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The book Black Hearts opened my eyes to how leadership from a single Officer can have a grappling effect on such a wide range of soldiers from the lowest of ranks. One of the best takeaways from Black Hearts is to never do anything: illegal, unethical, or immoral. Although this is a easy statement to repeat, Black Hearts demonstrates the difficulties that lie behind these words. It has also painted a picture of how leadership can topple extremely quickly from a top down view. The Army is portrayed in a bad light throughout the book relentlessly. This is due to the concentration of poor leadership of the 1-502nd Regiment (Referred to as “First Strike”), a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division.

Punished was written by Victor Rios and published in 2011. Rios wrote the book to chronicle the challenges young black and Latino boys faced within their improvised highly criminalized neighborhoods. Rios grew up in Oakland California and lived in what was considered the ghettos mainly a minority poor community; he was also a gang member with his fair share of trouble. Rios began looking for answers to the plights he and his community faced after the murder of his friend while they ran from a rival gang member. A conversation with the police whom Rios claimed told him they wanted the gangs to kill each other off made him seek answers to the prevalence of violence that plagues his community.

In “Chapter 2” Irene Hunt focuses on Josh’s plan to leave his home. Howie meets up with Josh after rummaging through trash. Then, Josh tells Howie that he doesn’t want to see Chicago again. Josh believes that his family wants him to leave, and also believes that he and his friend can survive on their own, with the help of their musical talents. Surprisingly, the boys saw Josh’s brother, Joey, approach them. Joey demands that he goes with them. With the help of Howie, Josh who was first not sure about Joey tagging along, allows his brother to join them. Therefore, Josh and Joey pack their clothes and other needed items to join Howie, who was waiting on them with his banjo.

Completely and accurately summarizing the book Black Hearts would take more than the paragraph that is being devoted. Black Hearts is a very descriptive and well written novel about the 1st platoon Bravo Company 1-502nd infantry Regiment’s deployment to Iraq. The whole book is written on true events that not only impacted the men of the platoon, but also the environment in the area of operations (AO) as a whole. In summary, of all the events leading up to the major event of the book, the platoon began its downward spiral with all the devastating losses they endured so early into the deployment which caused a quick and steady drop in morale and ethical decision making. To make matters worse, the men felt as though the leadership was failing

In the book A Long Way Gone the children are being stripped of their childhood. They do not get to experience the carefree childhood that most children have. They deserve to be having fun with their families and and not be scared and alone while being dragged into the war. A quote from the book that really explains how the children are living a stressful childhood is “I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories.” These children should not be sleep deprived nor terrified to fall asleep, this will cause growing problems for the child. They will not have all the physical and mental growth they need in life especially if they constantly stressed. Another example of them not having a carefree childhood is they’re

Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.

Kramer sat there like he was sitting on a hard seat at Nuremburg. Not having enough courage to look his captors in the eyes. He felt their a furtive glare that penetrated the inner core of a two-bit coward that hated himself as much as he hated existing with what he deemed lowlifes. Lujack put a call through to Argyle 's home. The Texan 's heart skipped a beat when Hanna answered the phone. With Kramer in earshot range, he gave her the newsflash that they had their Nazi. Putting a little sarcastic humor to good use, he announced the former commandant’s name as “Herr Josef Kramer.” By the yelp he heard on the other end, meant the celebration on the Isle

“We’re all here for one reason. Caleb. He was my absolute best friend. When I was five years old, I lost everything. I became an orphan and was taken to the Throneroom Orphanage. My first month there, I noticed Caleb. He kept mostly to himself but everyone noticed him. During that first month he became my friend and showed me the ropes of how things worked in the home. He taught me how to protect myself and how to keep myself together. From that early age until now we’ve always been there for one another. We became each others family.”

