...Hard work, determination, and perseverance is what defines U.S Navy Seals. In Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, Luttrell tells the story of how he grew up in Houston, Texas, and how he was the only Seal to survive the biggest catastrophe ever within the U.S Navy Seals. This #1 New York Times bestseller was written to inform the audience of a courageous story between four patriotic Navy Seals. Luttrell, the author of this book, is also the speaker of the story. Throughout the entire story he is speaking in first person point of view. The story began with Marcus growing up and finally graduating from BUDs training on February 2, 2001; however, the large occasion in the story lasted for about 5 months in 2005. The large occasion was when...
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...Lone Survivor is a book based on the true story of the events that happened during Operation Red Wing. It was written by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. Operation Red Wing was a covert Navy SEAL mission that occurred on June 28, 2005. This was a mission to obtain reconnaissance on known Taliban terrorist, Ahmed Shah in Afghanistan. The members of the mission were four Navy Seals. The four SEAL team members included Lieutenant Michael Murphy, Petty Officer Matthew Axelson, Petty Officer Danny Dietz, and Hospital Corpsman Marcus Luttrell. These four Seal team members became engulfed in a fierce firefight with a much larger group of Taliban fighters. They were outnumbered, outgunned, and were at a disadvantage in location. Despite all these limiting factors, they fought courageously and valiantly. In the words of SEAL Marcus Luttrell, they were never out of the fight....
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...Lone Survivor: The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL team 10 by Marcus Luttrell is the nonfiction story of how Marcus Luttrell became the lone survivor of a doomed Navy SEAL operation. Faced with insurmountable obstacles, Marcus some overcame the adversity he faced and made it back to the United States alive. Marcus Luttrell was born in Houston, Texas on November 7, 1978. From a very young age, Marcus new that he wanted to be a Navy SEAL. At age 15, he began training with an Army veteran named Billy Shelton. He and his twin brother Morgan were both vigilant students under the tutelage of Shelton. After completing high school, Marcus was accepted to Sam Houston State University, and was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity....
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...I am reading Lone survivor by Marcus Luttrell and I am on page 176. This book is about Marcus Luttrell a proud Navy SEAL. He joined the SEAL’s to help find the people that cause 9/11. When his team is on a special operation they are discovered by some goat herders and are exposed by the herders. In this paper I will be predicting and evaluating. What would have happened if the Americans would have kept the goat herders instead of letting them run back to the village? The soldiers thought that if they kept the herders their families would have been expecting them to return by nightfall. The villagers would have known the trails that the herders would take and would have a good idea of where to find them. Lastly if the villagers came looking...
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...Your life flashes by your eyes after falling down the steep cliffs of Afghanistan. BANG BANG, gunshots and rockets are being fired at you from everywhere by Taliban militants. As you traversed the shale, rocky, Hindu Kush mountains to escape them, you watch your friends all around you being shot and killed in action. This is just one example of the suffrage that Marcus Luttrell went through when he joined the U.S Navy Seals in his non-fiction autobiography Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell was a born warrior, he knew from a young age that he wanted to be in the military. He was given heavy discipline and taught to hunt by his father. He became a very efficient killer and spent much of his early life preparing for the military with a man named...
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...In this article written by the Business Article, the author talks about the things young Navy Seals should do and be aware of when starting their career. He says, “take care of your body… just as many people get rolled out for medical reasons.” He’s describing what Luttrell did in The Lone Survivor. In the book he was an amazing swimmer so he won all the swimming events by a landslide; however, he had a bigger struggle with running through the sand so he did just enough to get by. The author of the article also says, “You have already messed yourself and got in the teams so you may as well go all the way. Your platoon mates will appreciate the help and that attitude will enhance platoon cohesiveness.” In Luttrell’s book Luttrell did a whole lot for...
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...get in trouble or how they control the circumstances for survival. According to Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, we can clearly see the situations that happen to us and understand the reasons why somebody can survive, but someone else cannot. This book makes us realize that "accidents happen anyway but they do not necessarily happen to us". Through this book, Laurence Gonzales supplies an enormous amount of knowledge to us about the most crucial principles and qualities for survival. We need to be aware and ready when the dangers are close to us. We can survive by learning how to be perceptive, positive, and active to overcome the challenges and survive. Before we talk about the qualities insides the survivors' mind, there are three important principles discussed in the book that will improve our chances of survival by learning how our body must act in dangerous situations. The first principle is that we should avoid impulsive behavior and always be aware of danger. In Chapter Two, LG told us about the deaths of two snowmobilers who tried to speed off and reach "high-marking". Although people warned that "there were a high avalanche", they still wanted to go up to the hill (45). They thought, "it's fun" (48). They had poor impulse behavior which easily put them in danger zone. The emotional bookmarks control their actions. They didn't even think how they would get in trouble. They just felt good due to their old experiences, so no exception this...
