Honor guard

Sort By:
Page 4 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    It is completely silent. All you can hear is the guard walking and occasionally clicking his heels. The sight you see is breathtaking. It is so powerful with all the elements combined. Minutes ago, you were all loud and goofing around, but now being at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has changed you temporarily inside. Somehow the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier seems to do this to almost everyone. The earnestness of the situation just fixes people's behavior, and they stay completely serious as they

    • 996 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    out of embodiment-interest. This ratification look successful to Chief, who admit McMurphy to employment his brawniness to hymn a bet against the other patients. McMurphy, however, fulfill himself himself in the inspection of the other men when he guard another magnanimous from receiving an enema from a belligerent hospital aide. A battle ensues, and Chief succor McMurphy. The two reach the fight but are sent to the Disturbed Ward. When McMurphy refusal to rationalize, he and Chief are given electroshock

    • 929 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    matching blank mind. The words “no further questions your honor” hung in the air before disappearing into the conclusion statements. The jurors decided within a minute, wishing the decision could be anything but. My sentence was life in the Insane Asylum for the Mentally Impaired until further notice of my sanity. The outcome was not swell, but it beat the jail cell or dying to the needle of a drug that put you into an endless sleep. The guard came, my escort, and took me away. Away from the courtroom

    • 871 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    strong-willed spirit sleeping within her. One day, while Marigold was skipping and dancing through the castle she heard her mother’s and father’s scream. “ Mom!? Dad?!” Marigold shouted, but no answer came she ran up but was quickly grabbed by a guard that was a close friend of Marigold’s parents. ‘What the? What’s going on?’, Marigold screamed in her head, knowing but not wanting to know the truth of what happened. “ What are you doing!? Put me down, I order you! What happened to my parents

    • 903 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    reports of viable honor systems that have been implemented in schools that make such unethical behavior less pervasive. Both of these extremes, beg the question whether an honor code, such as the Stevens Honor System, is the most effective way to curb immoral behavior and promote a high regard for honesty. As Henry David Thoreau makes it clear in his essay, “Civil Disobedience,” governments should not be allowed to impede on individuals’ consciences and behaviors. Thus, the honor code should only

    • 1225 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Quest of Honor Honor, abstract in definition, is elucidated by communities and its people. It is a changing force, that can be approached from many different perspectives and has been interpreted countless ways. In the past, honor has been interpreted as one code that all members of a community would follow in order to be recognized with esteem and respect. Over time, it has evolved so that the individual determines its meaning. An individual would build their honor manifesto on the values they

    • 947 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    compassion is discarded when honor and respect are at stake. To the people of the fictitious village, “honor [is] a brittle value—one that cannot be rescued if harmed” (Lipsett-Rivera). Such a concept is illustrated through the actions of the Vicario twins, who stab Santiago to death in cold blood over the honor of their sister. Despite their open confession, both brothers still claim to be innocent under the idea their crime was, “before God and before men...a matter of honor” (49). The religious connotation

    • 1091 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Tyler Han Language Arts 8B November 14, 2017 I am doing a an Ttruman report on Code of Honor. This is a very touching story. It starts out with a an so called betrayal. Kamran Smith, a popular high schooler, finds out that his brother has betrayed the military and is working with a group that plans to cause widespread terror across the US. He is taken in by the US government who ask questions about his brother. They so him some tapes and he discovers a secret code hide in his brothers terror messages

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Rizwan Alternate Ending

    • 6413 Words
    • 26 Pages

    “You killed my Sayeed?” Unable to speak, she nodded a second time. The guard behind him handed Rizwan his gun. She leaned back on the sofa and waited. A gust of wind sped over her head. A second later, a red hole appeared on Rizwan’s forehead. His eyes widened, and he reached forward as he fell back onto his guard behind him. The pair landed on the floor. The only sound she heard was her own breathing as she waited for them to move. Blood trickled

    • 6413 Words
    • 26 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The existence of honor codes has had basis in helping students learn since their inception, but there are still those who object to their very definition. Nearly every institution centered around the education of children has some sort of code of conduct or set of rules in place for the betterment of the students. However, the term ‘honor’ in the title ‘honor code’ is what people can occasionally take issue with, as the term often implies a much more respectful idea. This issue leads one to question

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays