Private First Class

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 war really is. Paul is also too young and immature to be fighting in the Vietnam War. He is very childish. He does not act like a soldier should act. The story says, “He was pretending he was a boy again, camping with his father in the midnight summer along the Des Moines” (198). He just wants to be a boy again. He is not ready to take…

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…

above all that I should return to my roots as a professional computer nerd. In 2009 I was running my own Information Technology Company and doing quite well financially, but I felt something was missing. On a whim, I contacted the local Army recruiting office and scheduled my ASVAB entrance exam. Shortly thereafter that I signed my first contract to enlist as a Combat Engineer, subsequently six months later I was standing in my very first formation, being reminded how equally worthless we all…

Public Schools are no Comparison to Private Schools. I. Introduction A. Private schools get talked about all the time just because the majority think private schools aren’t affordable. So, people automatically jump to side with public schools. The thing is private schools may charge but don’t face all the problems public schools have. For example, public schools are too big and don’t have time to help each and every student a teacher has. Public schools are just a big problem that almost no…

very well paid, but requires education beyond a bachelor’s degree in most cases, which makes the whole process an even bigger investment. When you make it to the point of preparing for graduate school, you have to take on even bigger loans because a lot of the aid that you received on a need basis is no longer supplied. Growing up in a middle class family, we didn’t have the funds at our disposal to pay for college out of pocket. The first step in funding this decision was to apply to FAFSA in…

are also many aspects that come along with private schooling. Private schools offer up many great contributions to a student in which a public school would struggle to offer a student. Some of these contributions that help students include curriculum control, certification for teachers, and high standards for discipline and respect. These characteristics or contributions that private schooling offers helps set them apart from public schooling. To begin with private schools have a lot of freedom…

Literacy is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “the ability to read and write”. Many of us are blessed to be able to read and write. In Malcolm X’s article he considered being literate, as “In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” He explained the critical part of being a literate person, which is to free him self. Being a literate person is an essential skill to have in order to survive in this world. Learning a different language is a hard task in many ways.…

will not soon forget. From age four to age fourteen, my school day invariably began with these words. From my childhood years up to my early teenage years, I attended Holy Family School, a remarkably small, close-knit private school which seemed appropriate for the town of 4,000 people that it was situated in. The ten years I spent in that undersized school building meant a lot to me, after all, they shaped the way I interpreted the world and the people in it. Contrary to popular misconceptions,…

Then private school is the basic form of traditional education; there are many other forms of education, which can be divided into rising for children to learn Mongolian or Mongolian school and opened higher education for adults. Song academy private education in ancient history occupies an important position, is worth studying. College has its own set of unique form of regulations related to school teachers and students, and self-study system and free debate. For educational purposes, reading…