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Audie Leon Murphy, born into a poor Texas sharecropping family, gained worldwide fame as the most decorated American soldier in World War II (Audie L). Even as a 12-year-old orphan living in Texas, he exhibited impressive marksmanship. However, due to severe poverty, he had to quit school and started working for a nearby farmer who…

Subject: “My Men Are My Heroes” 1. The book focuses on the life of 1st Sgt. Kasal and his most honorable moment in the battle of Fallujah. It begins by describing Kasal’s upbringing in Afton, Iowa, where he lived on a farm like many others in his hometown. However, due to changes in farming and…

Hero. This word applies to a person who steps out of any planned schedule to do good deeds. They take sacrifices to help others and make an impact on many people’s lives. Heroes inspire others in the same field to emulate them. They often are good people without needing any type of recognition. America needed…

Hero. A word used widely throughout Homer’s The Iliad, but interpreted differently in the eye of the beholder. Though there seems to be numerous definitions of a hero, one that can accurately define such a person is someone of distinguished courage and nobility that will put all others before themselves for the greater good of…

The story Jack and the Beanstalk contains most of the elements outlined in Campbell’s Analysis of the Hero’s Journey. The first step, the departure:At the beginning of the story Jack is sent to the market to sell a cow. Instead he trades the cow for five magic beans. When he returns home with only beans,…

“It is curious, although edifying that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them and in them alone, lies the belief – optimistic, if you will – in the perfectibility of man” – Arthur Miller These are the words of the great playwright Arthur Miller and they are, in essence, another…

Throughout the centuries Christianity provided consolation and religious moorages to 1000000s of people who found populating in G-d’s image fulfilling. In the Southern American slaveholding provinces in the nineteenth century. Christianity the dominant faith. was meant to be a moral compass and add lucidity of intent to one’s life. Slaves did non see Christianity as…

“Mother Courage and her Children” is a play, composed by a prominent German dramaturge Bertold Brecht in 1939, at the beginning of the World War. It is a story of a thrifty canteen woman, who seeks to gain profit from soldiers of Swedish army during  Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648. Together with her three children…

Clack!Bang!Swish!Auuuuugh! This tumult symbolizes the chaos of battle, with clashing armor, soaring spears, and slashing swords. The agonized cries of men who have lost limbs to their ruthless enemies resonate throughout the world. This symphony is solely attributed to the monumental battles that occurred in the seventh and eighth centuries, which held immense significance in…

Ben Franklin and Frederick Douglass are the most prominent figures in American history that fought for freedom and equal rights, democracy and racial equality. Frederick Douglass was one of the most important figures in anti-slavery and civil rights movement which took place in the 19th century. Ben Franklin was a scientist, politician, diplomat and author….