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...superficial due to the lack of education on the topic. Society claims that these shows are realistic, however they are often a scripted dramatization thriving to imitate real scenarios. Reality television allows viewers to escape the reality of their own lives because it is a removed way to experience emotions, and these shows that are supposedly “reality-based” are never filmed in a realistic setting. When viewers watch reality television, it offers them time to escape from the reality of their own lives. Producers carefully choose cast members that are diverse and represent a large population of society, to avoid criticism, but to also allow viewers to relate to at least one specific cast member. The average Canadian watches a show such as “Survivor” (which offers a one million dollar grand prize to the winner) and envies the superficial status that is temporarily given to specific cast members that receives significant attention. By doing so, the viewers draw parallels to the specific cast member that is most similar to themselves, and envisions themselves on that show, receiving that same attention, and essentially becoming famous. Reality television today strongly revolves around unrealistic drama between cast members, which viewers are often quick to pass...
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...Love Thy Neighbour The phenomenon Reality TV has grown tremendously since the nineties. Today we're obsessed with the fact that we can watch people, who are placed in certain situations, on our TV. Many people, especially teenagers, are in fact obsessed with reality TV and spend many of their evenings watching reality shows such as Big Brother and Paradise Hotel. The short story Love Thy Neighbour written by Jennifer Moore in 2005 showcases a couple who becomes obsessed with watching their neighbours through a porthole as if they were a live reality show. We have all tried it, being curious about our neighbours. However, the husband and wife are so curious about what is going on, that they start peeking through the hole, which makes them fanatic. They are so curious about what is going on next door, that they start to observe the neighbours everyday life. They seem to shut everything else out, just to watch their neighbours everyday life. The husband is staying home from work to watch them, they do not watch TV anymore, and all their life is about is watching their neighbours through the hole. When the little boy in the story is being abducted the couple does not seem to care about the boy in the start, but they soon realize how stupid it is, and they start the search after the little boy. after the boy is found, they go back to peeking through the hole, and their level of fanaticism is just increasing. again they are just watching how their neighbours and the police gets...
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...Reality television. Introduction: Reality TV is getting crazier compared to a couple years ago. The reason is that the producers want high viewer ratings and to reach that goal they have to “beat the other reality shows in craziness”. I can’t imagine what the reality shows will look like in 5-10 years. Write a summary of When Reality TV Gets T00 Real (text 2) in about 150 words: The text “When reality TV gets too real” is mainly about what the boundaries are for stepping in and stop the show or let the camera run so they get higher ratings. The show “Intervention” is a show about people with addiction to drugs or alcohol. There have been several of cases where the producer and his crew considered to step in because the situation was getting a little out of control. Especially the example in the text with the women who is addicted to alcohol who drinks before she go drive in her car. The camera crew just follow her actions instead of stopping her before she go drive her car drunk. The law in the United States doesn’t require you to step in and save people and people on the edge make good television. outline of text 2, 3 and 4. 2 “When reality TV gets too real” is a reality show about addiction and was a very shocking text to read. The producers of the program “Intervention” don’t care at all about their participant’s safety. They let a drunk women drive a car while they follow the car from behind with a camera. The only thing they care about is the viewer ratings...
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...About The Lone Ranger The story of the Lone Ranger began in 1933 with the first radio broadcast of what would become a highly popular radio show that later expanded into movies and television. The story of the Lone Ranger follows a Texas Ranger who is the lone survivor when a band of outlaws kills all the other Texas Rangers he is riding with. Found barely alive after the brutal killings by a childhood friend, an American Indian named Tonto, the Texas Ranger (who is now the lone surviving Ranger from his group) is brought back to health by his friend and soon tames a wild stallion he names Silver. Together with Tonto and his trusty horse Scout, the Lone Ranger and Silver travel across the American West to help the helpless and right injustices. Preferring to stay anonymous, the Lone Ranger wore a mask over his eyes, causing many of the people he had helped to say, "Who was that masked man?" While numerous actors portrayed the Lone Ranger and Tonto on the radio, in movies, and on television, the two actors most closely associated with the roles are Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, respectively. The Lone Ranger's Creed By Fran Striker 1. I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one. 2. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. 3. That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself. 4. In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that...
