We Didn't Start the Fire

Your life will change when you deploy to a third world country to support and defend the United States of America. Each Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, Marine and their families will experience this change in their own way. For many service members, it will give them some insight as to how other people in that country live their daily lives; they may become more humble and appreciate what they have a lot more. They will value the time that they have with their families after being gone for so long.…

isn’t your fault either. All you are doing is trying to help and that is all that is being asked of you. The only person to blame is the one who is starting these fires and hurting those people. You are just doing what you can to help. “And it is not just here,” Kelly went on. “Every time you have gone in to try and save someone in a fire, whether it was set by this arsonist or not, is something right that you are doing. The outcome may not be ideal and people may blame you, but I repeat: IT IS…

hit us if we did anything wrong, so I learned to wear extra clothes. My youngest sister started to get into drugs and I would even see her selling. Eventually, one of my brothers and one of my sisters moved to Mexico with their dad. It broke my heart when they left, because I was only a little boy wanting my family together. When…

rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books-John Lubbock. People in our society are always trying to get back to nature to escape their busy lives and clear their minds. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and Emerson’s “Nature” stress the fact that nature not only helps us as humans, but can hold the key to a lot of the questions we have. Firstly, both pieces of text discuss how nature can help humans relax from their…

from the Russians. He is in Honolulu, Hawaii and they will be tested on endurance, and other military skills. The events were about to start and Steve went looked at his acrotec to see who his partner would be. He found his name on the list and his partner was, OH NO, it was Jacob his arch nemesis. Steve found Jacob and said, “ Let's put everything behind us so we can succeed.” “Why? I don’t care if I make it into the army or not,” Jacob said in a retortable voice. Their acrotecs buzzed…

At that time in history we as a nation thought we were at peace with Japan. Along with Pearl Harbor, Japan also attacked Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Wake Island, and Midway Island, which led to Roosevelt’s request. During his speech he asked America and congress to remember…

African Americans suffer from police brutality. They had chosen the name Black panthers because the Black Panthers didn’t strike first, “but if the aggressor strikes first, then he’ll attack.” The Black Panthers had advised a 10 point plan that had everything they wanted to change. The plan had basic demands and also more radical demands. There first point was “We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.” They want the freedom to determine the destiny of…

just see people the way you are, your skin color doesn't matter. Continuing, peaceful disobedience is a part of our constitutional right, us as citizens have the civil right to protest when we want to change in our society or government. However, us as a group of people, not individuals, can accomplish this as we have the strength in numbers. Protesting might be viewed in a negative light due to recent social and economical issues involving minority communities, and those who take it in a more…

detroit from years 1943 through around 1968. He speaks on of course race and inequality but also the housing crisis of Detroit as well. Sugrue breaks this book into 3 parts which took me a while to pick up on. The 3 parts was called Arsenal, Rust, and Fire. The first part (Arsenal) goes into detail about how Detroit had such a hard time with housing. Due to the rapid increase of the automobile industry during world war 2 Detroit…

back yelling “Don’t you understand, Pearl Harbor attacked”. At that moment I didn’t know what Pearl Harbor was, but all I knew it was something valuable to him. Without more talking I helped him in what he was doing until he started to throw some of our valuable Japanese furniture out. I stopped him telling him “Are you crazy” I don’t care if he…