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I have witnessed traumatizing events, dying men, being shot, and I went behind enemy lines 11 separate times, all for my beloved country, yet I’m branded AWOL and equated to a coward! I served the Union Army valiantly and gave it my all for 4 entire years. My hard work and dedication were immense, I took on various jobs throughout the four years. Furthermore, I served as a nurse to aid all the wounded, I was a skilled courier and a spy. I love my country for giving me refuge when times were tough, thus, I was willing to give the ultimate sacrifice to preserve it. Countless times, I was nearly killed, but I did not care because I yearned for danger and a way to contribute during the war. I, Franklin Thompson, believe I should be reinstated

Throughout photographic history, the threshold that many artists had to overcome was conveying the meaning of their photographs to the public if any at all, and the orientation of the subjects in their photography. The intent of portrait photography is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject. Nineteenth century photo historian Alan Trachtenberg notes, “Aspiring professionals wrestled with the problem: how to arrange their sitters and manipulate the often fickle medium to produce not just a picture but a pleasing one--not just a likeness but a portrait”(Trachtenberg, 24). Through these words of Trachtenberg, we can deduce that the main problem was how photographers manipulate their subjects in a way that would

In January 2003, AOL Time Warner, Inc., announced that it would be posting a loss of $98.7 billion for the year ended December 31, 2002, the largest corporate loss in U.S. history. While company exec- utives described the loss as a result of accounting changes rather than problems with ongoing opera- tions, the media conglomerate clearly faced significant challenges. The stock price closed the month of January at $11.66, down from $71 in January 2000, when it announced its merger with America Online (AOL).

The results show above that there is a 7% increase in those who admitted inducing vomiting to control weight from the first sample in 1995 compared to the sample in 1998. The results also show the significant increase in number of girls scoring more than 20 on the EAT 26 questionnaires; with 8 girls scoring above 20 in 1995, increasing to 19 girls in 1998. These results show that media and westernized television, are having a huge impact on the way we see ourselves and kick start the self-improvement we unnecessarily need and start to take too far.

The human body is the original story. One that is always in flux due to biological, psychological, and societal considerations. In crafting a story, there’s no such thing as perfection. Each person’s narrative comes together—by the page, sentence, word, and punctuation. Our individual and collective experiences are all a part of the reality we ascribe to ourselves and the world, and like with any draft, parts of it may be scrapped for something new.

I can make personal relations to the series Sevens due to the fact I have experienced some of these teens issues. The severity of my problems do not compare to all of them, but they are similar to some. I can relate to the stories on Danny, Jane, Karyn, Reed, and even Peter. My situations were very similar to theirs.

Sarah snorts and pulls herself away from Levi and walks over to the desk hauling the seat out. She motions for the man to sit at the desk and he does. She sits sideways and brings down her body against Levi’s as they fall once more into the huge seat. Sarah wraps one arm around Levi's neck and lets the other scratch lightly down his arms.

The day was 11/10/1918. I was heading home from the war, and I was more tired than I ever thought a man could be. It was the last few days of the war, and we knew that Germany couldn’t fight much longer so we took lots of troops back home. We were a few hours away from shore, and I couldn’t wait to see my children. I wondered how big they might have gotten. They were only three years old when I left, and it has been two years. I also wondered how much they wanted to see me, or if they even remembered me. I thought that they had to remember who I was. They were three, they could remember things like that. I was In my room and I was talking to my roommate trying to pass the time. We had been sleeping in the same room for a couple of days,

We finally got to the bowling alley and when we got there Riley runs towards the place in a rush. We sit there for a while not saying anything not saying anything which is strange because Aidan is a talker you can never get him to shut up. Like for example one time he was helping me pack and he was getting my socks and he started talking about how girls fold their socks and how boys fold their socks I had to stop him to tell him to shut up. I was the first to break the silence I told him he should of told me but he didn’t reply he said the only reason he didn’t tell me was because he knew me and that if I found out I would of been disappointed. I wouldn’t of though I would of been on his side. Last fall when Aidan and I were putting an

The room was set up to look like Geppetto's workshop with a large bed in the centre and a naked woman laying on it. There was a cameraman whose thick framed spectacles emphasize his intrusive owl eyes: peepers that could out-stare Yakuza gang-lords. His deep vertical wrinkles on each cheek look as if this thing's creator was an incompetent child artist that didn't have an eraser to correct the mistakes from which he or she doodled. His wiry body gave off a hatchling figure, and the aquiline nose and vulture sunken head added to the concoction of miscellaneous bird parts.

On January 1st of 1981, Greece became the tenth state to join the European communities (which eventually turned into the European Union of today’s age,) and led the country into a period of rapid growth. Large investments in industrial enterprises and heavy infrastructure, combined with funding from the European Union and increased revenues from tourism and exports, increased the standard of living to an unprecedented level. Everything seem to be going well for Greece, as it was beginning to prosper after the democratic transition from the military dictatorship of 1967. It had become a model for how the European Union could be beneficial, and encourage other states to join. After the brief two decades of economic flourishment, Greece

International surveys of student achievement are becoming increasingly popular with governments around the world, as they try to measure the performance of their country’s education system. The main reason for this trend is the shared opinion that countries will need to be able to compete in the ‘knowledge economy’ to assure the economic wellbeing of their citizens. Whilst benchmark indicators of knowledge economy ‘supply’ variables, such as investment in education as a proportion of GDP, have been available for a long time, countries had no way of comparing the effect of their investments and schooling in general upon students’ knowledge and skills. (Baird et al., 2011)

Doctors should not give pharmaceuticals to kids that have behavioral problems for many reasons. It is an important topic that has many parents wondering what the possibilities are. Many people are misunderstood the help for behavioral problems. The population is prescribed different kind of medication for example: Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, etc. When the children are taking this medication, their emotions and mental state will change. The children will keep their emotion locked up inside themselves which would then lead to depression or more serious actions. The people have to understand what the children really need. The doctors have to communicate with psychologist to understand this more than just distributing pills. The doctors must have

Wars have been waging on the Earth as far back as written history in its various forms of art could document. In the past, military conflict was far more unforgiving than it is today as modern international humanitarian laws have regulated war to a certain extent. Civilians are now protected against various war crimes such as genocide and therefore distanced from the wars waged by their nation’s government against enemies. This distance and protection given to the civilian population has numbed them to the various horrors of war going on overseas. People do not have to worry about their safety or the lives of their children when the closest thing to war people experience is provided by images and video from limited news coverage in the

I am seeking to obtain a Masters in Business Analytics from California State University, East bay. My purpose to join this program has grown over the time. Since my school days, my favorite subjects were Mathematics and Science, which laid the foundation for my inclination towards engineering. I qualified various entrance examinations (including CEE with State Rank 111) and was placed in 0.1% of engineering aspirants. This helped me getting admission to Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, which is one of the most prestigious institutions in India. My affinity towards programming languages, which I started studying at high school and the field of Computer Science, motivated me to take Computer Engineering as my major in undergraduate