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You ever wanted to be a help to the world by just talking? All my life the people I was surrounded by were either happy or upset. They’ll be happy one day and then upset the next day. I’m not stating that this was unusual but it was how people lived. They had personal family problems that they always kept bottled up and never told anybody how they were feeling. I was normally very good at noticing when people had issues. Their voice would have a creaking door sound, or any limbs, including…

launched the Manhattan project. The project was originally named Development of Substitute Materials. It included over 30 different research and production sites. It took place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Manhattan Project made three bombs: Gadget, Little Boy, and Fat Man. To get people to move there and participate they asked young people if they wanted to help out with the war. That was all they knew…

He saw deserted cars that had rusted almost all of the color off of them with no life within. Old blood stained the streets along with filthy rags of cloth and unburied bodies on top of the dirt as if no one had the time. He continued to walk with little energy and he thought to himself if he couldn’t find fresh food before the dark comes, he needed to at least find…

Committing the crime of debt in the Victorian era was considered no less of a crime than that of murder and while you could not be executed for the crime of debt, the use of torture devices was known to have killed countless inmates. Debtors were imprisoned indefinitely or until their debt was paid and unless you had the means to pay the debt off, it was possible to spend your life imprisoned. Death was more plausible than release. While debtors’ prisons were thought to have been abolished in…

Memories of a Lifetime All it took was five seconds. Five short seconds to watch my life flash before my eyes. As I saw that teen lying on that stretcher, that eventually turned into her deathbed, my own life flashed before my eyes. As the nurse opened the door to take the medications needed I saw one of the most gruesome scenes in my entire life. A teen laying on a stretcher hanging on to her life with all the strength she had. She had just been in a head on collision while she was driving to…

Hiroshima by John Hersey is a historical nonfiction book that tells the stories of six survivors of the devastating nuclear bomb dropped on Japan on August 6th, 1945. Each character feels the effects of the bomb directly and has to deal with the changes in their formerly ordinary lives, along with the misery and hysteria, and the mysterious radiation sickness that follows the devastating nuclear explosion. This book was mostly written to dispel derogatory views of the Japanese in America during…

recognizing members at quarters in front of the crew, stopping by their desk to offer a handshake and a thank you or by writing a positive page seven. All of these things are easy and take minimal effort; I must make a conscious effort to do the little things. By doing the easy things well and showing the members I appreciate all of their efforts; we can improve morale at the entire unit. My personal values include, but are not limited to, family, honesty, loyalty, happiness and freedom. All…

There were many factors that gave the United States the upper hand in World War 2. One of the biggest ones was the Manhattan Project, which was the program that developed the first atomic bomb that began in 1939. But what is the Manhattan Project? Who was involved? Where and when did they actually use a perfected version of the Atom bomb and what was the aftermath? Though some of this may have been lost in history by the brilliant minds behind the project, we do know some very important…

connect with others, you should find something that can connect you to the people around you. Having a constant group of people who are there for you will give you a sense of belonging that will remind you that you are important. Perception to the little things around you can help you to see beauty in the not-so-pretty things. “I must start with dirt. It must become stars. Sometimes all I see is dirt, and the dance fails. That night it was stars.”(Tawny Grammar, 52) Although, sometimes the ugly…

Ariel Castro did not stop there and in April of 2003, he spotted Amanda Berry, age 16. She was walking home from work when she encountered a vehicle in a driveway. She saw a man and his daughter in the van and thought she recognized the girl. A little while later, she noticed that the van had started to follow her down the street. That is when the man inside asked her if she needed a ride home. He was alone, but she replied with a yes anyway. Ariel Castro was the father of a classmate from…