A Few Good Men

Most civilians would label Jessup’s actions as cruel and cold hearted and vicious. They would view thesituation from a Teleological framework, which means they would be thinking about theconsequences of Jessup’s actions. However, civilians are not marines and therefore do not understand the point of the situation. The point is to adherence to military rules. In fact proper ethical behavior in the case of a marine comes form following therules. This is an example of a deontological

The movie is about two marines indicted for the murder of a fellow marine in their platoon. Private First Class (PFC) William Santiago died because of lactic acidosis triggered by the assault inflicted by Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Lowden Downey. This assault was the result of a direct order by the platoon commander Lieutenant Kendrick. The order was to train Santiago to respect the Code of the Marines and the chain of command. Private Santiago had broken this chain and written directly to the NIS asking for a transfer, in exchange for offering information about an illegal fence-line shooting. When Colonel Nathan Jessep, commander of the marines stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, learned of this letter, he ordered the

About a few months later, Lance Corporal Johnson goes home for leave. The whole time he's there, he acts as if he is still on base. Gets a haircut every sunday, shaves every day, and never wears any clothing out of Marine Corps Regulations. He may have drank a few times, but he's over the drinking age so its okay. When Lance Corporal Johnson came back from leave, he noticed a funny smell in his room. It was coming from his bathroom. So, he opens the bathroom door to find his roommate and another

Owen states that he has altered some names, and that since he is human some events may have played out differently. Lt. Owen also informs that he used help from his coworkers to make sure he retells the tale with utmost honesty. “All the men portrayed here are real, and the substance of their stories is faithful to the actual events depicted.” (Preface, xvi) It is with this precaution we are introduced to the first Chapter. Lt. Owen gives the readers information not only about his background, but also the background of his coworkers. He speaks of the pride a marine should have, and the bravery of Baker-One-Seven. “We were under way. There were tears, but Marines and Marine wives aren’t ashamed of tears when their hymn plays.” (Chap. 3, pg. 46) This memoir serves as a tribute to the Marines of Baker-One-Seven. The events and facts depicted in Owen’s memoir contains historical

The movie for this essay is Brothers (2009), the film opens with Captain Sam Cahill as the main character who is a marine captain. Having been married to her high school lover, they had two daughters. This is an indication that Sam was also a family man. Before Sam is set to depart to Afghanistan, his brother Tommy is released from a prison where he had been convicted of armed robbery at a bank. After Sam departs to Afghanistan in October 2007, news emerge that Sam’s chopper had crashed in an operation and all the marines inside it had died.

In the story titled “The Man I Killed” O’Brien reflects on the events leading to and following his killing of a Vietnamese soldier via a grenade. He goes on to tell the reactions of his platoon mates as well as his own. The explosion of the grenade left the Vietnamese soldier’s face burned and unrecognizable. This symbolizes the life of so many of the thousands of dead Vietnamese soldiers that too were killed and consequently buried. These dead soldiers went unidentified and failed to bring their respective families closure. O’Brien struggles to cope with

Many people in the army feel guilty. They regret all the murders. They see the people they killed everywhere. In their dreams, outside, shadows, they are forever haunted with the faces of the dead. Christopher Lane, a boy with a broken background, is haunted by the killed. After accidentally murdering Mortimer Genever, (vowing to get his revenge) his twin brother Ernest runs away. Showing great determination, hopefulness, and honesty, Chris tracks Ernest down, to apologize for the mistaken murder.

People are often over looked and are not acknowledged for the good that they do in every day life. Most would not consider Bailey, the father from the story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, an outstandingly great man. A scholarly critic, Nancy Nester, expresses that the moral of the story is to delineate Bailey as the Grandmothers idea of a ‘good man’. Bailey’s character is bland and also a bit authoritative and can be seen as an ordinary man, not a ‘good’ man. Nester forenamed “[…] that is may be Bailey, in fact, whose goodness that the grandmother affirms at its climax”. Bailey’s true morality is not characterized until the end of the text when the grandmother shows her desperation to the ‘Misfit’, the alleged serial killer who escaped from prison. In the story A Good Man is Hard to find, Bailey, the father of his family and son to his mother shows his ‘goodness’ throughout the story by alleviating the wants and needs of his family but is ultimately over looked because of his bleak and affectionless characteristics.

