Sandbag

The year was 2085 in a military base near Saudi Arabia. The communication s tower received a message that a SEAL team that was sent in to clear an ISIS armory but the team was pinned down in the building. There was massive numbers and heavy artillery. The alarm went off and the speakers told every soldier to get ready for war. Every tank, humvee, helicopter, and jet were being filled with bullets, missiles, fuel, and soldiers. All of the approximately 500 thousand soldiers at the base were

Roaring winds, destroyed buildings, missing family members- a short list of words that can cause so much physical and emotional damage. In the stories, “Memories of the Great Flood” and, “Hurricane Mitch,” these different kinds of destruction are well described. Although the two natural disasters are both equally damaging, the readers can tell from the two stories that they are both different and similar. The similarities of the unfortunate events can be seen while reading both stories. One of these

If I Die in a Combat Zone, author Tim O'Brien argued that the Vietnam War was not as honorable as it was seen to most citizens through his depictions of his experiences throughout the war, by how the surroundings around him played a role in his mindset of the war, and the examples of soldiers mistreatment to civilians and misconduct in vietnam. O'brien was born in the southern parts of Minnesota in a small town where he grew hearing about World War two and the Korean War from retired soldiers

throughout the day in life. Weather you are lifting a child, a bag of groceries, or any object for that manner. Olympic lifting doesn't have to involve a bar with weights on it, any object can be used including dumbbells, medicine balls, stones, sandbags, and Russian Kettlebells (this in an article in

is used in comparison to the empty dance shoes; just like a wart thriving on someone’s skin the shoes will sit on the floor until one feels the obligation to put them on. It is important to notice that the speaker uses a clown “ knocked flat by a sandbag”(line 10-11) as a correlation to “ the energy in a pair of shoes at rest”(line 9). A pair of shoes carry a purpose and have a responsibility to protect and comfort feet while many different activities are performed, but shoes can have varying personas

Those who have to use their hands are at risk of being killed because they cannot work as fast as the guards wish (Chatel, Vincent). The day consists of 12-14 hours of hard, and most of the time, useless work. This work includes moving cumbersome sandbags, digging out and carrying massive stones, and digging trenches or a tunnel. Some may work in factories which usually results in death for the worker. All work must be done as fast as possible while the worker is being beaten or insulted. Guards are

but in that time creates a very strong impression; Harrison Bergeron is a fourteen year-old boy who surpasses most of society in every measurable quality. Vonnegut’s brash description of Harrison depicts him as some monstrous being of metal and sandbags, reminiscent of horror movie villains of times long past. Despite his limited dialogue, the words Harrison speaks reinforce this image to a tee; he is a power hungry beast of a boy. Victim to delusions of grandeur,

These past couple of weeks haven’t so been easy for me. I know I went through a lot at home, but the stress is even worse here. The trenches are horrible, the fighting is horrible and the food is horrible! The trenches are muddy, cold and just horrendous. It smells like rotting dead bodies everywhere I go. Every hour, there’s a grenade flying over my head and I know that my luck is running out. There’s going to be a time when I am not going to be able to pick the grenade up fast enough to throw it

Cataract surgery is among the most common procedures performed in older people and is one of the oldest procedures known. It is done due to the lens becoming cloudy and leads to the vision being affected. This happens when proteins in the lens clump together causing the cloudy area to become larger, affecting vision more over time. The most common cause is age related, but it could also be due to other reasons such as traumatic, diabetic, radiation, secondary and congenital. The first type of

In World War One, on the Western Front, soldiers served and lived in trenches for days, weeks or even months on end. Alone with the daily essentials needing to be done in these small, enclosed spaces, men also had to work hard in the mud and filth, sometimes for hours without rest, all the while being prepared for attacks or trench raids at any moment. This was what life was like for hundreds of thousands of soldiers during the period of World War One. This lifestyle throughout the First World War