Journal Entry - MAY 27, 1843. One calm morning in Massachusetts I noticed while I was approaching the hospital hut I worked at, I saw people running around in some sort of panic, some people seemed to have severe burns and bruises. Moments after the people scattered I noticed smoke and flames spitting out of the hospital, then one of my co-workers approached me, they shouted “ADA, it happened so fast no one knew what happened!” I gasped as I noticed that everything around the hospital was destroyed. Minutes later I ran home and I stutteringly explained to Dan, my husband, that the hospital was burned down.
The “Understanding the Military” text was written for mental health professionals to prepare for working with those who have served in the military. Why do you feel it is important for civilian leaders in various roles to understand the culture and practices of the military? It is important for civilian leaders in various roles to understand the culture and practices of the military in order to collaborate and serve within the sector. Because cross-sector leadership requires communication across/between the sectors, having a basic working knowledge of traditions, general rules, jargon, and (etc.) allows for a more cohesive and clear partnership.
A sixteen year old boy gives us a narrative through his memoirs of the revolutionary war in the United States of America in 1776. Joseph Plumb Martin, gives an account of his time in the army with a realistic view of the life, struggles and challenges of a typical soldier who had signed up for the war as a private and later sergeant. The war lasted for eight years, during which Martin participated in seven battles including the battle of White Plains; Kipp’s Bay; Redbank; Yorktown and spent the famous winter of 1777-1778 near Valley Forge. Having avoided being captured or wounded and his relatively good health during this time, the writer is able to account for almost the entire period. His narrative gives an insight to the real nature and daily routines of life during the war.
David Zinczenko’s essay, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” express the relationship between obese children and fast-food restaurants. Zinczenko observes that fast-food restaurants are located almost everywhere, are inexpensive, and are easy to access. Comparing that it is easier: to find a McDonald's, but finding an organic grapefruit will cause a scavenger hunt (463). Zinckenzo shares a personal experience of himself, eating fast-food for lunch, and dinner were his only options; resulting in him becoming obese in his early teen years. Thankfully by the time he went to college, he was able to turn his life around.
Life at Valley Forge Brave, have no fear of someone or something. American soldiers represent bravery. The huts of the soldiers were very long and wide. The fireplace was in acceptable condition. No beds in the huts just straw and mud.
Fear is something that can have control over someone's life and make them do something that they never thought they can. This is shown in the book A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier this book follows a boy named Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah was forced to join the rebels then saw an opportunity to get his revenge for his family. With the year that Ishmael Beah had been in the way he has changed and how he views the world.
Holes Diary - Sam Sometimes I get sick of selling onions all day, the sun beating down on my back and rowing across the big lake to the onion field everyday - heck, poor old Mary-Lou's probably tired of dragging that onion cart around. She's never been sick a day in her life, she's fifty and all she eats is onions. I have a lot to owe to the onions like I always say they're the magic vegetable. It's all worth it when we go past Miss Kate's old school house and she comes out and feeds Mary-Lou some of my fresh, sweet onions.
This event is important because Liesel and Max are both in a similar situation. Both have left their respective families and have been adopted by the Huberman's. Unfortunately, Max must hide in their basement cellar. Although Liesel is nervous meeting Max at first, they quickly become good friends. They share nightmares as their first discussion together.
Ellen’s point of view: Hello diary, tonight was a stressful night. German soldiers came looking for me and my family. I was so scared that they would figure out i was a Rosen and they would take me away and relocate me. They almost found out because of my hair and how i’m the only one with dark hair. But, the Johansens said that i was born with dark hair it just never fell out and came out blonde like most people.
A Week From 1944 It was Monday, May 29th 1944. The brisk winds chilled the air, and I could see my breath as we ran through the mud. My standard issue black boots failed to repel the moisture seeping through to my socks. It had been raining for days, off and on, not too heavily, but a constant soft mist regardless, and it saturated the ground like a gentle flood.
As Winston Churchill said,” Success is not final. Failure is not fatal”. It is the perseverance and hope to continue that counts. This is the story of a boy named Junior whose key is his hope. The Absolutely True Diary is the life story of a Arnold Spirit (Junior) and his efforts to break the stereotypes about Indians.
In Israel Potter, Herman Melville explains in the excerpt “To his highness the Bunker Hill Movement” (Melville 1) that he cannot copy the life of the real Israel Potter, but in an interpretation that he calls his own, and in which he writes about history, in a fictional twist. Melville begins the story by telling where Israel Potter lives and explain his first place of travel, from Otis to somewhere near Windsor. Later, when traveling, he meets a girl, who he thought was pretty, but then he found out that she was less than he expected her to be, because she was raised under a household who did not have much money as he did. Going along to his adventure, he had traveled farther to the north to find new countries and to claim the land as his own. He went to Connecticut after staying at his newfound land for
The 1940s were a crucial time all over the world with hardships and wars going on for years. Within these wars, two little girls that have been apart of it their whole lives, have shared their experiences through a diary and a book of stories. The Diary of Anne Frank is about a young jewish girl named Anne Frank, who has to go into hiding with her family in order to not get caught and taken away by the Nazis in Amsterdam, and while in hiding, records her experiences and thoughts into her diary. Farewell to Manzanar is a book based on a girl named Jeanne Wakatsuki who is seven years old at the time, and gets taken away with her family to Manzanar encampments, as the U.S. government doesn’t want to risk any Japanese Americans possibly giving up information to the Japanese as they are at war with them. Anne Frank and Jeanne Wakatsuki have many similarities and differences throughout their lifetimes on the run from the war.
In this book report I will talk about the story “The diary of Anne Frank” the story is about a Jew girl called Anne who lived with her family in Germany in the second world war when a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people were dangerous ; so her dad Otto Frank who worked in a bank came with the idea of moving to Amsterdam, Holland to be safer from the German army called the Nazis. Anne was a little girl who lived with her family: Otto Frank her dad, Margot her sister and Edith her mom. For her birthday in June 12 her father gave her a diary were she wrote everything that happened. Days later bad news came, a new German president called Adolf Hitler came with the idea that all Jew people is dangerous
Book Report Ms. Peggy French English 10A December 17 2015 The Diary of Anne Frank Book Report “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a diary written by a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank. She wrote this diary while in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This diary, which was originally written in Dutch was translated into 60 languages.
