Red Tails Essay

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Many people know of the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, they were the first African American Fighting group that flew combat missions for the United States military in World War II. Throughout their time overseas they were breaking down racial barriers by proving that colored men can fly a plane just as well as their white aviation counterparts. In order to get their chance to prove that they were able to serve their country, many things had to go right before they were allowed to take their wheels off the ground. They faced constant discrimination but because of that discrimination they were able to conquer the stereotypes and rise to become some of the most decorated

Prior to WWII, the U.S. Air Force did not employ African Americans in any role. However in 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Air Corps to build an all Negro flying unit. The presidential order caused the Army to create the 99th Pursuit Squadron(Tuskegee Airmen 2). To develop the Negro pilots needed for the new squadron, the Air Corps opened a new training base in central Alabama, at the Tuskegee Institute(Tuskegee Experiment 1).

The real turning point for Davis and his black combat airmen came when the 332nd was assigned escort duty for strategic bombers. The Red Tails never lost a bomber to enemy fighters and shot down three of the first jet fighters employed by the Germans. Their truly unique achievement was sinking an enemy destroyer. During the war Davis flew 60 missions and was awarded the Sliver Star, the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Flying Cross for mission leadership.

When the African-American fighter groups finally graduated from Tuskegee University, with great pride and courage, they proved that African-Americans are capable of doing anything other can do. The Tuskegee Airmen graduated from Tuskegee University and formed 4 all-black squadrons which would merge to become the 332nd squadron in Spring of 1943. When they were given their first mission to strafe the island of Pantelleria, they did not fail. In jaded, old P-39 and P-40 aircrafts, documented by the national museum of the United States Air Force, it is recorded at that same day, that the Allies, “secured the Italian island of Pantelleria.”(“Davis leads the 99th into Combat”). It continues, stating,” The unit scored its first aerial victory against the Luftwaffe on July 2 when Lt. Charles B. Hall shot down a Focke Wulf Fw 190 on his eighth

Lt. John Dunbar was lying on a hospital bed, leg totally mutilated. Barely conscious, the man over heard the surgeon say he could not amputate this mans leg as tired as he was. Dunbar didn’t like what he heard, so when the surgeons left, he grabbed his boat, and he slowly slid the boat up his mutilated foot biting on a stick to relive the massive pain.

What I admired about Restless Creature was that Whelan allowed the film-makers to watch her go through much of the process of the career transition as it was taking place. So we hear/see a lot of thoughts and reactions that perhaps we might not have heard or seen if she were to have given an interview five years later after she had sorted the transition out in her mind--or at least sorted out how she wanted her reactions to be perceived. She is sharing -- in a serious, dignified way I thought -- things that other ballerinas might prefer to keep to themselves. (And wasn't it interesting to hear what Phillip Neill had to say about how hard the transition from being a ballet dancer has been for him!) I thought Whelan took a brave approach towards

“Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity, to the stars. From the last plane, to the last bullet, to the last minute to the last man-We FIGHT, WE FIGHT, We FIGHT.”- Joe “Lightning” Little, Red Tails

"During the Second World War, not only did Russia have women serving in all parts of war (including combat) but three all-female Air Force regiments formed despite a plane shortage, not a personnel one. It is possible to make sense of this historical anomaly by examining the social conditions that gave these women the training to fly and maintain aircraft and by examine the motivations of the women before, during, and after the war" (Vaughan). Then the Russian government ask one Russian female pilot to form the 588th regiment. “In 1941 Marina Raskova was asked to organize a group of female pilots to work on combat missions in the middle of the night. So she gathered mechanics, pilots and navigators and formed the 588th regiment. They were so deadly that Germans feared them and started calling them 'Nachthexen' meaning night witches” (Dowdy). The 588th regiment was one of the most successful regiments in the whole Russian military and were one of the most experience. “The women of the 588th regiment flew over 1,000 mission per person compared to the 35 mission per person the allied bomber flew” (Hunt). When the women were accepted in to the air force, “they started their training at Engels. Three pilots from the 588th when on their first mission on June 8, 1942, their target was a German headquarters, the three planes were successful but in the raid one of them was lost” (Dowdy). Most of the

Every author has a different ways to portray a certain scene and the different elements used can be identify in Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman’s ‘hanging’ scene. For example, in Night, the reader uses his imagination to create the images of the horrific events, while in Maus, the images are ‘fed’ to him, giving a different some sort of surprise or shock. Depending on the situation, one novel’s technique might be more emotionally powerful at times than the other.

This quote shows why White Fang acted friendly towards Gray Beaver. Gray Beaver gave him food, warmth, protected him, and gave him companionship. While White Fang guarded his property from other people who might want to steal it, defended Gray Beaver from harm, and obeyed him.

During Jack London’s life he has written many great novels, perhaps the greatest was White Fang. In 1906 he wrote the legendary novel about a stray wolf reverting to domestication. The majority of this book concerns White Fangs’ struggles with savage nature, Indians, dogs and white men. However, we also see White Fang is tamed by love and turns from a savage wolf into a loving and domesticated dog. White Fang begins with two men traveling through the artic with a dog team and sled, followed by a pack of famished wolves who pick off the dogs, one by one at night and eventually gets one of the men. The point of view then shifts to wolves and stays with them for nearly the entire story. “Over Jack London life he has wrote many books with

Augmented reality can blur the lines between reality and fictional worlds. But, our fascination with combining both has us continuing to push the limits of what we can produce with augmented reality. So if a new game was created that allowed you to create the perfect pet or dream life, would you want to play it? Well, in Strange Beasts the main character not only created this game but also created his ideal specimen.

The name of the book is White Fang. It is written by Jack London. It was published by Scholastic, in New York, in 2012. There are 252 pages in this book. The main characters are White Fang, he is a part wolf and a part dog; Kiche, she is White Fang’s mother; Weedon Scott, he is the man who transforms White Fang from a wild beast into a civilized animal; Gray Beaver, he is the first owner of White Fang and the man who shows no affection for his dog; Beauty Smith, he is a cruel, greedy and persistent man who is the antagonist of the story and; One eye, he is White Fang’s father. It takes place in the 1860s, at the Yukon Territory, Canada.

Figure # 6 “Stress is the result of both trends and events in climate (Jentsch et al. 2007). The red line indicates a shifting baseline level of forest stress through time due to an increasing trend in temperature; the grey line represents stress changes due to multi-year oscillations in precipitation and temperature that are inherent in the climate system, producing stress events like extreme droughts and heat waves. Atmospheric warming increases both baseline and extreme drought stresses through time, thereby driving elevated tree mortality vulnerability. Increasing temperature alone drives greater forest drought stress (Adams et al. 2009, Williams et al. 2013), and because temperature is increasing chronically, so is forest stress. Swings in forest drought stress push forests closer (or further) from the historical mortality threshold (dashed black line), but given the chronic increase in forest stress associated with ongoing anthropogenic warming, the frequency, magnitude, and duration of these swings above the mortality threshold increase through time. If unabated, chronic warming eventually will cause even relatively wet periods to exceed the mortality stress threshold for present-day forests” (Allen, Breshears, & McDowell, 2015).