War has no boundaries like age, family, and time of day. In the story,”The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty a sniper is stationed on a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge and is tasked to “take out” any hostiles. While staking out, the sniper got shot in the arm by a fellow sniper and is faced many challenges in order to survive. Despite the Sniper’s skill, the sniper is realizing how war shows no mercy. When O’Flaherty wrote,“He paused for a moment, considering whether he should risk a smoke. . . He decided to take the risk . . . Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof.” Because war waits for no one, the sniper had to consider the consequences of smoking before he smoked. This shows how brutal war is, someone can’t…
In life there are many situations that people have to handle or go through just to get something done whether it is job related, or just about in anything that a person is going through with their lives. The places in the autobiography with ten years of military service were four deployments to Iraq. The author, Chris Kyle brings awareness to veterans, hardship of war, and decisioning making on battle.…
1. I agree with the review by Josh Larson because the film does show a personal change in Ron Kovic as he goes through the war and also presents a political statement on how the Vietnam war was poorly handled by the government. The subtones of the film that Larson mentions reflect the change in the public view of the war, when Kovic was young, most people were supportive and energetic, like his mother. This feeling is represented by Kovic before he entered the war, shown not only by his willingness to participate but also through his features and personality, as Larson said, Kovic was full of “physicality, violence, victory, and the admiration of women”, after the war, he comes out changed, with both his physicality destroyed and his ability…
After long hours and days of hard training to get to where soldiers are now they have to be in such great shape and every single day their life is on the line, but one day with one mistake there life is now over. “In The Sniper”, by Liam O’ Flaherty, the theme is War has the potential to destroy ones humanity. War destroys humans in many ways, like soldiers getting hurt for the rest of their lives, injured for a long period of time or even worse killed. In some cases you can kill family members without even knowing it. In the sniper at the end of the story it says “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face”. War can also make people go crazy about everything especially mentally or it…
Chris Kyle had over 164 credited kills while on his four tours. He also saved hundreds of his troops and civilians by sniping many people that were killing American troops and civilians. When Chris came home from his last tour, he was helping soldiers that went mad or had something wrong with them. He was helping an ex-Marine Eddie Routh at the shooting range with his friend Chad Littlefield when Routh thought that Chris and Chad were planning on killing him.…
The title alone sums the movie up perfectly and drawing out all suspicion or notions that this is not just some war movie, instead more of noble story of America's own navy SEAL Chris Kyle and one of the us military's most deadly sniper with a confirmed kill count of 160 souls and over 200 claimed kills . He also holds a marksman title for 2100 yard confirmed kill ,that is essentially shooting a man from over 21 football fields away and much like the life of the great hero we enter a crucial scene in the beginning of the film with a scenario just like that famous shot only slightly closer.…
Throughout time, people have often looked at ancient Greek stories as the embodiment of the traditional “hero’s journey,” and by doing so, we often forget that most books, TV shows, and movies around us today are still centered around the traditional Greek tale. In 2014, a film directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams was released: Big Hero 6 (“Big”). This film is a prime example of how the traditional hero’s journey is still used in modern culture. Big Hero 6 is a futuristic film about a boy named Hiro in a town called San Fransokyo. It follows his journey as he leaves a life of bot-fighting to apply for a nearby robotics college that his brother attends.…
This book is about 1stSgt. Kasal’s life leading up to his most honorable moment while in the battle of Fallujah. The book starts out by telling how 1stSgt. Kasal grew up in Afton, Iowa. He grew up on farm like most other families in his hometown. But with farming becoming obsolete in the shadow of large corporations, Brad Kasal already knew by junior high that he didn’t want to slave on a farm to barely scrape by like his father. He already had the Marine Corps in his sights. January 1984, Kasal left his hometown of Afton, Iowa and got a plane destined for MCRD, San Diego. Kasal shined right away and became a squad leader and was meritoriously promoted to Private First Class by graduation and instructed that he was going to indeed be a grunt like he wanted. After graduating as the honor graduate in School of Infantry, Kasal was stationed on Camp Pendleton with 2nd battalion, 1st marine regiment. He was a PFC in Weapons Co. as a Dragon gunner. Two months after checking in with his unit, Kasal was again meritoriously promoted. Kasal’s first deployed to the Western Pacific on a Marine Expeditionary