Einhard, a German raised in the Carolingian court of Charlemagne wrote a vita as a tribute to his king around 825-826 called The Life of Charlemagne after the kings death. He wrote this book either at Charlemagne’s son King Louis’ court or at one of his numerous properties throughout the Frankish kingdom. Based on the didactic nature of the document and Einhard’s own saying that the book is “for the sake of posterity” it is likely that his writing was either meant as a historical book concerning the life of King Charlemagne to be used by further generations or, more likely based on the type of information provided, meant to be a guide for future kings such as Louis on how to be a good and proper king of as high a quality as the highly praised Charlemagne. Einhard was the foster son of Louis’ father, Charlemagne, and it appears that Einhard was trying to use their mutual father figure to set an example for Louis because Louis’ kingdom was unstable. However, courtiers of the time knew that they could not outright insult King Louis’ actions, therefore Einhard needed a way to communicate his constructive criticisms to the king without being forthright about his contempt for Louis and his behaviour. The careful courtier Einhard, while writing The Life of Charlemagne tried to make Charlemagne appear to be a strong leader as well as a friendly person in general but, flattery aside, his writing suggests that Charlemagne was in fact controlling, relentless, ferocious, and aggressive.

From the beginning of time, art has played a momentous part in the lives of those who came before us and shaping history, and has continued to evolve to become what society needs it to be. Many, like Karen Armstrong, acknowledge the significant role art plays in a community. Throughout her essay, Homo Religiosus, she argues that art, much like religion, has the capability to allow one to temporarily forget and transcend their daily struggles, and rather focus on an ideal future. Maggie Nelson’s essay, Great to Watch, questions how society relates to the world and through what can we do so. Nelson opens her text with a discussion of Sister Helen Prejean, who proposes in her memoir, Dead Man Walking, ignorance was a major obstacle that paused social and moral progress. Prejean was convinced that exposure to a world crisis will inspire others to help make change. Nelson rejects this. Rather, Nelson challenges Armstrong’s firm belief in the power of art and claims that using media and art as a platform for exposure will not spark one’s desire to create change, but instead will create a sense of estrangement and ultimately numb us from major world problems.

Dex a 27 year old man born in America, member of the United States Navy Seal, a well honor lieutenant and a soldier who won tons of prestige medal, Dex grew up in California with his wife(Ariana) and has one kid (Ace). Dex medals represent every aspect of his combat in the field. Dex was very destined to be a Navy seal because most people from his generation had been in the army with high honor. Dex would not ruin the streak of his generation being in the army so this is why the join the army.

A romantic drama film is a genre that explores the difficult aspects that come with love. The plot usually includes two people that are in love that can’t be together the way they want to be due to obstacles. The obstacles in a romantic drama film can include a family 's disapproval, to forbidden love, to one 's own psychological restrictions. The Notebook is a movie based on a best-selling novel that was written by author Nicholas Sparks. This is a love story that is composed of a series of obstacles between two young people that are madly in love with each other. It perfectly fits and displays the criteria for a successful romantic drama film because it includes the complexity of love, and elicits emotions.

“The Notebook” is a love story about a young couple who meet in the 1940’s, in Seabrook, South Carolina. Noah is introduced to Allie by friends at a carnival. He is immediately smitten with Allie, knowing he must have her, but she plays hard to get. Noah is a worker at a local lumberyard, making a mere $.40 per day, while Allie is a debutante.

Alan strode out the door just as skittish as he was when he walked in. He went over his plan in his head a countless amount of times. He was meeting Diana for dinner that night. He was going to put the potion into her wine. Diana wasn’t aware that Alan had such a tremendous admiration for her. He was strolling along, almost to the restaurant when a bluebird swooped down and snatched the love potion from Alan’s grip.

Cameron, a young man, awoke abruptly. It was another long night in 2257 AD near modern day China. “Another nightmare,” he whispered under his breath.Panting heavily, he turns and puts his feet on the cold, damp wooden floor. Standing up, he let out a yawn as he stretched. “Well I guess I better go eat some breakfast,” he said to himself. As he goes down the stairs he passes his father’s room. Cracking the door open he could see his father sprawled out on the floor covered in glass bottles. “Drunk again I see,” said Cameron as he turned to continue walking down the stairs.