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     During their battles the squad sees that survival is not something that is taught but a matter of pure chance. They see their allies shooting allies. Their close friends in the war are killed and they must face the reality that getting out alive is luck. The goal of killing the enemy turns into just trying to stay alive yourself. And when their time is done they are faced with mourning for those who fell and bitter sweet relief that it is over.

The book Hunter in the Dark written by Monica Hughes was a story about tragic accident that happened to a boy that took him by surprise causing his life to change. This book being published in 1982 reflects on the style used, as well as being written in a genre of a young adult literature. This book was published being a Canadian book but reached out across many countries.

Two major theme presented in True Grit is the idea of justice and the failings of the American court system. Towards the beginning of the book, Cogburn’s judicial transcript illustrates the differing ideas of justice in the West. Cogburn believes that some people are naturally criminals, and like rats, must be exterminated. His aggressive stance towards criminals is brought to light in the court case where he apprehended a few outlaws, and promptly killed them. The court argues that he should have acted less violently, and tried to bring them in alive.

Red Rabbit: How to Change History Published in 2002 by Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit tells of an exciting, alternate version of history. The novel tells of a Soviet plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who threatens to disturb peace in the Union. The theme for Tom Clancy's Red Rabbit is stand up for what you believe is right, no matter the consequences because you never know how you will change history. Clancy clearly portrays this theme throughout the novel by character actions, plot, writing style, and ideological beliefs.

The movie is mainly about a group of men going into war in order to fight for their motherland, “Germany”. The setting mainly takes place between the warfront and the camp where Paul Baumer, one of the main characters, stays.

The Curse of Intelligence The poet Thomas Gray once said “Ignorance is a bliss.” Intellectual capabilities are by far seen as the greatest of gifts that human beings can posses. In fact studies done by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate and professor of psychology at Princeton, highlights that mostly everyone that is intelligent will suffer from deep depression due to the fact that he won’t be able to communicate with as many people and will always feel that he didn’t do anything effective (he will always feel worthless). In the novel “Ender’s Game,” the author Orson Scott Card demonstrates the idea that being beyond intelligent reconstructs Ender’s life into a supernumerary conflict that ends up making him unaware and ignorant, through creating

In The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is about a republican sniper who faces a lot of challenges.the Sniper is about a republican sniper who faces armored cars and is who shoot a lady who snitches on him and, as soon as he thought very thing was getting much better he find out he kill his own brother. The sniper theme is about how war reduces human being to mere objects like they have no names, no faces they’re just target and nothing more. In the sniper for example the sniper kills a woman across the street that told the person in the armored car that he was on the roof.

In most stories the setting is just the place and time period it takes place, but setting is the most influential element of this short story. The setting in the story by James Hurst is very dynamic. Since the setting is dynamic it causes the mood change as well; while also developing a constant theme about how pride can cloud judgement, and foreshadowing important events related mostly to the character Doodle. Weather foreshadows many important events that occur in the story.

In Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1987 The film opens with military recruits getting their heads shaved as a way to signify their identities being taken away. From the get-go, audiences know that this is not going to be an easy experience for these men, Pyle, one of the main characters of the movie struggles to keep up with the basic requirements of the physical training. Joker, who is another main character of the movie is promoted to squad leader and is given Pyle as an assignment of personal responsibility to help him to get better. After this mental tormenting of Pyle and all of the brutal things he had to go through, something snaps inside of him and he becomes a different person. His pain that appears to run all the

The theme of Remember the Titans is what is on the inside is more important than what is on the outside. At first, all that anyone cared about was whether or not you were white. In the movie, Julius said to a white guy “what are you doing here you should be their, with your people.” This shows that even though he was being nice and sitting with them Julius got mad because of what the whites have done in the past to him and to his now dead friend. Later, even though the team has learned to accept each other that bond is being broken by the town that can’t accept what they have gone through. Berry’s mom doesn’t like Berry hanging around Julius, so she makes him go to church with her instead of going to play basketball with Julius. Many of the

As with every industry and business, there is competition. In the case of the craft beer industry, the competition is medium and growing. From challenging the big macro-breweries, to battling against new incoming brewery businesses, the craft beer industry is absolutely on the radar for competition. Macro-breweries are still the largest competitors with craft breweries. The major player in the craft beer industry, according to IBISWorld, is The Boston Beer Company. It holds a market share in the overall beer industry of only 2.7%, and a revenue of $885.5 million in 2014. In comparison to the major players in the overall beer industry, Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors

Ford Motor Company is facing a major decision with regards to its supply chain strategy moving forward. The underlying question is, “how should the company use emerging information technologies and ideas from new high-tech industries to change the way it interacted with suppliers?”. Within Ford, there are 2 major, and opposing views. First, there are those that feel strongly that Ford should follow Dell’s model of “virtual integration” (reaping the benefits of vertical integration without vertically integrating) – using the model to communicate effectively with its suppliers, achieve and focus on inventory velocity, and allow its component suppliers to specialize. The other group believed that the Dell model would not

In 1923, the story “The Sniper” was written by Liam O'Flaherty. The story is about a Civil war in Ireland where there were 2 snipers, shooting at each other and they were both on a rooftop with long-range weapons and they don’t know each other but at the end one of the sniper found out that he killed his own brother. The author uses irony and the conflict between the sniper and the other sniper just to tell us the main message which is that we shouldn’t fight each other, we should fight together because we live in the same country and we should fight for our country.

The 1986 Oscar winning film Platoon (Stone) is a classic example of this genre and why it is so popular. As such, Platoon is a fictional work that follows Chris Taylor, a young American who gives up college and volunteers for combat duty in Vietnam. Following Taylor’s tour of Vietnam, the film’s main focus is not only his life during the war, but also the mortality issues he must find a way to deal with. Furthermore, Platoon includes all four of the narrative elements necessary to fit into this genre.

It goes by many names, from "smut" to "erotic art." It's as old as civilization itself, and is present in all cultures, with or without the approval of those in authority. It takes many forms, finding expression in literature, music, painting, sculpture and theater, as well as in the more modern media of photography and cinema. Its creators range from the anonymous scrawler to the likes of Catullus, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Titian, and Wagner; and their talents run the gamut from childishly crude to supremely eloquent. As with any other creative genre, pornography indulges a wide variety of tastes from the brutish to the exotic, and covers themes from humorous to sublime to tragic.