Silver bullet

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines “to save” as “to make or keep someone or something safe from danger or harm, or to bring something back to a satisfactory condition.” In her “Little Town [that] was riddled by bullet holes and tunnels bored by five centuries of voracious silver lust,” (11) Makina was evidently not kept from danger, so it is likely that death was a “more satisfactory condition” for her.…

assumptions (e.g. ‘devil’s advocacy’), and those to expand the range of possible outcomes considered (e.g. ‘what-if analysis,’ and ‘alternative scenarios’).” Despite their many potential advantages, red teaming and alternative analysis are not silver bullets. As one would expect, the quality of the output hinges inter alia on the quality and experience of the team, the team’s approach and toolset, and the overall context of the effort. An overconfident or culturally biased analyst or team…

The past couple of classes we’ve spent a great deal of time discussing implicit bias. Implicit Bias lies at the heart of why people of color are pulled over at twice the rate of white people. Pulled Over perfectly illustrates the impact implicit bias has on decision making in the real world. The authors argue that the overarching directive to search for suspicious behavior as opposed to specific violations leads to the activation of police officers implicit biases. They argue that investigative…

Shifting its weight from side to side, the sugar-covered Northern gannet holds its short wings aloft, preparing to jump from a rugged boulder. After a careful scope of the diamond-crusted sea below, the white adventurer tenses before leaping from the mossy cliff. Briefly the gannet plunges--flapping its wings determinately until the stiff breeze lifts its stout form above the salty ocean spray. Swiftly rising through the clear air, the Northern gannet angles its broad, unmoving wings like a…

slavery that was apparent in southern society and points out that mankind is the slave. Through the use of conflict and violence, Twain is able to illustrate the instability in the Nation after the abolition of slavery. He contrasts that violence with a silver lining, human friendships and the idea that some people, regardless of their race or social status, are truly good at…

it seemed for he had secrets to keep and debts to pay but yet no one knew to whom those debts were due and what secrets he held even his family did not know what secrets he held. Rosin was sitting in a wooden chair looking at the small metallic silver safe that he kept under his desk which held a crumpled paper listing the debts and secrets that he has. Rosin himself did not know why he kept it there for he felt it was very unsafe and a cliché at most times. He dismissed the thought of…

Kyle made 160 confirmed kills and 255 claimed kills. Within this time he earned two silver medals and five bronze just on his tour to Iraq. However, being a sniper isn’t just shooting a large gun while in camouflage, the job also includes solving very difficult mathematical skills. With these skills he helped our country immensely. These extremely needed skills include calculating wind speed, the spin of the bullet, and the rotation of the Earth on the axis. Not only did Chris Kyle record all…

I feel the ground shift and taste the dry dirt in the breeze as I step forward. I’m one step closer to being one of the first soldiers sent to fight at Gallipoli or one step closer to being rejected and sent back home to be called an unfit pathetic coward by society. I lean out of line to see how many more men are ahead of me, just a few more. I can’t stop imagining how exciting it would be to fight for the Australian and the British Empire; to win the war and to come back home as a glorious…

Mark Edmundson in his “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students” attempts to dissolve the notion that we take full advantage of a Liberal Education. He claims that colleges and the students within them are too obsessed with an ever-abundant consumerism that damages their potential for growth. As a result of being addicted to this culture of consumption, students do not have the ambition or drive they once did to achieve academic excellence. He claims…

July 3, 1863: the largest battle ever to be fought on American soil takes place. Bullets fly through the air, cannonballs smash through fortifications, and the sound of gunshots are almost deafening. The battle settles, and in an eerie silence, the land looks permanently scarred. In the aftermath of the confrontation, the 51,000 bodies of soldiers lay strewn across the plains of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who had been fighting for what they believe in, and a greater cause. Their blood stains the…