The Selfless Warrior
My printed copy of the overview of assignments stared back at me from the corkboard in the kitchen; highlighted and underlined where the words “Week 4: Profile assignment is due”. I would stare at it for over a week, not knowing where to start or who to interview. Then my phone chimed, it was Dakota! My close friend and at many times, my military assignment to provide aide and facilitate with all his official needs during his stay in our nation’s capitol. While my wife and I called him Dakota, to the rest of the world he was, Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Dakota L. Meyer. On Eight September 2009, 90 Afghan soldiers and 15 U.S. military service members rushed into Ganjigal, in dangerous Kunar Province of Afghanistan,
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I ask a question that completely turns his facial expressions to sternness and all business. How has receiving the Medal of Honor changed your life? “Back in 2011, I said I wasn’t going to accept the Medal of Honor award. I asked for it to be a Navy Cross and was rejected. So, I accepted the Medal Of Honor on behalf of all my team mates.” Quickly, I changed the conversations tone, for I knew that this is a subject that he is very passionate about and hates to relive telling the story. Trying to regain his attention as he overlooks his speech for the presentation he is to attend in the morning. “All of this, all I do, this is not about me. It's about Marines, military and their families,” In regards to his FTWGA campaign. “"If I can use this program to make a difference for all these people, that's what I want to do. If it was up to me, I would go back home to Kentucky, and nobody would know who Dakota Meyer is." Since its inception in 2011, Hiring Our Heroes has held more than 656 Career Fairs and has helped over 847,000 Veterans find employment and career opportunities.3 Dakota said he participated with the Hiring Our Heroes Campaign be another voice in helping veterans. “"You give a veteran a job, it helps every aspect of his life. It helps his family, his career, and his
During the 50s and 60s african american citizens were oppressed through years of abuse mentality and physically, the book warriors don't cry is a story of a young girl melba pattillo Beals who is a african american student who integrated to a all white high school along with 8 other students, melba and her friends are harmed mentally and physically at little rock. And they still managed to make the best out of their situation through positive change for example when a group of students dieced to gang up on melba and beat her up a white person named link dieced to help her, instead of joining in on the attack he dieced to help her with positive change all though he had to call her names like nigger he still lent her his car to escape the attackers.
Allthrough “Macbeth”, there are quite a change in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It shows how their relationship dramatically changes after how they handle each other’s emotions. Lady Macbeth was manipulative and overpowering in their relationship. She was more violent and ambitious than her husband, Macbeth. In the other hand, Macbeth would be considered daring and brave yet self-doubt.
Melba was a warrior and still will be. Melba and the eight others were strong because they had to go through a lot of pain. Integration was a big deal before and it's was a hard time for colored people because they had to go through a lot to get to their goal. Integration was hard because white people didn't approve colored people going to the same school as them. Warriors don't cry By: Melba Patillo Beals and Remember the Titans By: Gregory Allen Howard are two big stories that have to do with integration and the process of it.
A warrior is a brave, experienced solider or fighter, and the warrior has many situations, problems they have to go through. Just like Melba in the book “Warriors don’t cry” the poster represents the emotions and feelings she had during her battle with the people of her community. Every human being thinks different words say different words and the poster also represents the words she felt and spoke during her journey. Sometimes during the book Melba felt physically in pain, strong, stressed, and tough. Emotionally she felt afraid, happy, smart, and many other words; she had family who worked together and helped her with the problems she was facing “family” is also placed on the poster many times. The words on the poster express the way she
Have you ever experienced a life changing experience that impacted you and others? Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all faced life changing experiences in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the autobiography I Had Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson, and the article “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maskell. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru changed themselves and their countries in the life changing experiences that they faced.
In the story Warriors Don't Cry, Melba and the Little Rock 9 was the first high school students to integrate and they integrated to Little Rock Central High. Melba and the Little Rock 9 went through a lot during the school year, like bulled by white students, killing threats, being bombed/caught on fire, hurt physically/mentally, etc. What Melba had to use strength to get through integration, like the strength of being a warrior. Also, Melba had many sources of strength, like her mom, her grandma, Danny/Melba's guard, religion, keeping hope, etc. Lastly, Melba had to stay calm in the situations she was in so she used her strength to help her.