They utilized specialized legal terms that only individuals in the legal profession would understand. Espoused values as illustrated by Schein (2009) are: “strategies, goals, philosophies” (p.21). For the Marines at Guantanamo Bay, their purpose was to provide security for the Unites States of America under the guidance of the commanding officer (Col. Nathan R. Jessep). During the trial, Capt. Jack Ross provided two manuals that Marines are to follow: The Marine Guide and General Information Handbook for New Recruits and The Marine Corps Guide for Sentry Duty at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba which provided the basic outline for Marine actions, responsibilities and duties. As for the lawyers involved, they shared a pre-requisite fundamental knowledge of the law. They all had law degrees as well as being members of the Armed Services. These two cultures, attorney and military produces a unique culture, having its own terminologies and decorum practices. They had specific responsibilities and guidelines that had to be followed, as both council and officers. As for underlying assumptions or shared tacit assumptions, Schein (2009) provides the following description about them: “unconscious, taken for granted belief, perceptions, thought and fillings (ultimate source of values and action)” (p. 21). The Marines as described by Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson followed a code: “Unit, Corps, God, County” (Brown & Reiner, 1992).

Like Celie, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross continues to struggle with his past. Despite Jimmy’s emotions hindering his judgement and his ability to stay focused, Lieutenant Cross is still a strong soldier because he is enduring the phycological weight of war. . It takes a strong man to be actively fighting a war for his country. However, being madly in love with his crush Martha is negatively affecting his ability to lead his battalion of men in the Vietnam. Cross’ love for Martha made him feel “paralyzed.” (302) Because of Lieutenant Jimmy’s mentally emotional love, he is not able to physically lead. Lieutenant Cross’s lack of attentiveness results in Ted Lavender a soldier in cross platoon to die. Soldiers see the dead and wounded members of allies,

The Development of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross In Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried,” the main character, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, undergoes a major transition in personality and mindset. Lieutenant Cross is first depicted as a love-stricken soldier who is physically in Vietnam but mentally at home with the women he loves, Martha. Cross ponders every aspect of Martha’s life back home and thinks about her constantly.

Next, Marco and his squad went into one of the houses to kill the insurgents. They cleared the house. Behind that house was a guesthouse. There were five terrorists in the guesthouse. There were a few palm trees too. Marco ran behind one of the palm trees for cover. The other marines of his squad were behind a narrow wall. Marco found a RPG on his way running for cover behind the palm tree. He picked it up and tried to fire it at the enemy, but the RPG didn’t work. Marco then figured out the RPG had a dual trigger system. He figured it out, and fired it. Marco killed the insurgents and earned the Navy Cross.

Great men need not be good men. Greatness outweighs good qualities in an individual. It is defined as a state of superiority, a quality possessed by several individuals who stand out from the normal social construct. This quality places an individual under the admiration of the masses. It gives the individual a superior advantage over his fellow counterparts in a specific area of interest in which he has attained greatness. One is only regarded as a great when he has reached the pinnacle of success in his area of interest. On the other hand good is a quality possessed by a fairly larger amount of society in comparison to those who possess greatness. Good is a quality that requires an individual to uphold ethically sound qualities in

At the end he looks even closer at the marines and through the situations he manages to notice their thoughts and feelings.

A platoon is a commanded by a lieutenant either second or first lieutenant and they suppose to have forty seven marines and two navy hospital fulminator, they have to have fulminator from the navy because marines do not have any. Michael is thankful to a twenty year old hospital fulman, because thanks to him he is still here now. There is a program call R&R (rest and relaxation) were he got a five day vacation from the war, where you can go t several designated places for five days and rest and relax. Michael was married (he has been married 48 years now) and had two sons, so for his R&R he went to Hawaii with his family for the five days. The day Michael went back to Vietnam after his R&R that was the day he got wounded for the second time, the first time he got wounded it was not as serious as the second time, the second time he step on a landmine and the outcome to that miraculous because normally nobody survives such a thing like that, and if somebody survives it they generally lose some limps. Michael did not lose any limps, but he almost most one, but he was not as injured as he could have had been. The place where he got wound there was no