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    Rai Washington watched his target from across the street as the man leaned against the wall of the bodega, opened the cylinder of his revolver and slapped it shut giving it a spin like he had obviously seen done in the movies. He was lucky the Saturday Night Special didn’t fall apart from the force of that alone. Actually, he would be lucky if the cheap .32 caliber malfunctioned when he pulled the trigger. More than half the time the damn things exploded and injured the shooter. He was clearly high

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    The Mission Seth Jensen Raven ran down the corridor while multiple attackers we catching up. She turned down a hall to see 6 more attackers. She had to act fast. She looked around desperately trying to find an exit. She cursed quietly in Russian and then braced herself for the attack. Bang! Fifteen minutes earlier. Two men walked stealthy down the corridor. They wore plastic masks over their faces. Each carried a 50cal Dragon Sniper Rifle with sleeper bullets, suddenly there ear pieces crackled

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    Shot at dawn Book response Politicians Greed creates war, and the ones who suffer, is the soldiers. It is them, who receives scars, and earns the deepest trauma. “Shot at Dawn.” The book that is filled with tragic, bloodshed moments, and suspense, that forges intensity, as you are reading the book. In the beginning Protagonist named Allan McBride is a soldier who got captured because he deserted, and was to be shot tomorrow. At that night, he tells the officer named Paul and guides his story of

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    After the death of his estranged father, a troubled former military sniper suffering from PTSD travels to Wyoming to his father’s home, but his increasingly irrational behavior begins to scare and alienate his girlfriend. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In Wyoming, a mailman delivering mail to the Burchill home is suddenly shot and killed. In California, ANDREW BURCHILL (27), a former sniper in Iraq, teaches his high school class, showing them a documentary of the Iraq War. The film is violent and bloody. Andrew’s

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    Guilt In The Sniper

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    During the times of war, lines are blurred and deaths arise where guilt has no room to wrap itself around a soldier’s head as they choose between killing and being killed. Under the summer evening and heavy artillery fire of Dublin, Ireland, a republican sniper lays waiting, in a fanatical haze, behind the parapet of a building’s roof. He decides to light a cigarette, despite the risk of exposure, and encounters an enemy sniper opposite the street from his position. Promptly after, an enemy vehicle

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    As his head was against the western sky, he closed his eyes and prayed that he would live to see another day . When he opens his eyes he noticed that his surroundings were still there was no movement what so ever. He unwrapped his arm to get the bullet out his forearm he is forced to suck the bullet out, the Republican sniper had to endure excruciating pain to get the bullet out. He spits out a mouthful of blood and the bullet that fractured his arm, then he wrapped it back up tying it back together

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    The Sniper

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    Wherever there is conflict, there are always those begging for peace, the Irish civil war being no exception. In their respective texts, The Sniper and The Freedom of the City, Liam O’Flaherty and Brian Friel call for peace from this war by arguing that it is futile. Both authors communicate this common message to their audiences through the utilisation of the same stylistic techniques including structure, characterisation, and motif. However, the exact manner in which each technique is used or presented

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    The Sniper was written by Liam O’Flaherty and The Scarlet Ibis was written by James Hurst. The Sniper was about a sniper on the Republican side going up against another sniper on the Free State side. The Scarlet Ibis was about an older brother trying to get his younger brother, who is crippled, to do things like a normal person. He would take his brother out by himself without his parents knowing and try to teach him how to do things. Both of the authors in the stories show War, Brotherhood, and

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    The Sniper is a short story written by Liam O'Flaherty, in early 1923. It takes place during the Irish Civil war, and is meticulously written about two snipers. Although the story was written almost one hundred years ago, it still manages to relate and reach out to many people to this day, including me. The main conflict in the story is the two snipers, and how each try to outsmart and kill the other. What the snipers don’t know is that they are brothers, born from the same mother and father. This

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    American Sniper Essay

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    American Sniper by Chris Kyle Do most people worry about getting killed by other countries in the U.S.? Probably not, they trust their troops of active men and women serving for their country. However, in Chris Kyle’s novel American sniper, staying alive is a requirement of the U.S. Navy SEAL. Through characters, conflicts, and theme, Chris Kyle pulls the reader into the story all the way till the last word. After reading this book, people will never look at a american Navy SEAL sniper the same

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