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Platoon Essays and Term Papers
History Of Boot Camp Corrections
In the military boot camp represents an abrupt, often shocking transition to a new way of life. Discipline is strict and there is an emphasis on hard work, physical training, and unquestioning obedience to authority. The new private is told when to sleep, when to get up and when to eat. He ...
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Hero WorshipWhen asked to conjure up descriptions of a hero or heroism, many people would imagine similar scenes. The firefighters pulling a family from a burning building, a soldier saving his platoon from certain death, rescue workers pulling a stranded mountain climber from a precarious ledge, and the ...
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The Things They Carried By TimTim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. O'Brien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers ...
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Fallen Angels: Richie PerryWar can turn even the strongest of men humble. The novel Fallen Angels is about a small group of men who come of age in the Vietnam War. Richie Perry, the novel’s protagonist, enlists in the army mainly to escape his problems—a bad relationship with his mother, a lack of opportunity in Harlem, ...
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The Vietnam Waris truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked ...
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The Vietnam WallThe Vietnam War Memorial. It is a wall, but it is also a monster that many avoid, and many are nervous to visit. In truth, all it is though is facts. It lists the names of all the soldiers that died in the conflict that was staged in a small country in Asia. All the names. There are so many names. ...
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Pride -- (war Essay) --The soldiers of my army were pounding at the walls of the enemy base, ramming into the thick stone and metal with tanks and bulldozers. There was little left on the interior of those walls, having been blown away by mortar shells or destroyed by howitzer fire. The few buildings that retained ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontPaul and the other members of the Second Company are resting after being relieved from the front lines. When they went to the front, their company contained one hundred and fifty men. Only eighty returned. The quartermaster requested rations for a full company, but on the last day, they suffered a ...
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The Odyssey 4A Comparison of Kings-Odysseus vs. Dusyanta
Even though Homer's The Odyssey (eighth century B.C.) and Kalidasa's Sakuntala (fourth century A.D.) were written more than twelve centuries a part, many similarities can be found in the roles that the rulers in each play. The stories not only ...
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Citizen Soldiers: A ComparisonThe U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Citizen Soldiers, by Stephen E. Ambrose, is an account of the hardships and triumphs of war endured by the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces in the "European Theatre of Operations" in World War II. The essence of ...
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A Review Of Courage Under FireIn 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the ...
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Jefferson Davis: Leader Of The ConfederacyJust before daybreak on April 12, 1861, the first shot of the Civil
war was aimed at fort Sumter. The people of Charleston came out to watch as
the war began. Lincoln immediately declared that the Confederate states
were in a state of legal rebellion of the U.S. government. Little did
Charleston ...
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Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"This was an extremely powerful book. Ron Kovic is very able to get his
point accross to the reader. He brings you throughout his life showing you, no.
. . showing cannot describe the feeling adequately enough. He puts you into his
life, when he goes through the trenches, you go with him. When ...
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The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies"Vietnam was the longest war in American history." It lasted more than ten years and killed hundreds of lives. The media was a big part of the war. Back at home in the U.S., televisions, radios, newspapers, and especially Hollywood movies portrayed the war in Vietnam. During the late 60’s to late ...
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Management From The CorpsI want to use this opportunity to discuss two things, both near and dear to my heart; The United States Marine Corps and Management. Throughout this paper I want to focus on how I think civilians can learn to be better managers by using what that corps has established over it’s illustrious 223 ...
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VietnamAfter thinking about all the things we would learn this year in American
history I decided to do my project on the experiences of War
veterans. There is a lot of controversy as to whether or not the
War veterans are given enough recognition for what they went through. I have
heard horrible ...
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This Is Audie Murphy's life story. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them. He joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Audie does one of the ...
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The Evolution Of A Disc JockeyIn The Hip-Hop Culture
With the turn of the century, a musical evolution began. The phonograph was part of this musical change. It was a simple musical output device. The role of
this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the ...
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Creative Writing: The CompetitorsAs thousands of people poured into the rectangular shaped stadium for what was
being called, "the event of the century" , the participants readied themselves
for the hardships they would surely suffer from the games. After a long
grueling season of intense bodily torture this would by the ...
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Courage Under FireIn 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the ...
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