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
day Scott and his classmates would be responsible for protecting their country against any threat human or animal. Scott is a disciplined and often serious boy who is dedicated to his training. However, he is still young and is sometimes tempted to play around or otherwise misbehave. But he remembers how he was punished for such actions when he was younger. Scott thinks he is well-educated on matters of the world, however contact with people or places outside the base may show Scott that he still has much to learn about the world. In terms of appearance, Scott is a short boy with brown hair and pale skin. He wears a US Army uniform and keeps both the uniform and himself clean as per military standards. For personal possessions, Scott ‘owns’ a few items he was issued by the US Army including two uniforms, sleep clothes, basic hygiene items (toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, soap, etc.), and is temporarily issued anything else he needs for training. Scott has a bed in the cadet barracks, and has regular meals in Fort McCoy’s mess hall.
Long, hard days of recruit training began for the army. Every day he was up at 6am, doing physical training, learning battle tactics and how to use weapons, lunch, going out to the rifle range, dinner, and then night lessons until 10pm.
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.
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.
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
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.
and Drill Instructors see Boot Camp. Why did he pick the Marines as his topic? Attracted to the Corps perception and morale, Thomas E. Ricks expresses the Marines as the only service still upholding its honor and tradition. Due to society changing into a commercial society with a “me” attitude, civilians focus on how they can splendor themselves with material items—never looking at the big picture at all that we can accomplish as a team if we give our heart and soul to life. Team means everyone on earth, for we are the people that provide for one another with peace and prosperity.
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.
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
This narrator just like his last name says Carraway, has no cares in the world and essentially throws all responsibility away when he comes back from the war and moves to New York. The author Fitzgerald, purposely named the narrator that to give the reader a sense of the character even before the audience gets to know him. After WW1, many veterans came back with a hunger to do more. They did not want ...
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.
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
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...