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Honor, courage and commitment, the core values of the Marines, define how every Marine in the Corps thinks, acts and fights. Honor is the foundation of a Marine’s character. A Marine never lies, cheats, or steals and always stands by an adamant code of integrity. Courage is the mental, moral, and physical strength embedded in every Marine. This is what allows Marines to remain calm while presented with fear. Moral courage means having the inner strength to stand up for what is right and to…

Police Militarization Good or Bad After watching “Do Not Resist” by Craig Atkinson and reviewing some articles the class realized that the police are not trained on how to use the military equipment, but yet they are given this equipment. We are just now learning about how the police are gaining all these supplies and how they are not being trained on how to use it but why are we just now hearing about all this. In the article “Trump Endorses Militarization of Police…”, John…

In the excerpt from "The Truth About Being a Hero," Niemi, a young marine, chucked two grenades inside of a bunker while the NVA were positioned to fire at him, and as they went off, he had fallen to the ground seemingly dead. Niemi impulsively put his life in danger in order to protect not only his fellow marines, but to protect the country…

For this reflection essay, I will be writing about a design called “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”. This design is comprised of five pictures form from a videogame that was used by the US Defense Department to convince citizens of a message about fighting for the United States of America but there’s another message hidden in this art. I will be discussing some details of this art which includes the artist, the techniques used by the artist, the message or signification behind the art, the…

Summer Break When you get off from school, what do you look forward to? What do you like to do? When I get off of school I want to go to my Grandma’s house where my cousins and I spend time together, whether it be playing xbox, cooking, or going to the park. It was getting close to the end of my summer when I was able to go over to my cousin’s house. I…

The Things They Carried: A Psychoanalytic Study The Things They Carried was published in 1990 by Tim O’Brien, approximately fifteen years after the United States departed from South Vietnam and twenty years after O’Brien left. Although at the time of publishment O’Brien hadn’t been in Vietnam for nearly two decades, the memories and stories he depicts within his novel are fresh and filled with colorful dialogue. The Things They Carried allows readers to view a minuscule portion of the brutality…

Not everyone served their country by fighting the Axis Powers on the front line. Many did their part in their hometown and Dorothy Haener was one of them. She contributed to the war effort by working in a plant and inspecting B-24 parts. Even growing up, Dorothy was exposed to the expectation that women were to aspire to marriage and raise a family while their husbands worked. She also noticed that many men thought women were inferior to them and were even lower in their eyes if they were…

Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front depicts Remarque’s experiences as a young German soldier that served his country during WWI. Remarque translated his experiences shortly after the war ended and his novel became a universally acknowledged war story in 1929. Although Remarque received high regards toward his novel, once readers looked deeper into his story, many started to question the message All Quiet on the Western Front was translating. After reviewing All Quiet…

trainees were having a good time joking and laughing he just sat alone and didn’t say a word. Everything he learned to do he learned alone. He was tired of independence.(pg. 34) He thought about running away to Canada just so he didn’t have to carry a rifle. Tim and his friend Erik even made a coalition against the army.(Pg. 35) They say it was a war of resistance to save their souls.(Pg. 35) The two both read poems and enjoyed them, but they wouldn’t talk about them around other people because…

towered even over Dewhurst. A 3000-volt inner electric fence and guard posts scattered the borders, ensuring only security cleared persons entered and more importantly only the consented could leave. Guards also marched the grounds armed with rifles, hands grenades and German Shepherds on short, bulky chains. The sight brought him comfort, reassuring him a rebellion like Camp 22 would never happen again. They underestimated the logs before, but now escape is…