Sergeant Major of the Army

We start in the time period of about 1803, this is all how the notorious adventure begins. Thomas Jefferson president at the time had an interest in the Louisiana territory owned by the French so with the help of the U.S. Senate he purchases it. Which is known today as the Louisiana Purchase. After Jefferson discussed exploring the New Land beyond the “great rock mountains” he appointed his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis to voyage to the ocean. Lewis asked for help on this trip by a man…

Unfortunately, this resolution did not make Mrs. Ross or Robert happy, as Mrs. Ross wanted him to kill them, while Robert simply wanted them to live. A second example is with Robert and a coyote. One day, during a break in his training for the Canadian army, Robert goes for a run, finds a coyote, and decides to run alongside the beast. The coyote acts somewhat as a mentor for Robert during the run. It did not care when it passed by potential prey, or in another word, food. Robert realizes that…

Throughout the globe, societies expect individuals to conform to its own ideologies, customs, and laws of its own. An example of this is Albert Camus’s “the Guest,” in which Daru struggles between the clash of French and Arab culture in the plateaus of Colonial Algeria, and the isolation created by moral dilemmas. Outside of societies like Colonial Algeria, readers function in society as well. They, readers, use their own societal expectations to define right and wrong within a text. But often…

superior soldiers. The number of human lives saved as a result of these courageous public servants cannot be minimized. In an interview with retired Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, Leavey tells of her career in the U.S. Marine Corps with her partner Sergeant Rex, a German Shepard and the bond they shared. Leavey and Rex spent two six month tours together in Iraq and completed over 100 missions as a team. While conducting a vehicle search in Iraq,…

People believe that racial profiling is an effective way to eliminate crime in the community and even as far as the nation. What are your beliefs. If racial profiling is present in todays society, it is strongly against the law. But why is this so bad? Why do people want to eliminate racial profiling? There are three main reasons why Racial Profiling is the wrong approach to get rid of crime. These reasons are because it is a violation of our basic rights, it is considered harassment, and it is…

The Hot Zone is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston; a book about “the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus” as the cover states. The novel is written in the perspective of the author, Richard Preston, as he interviews, medical staff, researchers and family members of the victims. The reader learns about the first of many known outbreaks of the virus, different strains of the virus, similar viruses and much more. The book is broken into four parts, each filled with…

Imagine yourself as a young child. You live a happy life with your family and you have many friends. One night you are awoken by your parents and they 're telling you to get up, that you need to leave and run away. As you run out of your house you see that your whole village is engulfed in flames. You, your mother, and your siblings get away, but your father stays to fight. You are urged to keep going and in 3 days end up in Guinea. You are completely lost in what has happened, but soon you…

Edgar Allan Poe is revered as one of the most astounding poets to ever live. Poe is still referenced has references to his more popular tales in the current culture. Examples of this are the classic Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode in which they parodied The Raven, R.L. Stine made a story based off The Black Cat. While he is largely remembered for The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven, Poe wrote around 80 stories and poems all together. While he is a celebrated poet,…

Famous American short story writer Edgar Allen Poe uses point of view effectively in “The Black Cat.” “The Black Cat” was first published in the United Sates Saturday Post on August 19, 1843(Obaid). The narrator of the short story is in jail waiting to be executed the next day, and he wants to set the story straight on the crime that propelled him there. The narrator and his wife love pets and have a black cat named Pluto, but one night the drunk narrator digs the cat’s eyes out and hangs the…

In fact, this idea is highlighted in the film, Sergeant York, which exemplified the possibility of the same horrific result experienced in World War I occurring if America intervened in World War II(Toplin). This film’s purpose was to instill fear into the audience which reveal the threats that entering…