Day 20 Short Story

Hello, welcome back with another and only post by Adam. So Yesterday I went home from school and my parents were at home too because they off from work that day. After, I went home and change into my wrestling stuff, my parents take me to Cudahy. My match against Jacob N and and he's on my weight class, but he way bigger than me. The score was 18- 5 and I though is gonna be hard for to win against him, but I know I will try my best to win the match. I win all my match since when the wrestling season

How far will one go to protect the ones he loves? To him his intentions are good, but others see no good in what he is doing. Clover, also known as Colin has always been trying to live up to his mother’s expectations. After his mother’s death, he becomes obsessed with the idea of a perfect family. He constantly feels that his mother is judging him through his mind. He was convinced that his mother could communicated with him even though she is dead. If she wanted him to do something he did it without hesitation. “I can be good enough. I'm as strong as Mother. No, I'm stronger. I am a stronger person, and I will not fail. I. Will. Not. Fail.” (215). He always felt that he wasn’t good enough so he kidnapped young girls to prove he was. He did

The battle of Normandy started June of 1944 and ended August of 1944. The most important day of the battle of Normandy is the first day, which was called D-Day or Operation Overlord. The plans and tricks leading up to the battle were thoroughly thought out, and lives lost, and the victory made this battle one of the most intense and important battles of World War II (History.com Staff).

The Battle of Normandy. Operation Overlord. The Longest Day. D-Day. The date June 6th, 1944 is acknowledged by many different names, by many different people, but it all comes down to one thing. That the biggest amphibious invasion of beaches, Codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, were very crucial in ending World War II. Approximately 156,000 allied soldiers landed all along these beaches and fought and died to liberate France. Sadly 4,413 allies died doing this. But to most this was worth it and everybody thanks the men for their sacrifice. Thanks to them, we didn’t have to see what could have happened if we didn’t proceed with the plan. Without the invasion we have no way of knowing how the war could have played out. It may have

After the battle of Somme, I was alone. All the men I had signed up with were gone. There was no time to grieve for them; Our division had to meet up with the others at Vimy Ridge. Immediately, we were handed maps of the Ridge. It was odd. We all had our own map to keep and study and we were explained exactly what to do. We even had to go through a scale model to know the lay of the land. Talk about overkill. It was nerve racking because of our tactic called a Creeping Barrage. After firing shells at the Germans for three weeks straight, we slowly aimed higher and higher while we followed the line of fire slowly. That way, the Germans would not be able to leave the trenches until it was too late. In those days that lead to a victory, Canada

“Compare/contrast Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ with ‘A rose for Emily’ in terms of writing style and character presentation.”

A considerable factor in the astonishment that is the Battle of Normandy, is the distinct advantages both sides possessed heading into this bout. Germany and its technological advancement, is a clear reason for their sudden expansion, and the annihilation of other countries. Correspondingly, they had a weapon so fast, it was impossible to hear individual shots fired from the gun at once. The MG42, better known as “Hitler’s Zipper”, was the death machine responsible for sending hundreds of men to meet their maker that day. This weapon was the most rapid firing gun the world had ever seen. Uniquely capable of releasing up to 25 bullets per second. Bullets that travelled at a shocking 2,000 miles per hour. Germany had set up five MG42 posts along the beach. For this reason the location of the battle was also in Germany’s favor.

I came home from school just like any other day. It was around the end of the fourth grade and I was very exited for summer to be here! I noticed an unusual box sitting in the corner of the room but I paid it no attention as a rambled on to my mom, what I thought was a sectaculer day! Later my dad called my sister and I to the kitchen table to talk. The first thing that crossed my mind was, “oh Lord, what have we done now?” Instead, my dad pointed at the box in the corner. He told us to go look inside and tell him if we recognized where the things were from. As I look down into the box, I recognize the pictures of my family and the past fathers day gifts my sister or I had given my dad over the years that he always had sitting on his desk at

Popular memory focuses on D-Day itself. The fighting continued for 10 weeks until 19 August. Some of the close combat, in and around Caen, or at the foot of the Cotentin peninsula, or in the Falaise pocket, was as murderous as anything on the Eastern Front.

It was a solum and terrifying day for Gregory George, the squad and me Robert Smith. Our plane was flying over Normandy, France on a hot June day June 6, 1944 to be exact. We were all nervous, especially Greg who yelled over the engine,

August 13th, 1814: It was terrible.. I woke up today with my parents screaming, yelling at me to run out of there, to not look back. So I grabbed my journal and darted out of there, but.. my parents didn’t.. there was a fire, started from the house right next to us and it spread like a wildfire, burning down everything near it. It seemed I was the only one to make it, everyone that I grew up with.. gone. Except Henry, my best friend.. he made it out too, although not in very good shape. I bought him some bread with the small amount of money I had leftover, and it seemed to help ever so slightly.

“The First Day” is a story about a five-year-old girl and her first day at school. "Even Sundays when I was in her womb, my mother has pointed across I Street to Seaton as we come and go to Mt. Carmel", her mother had always wanted her to go to Seaton Elementary School because it was right across from her church. However, when they entered the school to register, the teacher informed them that they lived "beyond the area that Seattle serves". When the young girl asked her mother “Mama, I can’t go to school?”, her mother responded, “One monkey don’t stop no show”.

June 3, 1944, the most action packed day of them all. Early in the morning the chief officer of weather forecasting predicted a huge storm to be present around Normandy for the next 72+ hours. This storm was so bad that the

There were many weapons used in WWII. The most used gun in the war was the M1 Garand. In the beginning of the war, almost every soldier carried it. It was easy to use, maintain, and reload even if the person using it was inexperienced. The Soviet PPsh-41 was the second most used gun in the war. It was mainly used for short range attacks because it wasn’t very powerful or accurate. The Thompson Submachine gun was the third most used gun. The Allies used this gun mostly because of its stopping power and how fast it could shoot. The Thompson was not used much after the war because it weighed over 10 pounds

The short story that I read for my reading response is ‘Examination day’ by Henry Seslar. This short story is about a young boy named Richard Jordan (Dickie) spending his twelfth birthday doing an exam with the government and how his parents reacted to it. All he wanted and all he wished for is harmony above all. He wanted the day to be happy, but the moistness of his mother’s eyes, the scowl on his father’s face, spoiled the mood of fluttering expectation. Earlier that day his parents had mumbled out some words about a exam, but he was too young to understand. In the following week before the Exam day, his father had told him that he would be having a appointment. His mother had told him earlier of what the exam would be about. She told him