Scott Williams has lived in Fort McCoy as a cadet in the US Army most of his life. Scott spends all his time in the base and is used to a strict daily schedule that includes a morning shower, military and physical training, education in what subjects the military command deems necessary, and working on sorting out the army storerooms when not training.
Scott does not often go outside the fort. Most of his knowledge of the rest of Gator Bay comes from older soldiers who have a low opinion of the tribal lifestyle that developed after the war. Scott has internalized the military attitude of his fellow soldiers. He believes the words of his superiors who have told him that a military career is the most important duties a person has, and that one
Boyd talks about how everyone was very eager to volunteer to join the military to have fun and to make some money and it seemed to be very easy because the war was expected to be very short. Things started to look a bit different even when, the volunteers got to the first destination to be sworn into duty. They started to wonder why they were being sworn in to service for 3 years when they all thought the war was going to be very short. Boyd and the rest of them figured that the government must know something more than everyone else knows. Even during the beginning of the service the conditions for the service did not look as good as they had expected, and the officer had seen that the volunteers started having second guesses about doing it so they put them into more comfortable quarters to keep them from going home. During the war most of the time the conditions were horrible. There were many problems with the soldiers during the war. Many died from being wounded, being shot, and the worst of all was the disease. The conditions were so horrible that many men couldn't get enough sleep and even when they did get sleep they were sleeping in the rain or in the snow.
As the reader can distinguish throughout the book, both men went in completely different paths after starting in the same position. The difference between both of their stories is the author’s positive role model and the other effects of the military academy. It does not have to specifically be the military academy to shape someone to be successful, but discipline and a father-like figure can make the difference. My father is fortunately in my life, and has shaped me into the person I am today. He has taught me numerous lessons that have gotten me to this point in my life. I am privileged enough to also have close successful cousins who often give me advice on how to become as successful as they are. With the help of a positive role model and a positive environment, the ability to become a good person, as well as successful can be obtained.
a Vietnamese man in a hut he was supposed to check out, and from this point on he does a lot of thinking about why he is fighting in the war. From experiences like this Perry changes both
Antwone’s foster mother that abuses and belittles Antwone while a lad along with his two other foster brothers.
Ben Hall had commenced his "jant" and had truly fallen off the pedestal of respectability forever. In the following extract it was said of Ben Hall as he lit the flame of malevolence across the western districts of NSW by his sympathetic former defence counsel, Mr Redman; "... some of the bushrangers were the creatures of circumstances. He remembered the imprisonment of Ben Hall and young O'Meally, who was incarcerated with his father. Month after month they were kept confined without any charge against them, and against his (Mr. R.'s) repeated remonstrance. The family and antecedents of Ben Hall were credible, but after he came out of prison there was no incentive to virtue; he knew he was watched by the police, and he felt disgraced by being
With Jim and Wilson by his side, Henry and his men with different outlooks on the war will fight and be the ideal team. Being the youngest of three men Henry desires honor along with a high reputation and will let nothing stand in his way. Jim was pragmatized about war. If the other soldier's were going to fight he was going to fight with them. Being classified as the "Loud soldier" and transitioning to a more mature man, Wilson undergoes many trials. These hardships show him the true meaning of life and how insignificant his life when there are other lives in the mix. As war wages on these men will fight for their own personal cause's and together will strive for a victory.
Scott Momaday is an author that uses his roots to weave enchanting stories that reach into the heart of things that we ordinarily overlook. He uses nature as an instrument, to illustrate the beauty in the simple, nearly forgotten knowledge of the Native American people. His stories are rich with meaning, but in a subtle way that only really makes sense once you have experienced the same type of search for self. They are steeped in the oral traditions of his ancestors to make supremely compelling stories with layers upon layers of culture and knowledge that are easily relatable and understandable.
had to go through in his life in his attempts for justice to be served.
Mister Douglas ‘Doug’ Roberts is a Lt. j.g. on the USS Reluctant, a cargo ship off the coast of an unnamed island. He is the ship’s cargo officer, but he dreams of getting off the ship and going into combat.
The life of a common soldier fighting on behalf of colonial independence during the American Revolution was a difficult one. Recruiters for the Continental Army targeted young and less wealthy men, including apprentices or laborers. Some (like Martin) enlisted voluntarily, while others were drafted. Among the discomforts Continental soldiers suffered were shortages of food or other supplies, long periods away from home, sinking morale and the constant threat of death.
Captain Aubrey exhibits and demonstrates leadership characteristics that inspire his crew to be the best that they can be. One of the most important leadership traits that Captain Jack has is a single-minded focus on his purpose. All of his decisions are held up against the g...
Gardner is the shipbuilder to whom Douglass is appointed to the first time. The shipyard is stuffy and crowded and busy, and Douglass is unable to actually learn anything from him. They barely have any encounters with each other, but Douglass is already not fond of
Scott w. Williams is a Famous African American Mathematician, He was born April 22, 1943 in Staten Island, New York city. He is a Professor of mathematics at the university at buffalo suny. He studied at two university Morgan State and Leigh University. Scott Williams is an only grandchild. His grandparents strongly valued education. His mother Beryl Williams was the first black to graduate from the university in Maine in the year of 1936. Scott w. Williams had a perfect SAT Math score but he failed to get a Scholarship to MIT. By the time Scott Williams received a B.S. In Mathematics from Morgan state college in 1964. He had solved 4 advanced problems in the mathematics monthly. Along with his interest in mathematics, Williams has also been
When his father first appears on the scene, the Bayard says: “He was not big, it was just the things he did… that made him seem big to us” (9). Swept up in the romance of war, with the dust of battle clinging to him, John Sartoris seems to assume a larger than life persona but even as the narrator delineates his father before us, he attaches a caveat that in actuality, the Colonel was different from how he saw him as a young boy. This statement presages the mature understanding of his father’s character that Bayard develops as the novel progresses. In “The Odor of Verbena”, he has reached such clarity of vision that he can say without much difficulty that his father was a difficult man to get along with, he ac...
Ben Steel was a Montana Cowboy that wanted to join the Army Air Corps. Even his mother had encouraged him by saying “You know, I’ve been thinking.” “You really ought to get in before they draft you. Maybe if you do, you could, you, know do what you want in the army?” (Norman 8). But a year later his unit was being shipped to Clark Field to prevent the Japanese aggression in the Pacific. After surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor, Steele was able to join the retreating Ame...