Black Hearts By Jim Frederick

This cause the men to get a lot less time to relax, taking 8 or more hour guard shifts. The redundant, mundane task of manning the TCPs would make the soldiers restless, tired and complacent; an extremely dangerous combination when in a combat zone. The TCPs would cause a lot of problems throughout the entire deployment. The first catastrophe to hit Bravo Company, and 1st platoon in particular, was the deaths of SSG Nelson and SGT Casica from 3rd SQD. They were both shot point blank while trying to talk to a familiar civilian that they had spoken to previously while manning a TCP. This was the start of the downward spiral that 1st platoon went through during the deployment. Continuing after this incident, the company was still spread very thin, having too many tasks and not enough people. Having to go out on a 20-hour mission and then have to go back out right after you get to the FOB hoping for a bit of relaxing time was a serious moral killer. This didn’t not help the fact that 1st platoon already had been taking out bottled anger and remorse for their lost comrades out on insurgent and civilian alike. To them they were all the enemy. The next big blow the 1st platoon was the deaths of 1LT Britt and SPC Lopez. During a routine IED sweep of route sportster, 1LT Britt and his men were taking contact from mortar fire and one remotely launched RPG from across the canal the paralleled the road. Once the fire had stopped 1LT Britt

Have you ever been in the right place at the wrong time? Well Stanley was and now his life has changed forever. The book Holes by Louis Sachar is a story about friendship and bravery. Stanley is sent to camp green lake after being accused of stealing shoes. The theme of holes is growing up because the story involves youth such as Stanley, and in the story Stanley takes responsibility and shows his innocence.

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a thief and pirate.

His mother or aunt or teacher long ago carefully prepared him, explaining that he as an individual can live in dignity, even though he as a Negro cannot. “They don’t do it to you because you’re Johnny—they don’t even know you. They do it against your Negro-ness.”” This quote, originally stated in Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin on page 45, implies how African-Americans were looked at during this particular time; inferior. African-Americans were treated like they were no more human being than the white folks. This book was great not because of the storyline, but because of the reason behind its publication.

In the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin the reader can experience life on the other side of the color line through his words. John Howard Griffin was an author, more specifically was a journalist and a specialist on race issues. His desire was to know if Southern whites were racist against the Negro population of the Deep South, or if they really judged people based on the individual 's personality as they said. Because of this he felt that they had encouraged him to cross the color line and write Black Like Me. He became another person so he could tell the story of being a black man in the 1950s south. After his experience Griffin became a leading advocate in the Civil Rights Movement. He did a lot to promote awareness of the racial situations.

I was assigned to B Co 1-12 Cavalry as a dismounted fire team leader when the 1-12 Cavalry deployed with the rest of 3rd BDE, 1st Cavalry Division in support of Iraqi Freedom in December of 2008. I deployed a few weeks after everyone else due to a death in the family. Once I finally arrived at the coalition outpost (COP) where my company was positioned, I quickly fell in with my platoon as they had already begun their patrolling of our Area of Operations (AO). Our COP was positioned, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere in the Nineveh Province. After a few weeks of patrolling, our platoon was tasked with taking over a COP to the north in the city of Hammam al-Alil, which is about 30 kilometers south of Mosul. We were taking over an area that was, up to that point, the responsibility of a Military Transition Team (MiTT). The COP, COP Scorpion, consisted of a small open area just large enough to park our vehicles, two long rectangular two story buildings that at one time served as a college dormitory, with a small space to the rear of the second building that served as a mechanics bay. Around the complex was a 12-15 feet high stone wall, with one entrance on the COP, with a large metal slab on wheels that was used to secure it. Around the COP was the remains of a college, which had since shut down and was now being used by the Iraqi Army to house a battalion of soldiers.

The main idea of the book revolves around the issue of discrimination and inequality in the 1940’s against the Black community in Mississippi. The book is written by Anne Moody, who throws light on the difficulties she faced as a black women living in Mississippi. The book talks about Moody’s early years and her family’s instability and struggle living in a racial environment of Mississippi. Moody was chafed by the indifference and insensitivity that the Black people faced at the mediocre social and economic positions allotted to them.

Upon reading the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner, I felt a deep sadness and fear. The thought that there is such evil and darkness in the world chills me to my core. I have watched numerous criminal shows and knew evil existed, however this story includes different aspects of evil that made me realize how it can disguise itself in normal ways. The darkness within this story isn’t just with The Misfit, it also includes the hatefulness and evil aspect of the other characters as well. Pure evil exists among us daily even though we may not recognize it. We, as a society, have numbed ourselves to the darkness that exists, believing that it won’t touch us if we are good people. The truth is that evil can touch any of our lives at any time. This story is like many others where there is good versus evil, however evil was the victor and that was hard to process for me.