Unit in June 1986. Shortly after he would win an NCO of the quarter award and once again get another meritorious promotion. Kasal throughout his career would consistently pick up meritorious promotions all the way to Sergeant Major. By March of 2003 when Operation Iraqi Freedom started, Kasal was 1stSgt of Kilo Co. 3d Battalion, First Marine Regiment. While still 1stSgt of Kilo, they were part of the second attempt to take back Fallujah in November of 2004. The mission was to take back Fallujah by getting rid of any insurgents left in the city. Because there were innocents still within the city limits, rules of engagement meant to not fire unless fired upon or if the enemy is seen with a weapon. This made things very difficult. It would have been very bad politically to go in and just blow up everything that moved, so instead…
300, which was based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller’s, is a film that still has many anxious people awaiting to see it. It was directed by Zack Snynder and is considered by many a spin off of Dawn of the Dead. This movie contains nonstop action with so much blood that it may be to much for someone to view in one sitting. 300 can be characterized through a suffering plot, unrealistically portrayed strength of warriors in battle, jaded dialect, and it’s mind-blowing graphical images.…
By many, Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made. Orson Wells, at age 25, directed, produced, and starred in this film. Citizen Kane is a memorable film for countless reasons. The film brought about controversy because it fictionalized the life of William Randolph Hearst, a powerful newspaper publisher. The film draws remarkable parallels with his life and his relationship with his mistress. There is also speculation that the film is loosely based on Wells' life as well. This movie tells the fascinating story of the life and death of Charles Foster Kane, a narcissistic newspaper runner, politician, and a wealthy millionaire. What makes this movie spectacular is not only the acting of the actors, but the symbolism and cinematic effects. The techniques used by the cinematographer brought this film to life. This is what sets Citizen Kane apart from other films.…
Have you ever been forced to do something that could possibly affect you for the rest of your life? Well, in this short story a man was forced into a war that ended up having physical and mental affects on him. In the short story “The Sniper”, author Liam O’Flaherty suggests the horror of war on a personal level by presenting not only its physical dangers, but its psychological effects as well.…
Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven juxtaposes the beauty of the western frontier with the carnage the people living inside cause. Eastwood conveys the beauty of the west through a series of breathtaking establishing shots throughout Unforgiven most notably to begin and end the film. In doing so, Eastwood conveys the ability of nature to contain the carnage inside of William Munny (Clint Eastwood). In theory, the isolation the beginning and ending establishing shots convey protect the world from the violence Munny’s capable of expressing. Therefore, the lack of human interaction outside his family keeps Munny from being the killer he used to embody; Eastwood allows the beauty of nature to soak up Munny’s sins to protect the western frontier from his…
Contradiction in the mind, we struggle between decisions. Whether it is correct or not, it leaves an indelible memory. In Tim O'Brien's confessional writing, Ambush, he creates a flashback and recalls his memory in Vietnam. With detail descriptions, Tim O'Brien expresses his guilt towards killing an innocent young man. Furthermore, reinforcing his opposition against war with the writing.…
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Desperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn't kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose RV is sabotaged on its way to Arizona. Already incarcerated is Tom Billingsley, a once well-known member of the now slaughtered community of Desperation. They are soon joined by formerly famous, currently old and overweight writer, Johnny Marinville, who is riding across the country on his Harley-Davidson gathering material for a book of short stories. How to escape Desperation isn't the only unanswered question, though. How could and why would one man single-handedly murder the population of an entire town? How does he have such control over the minds of the animals? Why are they locked up when he could have killed them like every one else? Whatever it is that possesses the body of officer Collie Entraigan can't last forever, though. After several days his body is falling apart at the seams, and he is bleeding from every orifice. Weirder yet, he is growing several inches a day and is bound to burst soon. Will he? Or are the occupants of the local Desperation jail just backup bodies that the possessor will use when it wears out its current one? If so then what is it? More importantly, who's next?<br><br>An intriguing aspect of this book is that there is no real protagonist. King leaves the reader in constant suspense. Frequently changing views, the story follows one character or group of characters for one chapter and then in the next chapter, follows another, often intertwining the time sequences. The overlapping action is interrupted only by flashbacks that allow the reader to sympathize…