Curacao Accidents

The book begins with the imagine of Louie Zamperini drifting on a raft after the plane carried Louie and his fellow airmen crashed down to the Pacific Ocean. Then it starts over to the very beginning of Louie’s life journey. He is the son of Anthony and Louise Zamperini, who immigrate from Italia and reside in Torrance, California. Louie grows up showing that he is a

Louie Zamperini floated on the ocean for 47 days, and was held prisoner in Japanese POW camps for 2 years. When Louie was a child he was very rebellious. The more Louie grew the more trouble he got in. One day when Louie was running from a teacher his brother, Pete, noticed how fast Louie was. Pete helped Louie become a runner, where Louie would go to the Olympics. Louie could run 2 miles in just over 4 minutes but one day Louie was drafted and had to go to Hawaii where Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, starting WWII. On a fateful day, Louie’s plane crashed leaving him stranded in the ocean with two other men, Mac and Phil, but sadly, one had died, Mac. Louie and Phil were rescued 47 days later, but by the wrong country. Japan took them

Vietnam. The story is told from the perspective of Richie Perry, a young soldier from Harlem.

He had to dive for them, but I caught all the fish.”(Ch. 13 pg.96) Phillip is becoming more independent; he can now provide fish for himself as opposed to Timothy gathering food for him. He has fully developed his independence after the hurricane as shown when, in chapter 16, he states that he had,”...taught myself to tell time…” And when he said to Sew Cat that he didn’t,”...know how we’ll get all done.” And followed by saying that,”... something told me I must stay busy and not think about myself.” The fact that he had taught himself to tell time shows that he is independent. He knew how to tell what time of day it was while he was blind. He is taking care of himself, but he is also taking care of Stew Cat at the same time. So, as the book clearly shows, Phillip goes from being needy and reliant on Timothy to being able to take care of himself and another

This journey which lasted for more than 24 months and all started when Zamperini and his fellow crew members went out on a search and rescue mission near the Pacific Ocean. As this expedition one on a major mechanical issue came along with the plane. Due to the plane failures, the plane crash leaving only three men who were; Louis , Russell Allen “Phile” Phillips and Francis “Mac” McNamara. (Schudel 2) These 3 million luckily stayed afloat using a raft, surviving only on rain water and eating birds. The frustration of finding food became so unbearable that Louis caught a bird and ate it raw and his face became infested with lice because of the bird. Being drifted as the days went by floating upon the never ending sea, Being drifted as the days went by floating a pawn the never ending see, one of the surviving soldiers could no longer fight the battle with the sweltering sun and the surrounding sharks, Francis “Mac” McNamara past away 14 days before making it ashore. Louis and Russell gave Francis A proper sea burial and two weeks later he help came, only it wasn't what they expected. After being stranded at sea for 47 days some help arrived but it wasn't all peaches and cream, the Japanese had arrived and approach the remaining two men at gunpoint, bounded them and brought them to prisoner of war camps. Due to famine and thirst Zamperini went from 160 pounds to about 80 pounds. After being captured Zamperini and R.A Phillips we're separated,sent to different camps and tortured in various ways. He spent six weeks on an island named Kwajalein. ” this imprisonment lasted two years and he later suffer from disease, exposure, starvation and daily beatings from the corporal name “the bird”.

Phillip says, “After a moment, lying there in darkness, hearing the creak of the raft and feeling its motion, it all hit me. I was blind and we were lost at sea. I began to crawl, screaming for my mother and father” (Taylor 46). This quote shows how he is scared by showing that he screams for his mother and father. Phillip has developed from an innocent boy to a scared one. The rising action is full of obstacles such as Phillip turning blind and being lost and isolated at sea which turns him into a scared

Phil changes after convincing Rita that he is reliving the same day and she tells him to make the most of it. He starts allowing reason and character to weigh in on his appetites, thus following the path to Ultimate Happiness. By listening to these sides of his soul, Phil begins to show both Moral and Intellectual virtues. His moral virtue increases as he begins helping the townspeople including: a boy falling from a tree, old ladies with a flat tire, a homeless man, and a man who is choking. Intellectually, Phil pursues the piano and masters French along with French poetry, allowing him to prosper in a rational sense. All of these examples show how Phil begins to live a virtuous

Ocean in 1954,in the wake of a brutal war called world war II.The Lord of the flies was an article about

When the plane crashed two boys took control and became the leaders of the situation. The two were named Canessa and Zerbino. They were third year medical students. They both scattered around the plane helping as many people as they could. They were petrified and in shock themselves,

This story takes place during World War II on a deserted island. After a plane, transporting about a dozen young boys, gets shot down, they are trapped on an island without any adults.

the story to describe these kids and one of the ways he does this is through the theme war leads to destruction showing the true inner evil even in the most innocent things in life.He uses the idea of war as his main plot point and the perfect medium to connect the crashing of the plane to being rescued by a naval officer. When the boys crash on the island due to being attacked, they were ironically rescued by a naval officer preparing to go back

Many battles have been fought throughout American history, but what was just beyond the horizon was a war that would forever be remembered in every nation. The story The Cay takes place in Willemstad a town on the island of Curaçao during a time in which the world was at war not only for its first time but it was in the middle of its second war. The Cay, which was written by Theodore Taylor, focuses on Phillip who lives with his mother and his father. Phillip and his family had originally lived in Virginia where they had lived normal lives, but once World War II began Phillip’s father was told that he was needed in Willemstad to help with the war effort. At the age of seven Phillip and his parents moved to Willemstad where they could see that life was going to be different. After a while Phillip’s mother decides that it isn't safe enough for them to live there with the constant threat of the Germans, so Phillip and his mom board the Hato to go back home. However, on their way back home a German U-boat bombed the ship. During the commotion Phillip got hit in the head and he blacks out and when he woke up he was in a raft with a black man whose name turns out to be Timothy while on that raft Phillip goes blind. Timothy and Phillip end up landing on a Cay where their lives are put in peril every day. All throughout this story there is a constant message of how blind people were and how the skin of a person doesn't matter, rather it's what is inside that matters.

A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person 's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning.1 Mental illnesses can be grouped into two broad categories, each representing a different aspect of a mental disorder. Axis I diagnoses are inclusive of those disorders which are most familiar and widely recognized, and typically encompass the most acute symptoms that need immediate treatment (i.e. adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders, cognitive disorders, eating disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, etc).2 Axis II disorders are those defined by their permanence and nebulousness. They are generally life-long problems that arise in childhood and are much less responsive to treatment than Axis I disorders are. Axis II diagnoses are comprised of personality disorders and intellectual disabilities (i.e. antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, etc).3

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Article One Is the understanding of children’s exposure to domestic violence expanding to increase identification and prevalence? The criminology theory Kimball (Kimball, 2014) related to the issue was Social Learning Theory, because it states in each separate research piece that how the child turned out depends on how the child was raised. Kimball (Kimball, 2014) used qualitative methology by incorporating multiple comprehensive written descriptions in an organized list format about the topic. The data was collected from 46 articles using similar methods identified in Edleson’s article.