, claiming it to be unconstitutional. Riots broke out in response. Daniel, along with other National Guardsmen, were deployed to prevent things from getting violent. Instead of preventing…

in his first innings as an Indian Test batsman at his hometown, Rajkot. Considering the match situation, it was a significant knock in many ways. India were 47 for 1 when the local boy Pujara came into the crease and along with Murali Vijay, played almost a match saving innings. Meanwhile, during the course of that 124-run innings, Pujara scored his runs with on an impressive rate of almost 61 runs per 100 balls, which can be considered as a fitting reply to recent criticisms on his so called…

Main Argument The goal of Marx and Engels’ (1848) Manifesto of the Communist Party, was to acknowledge and publish the views, aims of tendencies of the Communist party. The Manifesto was the first publication of the internationally unified goals of the Communist party. Marx and Engels (1848) highlighted that they were not opposed to other proletariat parties, but they instead wanted to unify the proletariat regardless of nationality . The immediate goal of the party was to officially form the…

This week in class we learned about how post-World War II public and private memories can be remembered and portrayed by German citizens from that time. Watching the film Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, reading a piece by Domansky about German memories, having an expert group present and having an in-depth class discussion involving all of the aforementioned items brought up a myriad of significant ideas and critical realizations. The expert group began by providing a background for the film,…

n the world of education everybody in the world seek for knowledge and education. In Malaysia education is important of youth and others. In order to seek knowledge there are public and private educations in Malaysia and a lot of people become confuse in order to choose public or private education especially for whom want to further their education. Both public and private have pros and cons. For public education the advantages are social interaction among student, variety of academic program…

laws would not directly combat the root of the problem in the first place. While Mill might have argued that lack of government oversight over the safety of the workers caused the factory collapse, Marx would argue that class distinctions in bourgeois society leads to the conditions that caused the factory to collapse; the factory owners valuing their workers solely by the value of their labor. In “the Communist Manifesto” Marx states that “modern bourgeois private property is the final and most…

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Edouard Bernstein and William Lovett all attempt to answer the social question. Marx as well as Engels attempt to answer the question of class division through communism and The Communist Manifesto. Bernstein wants to answer the question through evolutionary socialism. Lovett desires to answer the social question with Chartism. The Communist Manifesto is made up of four parts. The first part discusses the communist’s theory as well as the relationship between the…