Robert Blake

The Fog of War is an American film that documents the life, as well as times, of Robert. S McNamara, a former United States Secretary of Defense. In the film he illustrates his observations and experience with modern warfare (Errol, 2003). The title “Fog of War” is derived from a military concept that tends to depict difficulty that arises when making decisions especially when faced with conflict. The term Fog of War comes into mind when watching the film. It refers to the uncertainty that…

school is a very influence a prospective on life in making a big decision in life. The poem is a lot deeper then it seems you will have sat down and broken every line to fully understand the hidden message the speaker is talking about in the poem. Robert frost poem had me thinking about the hidden message within, his point of view and how the measure up to my personal…

Robert Frost once said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” This is an extremely relatable quote when talking about Frost’s poetry because his home is the setting and background for most of his poems. Frost was named after the famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee. At one point in his life, Frost had debated whether or not he should commit suicide, which will be discussed later in this essay. In addition, Robert Frost, who had lost his father at…

something over and over again, but there does not appear to be a true purpose behind it. A person does something just because his ancestors did it before him, but the reason why has been lost. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, they reveal the idea of following a certain tradition, but the characters do not really need the tradition anymore. In “The Lottery,” Jackson writes about a town coming together right before the harvest, and they have a lottery. The…

teacher barked at young Fulton to pay attention. The boy’s mind was wandering again. “ Robert Fulton, who later became a phenomenal inventor, had a hard time in school as a young boy in the 1770’s. Young Fulton would come home to his mother and say “ My head's so full of notions that there, is no vacant chamber to store away the contents of dusty books “ Born in 1765 in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania, Robert Fulton went on to become a talented artist and a skilled, and creative inventor…

Only Bates Can Get A Little Voyeuristic At Times: An Analysis on Robert Bloch’s “Psycho” When it comes to Gothic Literature, there are various conventions that could come into play, to define a work as such. In the “Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms”, Douglass H. Thomson notes that in such a genre there is a gap of difference that separates works that evoke terror and those that ignite horror as he says: “Works of horror are constructed from a maze of alarmingly concrete imagery designed to…

Former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, is the first guest in the University of Colorado Boulder’s new speaker series on the campus. He will visit the campus on Feb. 28 through to March 1, not only will he be delivering his speech but he will also be visiting classrooms to inspire leadership throughout the CU. He will be making this speech at the Mackey Auditorium Hall and the tickets are sold out. Robert Gates is well-known for being the Secretary of Defense for eight different presidents,…

(My POV) I gripped Winter Stream's saddle tightly. She looked down at the Swirling waves below. She knew that if she fell, it would be the death of her. She shook the thought away and looked ahead. Fog was swirling just beyond a sea stack close by, blocking her view of the islands that were nearby. The expedition was about to start and everyone was anxious. I looked over to Flower and she signaled and to begin the expedition. Everyone took off in the direction of the sea stack ahead. I followed…

Morse Code There are many different ways to communicate. Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to communicate long distance, a message would be written and delivered by a carrier. It wasn’t until a tragedy entered a great painters life that he turned from painting to becoming a great inventor. Samuel L. Morse was a painter and inventor who is is best remembered today for his invention of a single wire telegraph system and co-inventor of the Morse Code. He entered a formal school at the age of…

lines and sometimes even the whole text. Robert Frost uses such literary devices in his poems. Mending Wall by Robert Frost is about two neighbors that work together to repair the wall that separates their properties from each other. The Cow in Apple Time also by Robert Frost is about an obstinate cow that breaks through a wall to escape her pasture for an apple orchard where she devours apples until she feels agony and reaches her inevitable end. Robert Frost uses multiple images of a wall and…