Smoke grenade

When asked in the year of 2015 what weapons or devices Batman uses some common answers are usually: the Batarange, grappling hook, and smoke grenades. Not once will anyone ever say guns. This is because in today’s version of Batman he is completely against the use of guns. Sometime during the 1940’s, after DC bought the Batman name and character, Batman no longer carried guns and up to this…

The year is 2045, everyone in the United States is living their normal lives, human nature was believed to hit its peak, but some thought otherwise. Many thought a revolution was on the verge of configuration. America’s leaders were quiet, but persistent. Even though this was happening, most if not all Americans saw this modern America as a utopia. The United States were at the top of their game financially, politically, and militarily. But three kids and their classmates knew otherwise.…

and positive personality. He and Curt were close friends and Kiley even states that Curt was “...his best friend in the world,” which makes the lost even more devastating (O’Brien 72). The both of them would goof around by playing catch with a smoke grenade and one day, Curt Lemon accidentally steps on a landmine in the midst of the recreational activity; thus, Lemon immediately dies as a result of the fatal blow while leaving Kiley traumatized and distraught. A while later, Rat Kiley shoots…

invaded with the bitter stench of alcohol. On a few occasions, I could smell a musty scent in the air when my dad lit up a cigarette in the house. The putrid smell was so strong and so revolting my eyes started to water. I spent more hours coughing the smoke away than sleeping. The foul odor was still present in the morning, making me nauseous when I headed out for…

Many do not know that 15-year old Claudette Colvin was the first African American who refused to give up her seat to a group of Caucasian people. Being too young and too dark-skinned she was never recognized as the leader who started the Civil Rights Movement. After her arrest, she became pregnant by a much older and married man, and civil rights leaders thought that it would not help but hamper the African American community in their rise for equality. Nine months later, Rosa Parks, a 42- year…

Poland and France temporally. The Germans didn’t care where they built them, they just wanted as many as they could pump out to contain their prisoners. They were killing people by the hundreds on a daily basis, rain or shine, people never saw the smoke stacks inside of the the death camps go out. Like a well oiled machine, they never stopped. Even when the war was over some Nazi scientists still tried to destroy evidence of what happened in the labour and death camps, still believing their…

Panjwai, Kandahar, Afghanistan, known as the heart of the Taliban, the birthplace; and I am headed there. I had just said goodbye to my wife whom at this point I have been married to for 4 months, and was now on my way to a combat deployment. My emotions were all over the place. I knew that I have to be the strong soldier for my peers, the soldier my leaders can trust and depend on, but I am also the loving husband that had to say goodbye to his wife. Furthermore, I knew that this could quite…

Oracle considered sending out her power into the doctor, but the idea of seeing a blown out knee cap made Oracle’s stomach churn. “There, now give it five minutes to run its course, and you’ll be right as rain.” “Thank you,” Reyes gasped. “Are you hurt?” A gentle hand lifted Oracle’s elbow then released it. Fingers felt around her neck and scalp. Oracle got an image flash of reddish-brown marks forming on her chin and right cheek. Above these bruises appeared a few scrapes, scabbing over. “I…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…