Jim Crow was a set of unfair laws that kept African Americans and whites segregated. Jim Crow had started in 1877; The book Warriors Don't Cry is a memoir from the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High which occurred around 1941. In the event of Jim Crow whites were fighting for power and African Americans were fighting for equality. The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who finally come to possession of integrating with whites. It was the first time any African American students went to Central High with whites, let along any school. Little Rock Nine has more power because after a long time of being segregated and enslaved, they still succeed to integrate schools with “non colored” and it impacted their Community as well as them.
In your life, you will face turning points that can be difficult or not. “Warriors Don’t Cry, from Melba Patillo Beals that was the first black person to transfer to a white school, or I Never Had it Made, from Jackie Robinson that was the first black person in the major leagues, and lastly, The Father of Chinese Aviation, from Feng Ru that was one of the first Chinese man to build an airplane that flies, are all stories that the authors faced obstacles and impacted our country. As you can tell, Melba Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all faced life-changing experiences that have impacted our country.
Melba Pattillo Beals is a very determined young lady. She presents many strong personal characteristics in her time of integrating Central High School. However, she faces many adversities through this battle for her freedom and equality. During her rough time Beals questions her faith and family. She later learns that her strength and security is in God. In the book Warriors Don’t Cry Melba Pattillo Beals presents the idea that courage, faith, and fear are vital in her search for freedom and equality.
The years of the 1950’s and 1960’s were a time of pride for the American people. Great accomplishments occurred in those twenty years, including Neil Armstrong’s space landing, women’s roles in were changing with feminist movement, and there were government efforts to ease discrimination against minorities. But America was not perfect in every aspect. Discrimination and racism against minorities survived throughout the civil rights movement, although there were major efforts to stop it. One accomplishment, documented by Melba Pattillo Beals, was made in 1957 following the 1954 Supreme Court case that began desegregating schools. In her memoir, Warriors Don't Cry, Beals explains the horrifying year she endured while integrating a white school,
Sports and games provided a much needed escape from the drear of everyday life. Recreation was surprisingly unique in the Southern Colonies compared to the New England and Middle Colonies because of a lack of restrictive religious groups. Though games were not as popular in early settlements, because of lack of free time and distances between settlers, they became more and more popular with increased wealth, larger populations, and a growth in towns. Games were played to offer a relief from some of the grimness of daily life, to offer mating rituals, to express resentment in a safe way, and to help promote village unity. Sports and games played a large role in the daily lives of the southern colonists and continues to be seen today.
Federal contracts or subcontracts of the unenclosed amount of money to hire veterans. Many companies want performance so maybe they can help them and everyone else works hard at their job. According to (cf. Bureau of Labor Statistics 1ff.), 76% of veterans are jobless. Veterans can adapt to new situations because they are taught to adjust to circumstances as well as we are. ''Business leaders are mainly concerned with one thing; performance'', said Schultz. People should stop thinking about titles and think about people's actions. Veterans should get justice because people discriminate them. Some may say veterans shouldn't get any special consideration because they get precedence on jobs anyways so why to get special consideration also. But that's because they have done something special for the country, so why not get
About 25% of these veterans have been looking for employment for more than a year. the percent was at 15.2% by 2011. That's a big drop 62.8%. On 2013 it was able to drop to 10%. Walmart also pledged to give one hundred thousand veterans jobs! Starbucks also launched a nationwide plan to hire ten thousand veterans by the end of 2018.
The book The Warrior Ethos, by Steven Pressfield depicts the warrior’s mentality from ancient times to the present through a variety of different aspects and stories. In The Warrior Ethos, Pressfield states that men are not born with the certain qualities that make a good warrior, but instead are inculcated through years of training and indoctrination, stating at an early age. He goes on to show how different societies have been able to instill the same or very similar ideals throughout history while maintaining their own unique characteristics. Things have changed from ancient Sparta where parents would be enthusiastic about their children going to war, and even more elated
Currently, our country needs to do more to employ our veterans. From a survey conducted by IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America), 8% of 1500 vets who took the survey reported