Starship Troopers Essay

James R. McDonough sets a spectacular example of what it is to be a second lieutenant in the United States Army and what it is truly like to lead a group of enlisted soldiers for the first time. Lieutenant McDonough, a graduate of West Point, was deployed as a platoon leader in a small fort with the mission of holding a Vietnamese village out of the hands of the Viet Cong. When he arrived, Lieutenant McDonough discovered that the former Lieutenant and platoon leader of the 2d Platoon, Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 503d Infantry (Airborne) hardly ever left his

Unsure of his future, Richie Perry goes to Vietnam at seventeen years old to fight in the U.S. Army. His medical profile for his knee is not put in yet, so Perry is forced to go out on the battlefield with his company alongside friends that he has made like Peewee. He experiences terrifying moments where he has fortunately escaped from, but encountered deaths of fellow squad members and witnessed extreme levels of destruction and brutality. Perry ponders on going back to “The World” due to these horrific and life-threatening events but knows he won’t be able to take care of his brother and mother since he doesn’t have a good education. After getting injured badly in a battle, he returns from the

The book generally describes the rise in the ranks of the main protagonist, Sam Damon, from an enlistee, to NCO, to Officer where he eventually reaches the rank of a division commander. The setting and time changes, beginning in World War I, the years between the two wars, World War II and finally a fictionalized Vietnam where Damon is an advisor. Throughout the book Damon is able to rise in the ranks thanks to political connections, audacity, and willingness. Through time Damon himself changes, becoming more self oriented, and looses some of his purity (for lack of a better description) as he rises in the ranks.

Starship Troopers may be a satire of a fascist state or an apology for fascist ideology or neither (I don’t pretend to know which). In any case, it is a depiction of a possible state of affairs that could theoretically arise out of a futuristic fascist regime. The ideology advocated by this state, and for the most part by its subjects, is one that treats

Glory Glory is a movie from 1989, that was directed by Edward Zwick. It starts out with the main character Robert Shaw fighting in the battle of Antietam, where he suffers an injury that causes him to be sent home to Boston on medical leave. There his is introduced to Fredrick Douglas by the Governor, who offers him command of the first all African American military unit in the Union Army called the Fifty Fourth regiment of Massachusetts. Robert talks to his childhood friend Cabot Forbes and asks him to join as the rank of Major.

World War II was the most destructive war in history. It began in 1939 as a

Throughout different time periods and civilizations come many different types of art that would never be comparable to those of another time or place. There are also the pieces that come from a completely different time and place, but yet they can still be compared to one another. The Torso of a God (Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, last decade of the reign of Amenhotep III, Granodiorite, 1359-1349 B.C.) and the Statue of Asklepios (Greek, Hellenistic period, Pentelic Marble, 2nd century B.C.) are two sculptures made hundreds of years apart, yet they both display many similarities and show how art is constantly changing whilst keeping the same core ideas.

In the article “Honesty, Confession, and Privacy” from The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate, Lopate informs the reader of the qualities a narrator or personal essayist must have in order to be reliable. Lopate says that, in order to be reliable, the narrator must have “done a fair amount of introspective homework already, is grounded in reality, and is trying to give us maximum understanding and intelligence of which he or she is capable” (2). The reader has the authority to interpret the criteria with given boundaries. For example, Lopate says “[A] psychotic killer may be sincere, but that would not sufficiently recommend them for the genre” (2). This means not everyone that meets the criteria would be a reliable narrator.

Tired, hungry, and largely outnumbered- the U.S. Rangers and The Delta troops found themselves in the midst of one of the deadliest warzones. President George Bush ordered the marines into Somalia, October 1992. However, no one expected it to turn out as one of the most horrific battles in history since the Vietnam War. President Bush originally ordered them to set out to help end hunger problems and food shortages in the poorer areas of Somalia, Little did he know how disastrous things would end up. October 3rd 1992, U.S. troops set out on the “Somali famine” mission on what they only believed to be an hour long. The battle lasted two days in which the soldiers were faced with: dehydration, sleep

Few great filmmakers can write and oversee the production of a film that will be relevant and built upon for the next 4 decades. Even fewer filmmakers can be regarded as the person who changed cinema forever. George Lucas did all of this in 1977 with the release of the film he created, originally called, “The Star Wars.” He had this idea after his first feature length film “American Graffiti” in 1973. This film became popular and he later pitched his idea for a space opera to the production company. They agreed and Star Wars was born. In the beginning, it was meant to be one film, which would entail all of the story for the three films in the original trilogy, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Due to budget

Black Hawk Down is a film about courage. From the explosion of bombs, to the black hawks flying overhead, to running the streets of a forgien enemies country, and bullets hissing past your head and the soliders who still perform. In Black Hawk Down, the director Ridley Scott uses many different camera angles, colors, tones, speeds, and music to put the audience right into the extreme battle of the fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia. The director Scott Ridley puts the audience or viewer right into the boots of the U.S Army Rangers, Army Delta Force, and other Army units which allow the viewers to understand the gravity of war that these soldiers are fighting.

When the lights went down and the film started, I have to admit I was very apprehensive. I had already looked over the discussion guide that was distributed and I looked around at the people I was surrounded by. The guide is comprised mostly of stats about the military and growth rates etc. The theater was far from full, a third of the seats were full, of this audience most of the people were veterans themselves. Me being an outsider was already apprehensive as I prepared my questions for the Q&A section of the panel I was worried how this audience would react and respond to my questions.

During the summer, most kids don’t want to read. This could be because of the poor book selection available. As an English teacher, you most likely want to see your students reading all year round. Seabiscuit is a book by Laura Hillenbrand. Seabiscuit is a superb book, but it would not be a good choice for the summer reading list because it is tedious to read, a book that would go on many eighth or even ninth-grade students heads, and it has inappropriate scenes and language.

The Star Wars Trilogy always have one thing that is stated: the Force. The Force is an unlimited power that is in every living objects. As exciting as that sounds, the idea of the Force has been created out of many religions. The idea of the Force came from different religion such as: Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity

Meaning and purpose can be defined depending on the reader and the author that is defining it. The meaning and purpose of any form of literature is the main point of the piece of work, why it was created and what the author wants the reader to understand or get from his or her work. As for the movie Full Metal Jacket, the director, Stanley Kubrick, wanted to have a combination of comedy as well as a sense of realization when it comes to a soldier becoming a marine and what it takes to be one. The characters throughout the movie each show a different way of understanding and dealing with the problems that they had to quickly overcome.