People are becoming busier as the technology developed, they use technology to work and live. As they access the technology, they would like to use imagination to create a virtual world and stay away from the real world. In the article “ Alone Together” written by Sherry Turkle, she argues that technology create imagination would affect the whole society in the virtual world and authenticity. She talks that technology developed makes human doute about intimacy, connectivity, authenticity and solitude. However, which is also happened on busyness. As human are busier than before, they begin to think about their imaginary playmate. In the article” Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik, he talks about his daughter’s imaginary friend Charlie

The darkness of the South American’s history is belong to the period that their were against the Africans Americans. The writer of black like me is John Howard Griffin. The author of the novel black like me was born in Texas, and he was a journalist as well. The famous of his writings was about racial equality. One his journal begins when he went to the south to recognized their life style. However, he wants to learn more about their religion and how can they pray for their god, and how the community was dealing with them. He had that reality experience because he was having question mark on his mind. Moreover, he want in that moment to live the African American people life, to feel their feeling when something racism happen and to be one

The theatre production, ‘Blood Brothers’, play script written by Willy Russell, published in 1986, is a tale set in 1950s-80s Liverpool following the story of two twin boys separated at birth; one stays with the mother and lives a council estate life whilst the other lives a lavish lifestyle with the mother’s ex boss, the two women lie, deceiving the world and hiding the truth till one destined night. The importance of the mother in the production is shown underneath the plot, but should be highly regarded as Russell manifested the subordinate views placed upon women in the 1950s&60s surrounding the society of western countries.

lexander Pushkin was one of the most influential writers of his time. The "Queen of Spades" is considered as Pushkin's most successful work. It all begins with Hermann, a German engineering officer who  never gambles, He spends all night and day watching the higher ranks play. He becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of winning. He begins a romance with the countess’s companion, Lizaveta, who hopes that Hermann will love her. They arrange to meet at the countess's house, but once inside the house, he confronts the old countess. When she refuses to reveal the secret, he pulls out his gun, and she dies of fright. During the countess’s funeral, Herman seems to think that her corpse winked at him, and that night the countess's ghost visits

In Holes, a novel written by Louis Sachar, a character I really sympathised with and enjoyed reading about was Zero. Zero was first introduced when Stanley, the main character arrives at Camp Green Lake. Mr Pendanski, one of the camp counsellors introduces Zero to Stanley as “He had nobody… was nobody.” This shows the treatment that Zero was receiving from Mr Pendanski, who was obviously targeting Zero as he was the most vulnerable target of all the boys. Mr. Pendanski targets and singles out Zero so much that Zero starts to tell himself that he didn’t matter and lowers himself to nothing as well, “...said nothing.” This was Zero’s response to any questions thrown at his way. This made me sympathise with Zero a lot as he was being belittled to ‘nothing’ by someone who was a lot older and had more authority than him, making it

Helen Kelles said “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light” In Holes by Louis Sachar the setting in holes is in Camp green lake, Texas the main characters are Stanley Yelnats, Zero, the warden. Stanley was convicted of a crime he didn't do. In “Holes” friendship is very important because it helps you get through rough times. There are many circumstances that describe friendship in “holes”. By Louis Sachar is a story about a boy Stanley Yelnats who got convicted of a crime he didn't do. And gets sent to camp green lake where he develops a bond between the people in his tent. Friendship between the boys would be when the boys teach him how to dig a hole correctly and measure with the shovel. There are circumstances

In her poem ‘For All Voices, For All Victims,’ Antjie Krog expresses her conflicted feelings towards the past in general and the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in particular. The TRC was created by the newly elected Democratic Party to look at the details of the human violations that took place during the Apartheid era. The TRC did not only focus on the people who were violated during the Apartheid era but also looked at the people who designed, encourage and practice the Apartheid. The chairperson of the TRC was Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and it had three different committees aimed at hearing the testimonies from the victims, granting amnesty to perpetrators and suggesting reparations. In the poem both victims and perpetrators share their stories about violence suffering, oppression and it also highlights the changing countries. This essay is going to critical analyse the poem discussing how the hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) provided South Africa with an opportunity to redefine their relationship to the past and to locate their place in the future. Firstly, this essay is going to discuss the speaker’s attitude towards the formation of the new South Africa and how the form of address has a relation on the speaker’s feelings. Secondly this essay is going to discuss the way in which the country is imagined plays a significant role in giving the South Africans with an opportunity to redefine their relationship to the past and