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...died. Many people argue about whether or not survivors or life and death situations should or should not feel survivor's guilt. Some people believe survivors should feel survivor's guilt. Others feel survivors should not feel survivor’s guilt. Survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt. One reason survivors should feel survivor's guilt is because suffering shows you cared about the one who recently passed. “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” by Nancy Sherman is an editorial about how survivors guilt can show you really cared about the one who recently passed. In the text it states, “The anguish of guilt, its sheer pain, is a way of sharing some of the ill fate.”(Sherman page 155 paragraph 8) Guilt is very painful and many people go threw this when a loved one has recently passed because they really cared about that person. Survivors should feel guilt because it's a way of showing you loved the one that passed and it will help you to become stronger so if another situation was to happen you...
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...“The Fun House” vs “All I Wanted to Do as Dance” “The Fun House” and “All I Wanted to Do Was Dance” are stories written by Sherman Alexie in his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. “The Fun House” is centered on Nezzy, the aunt of the narrator. Throughout the story, she struggles with the lack of gratitude she receives from her husband and son which leads to an anger that drives her desperately to change her life. However, In “All I wanted to do was dance” the story is focused on Victor, who is the narrator of “The Fun House”. The story goes through Victor’s love life where he suffers from a broken heart. The pain started to prevent him from moving forward in life. He tries to compensate his pain by getting drunk and dancing. Both of these stories depict the protagonists’ love relationships and the pain they carry. However, in “The Fun House” aunt Nezzy strives to change her life, while Victor, the protagonist of “All I Wanted to Do Was Dance” is trapped in depression. Both stories illustrate the symbols of pain that the protagonists carry throughout the story. “The funhouse” begins with the narrator stating that his aunt Nezzy sewed a beaded dress that was too heavy for anyone to wear (76). The weight of the beaded dress is a symbol of burden she carries for the family. Aunt Nezzy has to put food on the table for her husband and son, while her thirty year old son still needs a job. This put an extra weight on aunt Nezzy's shoulder. Nezzy mentioned, “When a...
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...Eric Brennan 11/16/14 American Lit. First draft In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexi. The theme of cultural identity is important to the story because it shows the truths about the Native Americans in America, and can be seen through celebration, appearances and Tradition/spirituality. In the story almost all throughout the book you can find things that fall under cultural identity and effects on many characters. “There is something beautiful about an Indian boy with hair so black it collects the sunlight. His braids grow hot to the touch and his skin chimes with reservation sweat. He is skinny and doesn’t know how to spit.” (Alexi 146). The cultural identity in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven” is showing the beauties of a Native Americans. Instead of the stereotypical Native American being just a complete ugly, not sanitary person there actually beautiful and not just dirt and not worthy. Through the story cultural identity is shown and the consistency of a Indian being named after their father is bad, but is a good thing. It was the fourth of July and Victor and Thomas were riding bikes around and it was so dark you couldn’t see their faces. “Which Junior? Everybody on this Reservation is named Junior” pg 63 (Alexie 63). In many cultures people name their child after the name of their selves. They all don’t look alike just because of their long black hair. I don’t think it’s just Native Americans that have junior as there...
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...Experience with Guilt Two different people, with two different stories, that share the same feeling. Survivor’s guilt. This isn’t anything new for people who go through unspeakable events throughout their journey. Different roles, same situation. Leader of Ithaca and Everest climber Jon Krakauer, both suffered survivor’s guilt when they made it out alive through the spin-chilling events. Both men blamed themselves for what had happened to their companions, but demonstrated it differently. Throughout the course of our lives, we make decisions that we think are good for us and the people surrounding us. Throughout their journeys, both men kept their silence when instead they should have contributed their knowledge with their companions. Odysseus for example, kept the information that Aeolus, the God of the winds, shared with him. He had told put all the dangerous in a bag and told Odysseus to make sure the bag is never opened. Now, his companions didn’t know that. If they did, all the extra trouble they went through would have never occurred. Krakauer on the other hand had lied to Beck Weathers about his condition. While he was struggling with painful frostbites, Krakauer fibbed to Weathers which the outcome of that was him losing his fingers and nose to the crucial frostbites. Imagine witnessing people that you have gotten to know die right before your eyes. How would you feel? Just like anyone else, you would feel broken. The fact that you have just seen your companions die...
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