Warsaw Pact

During my senior year, my Nursing Fundamentals teacher introduced me and my class to a book called, The Pact. She informed us that the book could really impact our outlook on our futures and maybe our careers. She was exactly right, at least in my case. The Pact, is written by three best friends who made a pact at seventeen years old and promised each other they would go to college, graduate and become doctors. These three men did entirely just that, and remain friends till today. Dr. Sampson…

Two weeks prior to the start of soccer season, I broke my ankle playing indoor soccer. I was overcome with more disappointment than imaginable. I felt like the one thing I had worked so hard to accomplish was once again taken away. Similar with The Pact when Sam also had the same struggles. He failed his first state board exam, and was left behind, because Rameck passed. It was something that delayed his medical career temporarily, but if he wouldn‘t have stuck with it, could have delayed it…

toward one another. Dave’s empathy got the better of him, as he went up to Lee with a pistol and broke his own nose . After that very odd episode, they decide they’re even. So, Dave and Lee construct a pact to put each other out of their misery. They carry a new friendship, a brotherhood, a bond. The pact never went into action, as Lee stepped on a rigged land mine he pleaded, “Really, it’s not that bad. Not terrible. Hey, really-they can sew it back on-really” (63). Lee dies a few days later,…

and slowly begin to trust each other. Gradually Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk become good friends, and they make a pact that if one of them got a “wheelchair wound” the other would kill him (62). Later, Lee Strunk stepped on a rigged mortar round and his left was blown off. Lee asks Dave Jensen not to kill him. Jensen complies but feels guilty afterwards, believing that he broke the pact and left Lee Strunk in misery and life-long pain: “Later we heard that Strunk died somewhere over Chu Lai,…

World War II. The Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany devastated a lot of people, as their resistance crumbled in the hands of Nazi leaders. The Polish were disposed through the hands of Nazis, weather through concentration camps or the bombing of the Warsaw Zoo. Through courage, luck and remarkable individuals did many survive and portray their Holocaust narrative perspectives. Antonina Zabinski was one of those survivals that assisted refuges in her zoo. The Zabinskis weren’t forgotten due…

Elsa Kopp was born in Munsinger, Germany as Elsa Moll. When Moll was eighteen years old, she moved to the United States to live with an aunt she had never met. Upon arriving in the U.S, Elsa had to take a boat and then a train to get to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Seeking job opportunities, she began working as a maid, but soon realized she was lonely and extremely homesick. So as not to be so alone in a city she had never been in before, Elsa started taking night classes at Whitefish Bay High School,…

Marie Curie is famous, but we only remember two or three of her achievements & discoveries. We remember even less about who she was, not as a historical figure, but as a person. How did she spend her free time? What was her occupation? What happened to her near her end? Marie isn’t just a historical figure, but she was a real person like anyone; she left a lasting impact on the world around her. Marie Curie had many jobs. Marie Curie was a governess for a short amount of time to fund her…

Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish chemist who was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw. Exceeding all expectations, Curie excelled in and outside of the classroom by achieving a masters degree in physics and math. Curie was also the only woman of her time to win the Nobel Peace Prize twice in chemistry and in physics. Having one of the world’s most brilliant minds, Marie Curie discovered the field of atomic physics, polonium, leading to the development of the atom bomb, and radium, which paved…

Born January 25, 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, Witold Lutoslawski is one of Poland’s most celebrated composers. The whole of Polish music would not be what it is today if it not were for the passion and dedication of Lutoslawski. The youngest of three sons, Lutoslawski started life at his family’s estate in Drozodowo. Life was good to the family for a time, until, as true for many at the time, World War I interrupted. As German troops invaded Poland, Lutoslawski’s father and uncle, Jozef and Marian,…

it one of the best times of her life. All that she cared about was her studies, and classes. Then all of her work payed off on her final exams in science because Marie had the best test results. She had finished her schooling, she would go back to Warsaw to care for her…