Essay about The Courage of Soldiers- Pauline Nguyen pg.291-296

Pauline reached over to James and took the shoe off his foot and threw it to the side of the group. When reaching James’ name card he put his hand up and said that it was his name, Pauline then replied to him with “James it says on this card, I thought your name was Cinderella because I had to take your shoe off you” then handing him his card and continuing on with the focus time whilst James sat with no shoe on his foot. Through out the focus session she was impatient with the children and when they did not answer her question on what day it was today she referred to the group of children “Take it we are all brain dead today.”

Describe Jeannette’s childhood, specifically her socialization or the process by which she acquired family values, information about social expectations, and survival strategies.

The main idea of this story is she wanted to be free to live her own life so badly that she

Personal choice – Some families decide that they do not wish to live or act in away in which is viewed as outside the ' social norm ', for example such as being travellers or a child having same genders parents. The outcome of this factor is that there are people which may not be able to relate to the child or young persons families views. If a Child is from a travelling family there is a possibility that their development at school may be delayed due to being transferred

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” ~ Bertrand Russell. The famous quote from Bertrand Russell describes the reality of war. War only lets the powerful and the wealthy side win and not the righteous side. On an average 378,000 people die each year at war while 1,450,000 people died in the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war started on 1 November 1955 and lasted until 30 April 1975. The war was fought between the North Vietnamese Communist government and the South Vietnamese Communist rebels known as the Viet Cong against the non-Communist South Vietnamese government and their ally U.S.A. The war destroyed the life of both, the North and South Vietnamese along with the other nations that took part in it. More than 1 million people were killed including civilians and over 3 million injured. Thousand were wives were left widows and hundreds of kids orphans. After consistent protests by the Americans, U.S.A withdrew from the later stages of war. The Vietnam War is a depiction that wars are murky and filthy and should be circumvented as they bring agony and desolation to the people. To show this I used three different mediums which are - Political Cartoon “Name a

Despite her success, she had no schooling- aside from being home schooled as a child. Her professions were mainly “acting” and “spying.” But, Pauline also worked with the famous showman, P.T. Barnum for about 5 weeks. Pauline never had much leisure time. When she wasn’t acting, or being a spy, she was a full- time mother. Being a mother in and of itself is complicated enough, but to add two more professions…. That to me would be

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Ordinary courage is a book that tells the story of an ordinary man who is inlisted in the continental army in the revolutionary war. Joseph Plumb Martin is the young man fighting in this war, at the time he entered he was just a mere 16 year old kid but by the time his time in the continental army was up he became a man. This is a first person memoir of what it was like for a regular person living in a war zone, and dealing with the everyday fears of food shortage, low morale, and danger of attack. This is something that many people in todays world could not handle because even some of the old guys in the

After the Vietnam War, soldiers suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder in countless numbers. The trauma they saw, endured, and witnessed forever changed and scared their lives. Men, like Tim O'Brien the author of the novel The Things They Carried, suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder and it took them years to regain their lives after their return home. In the excerpt from his novel, O'Brien shows the reader how the men endured this mind-altering experience in the jungles of Vietnam through the details of all the items the men carry.

A family of orientation means a lot to the little girls who were left abandoned in China by their own mothers. Their new adopted family has become their whole world after the horrific event of them being abandoned. Even though they are not blood related to their new parents they are all they ever knew and I can’t ever imagine thinking the same way about my blood parents if I knew they had abandoned me. The girls also have another mother who was their foster mom that many adoption parents take the girls to go visit, because they feel that it is the right thing to do. The foster moms are very emotional when seeing the girls they took care of and seeing them all grown up. One mother didn’t end up bringing her new daughter to meet her foster parents, because they didn’t want to and the foster mom was very hysterical about it and wished she would have. She stood there crying and wondered why the mother wouldn’t bring the little girl with her. I believe that was very selfish pf the new mother because she just wanted to see the little girl one last time that she took care of, but the mother was too selfish to see that.

In her dreams, Pauline is haunted by the men in Argus. Since Regina has Dutch, Pauline is anxious to escape. She gets her chance with the arrival of Bernadette Morrissey, a widow, and her brother Napoleon. Pauline notes that they are well off, mixed-bloods who have acquired land. Napoleon is single, but has a drinking problem; however, he is admired as a good Catholic for taking in his sister and her three children, Clarence, Sophie, and Philomena. Pauline lies to Bernadette and tells them she is abused at Regina's and has to do rough chores. Bernadette tells her that she will have to work hard in her home, but she will not be abused. Pauline thinks God will reward Bernadette.

Though she is in good health, she couldn’t escape her age, and inevitable changes that come with it. She couldn’t escape the fact that he life was passing and there was no going back to change anything. She would no longer be able to have children, and would not be able to re–do her life and have children. She would eventually have to accept her life as it is now, to accept things that have passed, and let them go or keep her pain and sink into an abyss.

people often too caution, but it is also evident that she wished to be free and to live her life despite her

Pauline Breedlove's personal history is shown to have played out in extreme measures in the life of her daughter. From the early part of her life she has worn a shroud of shame. The book says that it is due primarily to her injured foot that she felt a sense of separateness and unworthiness and

Savannah could feel the anxiety building up inside her head, making her doubt herself from succeeding. Her movements became stiff and rigid. Slowly, she made the first turn out of the parking lot. She was dreading that her negative thoughts would prove her right. Forcing herself to follow instructions, she managed to ignore the negative thoughts. Just when