Old Major

The Major General’s Command Post received report that his forward element near Fredericks had spotted an armor column consisting of Abrams, Bradley’s, M113s and M114s, as well as several armored Humvees. There was also a follow-on convoy behind that one with several M-35 2.5 ton trucks pulling 155mm field pieces and troops. Where the hell did the armor come from? MG Boney wondered. This was a real problem. The armor would wreak havoc through the 28th ID, there would be no happy endings here, and

Sergeant Major Greg Valliant was the senior NCO for 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, and nicknamed ‘Geronimo’. He had been a paratrooper his entire career which started when he was seventeen years old. He’d been stationed all over the world and was a combat veteran of Panama, Grenada, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq (the second war). He was nearing mandatory retirement soon and had no idea what he was going to do next. The Army was all he knew, he had no family to speak

claims with lines from a note written by one of the history teachers of the University of Chicago back when he himself was a freshman. Brooks is definitely right when he tries to link this decrease in humanities majors, however, he does not fully succeed in tackling the real issue behind the drastic change. According to Brooks,

referred to as major) loses his nose. As Ivan Yakovlevich is sitting down to eat a roll he feels something in the roll. “He pokes two fingers in and pulled out – a nose!” (Gogol 113). Ivan freaks out as any normal person would do and decides to get rid of the evidence and drops it off a bridge. The major on the other hand wakes up one morning to find he has lost his nose and has no idea where it is. He later finds his nose acting as a person who has a rank that is three higher than his. The major even tries

Today students major in areas such as medicine, economics, engineering and business yet, not many major in liberal arts. Why is that? Steve Pearlstein, a writer and a Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University, in his article “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature” (2016), argues that college students should be able to pursue on the major they want rather than listen to what their parents want for them. He supports his argument by providing testimonies

Colonel Sartoris Snopes, a ten-year-old boy is the main character in Barn Burning story. Sartoris father, Mr. Snopes it is seating at the court accused of burning Mr. Harris farm. The judge orders Mr. Harris to demonstrate evidence against Mr. Snopes that he was the responsible of all damages occurred at his barn. But, Mr. Harris did not have any evidence that will implicate Mr. Snopes. The judge declares that there is no proof, Mr. Harris orders Sartoris to testify against his father in front of

flowing in, and markets were opening with fresh produce, live stock was becoming available, which meant more fresh meat. Quite a bit of the produce was making its way up to Washington D.C. by train. It was touch and go for a bit for Captain O’Hara and Major Luxon. There were some farms and ranches east of Hawkesbury Farm and some of the ranching and farming communities had joined forces and created their own states, with their own local governments and declared they were no longer part of the United States

the future is heading seems to be very clear but as before things may change. The time to come will never reveal itself until it has actually been. From this point of view I will try to describe the way I see the future coming our way. One of the major aspects when discussing the future is how will the law be handled and how power will be dealt with. Will we be able to decide for us self what we want to do with our lives and will the right of every individual be respected, as written in the constitution

spontaneous math seminar. I started to question myself: studying math or economics could provides me various decent career possibilities, and my math grade is not bad, but is math truly my loved Mr. Right? I gradually realize that, compared with other math majors around me, I kind of lack the enthusiasm that they have—to detailedly seek deeper principles behind every conclusive formula. I constantly regard math as a tool to educate me how to comprehend and think critically. Undoubtedly I enjoy working on math

When we were but a mere child, the elders amongst our environment would often ask what we wanted to be in the future. Many options come to mind, and most being the cliché answers that any child were exposed to, such as a firefighter, or a police man. However, at that age, our knowledge of those fields hardly encompassed precisely what those occupations routines were. Answering with these occupations at that age wasn’t true to exactly what would interest them in the future. For most children, these