Faceplant: A Reflective Essay-Personal Narrative

Oftentimes, a deciding factor for a president’s reputation is his involvement in foreign affairs. Though Richard Nixon’s terms have been deservedly cast into a bad light, historians still quarrel about his international policy. Interestingly enough, the very traits which made him so despised as a public officer—his paranoia, lying, backstabbing, distrust, opacity, etc.—these traits made him an fascinating figure on the global stage. Instituting a policy coined “détente,” he sought separate peaces with the Soviet Union and China so as to subversively convert these communist foes into allies. He also wished to bring “peace with honor” to the Vietnam War through a practice nicknamed “Vietnamization.” To accomplish these two tasks, Nixon consolidated them under a single goal: the reduction of military spending. To accomplish that goal, President Richard Nixon relied on the dirty tactics he knew best and almost succeeded. The problem? His dirty tactics got in the way.

"She did?" The detective asked surprised. When she remember the not so comfortable conversations with her, she tried to ignore the warmth she felt in her cheeks. "What did she.. uhm say exactly?"

At first, there was no answer, when she asked again, bowing his head and covering his mouth with his hand, he whispered, “I designed them for Mrs. Barnes.”

Judge Sandoval, “I agree Mr McKinley. The witness remarks will be stricken from the record, and I advise the jury to disregard the witness’s last comment.”

Despite thorough research supporting the dangers of eyewitness testimony, and the constant press by the American Psychological Association (APA) and different law, psychology, and forensics experts, there are no national guidelines conducting how law enforcement agencies gather eyewitness identifications. In an APA brief, suggested by researchers and the Innocence Project, sent to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, it discussed how juries often don’t understand the factors that can influence a witness’ ability to accurately identify a suspect. Such factors include how much stress a witness is under,

“You don’t have to talk. That pale face and haunted look tells me everything I need to know. It’s Joan, isn’t it?”

As I walk in through the doors to start the interrogation I take a big deep breath and walk in. I slam a pile of files on the desk and say “Mr. Winston Moseley I've been a homicide detective for 25 years and truth be told I have never seen a case like this.” When I said that he didn't say anything all he was doing was looking down at his handcuffs. So I sat down on the chair in front of him across

“I don’t know, but she hadn’t left her house, or answered her door for three days. And the lights remained on the entire time. So, I thought something must be wrong.”

“She can’t be around my house anymore. I’m afraid of what I’ll do to her. She did this to him. Don’t you get it? She took his eyes.”

“Alice, it was an accident. We can’t get rid of Abby. She’s a sixteen year old girl and she needs us, she needs her family. I am her father and you are her mother. She needs to be at home with her brother.”

For most couples, its all consuming, instant adoration. But for me and my wife, it was affection at first sound. She called me at 2 am, and I happened to be remaining by the telephone, so she vented to me, the faceless outsider. We wound up talking for hours, knowing each other, and becoming hopelessly

The short story entitled, “Roselily” attacks the masculine agenda as it regards women the secondary beings and places them next to the men in hierarchy. The men enjoy supremacy and take relative freedom in their relationship with women, ignore and abandon them without any obligation to their duties. The sexual behavior of men highly pressurizes Roselily under the burden of four children, each by different father and the fourth one taken away by the child’s father. The men burden Roselily with motherhood and desert her. The reasons behind it might be the racial turmoil of the time but it breeds the irresponsible behavioral pattern in them and they simply drift apart.

After the American Revolution, slavery and discussion on whether it should be implemented or illegal dominated the development of the United States. These different views on slavery were the main reason for the Civil War and there is no argument about it. Without slavery, it would not have happened only because there was continuous bickering back and forth. Slavery is a major issue and faced the states, both the North and South wanted to do what they could to either protect or protest what they believed in.

“Please, Julia, please try to remember something. I don’t know if you know already but you play a crucial role in this investigation, and without you, barely anything can be done. Do you remember the first day we’ve met each other?” Mr. Williams adjusted his voice a little softer than before and continued talking:

“Did what sir?” asked the officer softly, not wanting to alarm him any further. Lincoln's eyes shot up to the officer's face, and shook his head again.