Richard Petty

As an Operations Specialist, Petty Officer Jamison has an immeasurable amount of experience to offer recruiting. In the ten years she has served, Petty Officer Jamison has had the opportunity to interact and work with all 19 ratings in the Coast Guard. In addition, she has conducted operations in the eleven Coast Guard mission areas. As a member of the Coast Guard, Petty Officer Jamison prides herself on having a strong work ethic and the ability to resolve difficult situations. Specifically, as…

rescue teams could arrive. We were taking heavy fire from the Japs when I thought we may have a grasp at making it out. I hear a man yell for me and say “I’ve been shot!” it was Master Chief Petty Officer Crawford. He had been shot in the chest three times by a Japanese Zero. I then rushed over to Master Chief Petty Officer Crawford, but the only thing that I was thinking was he may die to, because of me if I had just jumped overboard the first time he said it not the third not the second but…

“Big deal. Death always comes with the territory...” (“Richard Ramirez”). These were the words of serial killer Richard Ramirez moments after he was convicted of killing thirteen people (“Richard Ramirez”). Richard Ramirez was a troubled child who lived with his parents and four siblings. His father was often violent and abusive, causing Ramirez to frequently run away from home. Due to distance between Ramirez and his family, he became close with his cousin, Mike. Mike was a soldier for the…

CAMBRIDGE- Glitter and imagery have recently announced that after being used by Edwin Arlington Robinson to describe Richard Cory, they have officially announced poetry war on Cory. Glitter and Imagery have accused Cory of taking away self-esteem and confidence within the lower class in “Richard Cory.” In an interview with Glitter, he was very frustrated and stated, “ that people don’t realize Cory’s true nature. They need to begin to understand how much of a jerk he is!”…

In his poem, “Richard Cory” Edwin uses irony to show how we are to a man like him. Maintaining the idea that this man had everything going for him and was a well to do man. From the outside, the men working saw this man everyday, gazing at what a man should look like. Charles Burkhart gives criticism that show his contrast and his own ideas and claims about the man. In Richard Cory, author’s creates irony by using imagery, diction, and contrast to show the true description of the man and…

The Poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson from 1869 to 1935 uses an admirational and superficial tone, a third person limited point of view, and the main theme to never judge a book by it’s cover to show a complex attitude towards Richard Cory’s suicide. The author uses a formal and superficial tone to describe who Richard Cory was and his importance to the town. A formal tone is portrayed by the author when said “He was a gentleman from sole to crown”. The author uses more…

Richard Wright once said that “all literature is protest.” Believing that books are weapons and through writing anyone can create whatever their desires: people, places, objects, events, or a way to get others to understand a piece of information of his or her choice. Raised in poverty and barely educated in rural Arkansas and Mississippi, Richard Wright grew up in a world of deficiency and hopelessness. Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son is one of the best descriptions of the lives of African…

Blood was a non-fiction true event of the murder of the Clutter family. It took place in Holcomb, Kansas in 1955 by ex-convicts Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock. The crime took place in the home of the Clutter in expectation to find a safe filled with cash but end up only with forty dollars in cash, a radio, and binoculars. Perry and Richard, (also known as Dick) were displeased and kill the entire family and flee the city. While on the run, they faced challenges and the realities…

Native Son was written in 1940 by African American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of twenty year old Bigger Thomas, an African American male living in Chicago’s South Side poverty stricken community during the 1930’s. Native Son focuses on the racial oppression forced on blacks by whites and the effects it has on society and the theories of people, especially Bigger Thomas. The theme has caused the book to be labeled as a “protest novel” by other authors because of its aim at…

The Clutter family murders, which gained celebrity after the 1965 publishing of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” were the brutal slayings of Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children, Nancy and Kenyon, by 27-year-old Richard Hickock and 30-year-old Perry Smith (Garden City). The two killers, Hickock and Smith, knew each other from their time spent in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. It was during their first stay in prison where Hickock heard of Herbert…